Automation Test Lead Jobs with Work from Home Options

Test Automation Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Automation Leader salary in Work from Home is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 637 827
Rank change year-on-year +60 +190 -295
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Test Lead 11 17 44
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.042% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.044% 0.063%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 27
10th Percentile £56,000 - £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £73,438 £68,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £84,125 £91,975 £87,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +1.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,493 38,719 69,510
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.10% 95.92% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 24,836 27,518 42,305
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Automation Test Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Automation Test Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Automation Test Lead trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Test Lead
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Automation Test Lead.

Automation Test Lead salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Test Lead
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Automation Test Lead over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Automation Test Lead salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Automation Test Lead job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with remote work options featuring Automation Test Lead in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (72.73%) Selenium
3 7 (63.64%) Git
4 6 (54.55%) Azure
4 6 (54.55%) AWS
5 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
6 4 (36.36%) Postman
6 4 (36.36%) BrowserStack
6 4 (36.36%) Sauce Labs
6 4 (36.36%) Cypress.io
6 4 (36.36%) SpecFlow
6 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
6 4 (36.36%) TestNG
6 4 (36.36%) Python
6 4 (36.36%) Java
6 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
6 4 (36.36%) JUnit
6 4 (36.36%) JMeter
7 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (27.27%) C#
7 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
7 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
7 3 (27.27%) Microservices
7 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
7 3 (27.27%) Cross-Browser Testing
7 3 (27.27%) API Testing
7 3 (27.27%) Swagger
7 3 (27.27%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (18.18%) Driving Licence
8 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project

Automation Test Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) BrowserStack
2 4 (36.36%) Sauce Labs
3 2 (18.18%) GCP
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) Selenium
2 7 (63.64%) Git
3 4 (36.36%) Cypress.io
3 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
3 4 (36.36%) JMeter
3 4 (36.36%) JUnit
3 4 (36.36%) Postman
3 4 (36.36%) SpecFlow
3 4 (36.36%) TestNG
4 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (9.09%) Appium
5 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
5 1 (9.09%) Serenity BDD
General
1 3 (27.27%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Swagger
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Driving Licence
1 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) API Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 3 (27.27%) Microservices
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) OO
4 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) BDD
5 1 (9.09%) Innovative Thinking
5 1 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA