Software Testing Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 168 138
Rank change year-on-year -8 -30 -10
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 624 877 1,961
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.84% 2.11% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 2.19% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 552 621 1,069
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,625 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Software 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,965 39,955 66,612
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.45% 96.10% 96.96%
Number of salaries quoted 23,443 27,739 41,261
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Software Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Testing
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 Testing.

Software Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Testing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Software Testing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.37%) Confluence
2 9 (1.44%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.12%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.96%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.80%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) JBoss
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 21 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.60%) Simulink
4 7 (1.12%) Stateflow
5 6 (0.96%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.80%) Trello
7 4 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) ProductWriter
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 156 (25.00%) Azure
2 105 (16.83%) AWS
3 52 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 46 (7.37%) GitHub
5 39 (6.25%) SaaS
6 30 (4.81%) GCP
7 19 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (2.56%) Serverless
9 14 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
10 13 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.28%) Power Platform
12 6 (0.96%) IaaS
13 5 (0.80%) ClickUp
14 4 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (0.64%) Entra ID
14 4 (0.64%) PaaS
15 3 (0.48%) Amazon EC2
15 3 (0.48%) BrowserStack
16 2 (0.32%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.44%) RS-232
2 8 (1.28%) Ethernet
2 8 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.12%) Internet
3 7 (1.12%) Network Security
4 6 (0.96%) Wireless
5 4 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.48%) Modbus
6 3 (0.48%) RS-422
6 3 (0.48%) RS-485
6 3 (0.48%) VPN
7 2 (0.32%) HTTP
7 2 (0.32%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.32%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.32%) ZigBee
8 1 (0.16%) 4G
8 1 (0.16%) Firewall
8 1 (0.16%) Multicast
8 1 (0.16%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.16%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (5.13%) Relational Database
1 32 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 15 (2.40%) Big Data
3 14 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (2.08%) DynamoDB
4 13 (2.08%) MySQL
5 12 (1.92%) OLTP
6 10 (1.60%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.96%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.96%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.96%) Flink
7 6 (0.96%) Hadoop
7 6 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.64%) Redis
9 3 (0.48%) MS Access
9 3 (0.48%) SQLite
10 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.16%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 105 (16.83%) JIRA
2 60 (9.62%) Selenium
3 39 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 37 (5.93%) Postman
5 36 (5.77%) Git
6 33 (5.29%) Cucumber
7 28 (4.49%) Cypress.io
8 26 (4.17%) JMeter
9 22 (3.53%) Visual Studio
10 21 (3.37%) JUnit
11 19 (3.04%) SpecFlow
12 17 (2.72%) Bitbucket
13 16 (2.56%) GitLab
14 12 (1.92%) Appium
15 11 (1.76%) SoapUI
16 9 (1.44%) REST Assured
16 9 (1.44%) TestNG
16 9 (1.44%) WebDriver
17 8 (1.28%) Rational Rhapsody
17 8 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 133 (21.31%) Social Skills
2 64 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (9.62%) Finance
4 54 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 40 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (4.49%) Electronics
7 22 (3.53%) Automotive
8 17 (2.72%) Games
9 15 (2.40%) Police
10 14 (2.24%) Law
10 14 (2.24%) Manufacturing
10 14 (2.24%) Marketing
10 14 (2.24%) Military
11 13 (2.08%) Legal
12 12 (1.92%) Banking
13 11 (1.76%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.76%) French Language
13 11 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.76%) Retail
14 9 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 144 (23.08%) Developer
2 140 (22.44%) Senior
3 83 (13.30%) Tester
4 72 (11.54%) Software Engineer
5 66 (10.58%) Analyst
6 56 (8.97%) Senior Developer
7 48 (7.69%) QA Engineer
7 48 (7.69%) Software Developer
8 45 (7.21%) Test Engineer
9 44 (7.05%) Software Tester
10 42 (6.73%) .NET Developer
11 37 (5.93%) Test Analyst
12 34 (5.45%) Full Stack Developer
13 33 (5.29%) Lead
14 27 (4.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
15 23 (3.69%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.53%) Embedded Engineer
