Hybrid/Remote Test Automation Job Trends

Automated Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Test Automation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 66 100
Rank change year-on-year +9 +34 -49
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 743 745 946
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.88% 5.11% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 5.39% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 404 387 740
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £37,950
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,375 £69,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Test 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 15,889 13,827 29,727
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.91% 94.82% 90.27%
Number of salaries quoted 11,338 8,083 23,433
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,300 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,100 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.39% +5.51% -9.84%

Test Automation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Automation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Test Automation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Test Automation
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Test Automation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Test Automation

Test Automation
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Test Automation over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

Test Automation salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Test Automation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (1.21%) Confluence
2 8 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.94%) Apache
4 5 (0.67%) CMS
4 5 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.27%) Camunda
7 2 (0.27%) JBoss
7 2 (0.27%) Mule
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 2 (0.27%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 313 (42.13%) AWS
2 244 (32.84%) Azure
3 128 (17.23%) GCP
4 106 (14.27%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (12.52%) GitHub
6 72 (9.69%) Serverless
7 68 (9.15%) SaaS
8 58 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (4.31%) Power Platform
11 28 (3.77%) Azure Service Bus
12 25 (3.36%) Entra ID
12 25 (3.36%) GitHub Copilot
13 24 (3.23%) Azure AKS
14 19 (2.56%) Amazon S3
15 18 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (2.42%) Azure Event Grid
16 16 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (2.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (6.19%) Broadband
2 11 (1.48%) CHAP
3 5 (0.67%) DNS
3 5 (0.67%) SMS
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
4 3 (0.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.27%) SSL
6 1 (0.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.04%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (7.81%) MongoDB
3 34 (4.58%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.50%) SQL Server
5 16 (2.15%) MySQL
6 15 (2.02%) Metadata
7 13 (1.75%) BigQuery
7 13 (1.75%) Power BI
8 10 (1.35%) DynamoDB
8 10 (1.35%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.21%) Oracle Database
9 9 (1.21%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.67%) Spark SQL
12 5 (0.67%) Tableau
13 4 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (7.67%) TeamCity
2 54 (7.27%) Selenium
3 53 (7.13%) Git
4 48 (6.46%) Jenkins
5 44 (5.92%) JIRA
6 38 (5.11%) GitLab
7 31 (4.17%) Cypress.io
8 22 (2.96%) Postman
9 21 (2.83%) JMeter
10 15 (2.02%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.75%) Crashlytics
11 13 (1.75%) Oracle Forms
11 13 (1.75%) REST Assured
11 13 (1.75%) XCTest
12 12 (1.62%) SpecFlow
13 11 (1.48%) WebDriver
14 8 (1.08%) Appium
14 8 (1.08%) JUnit
15 7 (0.94%) MLflow
15 7 (0.94%) TestRail
General
1 207 (27.86%) Finance
2 198 (26.65%) Social Skills
3 113 (15.21%) Banking
4 106 (14.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (13.32%) Law
6 86 (11.57%) Public Sector
6 86 (11.57%) Retail
7 55 (7.40%) Analytical Skills
8 52 (7.00%) Financial Institution
9 42 (5.65%) Back Office
10 37 (4.98%) Games
11 21 (2.83%) Legal
11 21 (2.83%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.83%) Marketing
12 17 (2.29%) Electronics
13 10 (1.35%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.54%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 211 (28.40%) Senior
2 121 (16.29%) Lead
2 121 (16.29%) Software Engineer
3 83 (11.17%) Developer
4 69 (9.29%) Test Engineer
5 50 (6.73%) QA Engineer
6 49 (6.59%) Java Engineer
7 47 (6.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 38 (5.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 37 (4.98%) Senior Developer
10 35 (4.71%) Java Software Engineer
11 29 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 29 (3.90%) Software Manager
11 29 (3.90%) Test Automation Engineer
