Test Automation Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Automation Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Test Engineer salary in Work from Home is £42,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 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
13 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 539 656
Rank change year-on-year -17 +117 -166
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 21 123 200
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.062% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.31% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 15 112 143
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,375 £40,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £48,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £55,625 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £79,375 £69,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

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 32,351 39,695 67,533
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.97% 96.00% 97.37%
Number of salaries quoted 24,813 28,246 42,069
10th Percentile £33,036 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,318 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Automation Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Automation Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation 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 Test Automation Engineer.

Test Automation Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Test Automation Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, 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 remote work options featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (57.14%) Agile
3 11 (52.38%) Selenium
4 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 8 (38.10%) Test Scripting
6 7 (33.33%) QA
6 7 (33.33%) Cucumber
6 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
6 7 (33.33%) DevOps
6 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (28.57%) BDD
7 6 (28.57%) Python
7 6 (28.57%) Finance
8 5 (23.81%) JIRA
8 5 (23.81%) Software Testing
8 5 (23.81%) Manual Testing
8 5 (23.81%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (19.05%) Postman
9 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
9 4 (19.05%) TeamCity
9 4 (19.05%) JBehave
9 4 (19.05%) SpecFlow
9 4 (19.05%) Gherkin
9 4 (19.05%) Retail
9 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (19.05%) Java
9 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
10 3 (14.29%) JUnit
10 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Selenium
2 7 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 7 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (23.81%) JIRA
4 4 (19.05%) JBehave
4 4 (19.05%) Postman
4 4 (19.05%) SpecFlow
4 4 (19.05%) TeamCity
5 3 (14.29%) Cypress.io
5 3 (14.29%) Git
5 3 (14.29%) JUnit
6 2 (9.52%) Appium
6 2 (9.52%) TestNG
6 2 (9.52%) UI Automator
7 1 (4.76%) PHPUnit
7 1 (4.76%) Protractor
7 1 (4.76%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Retail
3 2 (9.52%) Automotive
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Gherkin
2 2 (9.52%) Spring
2 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) Behat
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) Playwright
3 1 (4.76%) Puppeteer
3 1 (4.76%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
3 3 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (9.52%) Client/Server
4 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Android
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Apple iOS
2 2 (9.52%) Mac OS
2 2 (9.52%) Mac OS X
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (57.14%) Agile
3 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
4 8 (38.10%) Test Scripting
5 7 (33.33%) DevOps
5 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (28.57%) BDD
7 5 (23.81%) Manual Testing
7 5 (23.81%) Software Testing
8 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (14.29%) Analytics
9 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (14.29%) Data Development
9 3 (14.29%) Data Reconciliation
9 3 (14.29%) ETL
9 3 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
9 3 (14.29%) Scrum
9 3 (14.29%) Software Delivery
10 2 (9.52%) API Testing
10 2 (9.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Java
2 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
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