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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 528 572
Rank change year-on-year -32 +44 -70
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 222 157 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.32% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.35% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 137 94 175
10th Percentile £35,200 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,344 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,438 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £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 79,126 44,376 67,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.31% 89.04% 80.77%
Number of salaries quoted 54,636 25,137 42,574
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -43 199 £52,500 -1.87% 106
UK excluding London -32 149 £52,500 +5.00% 87
Work from Home -43 70 £52,500 - 33
London -42 58 £65,000 +8.33% 26
South East -21 45 £52,500 -22.22% 26
North of England -48 33 £50,000 +6.38% 18
South West -54 27 £45,000 +1.12% 17
Midlands -28 21 £55,000 +46.67% 11
North West -7 17 £42,500 -9.57% 11
East of England -12 14 £46,250 -26.00% 13
West Midlands -19 14 £51,250 +41.38% 9
Yorkshire -36 8 £52,500 +72.13% 4
North East -49 8 £50,000 -9.09% 4
Scotland +10 7 £62,500 +13.64% 2
East Midlands -19 7 £70,000 +55.56% 2
Wales -55 3 £72,500 +12.84% 1

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 14 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.80%) Simulink
4 3 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.45%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.80%) Elite 3E
3 3 (1.35%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.90%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.45%) SAP BRIM
5 1 (0.45%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 75 (33.78%) Azure
2 48 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (13.96%) AWS
4 18 (8.11%) GCP
5 14 (6.31%) Dynamics 365
6 12 (5.41%) SaaS
7 10 (4.50%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.05%) Serverless
9 8 (3.60%) Tricentis Tosca
10 7 (3.15%) BrowserStack
11 5 (2.25%) GitHub
11 5 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.35%) BlazeMeter
12 3 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (0.90%) Azure App Service
13 2 (0.90%) Azure Functions
13 2 (0.90%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.25%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.35%) HTTP
2 3 (1.35%) Wireshark
3 1 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (1.80%) Relational Database
1 4 (1.80%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Database
2 2 (0.90%) Power BI
3 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.45%) GIS
3 1 (0.45%) Metadata
3 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 42 (18.92%) JIRA
2 34 (15.32%) Git
3 33 (14.86%) Selenium
4 24 (10.81%) Cypress.io
5 20 (9.01%) GitLab
6 15 (6.76%) Eclipse
6 15 (6.76%) Jenkins
7 14 (6.31%) Postman
8 13 (5.86%) Zephyr
9 10 (4.50%) JMeter
9 10 (4.50%) Subversion
10 8 (3.60%) TestRail
11 7 (3.15%) Cucumber
11 7 (3.15%) REST Assured
12 6 (2.70%) JUnit
13 5 (2.25%) Gatling
14 4 (1.80%) WebDriver
15 3 (1.35%) Eclipse RCP
15 3 (1.35%) Maven
15 3 (1.35%) SonarQube
General
1 99 (44.59%) Social Skills
2 73 (32.88%) Analytical Skills
3 64 (28.83%) Finance
4 21 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (6.31%) Retail
8 10 (4.50%) Electronics
9 8 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.60%) Marketing
10 7 (3.15%) Law
10 7 (3.15%) Legal
11 6 (2.70%) General Ledger
11 6 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.25%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.80%) Banking
13 4 (1.80%) Billing
13 4 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.35%) Advertising
15 2 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (17.12%) Lead
2 37 (16.67%) Analyst
2 37 (16.67%) Senior
3 34 (15.32%) Test Engineer
4 31 (13.96%) QA Engineer
5 27 (12.16%) Tester
6 16 (7.21%) Developer
7 15 (6.76%) QA Leader
8 13 (5.86%) Test Analyst
9 12 (5.41%) Junior
10 11 (4.95%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.95%) QA Tester
10 11 (4.95%) Test Leader
11 10 (4.50%) Senior QA Engineer
12 9 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
12 9 (4.05%) Software Engineer
13 8 (3.60%) Junior Developer
13 8 (3.60%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.60%) Technical Engineer
