Regression Testing Job Trends

Regression Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Regression Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 536 500 591
Rank change year-on-year -36 +91 -106
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 222 178 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.41% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 135 108 225
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,350 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,906 £39,347
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,600 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Regression Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 71,495 43,542 85,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.57% 90.95% 82.13%
Number of salaries quoted 49,394 24,103 60,537
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -9.09%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Regression Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Regression Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Regression Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Regression Testing

Regression Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing over the 6 months to 5 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Regression Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -30 189 £50,000 -4.76% 94
UK excluding London -29 149 £47,500 - 69
Work from Home -26 70 £52,500 +10.53% 48
London -22 54 £57,750 -7.60% 40
South East -37 44 £46,250 -11.90% 26
South West -48 31 £47,500 +18.75% 3
North of England -32 30 £41,000 -12.77% 13
North West -8 21 £39,250 -16.49% 10
Midlands -19 18 £53,125 +25.00% 13
Scotland +21 14 £62,500 +13.64% 6
East of England -8 10 £37,500 -40.00% 7
West Midlands -18 9 £50,000 +20.48% 5
East Midlands -20 9 £70,000 +55.56% 8
Yorkshire -26 5 £70,000 +64.71% 3
North East -46 4 £50,000 -9.09%
Wales -52 3 £72,500 +12.84%

