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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 83 98
Rank change year-on-year +14 +15 -29
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 859 690 709
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.53% 4.23% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 4.54% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 387 310 432
10th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,156 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,500 £82,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £93,500 £95,000 £83,975
UK median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% -4.71%

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 19,826 15,207 20,601
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.45% 93.22% 87.84%
Number of salaries quoted 14,213 8,631 12,628
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,812 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 18 September 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 16 (1.86%) Confluence
2 13 (1.51%) Anypoint
2 13 (1.51%) Mule
3 9 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.70%) Apache
4 6 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.70%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.58%) CMS
5 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.35%) Camunda
7 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.23%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.70%) Moqups
3 6 (0.70%) Simulink
4 5 (0.58%) Lightworks
5 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (3.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (3.14%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.23%) Magento
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.23%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 405 (47.15%) AWS
2 263 (30.62%) Azure
3 193 (22.47%) SaaS
4 135 (15.72%) GCP
5 66 (7.68%) Azure DevOps
6 64 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
7 56 (6.52%) GitHub
8 52 (6.05%) Serverless
9 32 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (3.26%) Power Platform
11 23 (2.68%) Azure AKS
12 21 (2.44%) Azure Service Bus
13 16 (1.86%) Azure Functions
14 15 (1.75%) Amazon S3
15 14 (1.63%) Entra ID
15 14 (1.63%) GitHub Copilot
16 13 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (1.40%) Azure Key Vault
18 11 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.40%) Broadband
2 14 (1.63%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.51%) SSL
4 8 (0.93%) DNS
5 5 (0.58%) DHCP
5 5 (0.58%) Ethernet
5 5 (0.58%) MQTT
5 5 (0.58%) SMS
6 4 (0.47%) Firewall
6 4 (0.47%) LAN
6 4 (0.47%) Network Security
6 4 (0.47%) WAN
6 4 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.47%) Wireless
7 3 (0.35%) CHAP
7 3 (0.35%) X.509
8 2 (0.23%) 5G
8 2 (0.23%) HTTP
9 1 (0.12%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.12%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (5.82%) MongoDB
3 33 (3.84%) SQL Server
4 23 (2.68%) NoSQL
4 23 (2.68%) Relational Database
5 18 (2.10%) BigQuery
6 15 (1.75%) Semantic Layer
7 14 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (1.63%) Data Lake
7 14 (1.63%) Power BI
8 11 (1.28%) MySQL
9 10 (1.16%) Metadata
10 9 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.05%) Oracle Database
10 9 (1.05%) Redis
11 7 (0.81%) Big Data
11 7 (0.81%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.70%) Parquet
13 5 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 89 (10.36%) Git
2 68 (7.92%) TeamCity
3 53 (6.17%) GitLab
4 49 (5.70%) Selenium
5 44 (5.12%) Jenkins
6 35 (4.07%) Cypress.io
7 30 (3.49%) JIRA
8 28 (3.26%) Postman
9 16 (1.86%) JUnit
10 14 (1.63%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.05%) JMeter
12 8 (0.93%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.93%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.70%) Appium
13 6 (0.70%) Crashlytics
13 6 (0.70%) Gatling
13 6 (0.70%) NUnit
13 6 (0.70%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.70%) TestRail
13 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 272 (31.66%) Social Skills
2 199 (23.17%) Finance
3 150 (17.46%) Law
4 130 (15.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (14.67%) Banking
6 102 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
7 94 (10.94%) Public Sector
8 92 (10.71%) Retail
9 88 (10.24%) Legal
10 55 (6.40%) Financial Institution
11 53 (6.17%) Back Office
12 44 (5.12%) Marketing
13 31 (3.61%) Games
14 24 (2.79%) Manufacturing
15 21 (2.44%) Electronics
16 19 (2.21%) Aerospace
17 18 (2.10%) Telecoms
18 11 (1.28%) Investment Banking
18 11 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (27.01%) Senior
2 142 (16.53%) Lead
3 141 (16.41%) Software Engineer
4 104 (12.11%) Developer
5 57 (6.64%) Test Engineer
6 49 (5.70%) Senior Manager
6 49 (5.70%) Testing Manager
7 48 (5.59%) IT Manager
7 48 (5.59%) IT Services Manager
7 48 (5.59%) Resilience Manager
7 48 (5.59%) Service Manager
8 44 (5.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 40 (4.66%) Software Manager
10 39 (4.54%) Engineering Manager
11 35 (4.07%) Software Engineering Manager
12 34 (3.96%) Java Engineer
12 34 (3.96%) Senior Developer
13 32 (3.73%) QA Engineer
13 32 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
13 32 (3.73%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (15.13%) Terraform
2 95 (11.06%) React
3 69 (8.03%) Node.js
4 65 (7.57%) REST
5 64 (7.45%) Spring
6 62 (7.22%) Playwright
7 57 (6.64%) .NET
8 51 (5.94%) RESTful
9 48 (5.59%) Middleware
10 32 (3.73%) CSS
11 30 (3.49%) AngularJS
12 27 (3.14%) Spring Boot
13 24 (2.79%) HTML
14 21 (2.44%) Next.js
15 18 (2.10%) OAuth
16 16 (1.86%) JWT
16 16 (1.86%) OAuth2
16 16 (1.86%) PySpark
16 16 (1.86%) React Native
16 16 (1.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 195 (22.70%) Cloud Native
2 137 (15.95%) Product Ownership
3 57 (6.64%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (6.64%) Virtual Team
4 52 (6.05%) Cyber Threat
5 43 (5.01%) Blog
6 37 (4.31%) Mobile App
7 34 (3.96%) Low-Code
8 32 (3.73%) Public Cloud
9 28 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (3.14%) Marketing Technology
11 26 (3.03%) Video\Live Streaming
12 19 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.63%) Embedded Systems
15 13 (1.51%) AI Agents
16 10 (1.16%) Data Structures
16 10 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
17 9 (1.05%) Algorithms
17 9 (1.05%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.10%) Linux
2 46 (5.36%) Windows
3 34 (3.96%) Unix
4 28 (3.26%) Android
5 26 (3.03%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.35%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.23%) CentOS
8 2 (0.23%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (59.02%) CI/CD
2 365 (42.49%) Agile
3 351 (40.86%) Software Engineering
4 342 (39.81%) DevOps
5 329 (38.30%) Mentoring
6 280 (32.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 213 (24.80%) AI
8 199 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
9 157 (18.28%) Coaching
10 147 (17.11%) Software Testing
11 140 (16.30%) Microservices
12 131 (15.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 130 (15.13%) Technical Leadership
14 125 (14.55%) Test Strategy
15 114 (13.27%) Clean Code
16 110 (12.81%) Observability
17 108 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
18 105 (12.22%) Full-Stack Development
18 105 (12.22%) Validation
19 104 (12.11%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 251 (29.22%) Python
2 235 (27.36%) Java
3 173 (20.14%) JavaScript
4 143 (16.65%) TypeScript
5 139 (16.18%) C#
6 112 (13.04%) SQL
7 63 (7.33%) PowerShell
8 44 (5.12%) Go
9 22 (2.56%) Bash
10 20 (2.33%) Kotlin
11 16 (1.86%) C++
12 13 (1.51%) DataWeave
13 12 (1.40%) PHP
14 11 (1.28%) Rust
15 10 (1.16%) C
16 9 (1.05%) Swift
17 8 (0.93%) Clojure
18 7 (0.81%) Bicep
19 6 (0.70%) MATLAB
20 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (10.83%) Security Cleared
2 73 (8.50%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.17%) Degree
3 53 (6.17%) ITIL Certification
4 51 (5.94%) CISM
4 51 (5.94%) CISSP
5 30 (3.49%) ISTQB
6 15 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.93%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.47%) CISA
10 4 (0.47%) CREST Certified
10 4 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 4 (0.47%) OSCP
11 3 (0.35%) CGEIT
11 3 (0.35%) FFIEC
11 3 (0.35%) ICAEW
11 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (23.40%) QA
2 77 (8.96%) Accessibility
3 53 (6.17%) NIST
4 48 (5.59%) ISO 22301
5 41 (4.77%) Data Quality
6 22 (2.56%) WCAG
7 14 (1.63%) GDPR
8 10 (1.16%) GRC
9 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.47%) ECSS
10 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 4 (0.47%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.35%) COBIT
11 3 (0.35%) PERC
12 2 (0.23%) EMIR
12 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.12%) ISAE 3402
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 26262
13 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 93 (10.83%) Docker
2 7 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.12%) KVM
5 1 (0.12%) QEMU
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 141 (16.41%) Kubernetes
2 77 (8.96%) Grafana
3 16 (1.86%) Argo
4 13 (1.51%) Ansible
4 13 (1.51%) CloudHub
5 9 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.23%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.12%) Consul
8 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.12%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) MIIS
8 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 78 (9.08%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.91%) Salesforce
3 21 (2.44%) Oracle
4 20 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 17 (1.98%) SAP
6 16 (1.86%) Databricks
7 15 (1.75%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.40%) Pega
9 10 (1.16%) Google
10 8 (0.93%) Braze
10 8 (0.93%) IFS
11 7 (0.81%) VMware
12 6 (0.70%) Amplitude
13 5 (0.58%) dotdigital
14 4 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (0.47%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.47%) Xilinx
14 4 (0.47%) Zscaler
15 3 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 3 (0.35%) YouTube