Developer in Test Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Developer in Test
UK > Work from Home

The median Developer in Test salary for remote or hybrid work is £80,000 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 391 581 613
Rank change year-on-year +190 +32 +123
Permanent jobs requiring a Developer in Test 6 11 60
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.033% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.034% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 32
10th Percentile - £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -25.93% -1.82%
75th Percentile £85,000 £63,125 £80,000
90th Percentile - £72,500 £84,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £50,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +55.00% -25.93% -3.57%

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% -

Developer in Test
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Developer in Test trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Developer in Test
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Developer in Test salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Developer in Test 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 Developer in Test in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 5 (83.33%) SDET
3 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Selenium
4 3 (50.00%) Python
4 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (50.00%) Playwright
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (50.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (50.00%) QA
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) GitLab
5 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
5 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (33.33%) Scala
5 2 (33.33%) Azure
5 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
5 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) Gatling
5 2 (33.33%) C#
5 2 (33.33%) Java
5 2 (33.33%) JMeter
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Ruby
5 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing

Developer in Test 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 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (33.33%) Gatling
3 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) JMeter
3 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) JUnit
4 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
4 1 (16.67%) TestComplete
4 1 (16.67%) TestNG
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 5 (83.33%) SDET
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Kanban
5 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Scrum
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
6 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 1 (16.67%) Fintech
6 1 (16.67%) Open Source
6 1 (16.67%) SDLC
6 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Ruby
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Go
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
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