Automation Test Lead Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Test Automation Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Automation Leader salary for remote or hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 582 652
Rank change year-on-year +188 +70 +161
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Test Lead 3 10 21
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.030% 0.049%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.031% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 14
10th Percentile £56,500 £55,000 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £80,625 £65,000 £88,625
90th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £61,250 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -15.52% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Automation Test Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Automation Test Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Automation Test Lead trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Automation Test Lead
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Automation Test Lead over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025, 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Automation Test Lead in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) Playwright
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing

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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Appium
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Fintech
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) SDET
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL