Senior Test Automation Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Automation Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Automation Test Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 - 641
Rank change year-on-year - - +184
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Automation Engineer 5 0 30
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.033% - 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% - 0.073%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 30
10th Percentile £52,400 - £43,750
25th Percentile £59,750 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 - £84,063
90th Percentile - - £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £56,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.56% +2.27% -20.38%

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 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Test Automation Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Test Automation Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Test Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Test Automation Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior Test Automation Engineer 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 Senior Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) QA
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Postman
2 3 (60.00%) SoapUI
2 3 (60.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 2 (40.00%) PMO
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) UX Design
4 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience

Senior Test Automation Engineer 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
1 3 (60.00%) SoapUI
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Billing
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) Swagger
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) API Testing
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) CRM
4 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (20.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) PMO