12 28 (3.77%) Engineering Manager
12 28 (3.77%) QA Automation Engineer
12 28 (3.77%) Tester
13 26 (3.50%) Software Engineering Manager
14 25 (3.36%) Automation Engineer
15 24 (3.23%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (13.46%) React
2 67 (9.02%) REST
3 64 (8.61%) RESTful
4 63 (8.48%) Playwright
5 62 (8.34%) .NET
6 56 (7.54%) Node.js
7 55 (7.40%) Spring
8 29 (3.90%) Spring Boot
9 25 (3.36%) JSON
10 22 (2.96%) AngularJS
11 21 (2.83%) Next.js
12 20 (2.69%) React Native
13 19 (2.56%) AWS CDK
14 17 (2.29%) HTML
14 17 (2.29%) SOAP
15 16 (2.15%) CSS
15 16 (2.15%) XML
16 15 (2.02%) Kafka
16 15 (2.02%) OAuth
17 14 (1.88%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 173 (23.28%) Cloud Native
2 99 (13.32%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.38%) Mobile App
4 30 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (3.90%) Low-Code
6 27 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (3.10%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.10%) Video\Live Streaming
8 20 (2.69%) Blog
8 20 (2.69%) Public Cloud
9 19 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (2.15%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.48%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.35%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
14 10 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.21%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.86%) Linux
2 49 (6.59%) Apple iOS
3 39 (5.25%) Android
4 24 (3.23%) Unix
5 18 (2.42%) Windows
6 3 (0.40%) CentOS
7 2 (0.27%) Debian
7 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 423 (56.93%) CI/CD
2 345 (46.43%) Agile
3 243 (32.71%) DevOps
4 236 (31.76%) Mentoring
5 222 (29.88%) Software Engineering
6 199 (26.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 162 (21.80%) Coaching
8 157 (21.13%) Microservices
9 152 (20.46%) Problem-Solving
10 146 (19.65%) AI
11 141 (18.98%) Clean Code
12 129 (17.36%) Observability
13 128 (17.23%) Infrastructure as Code
14 117 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
15 98 (13.19%) Deployment Automation
16 93 (12.52%) Test Strategy
17 90 (12.11%) Software Testing
18 87 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
19 82 (11.04%) Validation
20 80 (10.77%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 232 (31.22%) Java
2 181 (24.36%) Python
3 116 (15.61%) SQL
4 99 (13.32%) JavaScript
4 99 (13.32%) TypeScript
5 66 (8.88%) C#
6 36 (4.85%) Go
7 26 (3.50%) PowerShell
8 25 (3.36%) Bash
9 17 (2.29%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.02%) Apex Code
11 14 (1.88%) Swift
12 13 (1.75%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.62%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.48%) Bicep
15 9 (1.21%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.94%) Clojure
16 7 (0.94%) PHP
17 6 (0.81%) C++
18 5 (0.67%) C
Qualifications
1 66 (8.88%) Security Cleared
2 63 (8.48%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.59%) Degree
4 26 (3.50%) ISTQB
5 17 (2.29%) CISSP
6 15 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.48%) CGEIT
7 11 (1.48%) CISA
7 11 (1.48%) CISM
7 11 (1.48%) FFIEC
7 11 (1.48%) SANS
8 9 (1.21%) CEH
8 9 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.08%) CREST Certified
9 8 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.08%) OSCP
10 7 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (0.81%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (24.09%) QA
2 67 (9.02%) Accessibility
3 31 (4.17%) GDPR
4 27 (3.63%) Data Quality
5 23 (3.10%) NIST
6 15 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.48%) COBIT
7 11 (1.48%) GRC
7 11 (1.48%) WCAG
8 9 (1.21%) ISO 22301
9 8 (1.08%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.94%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.40%) PERC
13 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 77 (10.36%) Docker
2 12 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 149 (20.05%) Terraform
2 132 (17.77%) Kubernetes
3 70 (9.42%) Grafana
4 21 (2.83%) Argo
5 16 (2.15%) Ansible
6 11 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.81%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.40%) logstash
9 2 (0.27%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.27%) MIIS
10 1 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.13%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 71 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.98%) Oracle
3 24 (3.23%) Databricks
3 24 (3.23%) Salesforce
4 15 (2.02%) Braze
4 15 (2.02%) VMware
5 13 (1.75%) Amplitude
5 13 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 12 (1.62%) Commvault
7 11 (1.48%) SAP
8 9 (1.21%) Google
9 7 (0.94%) IFS
9 7 (0.94%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.67%) Ab Initio
10 5 (0.67%) dotdigital
10 5 (0.67%) Okta
11 4 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.54%) Workday
12 3 (0.40%) Dynatrace
12 3 (0.40%) MuleSoft