Regression Testing Jobs

Regression Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Regression Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Regression Testing over the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 595 500
Rank change year-on-year +57 -95 +11
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 173 319 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.32% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.37% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 104 227 253
10th Percentile £31,825 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £59,249 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,250 £75,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%

All Process and 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 51,236 85,141 94,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.86% 85.08% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 25,106 59,815 55,546
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Regression Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Regression Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Regression Testing.

Salary trend for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Regression Testing over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 17 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 23 May 2025. 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 +100 164 £47,500 -9.52% 481
UK excluding London +71 116 £45,000 -10.00% 433
Work from Home +81 85 £47,000 -10.48% 282
London +95 51 £62,500 +13.64% 137
South East +87 48 £47,500 -17.39% 146
North of England +28 24 £47,000 +17.50% 79
Midlands +65 21 £40,500 -19.00% 63
South West +93 16 £34,500 -34.29% 37
North West +6 16 £47,000 +18.99% 43
West Midlands +55 15 £40,500 -19.00% 39
East Midlands - 6 £38,000 - 21
North East +51 5 £35,000 -9.09% 11
Scotland +63 4 £52,500 +36.36% 34
Yorkshire +38 3 £42,500 - 26
East of England +20 2 £63,750 +39.80% 59
Wales +29 1 £68,500 +5.38% 23
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 6

Regression Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.05%) Confluence
2 4 (2.31%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Simulink
2 1 (0.58%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.58%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.47%) Q-Pulse
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.58%) Magento
2 1 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 31 (17.92%) Azure
2 22 (12.72%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (10.40%) AWS
4 8 (4.62%) GCP
5 7 (4.05%) OCI
5 7 (4.05%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.47%) GitHub
7 4 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.16%) Azure Pipelines
9 2 (1.16%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.16%) SaaS
9 2 (1.16%) Serverless
9 2 (1.16%) Slack
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.58%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.58%) Azure AKS
10 1 (0.58%) mabl
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.62%) MySQL
1 8 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (4.05%) Power BI
3 6 (3.47%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.47%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (2.31%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (2.31%) Big Data
4 4 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.31%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.73%) Couchbase
6 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.58%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.58%) GIS
7 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.58%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.58%) Parquet
7 1 (0.58%) Redis
7 1 (0.58%) Spatial Data
7 1 (0.58%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.58%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (17.92%) Git
2 29 (16.76%) Selenium
3 14 (8.09%) Cypress.io
3 14 (8.09%) JIRA
4 13 (7.51%) Appium
5 12 (6.94%) SpecFlow
6 11 (6.36%) Postman
7 8 (4.62%) Jenkins
8 6 (3.47%) JMeter
8 6 (3.47%) LoadRunner
8 6 (3.47%) TestComplete
9 5 (2.89%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.89%) WebDriver
10 4 (2.31%) GitLab
10 4 (2.31%) TestRail
11 3 (1.73%) Visual Studio
12 2 (1.16%) HP UFT
12 2 (1.16%) NUnit
12 2 (1.16%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.16%) TestNG
General
1 42 (24.28%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (16.76%) Finance
4 19 (10.98%) Aerospace
5 11 (6.36%) Law
6 9 (5.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.62%) Banking
8 6 (3.47%) Aviation
8 6 (3.47%) Games
8 6 (3.47%) Military
9 3 (1.73%) Private Banking
9 3 (1.73%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.16%) Marketing
10 2 (1.16%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.16%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (19.65%) Analyst
2 29 (16.76%) Senior
3 22 (12.72%) Test Engineer
4 17 (9.83%) Developer
5 16 (9.25%) QA Engineer
5 16 (9.25%) Test Analyst
6 14 (8.09%) Software Test Engineer
7 12 (6.94%) QA Analyst
8 10 (5.78%) Consultant
9 9 (5.20%) Release Manager
9 9 (5.20%) Tester
10 8 (4.62%) Lead
10 8 (4.62%) Senior Developer
11 7 (4.05%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (4.05%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.05%) Software QA Engineer
12 6 (3.47%) Oracle Consultant
12 6 (3.47%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.47%) Software Tester
12 6 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.51%) Qt
2 12 (6.94%) .NET
3 10 (5.78%) AngularJS
3 10 (5.78%) REST
4 9 (5.20%) Playwright
5 8 (4.62%) Gherkin
6 7 (4.05%) React
6 7 (4.05%) XML
7 6 (3.47%) CSS
7 6 (3.47%) HTML
8 5 (2.89%) GraphQL
8 5 (2.89%) jQuery
8 5 (2.89%) Kafka
8 5 (2.89%) LAMP
8 5 (2.89%) Vue
9 4 (2.31%) Dask
9 4 (2.31%) Polars
9 4 (2.31%) Web Services
10 3 (1.73%) .NET Core
10 3 (1.73%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.09%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (6.94%) Mobile App
3 10 (5.78%) Algorithms
4 9 (5.20%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.62%) Fixed Income
6 6 (3.47%) e-Learning
6 6 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.47%) Reference Data
7 4 (2.31%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.73%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.58%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.98%) Windows
2 14 (8.09%) Linux
3 11 (6.36%) Apple iOS
4 7 (4.05%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (55.49%) Test Automation
2 71 (41.04%) Software Testing
3 59 (34.10%) Agile
4 48 (27.75%) Manual Testing
5 42 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (20.23%) DevOps
7 34 (19.65%) Test Strategy
8 31 (17.92%) Test Scripting
9 30 (17.34%) SDLC
9 30 (17.34%) User Acceptance Testing
10 25 (14.45%) Software Engineering
11 23 (13.29%) Test Management
12 21 (12.14%) CI/CD
12 21 (12.14%) Validation
13 20 (11.56%) Integration Testing
14 19 (10.98%) Exploratory Testing
14 19 (10.98%) Performance Testing
15 18 (10.40%) API Testing
16 16 (9.25%) Migration
17 15 (8.67%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (29.48%) SQL
2 41 (23.70%) Python
3 31 (17.92%) JavaScript
4 22 (12.72%) C#
5 20 (11.56%) Java
6 17 (9.83%) C++
7 14 (8.09%) C
8 7 (4.05%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.47%) PHP
9 6 (3.47%) PL/SQL
10 5 (2.89%) Go
11 3 (1.73%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.16%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.58%) Bash
13 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.58%) R
13 1 (0.58%) Rust
13 1 (0.58%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.58%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 24 (13.87%) ISTQB
2 20 (11.56%) Degree
3 9 (5.20%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 7 (4.05%) HNC
5 7 (4.05%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.89%) ISEB
7 4 (2.31%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.73%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.16%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.58%) CISSP
10 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.58%) CSQA
10 1 (0.58%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.58%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (38.73%) QA
2 12 (6.94%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.16%) MiFID
4 1 (0.58%) EMIR
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) PSD2
4 1 (0.58%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (3.47%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (2.89%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.73%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.16%) Terraform
4 1 (0.58%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 17 (9.83%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.09%) SAP
3 10 (5.78%) Oracle
4 4 (2.31%) Databricks
5 3 (1.73%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.73%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.73%) Twitter
6 2 (1.16%) Google
6 2 (1.16%) Sun
7 1 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.58%) CyberSource
7 1 (0.58%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.58%) MathWorks
7 1 (0.58%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.58%) UiPath