Regression Testing Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 608 501 503
Rank change year-on-year -107 +2 -72
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 319 525 1,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.55% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.58% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 227 243 518
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £61,250 £71,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.90% +3.33%

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 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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
England -126 240 £52,500 -4.55% 78
UK excluding London -109 237 £50,000 -4.76% 47
Work from Home +35 137 £52,500 -4.55% 36
London +31 68 £55,000 -8.33% 33
Scotland -35 60 £38,500 -30.00% 8
South East -77 55 £57,500 +4.45% 8
North of England -15 37 £38,000 -30.91% 15
West Midlands +2 28 £50,000 +23.46% 6
Midlands -3 28 £50,000 +26.58% 6
South West -19 28 £52,500 +10.53% 6
Yorkshire +45 27 £42,500 -46.88% 3
East of England -27 21 £45,600 -27.04% 2
North West -30 9 £37,500 -21.05% 11
Wales +3 8 £65,000 +116.67% 2
North East -14 1 £38,500 -14.44% 1

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 16 (5.02%) 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%) Endur
2 2 (0.63%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.63%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (18.81%) Azure
2 36 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (8.46%) AWS
4 20 (6.27%) 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 3 (0.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (0.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (0.94%) GCP
10 2 (0.63%) BrowserStack
10 2 (0.63%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.63%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 1 (0.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.31%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.31%) Serverless
11 1 (0.31%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.02%) 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 38 (11.91%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (5.64%) Data Lake
3 16 (5.02%) Big Data
3 16 (5.02%) DB2
3 16 (5.02%) MongoDB
3 16 (5.02%) Tableau
4 5 (1.57%) Redis
5 4 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.63%) Power BI
7 1 (0.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
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%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 64 (20.06%) JIRA
2 60 (18.81%) Git
3 53 (16.61%) Selenium
4 27 (8.46%) Cypress.io
5 23 (7.21%) Postman
6 19 (5.96%) JMeter
7 16 (5.02%) Cucumber
7 16 (5.02%) Jenkins
7 16 (5.02%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (3.45%) MSTest
9 10 (3.13%) Visual Studio
10 9 (2.82%) Gradle
10 9 (2.82%) Maven
11 7 (2.19%) Appium
11 7 (2.19%) GitLab
11 7 (2.19%) TestRail
12 6 (1.88%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.88%) LoadRunner
12 6 (1.88%) WebDriver
12 6 (1.88%) Zephyr
General
1 156 (48.90%) Social Skills
2 87 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (26.65%) Finance
4 37 (11.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 34 (10.66%) Marketing
6 29 (9.09%) Law
7 22 (6.90%) Retail
8 19 (5.96%) Banking
9 18 (5.64%) Investment Banking
10 16 (5.02%) Electronics
10 16 (5.02%) Financial Institution
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%) Legal
15 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (19.12%) Analyst
1 61 (19.12%) Test Engineer
2 56 (17.55%) Senior
3 44 (13.79%) Developer
3 44 (13.79%) Tester
4 41 (12.85%) Test Analyst
5 25 (7.84%) Software Test Engineer
6 22 (6.90%) Senior Developer
7 21 (6.58%) QA Engineer
8 19 (5.96%) Software Tester
9 17 (5.33%) Lead
10 16 (5.02%) Data Engineer
10 16 (5.02%) Software Engineering Director
10 16 (5.02%) Test Manager
11 14 (4.39%) Java Engineer
11 14 (4.39%) QA Analyst
12 13 (4.08%) Senior Test Engineer
13 12 (3.76%) Software Engineer
14 9 (2.82%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (2.82%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (16.93%) Kafka
2 46 (14.42%) REST
2 46 (14.42%) Web Services
3 38 (11.91%) RabbitMQ
4 37 (11.60%) GraphQL
4 37 (11.60%) gRPC
5 18 (5.64%) HTML
5 18 (5.64%) Playwright
6 15 (4.70%) React
7 13 (4.08%) Spring
8 11 (3.45%) CSS
9 9 (2.82%) .NET
9 9 (2.82%) Ext JS
9 9 (2.82%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.19%) Gherkin
10 7 (2.19%) XML
11 6 (1.88%) Lightning Web Components
11 6 (1.88%) Node.js
12 5 (1.57%) Servlets
12 5 (1.57%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.79%) Product Ownership
2 27 (8.46%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 22 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 21 (6.58%) 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 6 (1.88%) Low-Code
10 5 (1.57%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.57%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.25%) NHS
12 3 (0.94%) Robotics
13 2 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.63%) Derivative
13 2 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (7.84%) Linux
1 25 (7.84%) Windows
2 4 (1.25%) AIX
3 2 (0.63%) Android
4 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.31%) Unix
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (57.37%) Test Automation
2 182 (57.05%) Agile
3 161 (50.47%) Software Testing
4 91 (28.53%) Problem-Solving
5 90 (28.21%) CI/CD
6 79 (24.76%) Test Scripting
7 74 (23.20%) User Acceptance Testing
8 73 (22.88%) Continuous Integration
8 73 (22.88%) Software Engineering
9 71 (22.26%) Functional Testing
10 70 (21.94%) DevOps
11 66 (20.69%) SDLC
12 60 (18.81%) Test Strategy
13 57 (17.87%) Computer Science
13 57 (17.87%) TDD
14 56 (17.55%) Performance Testing
15 54 (16.93%) Manual Testing
16 52 (16.30%) Microservices
17 51 (15.99%) Continuous Deployment
18 45 (14.11%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (24.14%) SQL
2 68 (21.32%) Python
3 65 (20.38%) Java
4 53 (16.61%) JavaScript
5 38 (11.91%) Go
6 27 (8.46%) C#
7 16 (5.02%) PL/SQL
7 16 (5.02%) 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%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.63%) VB
Qualifications
1 97 (30.41%) Degree
2 56 (17.55%) ISTQB
3 48 (15.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (8.15%) 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%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (41.07%) QA
2 19 (5.96%) SLA
3 7 (2.19%) GDPR
4 6 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.94%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.94%) JTAG
6 2 (0.63%) PMO
6 2 (0.63%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (13.48%) 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 17 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.19%) 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 19 (5.96%) Oracle
3 18 (5.64%) Databricks
4 16 (5.02%) Alteryx
4 16 (5.02%) Cognos
4 16 (5.02%) Sybase
5 14 (4.39%) Google
6 9 (2.82%) SAP
6 9 (2.82%) TOWER Software
7 7 (2.19%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.57%) HP
8 5 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.57%) Splunk
8 5 (1.57%) VMware
9 3 (0.94%) Conga
9 3 (0.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.63%) AVEVA
10 2 (0.63%) ION Trading
11 1 (0.31%) CA Agile Central