Exploratory Testing Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Exploratory Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 561 621
Rank change year-on-year +186 +60 +37
Permanent jobs citing Exploratory Testing 22 31 52
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.092% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.100% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 15 19 45
10th Percentile £32,800 £28,250 £42,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -15.38% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £65,800 £65,000 £82,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -21.74% +11.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Exploratory Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Exploratory Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Exploratory Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Exploratory Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Exploratory Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Exploratory Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Exploratory Testing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Exploratory Testing
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 1 (4.55%) Moodle
1 1 (4.55%) Totara
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) AWS
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.55%) Neo4j
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (54.55%) Selenium
2 5 (22.73%) SpecFlow
3 4 (18.18%) Appium
3 4 (18.18%) Cypress.io
3 4 (18.18%) WebDriver
4 3 (13.64%) Git
4 3 (13.64%) JUnit
4 3 (13.64%) TestNG
5 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
5 2 (9.09%) Postman
5 2 (9.09%) TeamCity
6 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
6 1 (4.55%) Gatling
6 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
6 1 (4.55%) LoadRunner
6 1 (4.55%) Locust
6 1 (4.55%) TestComplete
6 1 (4.55%) TestRail
6 1 (4.55%) YouTrack
6 1 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Law
3 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Test Engineer
1 6 (27.27%) Tester
2 5 (22.73%) Software Tester
3 4 (18.18%) QA Specialist
3 4 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Automation Tester
4 3 (13.64%) Test Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Development Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Junior
5 2 (9.09%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) QA Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Test Development Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Junior Test Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) QA Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Playwright
2 4 (18.18%) .NET
3 3 (13.64%) OpenFin
4 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.55%) MERN Stack
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) Swagger
4 1 (4.55%) Vue
4 1 (4.55%) WebGL
4 1 (4.55%) WebGPU
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) Apple iOS
3 3 (13.64%) Linux
4 2 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) Software Testing
2 18 (81.82%) Test Automation
3 10 (45.45%) Regression Testing
4 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 8 (36.36%) Manual Testing
4 8 (36.36%) Test Strategy
5 7 (31.82%) API Testing
6 6 (27.27%) Functional Testing
7 5 (22.73%) Agile
7 5 (22.73%) B2B
7 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (22.73%) SDET
7 5 (22.73%) Test Management
7 5 (22.73%) Test Scripting
8 4 (18.18%) Issue Tracking
8 4 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
8 4 (18.18%) Process Improvement
8 4 (18.18%) SDLC
8 4 (18.18%) Time Management
9 3 (13.64%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (40.91%) Java
2 9 (40.91%) Python
3 7 (31.82%) C#
4 6 (27.27%) SQL
5 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) ISTQB
2 2 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (63.64%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) UiPath