Regression Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.25%) Confluence
2 1 (0.45%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 12 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.60%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.90%) Simulink
5 1 (0.45%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 8 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.90%) Elite 3E
3 2 (0.90%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.45%) SAP BRIM
4 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 81 (36.49%) Azure
2 59 (26.58%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (14.41%) AWS
4 18 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.86%) GCP
5 13 (5.86%) SaaS
6 12 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (4.50%) Serverless
8 9 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.25%) GitHub
9 5 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.25%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (1.35%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.35%) BlazeMeter
10 3 (1.35%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.90%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.90%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
1 2 (0.90%) HTTP
2 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (5.41%) Power BI
2 6 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (2.70%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.80%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.45%) GIS
5 1 (0.45%) Metadata
5 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 41 (18.47%) JIRA
2 37 (16.67%) Selenium
3 30 (13.51%) Git
4 22 (9.91%) Cypress.io
5 14 (6.31%) Jenkins
6 13 (5.86%) GitLab
7 11 (4.95%) Zephyr
8 10 (4.50%) Eclipse
8 10 (4.50%) Subversion
9 9 (4.05%) Postman
10 8 (3.60%) JMeter
10 8 (3.60%) WebDriver
11 7 (3.15%) Cucumber
11 7 (3.15%) REST Assured
11 7 (3.15%) TestRail
12 6 (2.70%) JUnit
12 6 (2.70%) SpecFlow
13 3 (1.35%) Appium
13 3 (1.35%) Maven
13 3 (1.35%) SonarQube
General
1 98 (44.14%) Social Skills
2 63 (28.38%) Finance
3 56 (25.23%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
4 15 (6.76%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.86%) Billing
6 11 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (4.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.60%) Marketing
8 8 (3.60%) Retail
9 7 (3.15%) Banking
9 7 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (2.70%) Advertising
11 5 (2.25%) Digital Healthcare
11 5 (2.25%) Electronics
11 5 (2.25%) General Ledger
11 5 (2.25%) Legal
12 3 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.35%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 44 (19.82%) Lead
2 43 (19.37%) Analyst
3 27 (12.16%) Senior
3 27 (12.16%) Tester
4 23 (10.36%) QA Engineer
5 20 (9.01%) QA Leader
6 19 (8.56%) Junior
7 18 (8.11%) Test Engineer
8 16 (7.21%) Developer
8 16 (7.21%) Test Leader
9 13 (5.86%) Test Analyst
10 12 (5.41%) Support Analyst
11 11 (4.95%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.95%) QA Tester
12 10 (4.50%) Junior Developer
13 8 (3.60%) Automation Tester
13 8 (3.60%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.60%) Technical Engineer
13 8 (3.60%) Technical Support
13 8 (3.60%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (17.12%) Playwright
2 16 (7.21%) REST
3 15 (6.76%) .NET
4 13 (5.86%) RESTful
5 12 (5.41%) React
6 9 (4.05%) XML
7 8 (3.60%) J2EE
7 8 (3.60%) Struts
7 8 (3.60%) Web Services
8 7 (3.15%) JSON
9 6 (2.70%) CSS
9 6 (2.70%) HTML
9 6 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
9 6 (2.70%) Visualforce
10 4 (1.80%) Node.js
11 3 (1.35%) JWT
11 3 (1.35%) OAuth
11 3 (1.35%) OAuth2
11 3 (1.35%) SOAP
11 3 (1.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.16%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.31%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.50%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.05%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.60%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.25%) Mobile Computing
8 4 (1.80%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.90%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.90%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.45%) Client/Server
11 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.45%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.45%) Life Science
11 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.76%) Linux
2 9 (4.05%) Windows
3 8 (3.60%) Unix
4 6 (2.70%) Android
4 6 (2.70%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 101 (45.50%) Agile
3 85 (38.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 72 (32.43%) DevOps
5 69 (31.08%) Software Testing
6 66 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
7 65 (29.28%) User Acceptance Testing
8 61 (27.48%) Validation
9 58 (26.13%) CI/CD
10 53 (23.87%) SDLC
11 46 (20.72%) Manual Testing
12 43 (19.37%) Test Strategy
13 39 (17.57%) Mentoring
14 38 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (14.86%) Scrum
15 33 (14.86%) Test Scripting
16 31 (13.96%) Acceptance Criteria
16 31 (13.96%) ERP
17 27 (12.16%) CRM
17 27 (12.16%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 50 (22.52%) SQL
2 35 (15.77%) Java
3 31 (13.96%) Python
4 21 (9.46%) JavaScript
5 19 (8.56%) C#
6 9 (4.05%) TypeScript
7 8 (3.60%) Perl
8 7 (3.15%) Apex Code
9 6 (2.70%) C++
10 5 (2.25%) Groovy
11 4 (1.80%) Ruby
12 3 (1.35%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.90%) Bash
13 2 (0.90%) Go
13 2 (0.90%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.90%) SOQL
13 2 (0.90%) SOSL
14 1 (0.45%) ABAP
14 1 (0.45%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (22.52%) Degree
2 26 (11.71%) ISTQB
3 16 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (7.21%) Security Cleared
4 15 (6.76%) HND
5 10 (4.50%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.60%) HNC
7 6 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (2.25%) AAT
9 4 (1.80%) ISEB
10 3 (1.35%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.90%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.90%) CSQA
12 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.45%) CBAP
12 1 (0.45%) CCSP
12 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.45%) CISSP
12 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (44.59%) QA
2 23 (10.36%) Accessibility
3 14 (6.31%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.15%) SLA
5 6 (2.70%) GDPR
6 3 (1.35%) IFRS
6 3 (1.35%) ISO 20022
6 3 (1.35%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.35%) WCAG
7 2 (0.90%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.45%) GAAP
8 1 (0.45%) MiFID
8 1 (0.45%) PMO
8 1 (0.45%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (7.21%) Docker
2 6 (2.70%) Firmware
3 3 (1.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.90%) Terminal Server
5 1 (0.45%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (7.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.80%) Ansible
2 4 (1.80%) Terraform
3 3 (1.35%) Grafana
3 3 (1.35%) Kibana
4 2 (0.90%) logstash
4 2 (0.90%) Packer
4 2 (0.90%) SCCM
4 2 (0.90%) SCOM
5 1 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 31 (13.96%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.86%) SAP
3 11 (4.95%) Oracle
3 11 (4.95%) Salesforce
4 8 (3.60%) IFS
5 7 (3.15%) Adobe
5 7 (3.15%) Freshdesk
5 7 (3.15%) Nintex
5 7 (3.15%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.35%) Intel
6 3 (1.35%) VMware
6 3 (1.35%) Workday
7 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.90%) Cisco
7 2 (0.90%) Databricks
7 2 (0.90%) IBM
7 2 (0.90%) Intapp
7 2 (0.90%) Juniper
7 2 (0.90%) McAfee
8 1 (0.45%) Ariba