Software Test Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Test Engineer salary in Work from Home is £37,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 642 720
Rank change year-on-year +72 +78 -181
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Test Engineer 14 35 115
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.082% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.086% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12 14 46
10th Percentile - £27,500 £36,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,125 £40,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £39,750 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -18.46% +24.12%
75th Percentile £65,000 £56,875 £54,688
90th Percentile - £72,250 £57,500
UK median annual salary £44,033 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.15% - +5.88%

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 32,470 40,891 66,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.04% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 24,943 29,047 41,977
10th Percentile £33,003 £36,690 £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 £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Software Test Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Test Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Test Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Test Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Test Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Test Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Software Test Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Software Test Engineer 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 Software Test Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 9 (64.29%) Test Automation
3 7 (50.00%) C#
4 6 (42.86%) .NET
4 6 (42.86%) Internet
4 6 (42.86%) Agile
4 6 (42.86%) Postman
5 5 (35.71%) BDD
5 5 (35.71%) Gherkin
5 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 5 (35.71%) Regression Testing
5 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) Mathematics
5 5 (35.71%) SQL
6 4 (28.57%) HTML
6 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 4 (28.57%) Web Services
6 4 (28.57%) XML
6 4 (28.57%) XSLT
6 4 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (28.57%) SOA
6 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
6 4 (28.57%) NHS
6 4 (28.57%) Groovy
6 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
6 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (28.57%) Azure
6 4 (28.57%) VMware
6 4 (28.57%) Google

Software Test Engineer 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:

Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (21.43%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) Internet
2 3 (21.43%) Ethernet
3 2 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Postman
2 4 (28.57%) Katalon Studio
3 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 3 (21.43%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (21.43%) Rational Team Concert
4 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio
5 1 (7.14%) Git
5 1 (7.14%) JIRA
5 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 4 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Agriculture
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) .NET
2 5 (35.71%) Gherkin
3 4 (28.57%) HTML
3 4 (28.57%) Web Services
3 4 (28.57%) XML
3 4 (28.57%) XSLT
4 3 (21.43%) Qt
5 2 (14.29%) MSMQ
6 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
6 1 (7.14%) Laravel
6 1 (7.14%) pytest
6 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) NHS
2 3 (21.43%) PCIe
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 9 (64.29%) Test Automation
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) BDD
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Mathematics
4 5 (35.71%) Regression Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Defect Tracking
5 4 (28.57%) Desktop Virtualisation
5 4 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Load Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) Process Improvement
5 4 (28.57%) SOA
5 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
5 4 (28.57%) Validation
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (21.43%) SysML
6 3 (21.43%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 4 (28.57%) Groovy
3 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 3 (21.43%) C
4 3 (21.43%) MATLAB
5 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 2 (14.29%) Python
6 1 (7.14%) Java
6 1 (7.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CIPD
1 4 (28.57%) DBS Check
2 3 (21.43%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Def Stans
1 3 (21.43%) MISRA
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Server
2 3 (21.43%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Google
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 4 (28.57%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) IBM