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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 73 108
Rank change year-on-year +7 +35 -57
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 742 744 939
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.65% 4.78% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 5.07% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 398 371 705
10th Percentile £46,099 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £77,500
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 16,683 14,689 30,701
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.00% 94.40% 88.80%
Number of salaries quoted 12,100 8,561 23,682
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,000 £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 £79,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%

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 23 June 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 10 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.21%) Confluence
3 8 (1.08%) Apache
3 8 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.81%) CMS
5 5 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.54%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.54%) Mule
7 2 (0.27%) Camunda
7 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.27%) JBoss
7 2 (0.27%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
3 2 (0.27%) Simulink
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
1 4 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
3 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 350 (47.17%) AWS
2 209 (28.17%) Azure
3 138 (18.60%) GCP
4 76 (10.24%) Serverless
5 75 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (9.16%) SaaS
7 59 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
8 58 (7.82%) GitHub
9 35 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (3.77%) Power Platform
11 23 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.70%) Azure AKS
13 18 (2.43%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
16 15 (2.02%) PaaS
17 14 (1.89%) Entra ID
17 14 (1.89%) Firebase
17 14 (1.89%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 69 (9.30%) Broadband
2 9 (1.21%) CHAP
3 5 (0.67%) DNS
3 5 (0.67%) SMS
4 4 (0.54%) SSL
5 3 (0.40%) Firewall
5 3 (0.40%) VPN
6 2 (0.27%) Ethernet
6 2 (0.27%) MQTT
6 2 (0.27%) Network Security
6 2 (0.27%) PuTTY
6 2 (0.27%) Wireless
7 1 (0.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (11.99%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (8.89%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.45%) NoSQL
4 23 (3.10%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.43%) MySQL
6 17 (2.29%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.02%) Semantic Layer
8 11 (1.48%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.48%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.35%) Metadata
9 10 (1.35%) Power BI
9 10 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.67%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.54%) Big Data
12 4 (0.54%) Redis
13 3 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.40%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 58 (7.82%) TeamCity
2 50 (6.74%) Git
3 48 (6.47%) Selenium
4 46 (6.20%) Jenkins
5 39 (5.26%) GitLab
6 32 (4.31%) JIRA
7 27 (3.64%) Cypress.io
8 25 (3.37%) Postman
9 21 (2.83%) JMeter
10 17 (2.29%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.89%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.89%) XCTest
12 13 (1.75%) SpecFlow
13 12 (1.62%) REST Assured
14 9 (1.21%) WebDriver
15 8 (1.08%) Appium
15 8 (1.08%) Claude Code
15 8 (1.08%) JUnit
16 7 (0.94%) XCUITest
17 6 (0.81%) TestRail
General
1 190 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 177 (23.85%) Finance
3 117 (15.77%) Banking
4 107 (14.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 91 (12.26%) Law
5 91 (12.26%) Public Sector
6 82 (11.05%) Retail
7 50 (6.74%) Games
8 49 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
8 49 (6.60%) Financial Institution
9 41 (5.53%) Back Office
10 22 (2.96%) Manufacturing
11 20 (2.70%) Legal
12 19 (2.56%) Marketing
13 11 (1.48%) Electronics
13 11 (1.48%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.21%) Legal Technology
15 7 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (28.84%) Senior
2 134 (18.06%) Software Engineer
3 126 (16.98%) Lead
4 91 (12.26%) Developer
5 64 (8.63%) Test Engineer
6 50 (6.74%) Java Engineer
6 50 (6.74%) Senior Software Engineer
7 46 (6.20%) QA Engineer
8 39 (5.26%) Senior Developer
9 38 (5.12%) Engineering Manager
10 36 (4.85%) Software Manager
11 35 (4.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 35 (4.72%) Java Software Engineer
12 33 (4.45%) Software Engineering Manager
13 32 (4.31%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (4.04%) Test Automation Engineer
15 28 (3.77%) Architect
16 27 (3.64%) Test Leader
17 26 (3.50%) Senior DevOps
17 26 (3.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (12.40%) React
2 62 (8.36%) Spring
3 61 (8.22%) Node.js
4 60 (8.09%) .NET
5 59 (7.95%) RESTful
6 57 (7.68%) Playwright
6 57 (7.68%) REST
7 30 (4.04%) Spring Boot
8 22 (2.96%) AngularJS
8 22 (2.96%) AWS CDK
9 19 (2.56%) Next.js
10 18 (2.43%) React Native
11 16 (2.16%) CSS
11 16 (2.16%) HTML
12 15 (2.02%) Kafka
12 15 (2.02%) SwiftUI
13 14 (1.89%) UIKit
14 13 (1.75%) Django
14 13 (1.75%) JSON
14 13 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 185 (24.93%) Cloud Native
2 103 (13.88%) Product Ownership
3 44 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (5.12%) Mobile App
5 36 (4.85%) Low-Code
6 32 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
6 32 (4.31%) Video\Live Streaming
7 27 (3.64%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.83%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.56%) Blog
10 17 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (2.02%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (1.48%) Cyberattack
12 11 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.35%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.35%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.21%) Podcast
15 8 (1.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 57 (7.68%) Linux
2 44 (5.93%) Apple iOS
3 32 (4.31%) Android
4 27 (3.64%) Unix
4 27 (3.64%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) CentOS
5 2 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.13%) Debian
6 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 434 (58.49%) CI/CD
2 331 (44.61%) Agile
3 256 (34.50%) Software Engineering
4 255 (34.37%) Mentoring
5 225 (30.32%) DevOps
6 203 (27.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 159 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 155 (20.89%) Microservices
9 147 (19.81%) AI
10 144 (19.41%) Coaching
11 134 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 125 (16.85%) Clean Code
13 122 (16.44%) Full-Stack Development
14 120 (16.17%) Observability
15 108 (14.56%) Technical Leadership
16 99 (13.34%) Deployment Automation
17 98 (13.21%) Roadmaps
18 97 (13.07%) Validation
19 92 (12.40%) Software Testing
19 92 (12.40%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 235 (31.67%) Java
2 192 (25.88%) Python
3 103 (13.88%) SQL
4 100 (13.48%) JavaScript
5 92 (12.40%) TypeScript
6 67 (9.03%) C#
7 47 (6.33%) Go
8 23 (3.10%) Bash
9 20 (2.70%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.29%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.02%) Swift
12 9 (1.21%) C++
12 9 (1.21%) PHP
13 8 (1.08%) Clojure
14 7 (0.94%) C
15 6 (0.81%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.67%) Ruby
16 5 (0.67%) Rust
16 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (9.03%) Security Cleared
2 63 (8.49%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.33%) Degree
4 29 (3.91%) ISTQB
5 15 (2.02%) CISSP
6 12 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.21%) CGEIT
8 9 (1.21%) CISA
8 9 (1.21%) CISM
8 9 (1.21%) FFIEC
8 9 (1.21%) SANS
9 8 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (0.94%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.81%) CEH
11 6 (0.81%) CREST Certified
11 6 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.81%) OSCP
12 5 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (23.72%) QA
2 69 (9.30%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.91%) Data Quality
4 24 (3.23%) GDPR
5 18 (2.43%) NIST
6 12 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.48%) GRC
8 10 (1.35%) WCAG
9 9 (1.21%) COBIT
10 7 (0.94%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.94%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.81%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.40%) PERC
13 2 (0.27%) ECSS
14 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.13%) MiFID
14 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 78 (10.51%) Docker
2 10 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 133 (17.92%) Terraform
2 129 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 69 (9.30%) Grafana
4 18 (2.43%) Argo
5 15 (2.02%) Ansible
6 5 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.54%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.27%) MIIS
9 1 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.13%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (8.63%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.37%) Oracle
3 20 (2.70%) ServiceNow
4 18 (2.43%) Databricks
5 17 (2.29%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.16%) Braze
7 14 (1.89%) Amplitude
8 12 (1.62%) VMware
9 10 (1.35%) Google
10 9 (1.21%) Commvault
11 8 (1.08%) IFS
12 7 (0.94%) Pega
12 7 (0.94%) SAP
13 6 (0.81%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.67%) dotdigital
14 5 (0.67%) MuleSoft
15 4 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
15 4 (0.54%) HubSpot
16 3 (0.40%) Foundry
16 3 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud