Software Test Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Test Engineer salary in Work from Home is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 637 714
Rank change year-on-year +74 +77 -188
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Test Engineer 12 38 111
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.035% 0.087% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.091% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 44
10th Percentile - £27,500 £36,625
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,125 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £39,750 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% -14.05% +17.75%
75th Percentile £65,000 £56,875 £53,750
90th Percentile - £72,250 £57,500
UK median annual salary £44,033 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.15% - +5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,487 41,727 64,825
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.00% 96.06% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,961 29,529 41,700
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £79,600
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Software Test Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Software Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Test Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Test Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Test Engineer.

Software Test Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Test Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Test Engineer over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Software Test Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Software Test 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 remote work options featuring Software Test Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
3 6 (50.00%) C#
3 6 (50.00%) Postman
4 5 (41.67%) BDD
4 5 (41.67%) Gherkin
4 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) SQL
4 5 (41.67%) .NET
4 5 (41.67%) Regression Testing
4 5 (41.67%) Internet
5 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 4 (33.33%) NHS
5 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (33.33%) SOA
5 4 (33.33%) Validation
5 4 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (33.33%) HTML
5 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 4 (33.33%) Web Services
5 4 (33.33%) XML
5 4 (33.33%) XSLT
5 4 (33.33%) Groovy
5 4 (33.33%) Azure
5 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (33.33%) Google
5 4 (33.33%) Mathematics
5 4 (33.33%) VMware Server
5 4 (33.33%) Load Testing

Software Test 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 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (25.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
1 4 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Internet
2 3 (25.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Postman
2 4 (33.33%) Katalon Studio
3 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (25.00%) Rational Rhapsody
3 3 (25.00%) Rational Team Concert
4 1 (8.33%) Git
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (8.33%) Selenium
4 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (8.33%) Agriculture
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
1 5 (41.67%) Gherkin
2 4 (33.33%) HTML
2 4 (33.33%) Web Services
2 4 (33.33%) XML
2 4 (33.33%) XSLT
3 3 (25.00%) Qt
4 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (8.33%) Laravel
4 1 (8.33%) MSMQ
4 1 (8.33%) pytest
4 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) NHS
2 3 (25.00%) PCIe
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
1 3 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) BDD
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
3 5 (41.67%) Regression Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
4 4 (33.33%) Desktop Virtualisation
4 4 (33.33%) Load Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Mathematics
4 4 (33.33%) Process Improvement
4 4 (33.33%) SOA
4 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 4 (33.33%) Validation
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) SysML
5 3 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (25.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) C#
2 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 4 (33.33%) Groovy
3 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) C
4 3 (25.00%) MATLAB
5 2 (16.67%) Python
6 1 (8.33%) Java
6 1 (8.33%) PHP
6 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) CIPD
1 4 (33.33%) DBS Check
2 3 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Def Stans
1 3 (25.00%) MISRA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (33.33%) VMware Server
2 3 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Google
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 4 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (25.00%) IBM