Automation Tester Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Automation Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Tester salary for remote or hybrid work is £62,500 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 380 538 592
Rank change year-on-year +158 +54 +54
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Tester 17 54 81
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.17% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 15 30 75
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,875 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -2.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,700 £74,125 £74,000
UK median annual salary £50,897 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.17% +4.35% +15.00%

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 Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Automation Tester trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Automation Tester
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Automation Tester.

Automation Tester salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Tester
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Automation Tester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Automation Tester salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Automation Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 14 (82.35%) QA
3 11 (64.71%) Selenium
4 10 (58.82%) Test Scripting
4 10 (58.82%) Azure
5 9 (52.94%) C#
6 8 (47.06%) Java
6 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
6 8 (47.06%) Agile
7 7 (41.18%) Python
7 7 (41.18%) Software Testing
7 7 (41.18%) API Testing
8 6 (35.29%) DevOps
8 6 (35.29%) Playwright
8 6 (35.29%) Manual Testing
8 6 (35.29%) Test Management
8 6 (35.29%) Finance
9 5 (29.41%) Law
9 5 (29.41%) SQL
9 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (23.53%) SDLC
10 4 (23.53%) QA Automation
10 4 (23.53%) OOP
10 4 (23.53%) Cypress.io
10 4 (23.53%) WebDriver
10 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
10 4 (23.53%) JSON
10 4 (23.53%) JIRA
11 3 (17.65%) Regression Testing
11 3 (17.65%) SoapUI

Automation Tester 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 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) BrowserStack
3 1 (5.88%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Selenium
2 4 (23.53%) Cypress.io
2 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 4 (23.53%) WebDriver
3 3 (17.65%) Appium
3 3 (17.65%) Mocha
3 3 (17.65%) Postman
3 3 (17.65%) Protractor
3 3 (17.65%) SoapUI
4 2 (11.76%) Git
5 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.88%) JUnit
5 1 (5.88%) Maven
5 1 (5.88%) TestComplete
5 1 (5.88%) TestNG
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Law
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Electronics
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.76%) Marketing
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.88%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Playwright
2 4 (23.53%) JSON
3 3 (17.65%) .NET
3 3 (17.65%) pytest
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) CSS
4 2 (11.76%) HTML
4 2 (11.76%) Swagger
4 2 (11.76%) Web Services
4 2 (11.76%) XML
5 1 (5.88%) Node.js
5 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.76%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (58.82%) Test Scripting
3 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 7 (41.18%) API Testing
4 7 (41.18%) Software Testing
5 6 (35.29%) DevOps
5 6 (35.29%) Manual Testing
5 6 (35.29%) Test Management
6 4 (23.53%) OOP
6 4 (23.53%) QA Automation
6 4 (23.53%) SDLC
6 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
7 3 (17.65%) B2B
7 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
7 3 (17.65%) Defect Tracking
7 3 (17.65%) Exploratory Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Functional Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (17.65%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C#
2 8 (47.06%) Java
2 8 (47.06%) JavaScript
3 7 (41.18%) Python
4 5 (29.41%) SQL
5 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
6 2 (11.76%) C++
7 1 (5.88%) Go
7 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (82.35%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) UiPath