16 22 (3.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
17 18 (2.88%) Senior Full Stack Developer
18 17 (2.72%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (16.35%) .NET
2 60 (9.62%) HTML
2 60 (9.62%) Web Services
3 45 (7.21%) Node.js
4 42 (6.73%) CSS
4 42 (6.73%) RESTful
5 34 (5.45%) .NET Framework
6 27 (4.33%) Playwright
7 24 (3.85%) ASP.NET
7 24 (3.85%) SOAP
8 22 (3.53%) React
9 20 (3.21%) GraphQL
9 20 (3.21%) Kafka
9 20 (3.21%) REST
10 19 (3.04%) XML
11 18 (2.88%) Spring
12 17 (2.72%) .NET Core
12 17 (2.72%) Spring Boot
13 13 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
13 13 (2.08%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.73%) Product Ownership
2 27 (4.33%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (4.33%) Onboarding
3 24 (3.85%) Video\Live Streaming
4 19 (3.04%) Algorithms
5 13 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
6 12 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 12 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.76%) Embedded Systems
7 11 (1.76%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (1.60%) Client/Server
8 10 (1.60%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.44%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.12%) Life Science
10 7 (1.12%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.96%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 67 (10.74%) Linux
2 39 (6.25%) Windows
3 12 (1.92%) Android
4 11 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (1.44%) Unix
6 6 (0.96%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.80%) Debian
7 5 (0.80%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.80%) Windows Mobile
8 4 (0.64%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 271 (43.43%) Agile
2 229 (36.70%) Test Automation
3 144 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 143 (22.92%) DevOps
5 139 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
6 120 (19.23%) CI/CD
7 81 (12.98%) TDD
8 75 (12.02%) Code Quality
9 72 (11.54%) Mentoring
9 72 (11.54%) Scrum
10 70 (11.22%) Functional Testing
11 68 (10.90%) Regression Testing
12 61 (9.78%) Computer Science
13 57 (9.13%) BDD
13 57 (9.13%) Coaching
14 52 (8.33%) Unit Testing
14 52 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
15 48 (7.69%) Test Scripting
16 47 (7.53%) Design Patterns
17 45 (7.21%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 168 (26.92%) C#
2 131 (20.99%) Python
3 122 (19.55%) JavaScript
4 117 (18.75%) Java
5 95 (15.22%) SQL
6 57 (9.13%) C
7 44 (7.05%) TypeScript
8 24 (3.85%) Go
9 19 (3.04%) C++
9 19 (3.04%) Groovy
10 18 (2.88%) VB.NET
11 17 (2.72%) Embedded C
12 14 (2.24%) PL/SQL
13 13 (2.08%) MATLAB
13 13 (2.08%) Ruby
14 11 (1.76%) Perl
14 11 (1.76%) PowerShell
15 10 (1.60%) Bash
16 9 (1.44%) Scala
17 8 (1.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 98 (15.71%) Degree
2 87 (13.94%) Security Cleared
3 56 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 46 (7.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (6.41%) ISTQB
6 29 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (2.56%) ISEB
8 14 (2.24%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.60%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.28%) IIBA
11 7 (1.12%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.96%) CSPO
13 5 (0.80%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.64%) CIPD
14 4 (0.64%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.48%) PhD
16 2 (0.32%) CBAP
16 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (26.60%) QA
2 52 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 27 (4.33%) WCAG
4 13 (2.08%) ISO 9001
5 11 (1.76%) MISRA
6 8 (1.28%) SLA
7 7 (1.12%) DO-254
7 7 (1.12%) GDPR
8 4 (0.64%) Software Quality Assurance
9 3 (0.48%) Def Stans
9 3 (0.48%) ITGC
10 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.32%) PMO
11 1 (0.16%) AQAP
11 1 (0.16%) EMIR
11 1 (0.16%) ISO 26262
11 1 (0.16%) JTAG
11 1 (0.16%) MiFID
11 1 (0.16%) TickIT
System Software
1 59 (9.46%) Docker
2 28 (4.49%) Firmware
3 11 (1.76%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (1.44%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.64%) VMware Server
7 3 (0.48%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.16%) NFS
8 1 (0.16%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 48 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.45%) Terraform
3 12 (1.92%) Ansible
3 12 (1.92%) Puppet
4 11 (1.76%) Progress Chef
4 11 (1.76%) Salt
5 9 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.96%) Grafana
6 6 (0.96%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (0.80%) Kibana
8 3 (0.48%) SCCM
9 1 (0.16%) Consul
Vendors
1 77 (12.34%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.01%) Oracle
3 16 (2.56%) IBM
4 11 (1.76%) Google
5 10 (1.60%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.44%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.12%) Lauterbach
8 6 (0.96%) HP
8 6 (0.96%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.96%) OutSystems
8 6 (0.96%) Teradata
9 5 (0.80%) Splunk
9 5 (0.80%) Xamarin
10 4 (0.64%) Adobe
10 4 (0.64%) Peregrine
10 4 (0.64%) VMware
11 3 (0.48%) Citrix
11 3 (0.48%) Databricks
11 3 (0.48%) SAP
12 2 (0.32%) BT