13 8 (3.60%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.86%) Playwright
2 18 (8.11%) REST
3 14 (6.31%) RESTful
4 13 (5.86%) React
5 10 (4.50%) CSS
5 10 (4.50%) HTML
5 10 (4.50%) JSON
6 9 (4.05%) .NET
6 9 (4.05%) Jakarta EE
6 9 (4.05%) Struts
6 9 (4.05%) Web Services
7 7 (3.15%) XML
8 6 (2.70%) Node.js
8 6 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
9 5 (2.25%) SOAP
9 5 (2.25%) Terraform
10 4 (1.80%) Lightning Web Components
10 4 (1.80%) React Native
10 4 (1.80%) Visualforce
11 3 (1.35%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.16%) Product Ownership
2 23 (10.36%) Mobile App
3 10 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.60%) Driving Licence
6 7 (3.15%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.80%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.80%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.80%) SCADA
8 3 (1.35%) Life Science
8 3 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.90%) CMDB
9 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.90%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.90%) Mobile Computing
9 2 (0.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.11%) Linux
2 16 (7.21%) Android
3 14 (6.31%) Apple iOS
3 14 (6.31%) Windows
4 9 (4.05%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (55.41%) Test Automation
2 115 (51.80%) Agile
3 102 (45.95%) Continuous Improvement
4 89 (40.09%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (36.04%) Validation
6 75 (33.78%) Software Testing
7 65 (29.28%) CI/CD
8 62 (27.93%) DevOps
9 59 (26.58%) SDLC
9 59 (26.58%) User Acceptance Testing
10 47 (21.17%) Test Strategy
11 45 (20.27%) Manual Testing
12 42 (18.92%) Defect Management
13 38 (17.12%) Scrum
14 35 (15.77%) Code Quality
14 35 (15.77%) Mentoring
15 34 (15.32%) Test Scripting
16 30 (13.51%) Exploratory Testing
17 28 (12.61%) Software Engineering
17 28 (12.61%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 45 (20.27%) SQL
2 36 (16.22%) Python
3 35 (15.77%) Java
4 27 (12.16%) JavaScript
5 13 (5.86%) C#
6 11 (4.95%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.05%) C++
7 9 (4.05%) Perl
8 5 (2.25%) Apex Code
8 5 (2.25%) Groovy
9 4 (1.80%) Bash
9 4 (1.80%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.80%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.80%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.35%) C
10 3 (1.35%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.90%) Ruby
11 2 (0.90%) SOQL
11 2 (0.90%) SOSL
12 1 (0.45%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 45 (20.27%) Degree
2 28 (12.61%) ISTQB
3 23 (10.36%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (7.66%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.60%) HNC
5 8 (3.60%) HND
6 6 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (2.25%) AAT
7 5 (2.25%) ISEB
8 4 (1.80%) OCA
8 4 (1.80%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.90%) ACCA
9 2 (0.90%) CIMA
9 2 (0.90%) CSQA
9 2 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.45%) CBAP
10 1 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (50.90%) QA
2 18 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 15 (6.76%) Accessibility
4 11 (4.95%) GDPR
5 6 (2.70%) WCAG
6 4 (1.80%) Software Quality Assurance
7 3 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.90%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.45%) GxP
9 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (6.76%) Docker
2 6 (2.70%) Firmware
3 3 (1.35%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.45%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 15 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.60%) Grafana
3 5 (2.25%) Ansible
4 3 (1.35%) Kibana
5 2 (0.90%) logstash
5 2 (0.90%) Packer
6 1 (0.45%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.45%) SCCM
6 1 (0.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (10.36%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.31%) Oracle
3 11 (4.95%) Salesforce
3 11 (4.95%) SAP
4 8 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.70%) Workday
6 5 (2.25%) Google
6 5 (2.25%) IFS
6 5 (2.25%) Intel
7 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.90%) Databricks
7 2 (0.90%) IBM
7 2 (0.90%) Intapp
7 2 (0.90%) VMware
8 1 (0.45%) Callidus
8 1 (0.45%) Concur
8 1 (0.45%) Conga
8 1 (0.45%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.45%) GoCardless
8 1 (0.45%) Perfecto Mobile