Software Testing Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Testing
UK > Work from Home

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 168 176
Rank change year-on-year -87 +8 -41
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 235 668 737
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.16% 1.94% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.17% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 191 498 535
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £43,750 £42,819
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.36% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,875 £67,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,375 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Software 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 18,835 30,834 34,578
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.27% 89.39% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 9,990 22,905 24,939
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,250 £81,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

Software Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Software Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Testing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software 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 14 (5.96%) Appian
2 4 (1.70%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.28%) Simulink
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.43%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 37 (15.74%) Azure
2 30 (12.77%) AWS
3 25 (10.64%) SaaS
4 24 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (6.38%) Serverless
6 14 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.26%) GCP
8 5 (2.13%) GitHub
9 4 (1.70%) Figma
9 4 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.28%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.43%) Azure API Management
12 1 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
12 1 (0.43%) BrowserStack
12 1 (0.43%) Datadog
12 1 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.43%) mabl
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.70%) HTTP
1 4 (1.70%) Software-Defined Radio
2 3 (1.28%) Internet
3 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.43%) GSM
3 1 (0.43%) LTE
3 1 (0.43%) Profibus
3 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.43%) SMS
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.43%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.81%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (5.96%) DynamoDB
3 12 (5.11%) MongoDB
3 12 (5.11%) OLTP
4 11 (4.68%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (2.98%) Redis
7 5 (2.13%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.70%) Hazelcast
8 4 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (1.28%) MySQL
9 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.85%) Metadata
10 2 (0.85%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.85%) Power BI
10 2 (0.85%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.43%) Big Data
11 1 (0.43%) Couchbase
11 1 (0.43%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 32 (13.62%) Git
2 31 (13.19%) Selenium
3 23 (9.79%) JIRA
4 16 (6.81%) Appium
5 13 (5.53%) Cypress.io
6 12 (5.11%) Jenkins
7 8 (3.40%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.98%) Postman
8 7 (2.98%) WebDriver
9 6 (2.55%) JMeter
9 6 (2.55%) JUnit
9 6 (2.55%) SpecFlow
10 5 (2.13%) Gatling
10 5 (2.13%) Maven
10 5 (2.13%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (1.70%) NUnit
11 4 (1.70%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (1.70%) SoapUI
11 4 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (1.70%) TestRail
General
1 58 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 44 (18.72%) Finance
3 20 (8.51%) Aerospace
4 19 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.81%) Law
5 16 (6.81%) Publishing
6 14 (5.96%) Banking
6 14 (5.96%) Health Technology
6 14 (5.96%) Tech for Good
7 13 (5.53%) Legal
8 11 (4.68%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.70%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Advertising
11 3 (1.28%) Back Office
11 3 (1.28%) Games
11 3 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Marketing
11 3 (1.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 68 (28.94%) Developer
1 68 (28.94%) Senior
2 44 (18.72%) Senior Developer
3 28 (11.91%) Lead
4 25 (10.64%) Analyst
5 23 (9.79%) Tester
6 22 (9.36%) Software Engineer
7 17 (7.23%) Software Developer
8 14 (5.96%) Appian Developer
8 14 (5.96%) QA Engineer
9 13 (5.53%) QA Analyst
9 13 (5.53%) Software Tester
10 12 (5.11%) Oracle Developer
10 12 (5.11%) PL/SQL Developer
10 12 (5.11%) Senior Oracle Developer
10 12 (5.11%) Senior PL/SQL Developer
10 12 (5.11%) Senior Software Developer
10 12 (5.11%) Senior SQL Developer
10 12 (5.11%) SQL Developer
11 11 (4.68%) Principal Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (17.45%) React
2 33 (14.04%) .NET
3 26 (11.06%) HTML
4 22 (9.36%) Kafka
5 18 (7.66%) Node.js
5 18 (7.66%) RESTful
5 18 (7.66%) SOAP
6 17 (7.23%) Swagger
7 15 (6.38%) Playwright
7 15 (6.38%) XML
8 14 (5.96%) REST
9 13 (5.53%) Qt
10 12 (5.11%) AngularJS
11 11 (4.68%) .NET Core
12 10 (4.26%) CSS
12 10 (4.26%) Web Services
13 8 (3.40%) .NET Framework
13 8 (3.40%) jQuery
13 8 (3.40%) JSON
13 8 (3.40%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.79%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.23%) Mobile App
3 15 (6.38%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.96%) Embedded Systems
5 9 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (3.40%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.55%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.13%) FPGA
8 5 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.28%) e-Learning
11 2 (0.85%) Acoustics
11 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
11 2 (0.85%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.85%) Mobile Games
12 1 (0.43%) Distributed Architecture
12 1 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.38%) Apple iOS
2 13 (5.53%) Linux
3 11 (4.68%) Windows
4 10 (4.26%) Unix
5 8 (3.40%) Android
6 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (48.51%) Agile
2 86 (36.60%) Test Automation
3 52 (22.13%) Manual Testing
3 52 (22.13%) SDLC
4 51 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (19.57%) Regression Testing
6 45 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 45 (19.15%) Software Engineering
7 39 (16.60%) Scrum
8 36 (15.32%) DevOps
9 35 (14.89%) Test Strategy
10 33 (14.04%) CI/CD
11 28 (11.91%) Mentoring
12 27 (11.49%) Test Scripting
12 27 (11.49%) Validation
13 25 (10.64%) Unit Testing
14 23 (9.79%) Software Delivery
15 21 (8.94%) Computer Science
15 21 (8.94%) Process Improvement
16 19 (8.09%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 62 (26.38%) SQL
2 57 (24.26%) JavaScript
3 55 (23.40%) Python
4 47 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 34 (14.47%) C#
6 26 (11.06%) C++
7 24 (10.21%) C
7 24 (10.21%) Java
8 21 (8.94%) PL/SQL
9 10 (4.26%) Bash
10 8 (3.40%) Fortran
11 4 (1.70%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.70%) Swift
12 3 (1.28%) MATLAB
12 3 (1.28%) Ruby
13 2 (0.85%) Groovy
13 2 (0.85%) Scala
13 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.43%) PHP
14 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 38 (16.17%) Degree
2 37 (15.74%) Security Cleared
3 36 (15.32%) SC Cleared
4 31 (13.19%) ISTQB
5 10 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.26%) Master's Degree
6 8 (3.40%) PhD
7 6 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 5 (2.13%) ISEB
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.43%) CISSP
10 1 (0.43%) CSQA
10 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.43%) MCSD
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (36.60%) QA
2 6 (2.55%) Def Stans
3 5 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.13%) GDPR
4 3 (1.28%) PMBOK
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 12 (5.11%) Docker
2 4 (1.70%) Firmware
3 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 16 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.55%) Argo
3 2 (0.85%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.85%) Terraform
4 1 (0.43%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 23 (9.79%) Oracle
2 11 (4.68%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.55%) VMware
4 4 (1.70%) IBM
4 4 (1.70%) Xilinx
5 3 (1.28%) Google
5 3 (1.28%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.28%) Splunk
6 2 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.85%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.85%) New Relic
7 1 (0.43%) Allen-Bradley
7 1 (0.43%) Databricks
7 1 (0.43%) SAP
7 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.43%) Siemens
7 1 (0.43%) UiPath