Junior Tester Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Junior Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Junior Tester salary for remote or hybrid work is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 414 582 669
Rank change year-on-year +168 +87 +153
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Tester 3 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.006% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.006% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £18,940 £33,050 £23,323
25th Percentile £22,150 £33,875 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £36,500 £24,146
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +51.16% -10.57%
75th Percentile £40,000 £37,875 £26,662
90th Percentile £44,500 £37,950 £30,000
UK median annual salary £30,000 £27,500 £26,250
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -8.70%

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 13,761 32,474 40,893
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 96.00% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 9,932 24,947 29,049
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,008 £36,711
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,447
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 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Junior Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Junior Tester
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Junior Tester salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Junior Tester
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Junior Tester over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Junior Tester salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Junior Tester Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Junior 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 Junior Tester in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) QA
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) pytest
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) B2B
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing

Junior 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) pytest
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) B2B
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA