Test Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Engineer salary in Work from Home is £45,996 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 369 427
Rank change year-on-year -110 +58 -73
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 114 324 510
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.78% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.81% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 65 261 352
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,101 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,996 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

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 32,500 39,912 66,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 96.00% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,881 28,336 41,924
10th Percentile £33,013 £36,733 £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 £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Test Engineer.

Test Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 77 (67.54%) Test Automation
2 59 (51.75%) Agile
3 45 (39.47%) Software Testing
4 31 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (25.44%) DevOps
6 28 (24.56%) QA
7 26 (22.81%) Security Cleared
8 24 (21.05%) Social Skills
8 24 (21.05%) Test Scripting
9 23 (20.18%) CI/CD
10 22 (19.30%) Degree
11 21 (18.42%) Regression Testing
12 20 (17.54%) SQL
12 20 (17.54%) JIRA
12 20 (17.54%) Selenium
12 20 (17.54%) Non-Functional Testing
12 20 (17.54%) Postman
13 19 (16.67%) Azure
14 18 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
15 17 (14.91%) BDD
15 17 (14.91%) ISTQB
15 17 (14.91%) JavaScript
16 16 (14.04%) Retail
16 16 (14.04%) Software Engineering
17 15 (13.16%) C#
17 15 (13.16%) Python
17 15 (13.16%) Microsoft
17 15 (13.16%) Mentoring
18 14 (12.28%) SDLC
18 14 (12.28%) Load Testing

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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (8.77%) Confluence
2 2 (1.75%) MTS
Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.63%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.67%) Azure
2 13 (11.40%) AWS
3 9 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.26%) GitHub
5 4 (3.51%) Cloud Composer
5 4 (3.51%) Cloud Functions
5 4 (3.51%) dbt
5 4 (3.51%) GCP
5 4 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (3.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (3.51%) PaaS
5 4 (3.51%) SaaS
5 4 (3.51%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 2 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) Internet
2 3 (2.63%) Ethernet
3 2 (1.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.51%) InfluxDB
3 4 (3.51%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.51%) Redis
3 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (3.51%) Tableau
4 1 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 20 (17.54%) JIRA
1 20 (17.54%) Postman
1 20 (17.54%) Selenium
2 13 (11.40%) JMeter
3 12 (10.53%) Jenkins
4 11 (9.65%) Cucumber
5 10 (8.77%) JBehave
5 10 (8.77%) SpecFlow
6 9 (7.89%) JUnit
7 8 (7.02%) Bitbucket
8 6 (5.26%) Appium
8 6 (5.26%) SoapUI
8 6 (5.26%) TeamCity
9 4 (3.51%) Cypress.io
9 4 (3.51%) Gatling
9 4 (3.51%) Git
9 4 (3.51%) GitLab
9 4 (3.51%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (2.63%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (2.63%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 24 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.04%) Retail
3 12 (10.53%) Electronics
4 10 (8.77%) Aerospace
5 8 (7.02%) Finance
6 7 (6.14%) Automotive
6 7 (6.14%) Marketing
6 7 (6.14%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.26%) Military
8 5 (4.39%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (3.51%) Welsh Language
10 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.75%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.88%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.88%) Avionics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.65%) Gherkin
2 8 (7.02%) XML
3 6 (5.26%) .NET
4 5 (4.39%) Node.js
5 4 (3.51%) HTML
5 4 (3.51%) OAuth
5 4 (3.51%) OAuth2
5 4 (3.51%) SOAP
5 4 (3.51%) Web Services
5 4 (3.51%) WebdriverIO
5 4 (3.51%) XSLT
6 3 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (2.63%) Qt
7 2 (1.75%) Laravel
7 2 (1.75%) MSMQ
7 2 (1.75%) pytest
8 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.88%) Behat
8 1 (0.88%) Puppeteer
8 1 (0.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.26%) Chip and PIN
2 6 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.51%) NHS
4 4 (3.51%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.63%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (2.63%) PCIe
6 2 (1.75%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.75%) Infotainment
7 1 (0.88%) Animation
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.89%) Linux
2 7 (6.14%) Windows
3 5 (4.39%) Unix
4 3 (2.63%) Android
5 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.75%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.75%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.88%) CentOS
6 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (67.54%) Test Automation
2 59 (51.75%) Agile
3 45 (39.47%) Software Testing
4 31 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (25.44%) DevOps
6 24 (21.05%) Test Scripting
7 23 (20.18%) CI/CD
8 21 (18.42%) Regression Testing
9 20 (17.54%) Non-Functional Testing
10 18 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (14.91%) BDD
12 16 (14.04%) Software Engineering
13 15 (13.16%) Mentoring
14 14 (12.28%) Load Testing
14 14 (12.28%) SDLC
15 13 (11.40%) Analytics
15 13 (11.40%) Defect Management
16 11 (9.65%) Coaching
16 11 (9.65%) Manual Testing
16 11 (9.65%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.54%) SQL
2 17 (14.91%) JavaScript
3 15 (13.16%) C#
3 15 (13.16%) Python
4 10 (8.77%) Java
5 5 (4.39%) Groovy
6 4 (3.51%) Ruby
6 4 (3.51%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.63%) C
7 3 (2.63%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.75%) C++
8 2 (1.75%) PHP
8 2 (1.75%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 22 (19.30%) Degree
3 17 (14.91%) ISTQB
4 12 (10.53%) DBS Check
5 10 (8.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (7.02%) SC Cleared
7 4 (3.51%) CIPD
7 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.51%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.51%) GIAC
8 2 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.75%) NVQ Level 3
8 2 (1.75%) Six Sigma Green Belt
9 1 (0.88%) ISEB
9 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (24.56%) QA
2 13 (11.40%) Accessibility
3 10 (8.77%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.63%) COSHH
4 3 (2.63%) Def Stans
4 3 (2.63%) ISO 14001
4 3 (2.63%) MISRA
System Software
1 5 (4.39%) Docker
2 4 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.51%) VMware Server
3 3 (2.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (7.89%) Grafana
2 4 (3.51%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) Google
3 6 (5.26%) Thales
4 4 (3.51%) Oracle
4 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.51%) Splunk
4 4 (3.51%) VMware
5 3 (2.63%) IBM
5 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.75%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.75%) EMC