QA Automation Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 395 550 519
Rank change year-on-year +155 -31 +45
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 18 39 154
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.12% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.13% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 18 36 141
10th Percentile £50,125 £42,500 £44,713
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,813 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,625 £67,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

QA Automation 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 13,938 31,020 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.13% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,733 23,575 28,496
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,800 £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%

QA Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

QA Automation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Automation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing QA Automation over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

QA Automation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation
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 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
1 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) BrowserStack
3 3 (16.67%) SaaS
3 3 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Selenium
2 5 (27.78%) JIRA
3 4 (22.22%) Appium
3 4 (22.22%) Cypress.io
4 3 (16.67%) JUnit
4 3 (16.67%) Postman
4 3 (16.67%) TestNG
5 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
5 2 (11.11%) Git
5 2 (11.11%) WebDriver
6 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
6 1 (5.56%) JMeter
6 1 (5.56%) Maven
6 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
6 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
6 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Law
3 2 (11.11%) Health Technology
4 1 (5.56%) Billing
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) QA Automation Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Automation Tester
4 4 (22.22%) Lead
4 4 (22.22%) QA Test Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Senior
4 4 (22.22%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Test Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Tester
5 3 (16.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Python Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) QA Automation Tester
6 2 (11.11%) QA Manager
6 2 (11.11%) QA Tester
7 1 (5.56%) Manual Tester
7 1 (5.56%) QA Leader
7 1 (5.56%) Senior QA Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Playwright
2 3 (16.67%) pytest
3 2 (11.11%) CSS
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) JSON
4 1 (5.56%) .NET
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) REST
4 1 (5.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 3 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) Manual Testing
4 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 7 (38.89%) Test Scripting
5 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) SDLC
5 5 (27.78%) Test Strategy
6 4 (22.22%) Security Testing
6 4 (22.22%) Test Management
7 3 (16.67%) API Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
7 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
7 3 (16.67%) OOP
7 3 (16.67%) Performance Testing
7 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) SDET
7 3 (16.67%) Waterfall
8 2 (11.11%) Cross-Browser Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (27.78%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
3 4 (22.22%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Go
5 1 (5.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft