Regression Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Regression Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Regression Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 503 506
Rank change year-on-year -80 +3 -61
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 319 566 1,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.32% 0.57% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.60% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 227 257 515
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Regression Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Regression Testing in the UK

Regression Testing
Top 15 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 20 May 2024. 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
UK excluding London -101 240 £50,000 -9.09% 55
England -102 238 £52,500 -8.70% 81
Work from Home +57 134 £52,500 -8.70% 38
London +7 65 £55,000 -8.33% 35
Scotland -36 62 £38,500 -30.00% 2
South East -65 56 £57,500 - 16
North of England -17 38 £40,000 -27.27% 13
West Midlands +27 28 £50,000 +24.22% 8
Midlands +1 28 £50,000 +26.58% 8
South West -16 28 £52,500 +10.53% 4
Yorkshire +55 27 £42,500 -46.88% 4
East of England -25 20 £45,600 -27.04% 8
North West -24 10 £39,500 -14.59% 6
Wales +3 8 £65,000 +116.67% 3
North East -5 1 £38,500 -14.44% 3

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 18 (5.64%) Apache Spark
2 8 (2.51%) Confluence
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.63%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.63%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.31%) Endur
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (18.50%) Azure
2 36 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (8.78%) AWS
4 18 (5.64%) SaaS
5 12 (3.76%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (2.82%) BlazeMeter
7 6 (1.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 5 (1.57%) GitHub
8 5 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (1.57%) PaaS
9 2 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.63%) BrowserStack
9 2 (0.63%) GCP
9 2 (0.63%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.63%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.31%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.31%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.64%) DSL
2 4 (1.25%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) DHCP
3 1 (0.31%) DNS
3 1 (0.31%) Firewall
3 1 (0.31%) HTTP
3 1 (0.31%) Multicast
3 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (12.54%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (5.96%) Data Lake
3 18 (5.64%) Big Data
3 18 (5.64%) DB2
3 18 (5.64%) MongoDB
3 18 (5.64%) Tableau
4 5 (1.57%) Redis
5 3 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.63%) Power BI
7 1 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.31%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.31%) Metadata
7 1 (0.31%) MySQL
7 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 65 (20.38%) JIRA
2 62 (19.44%) Git
3 51 (15.99%) Selenium
4 26 (8.15%) Cypress.io
5 23 (7.21%) Postman
6 19 (5.96%) JMeter
7 18 (5.64%) Jenkins
8 16 (5.02%) Cucumber
8 16 (5.02%) Team Foundation Server
9 11 (3.45%) MSTest
10 10 (3.13%) Visual Studio
11 9 (2.82%) Gradle
11 9 (2.82%) Maven
12 7 (2.19%) Appium
12 7 (2.19%) GitLab
12 7 (2.19%) TestRail
13 6 (1.88%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.88%) LoadRunner
13 6 (1.88%) WebDriver
13 6 (1.88%) Zephyr
General
1 153 (47.96%) Social Skills
2 86 (26.96%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (26.65%) Finance
4 39 (12.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (10.97%) Marketing
6 31 (9.72%) Law
7 23 (7.21%) Retail
8 20 (6.27%) Banking
8 20 (6.27%) Investment Banking
9 18 (5.64%) Financial Institution
10 16 (5.02%) Electronics
11 10 (3.13%) Police
12 7 (2.19%) Games
13 6 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.88%) Public Sector
14 5 (1.57%) Local Government
15 4 (1.25%) Aeronautics
15 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 61 (19.12%) Test Engineer
2 57 (17.87%) Analyst
3 56 (17.55%) Senior
4 46 (14.42%) Developer
5 43 (13.48%) Tester
6 39 (12.23%) Test Analyst
7 25 (7.84%) Software Test Engineer
8 23 (7.21%) Senior Developer
9 21 (6.58%) QA Engineer
10 19 (5.96%) Software Tester
11 18 (5.64%) Data Engineer
11 18 (5.64%) Software Engineering Director
11 18 (5.64%) Test Manager
12 17 (5.33%) Lead
13 14 (4.39%) Java Engineer
13 14 (4.39%) QA Analyst
14 13 (4.08%) Senior Test Engineer
15 12 (3.76%) Software Engineer
16 9 (2.82%) Java Software Engineer
16 9 (2.82%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (18.18%) Kafka
2 48 (15.05%) REST
3 46 (14.42%) Web Services
4 40 (12.54%) RabbitMQ
5 37 (11.60%) GraphQL
5 37 (11.60%) gRPC
6 17 (5.33%) HTML
6 17 (5.33%) Playwright
6 17 (5.33%) React
7 13 (4.08%) Spring
8 10 (3.13%) CSS
9 9 (2.82%) .NET
9 9 (2.82%) Ext JS
9 9 (2.82%) Spring Boot
10 8 (2.51%) Node.js
11 7 (2.19%) Gherkin
11 7 (2.19%) XML
12 6 (1.88%) Lightning Web Components
13 5 (1.57%) Servlets
13 5 (1.57%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.42%) Product Ownership
2 27 (8.46%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (7.52%) Cloud Native
3 24 (7.52%) Public Cloud
4 23 (7.21%) Management Information System
5 20 (6.27%) Mobile App
6 12 (3.76%) IoT
7 9 (2.82%) FMCG
7 9 (2.82%) Market Risk
8 7 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.57%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.57%) Low-Code
9 5 (1.57%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.25%) NHS
11 3 (0.94%) Robotics
12 2 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.63%) Operational Technology
12 2 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.15%) Windows
2 24 (7.52%) Linux
3 4 (1.25%) AIX
4 2 (0.63%) Android
5 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (58.31%) Agile
2 183 (57.37%) Test Automation
3 160 (50.16%) Software Testing
4 94 (29.47%) CI/CD
5 90 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (24.14%) Software Engineering
6 77 (24.14%) Test Scripting
7 75 (23.51%) Continuous Integration
8 74 (23.20%) User Acceptance Testing
9 71 (22.26%) Functional Testing
10 69 (21.63%) DevOps
11 68 (21.32%) SDLC
12 62 (19.44%) Test Strategy
13 59 (18.50%) TDD
14 58 (18.18%) Computer Science
15 56 (17.55%) Performance Testing
16 55 (17.24%) Manual Testing
17 54 (16.93%) Microservices
18 53 (16.61%) Continuous Deployment
19 47 (14.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 76 (23.82%) SQL
2 68 (21.32%) Python
3 67 (21.00%) Java
4 52 (16.30%) JavaScript
5 38 (11.91%) Go
6 26 (8.15%) C#
7 18 (5.64%) PL/SQL
7 18 (5.64%) Scala
8 14 (4.39%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.57%) C
10 4 (1.25%) C++
10 4 (1.25%) Groovy
10 4 (1.25%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.63%) PHP
11 2 (0.63%) VB
12 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 97 (30.41%) Degree
2 53 (16.61%) ISTQB
3 50 (15.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (7.84%) ISEB
5 18 (5.64%) Security Cleared
6 8 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.57%) CAPM
8 5 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.57%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.57%) PMP
9 4 (1.25%) CIPD
9 4 (1.25%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.25%) PhD
9 4 (1.25%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.31%) MCSE
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
11 1 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (41.07%) QA
2 21 (6.58%) SLA
3 7 (2.19%) GDPR
4 5 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.94%) JTAG
6 2 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.63%) PMO
6 2 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (14.11%) Docker
2 14 (4.39%) Firmware
3 10 (3.13%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.25%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (5.96%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.88%) Grafana
3 5 (1.57%) HP ALM
3 5 (1.57%) Kibana
4 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.27%) Databricks
2 20 (6.27%) Oracle
3 18 (5.64%) Alteryx
3 18 (5.64%) Cognos
3 18 (5.64%) Sybase
4 13 (4.08%) Google
5 9 (2.82%) SAP
5 9 (2.82%) TOWER Software
6 7 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.57%) HP
7 5 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.57%) Splunk
7 5 (1.57%) VMware
8 3 (0.94%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (0.94%) Conga
8 3 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.63%) AVEVA
10 1 (0.31%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.31%) ION Trading