Automation Tester Jobs with Work from Home Options

Automation Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Tester salary in Work from Home is £58,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 592 631
Rank change year-on-year +56 +39 -168
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Tester 54 83 201
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.19% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.20% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 30 77 139
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +14.29% +9.38%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,125 £73,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -

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 32,462 41,558 65,000
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.10% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,940 29,452 41,851
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,503 £36,000
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 £79,600
90th Percentile £92,500 £99,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%

Automation Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Automation Tester trend for jobs with a WFH option

Automation Tester
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Automation Tester over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024, 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 remote work options featuring Automation Tester in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 41 (75.93%) Selenium
3 39 (72.22%) Agile
4 32 (59.26%) Security Cleared
5 28 (51.85%) QA
6 23 (42.59%) Test Scripting
6 23 (42.59%) Requirements Analysis
6 23 (42.59%) Technical Analysis
6 23 (42.59%) Mentoring
6 23 (42.59%) Coaching
6 23 (42.59%) Actionable Insight
6 23 (42.59%) Test Assurance
7 21 (38.89%) DV Cleared
8 19 (35.19%) Aerospace
8 19 (35.19%) JavaScript
8 19 (35.19%) Collaborative Working
9 18 (33.33%) Software Testing
10 17 (31.48%) Cucumber
10 17 (31.48%) Java
11 15 (27.78%) SDET
12 14 (25.93%) CI/CD
12 14 (25.93%) Scrum
13 13 (24.07%) API Testing
14 12 (22.22%) Jenkins
14 12 (22.22%) GitHub
14 12 (22.22%) REST Assured
15 11 (20.37%) SoapUI
15 11 (20.37%) SC Cleared
16 9 (16.67%) BDD
16 9 (16.67%) SQL

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.26%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) GitHub
2 9 (16.67%) SaaS
3 6 (11.11%) AWS
3 6 (11.11%) Azure
4 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (75.93%) Selenium
2 17 (31.48%) Cucumber
3 12 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 12 (22.22%) REST Assured
4 11 (20.37%) SoapUI
5 8 (14.81%) JMeter
5 8 (14.81%) WebDriver
6 7 (12.96%) Bitbucket
6 7 (12.96%) Bitbucket Server
6 7 (12.96%) JIRA
6 7 (12.96%) JUnit
6 7 (12.96%) Serenity BDD
6 7 (12.96%) TestNG
7 5 (9.26%) SpecFlow
8 2 (3.70%) eggPlant
8 2 (3.70%) Maven
8 2 (3.70%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.85%) Appium
9 1 (1.85%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.85%) Git
General
1 19 (35.19%) Aerospace
2 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.41%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Front Office
5 1 (1.85%) Finance
5 1 (1.85%) Games
5 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.81%) REST
2 7 (12.96%) Gherkin
2 7 (12.96%) RESTful
2 7 (12.96%) SOAP
2 7 (12.96%) Web Services
3 6 (11.11%) WireMock
4 5 (9.26%) Apache Commons
4 5 (9.26%) Guava
4 5 (9.26%) Java Concurrency
5 4 (7.41%) Playwright
6 2 (3.70%) .NET
7 1 (1.85%) ADO
7 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.85%) Celery
7 1 (1.85%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 39 (72.22%) Agile
3 23 (42.59%) Actionable Insight
3 23 (42.59%) Coaching
3 23 (42.59%) Mentoring
3 23 (42.59%) Requirements Analysis
3 23 (42.59%) Technical Analysis
3 23 (42.59%) Test Assurance
3 23 (42.59%) Test Scripting
4 19 (35.19%) Collaborative Working
5 18 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 15 (27.78%) SDET
7 14 (25.93%) CI/CD
7 14 (25.93%) Scrum
8 13 (24.07%) API Testing
9 9 (16.67%) BDD
10 7 (12.96%) DevOps
10 7 (12.96%) Test Management
11 6 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (35.19%) JavaScript
2 17 (31.48%) Java
3 9 (16.67%) SQL
4 8 (14.81%) C#
5 3 (5.56%) TypeScript
6 2 (3.70%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.85%) Python
7 1 (1.85%) Scala
7 1 (1.85%) VB
7 1 (1.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 32 (59.26%) Security Cleared
2 21 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 11 (20.37%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.41%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.70%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (51.85%) QA
2 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Ansible
2 1 (1.85%) Consul
Vendors
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
1 2 (3.70%) Oracle