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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 71 108
Rank change year-on-year +12 +37 -56
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 737 735 940
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.83% 4.95% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 5.23% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 400 379 727
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,250 £38,150
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,375 £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 £82,751 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,000 £78,750
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 15,838 14,066 30,071
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.29% 94.75% 89.71%
Number of salaries quoted 11,315 8,250 23,532
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £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 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 4 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 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.09%) Apache
2 8 (1.09%) Confluence
3 7 (0.95%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.68%) CMS
4 5 (0.68%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.41%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.41%) Mule
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.27%) Camunda
7 2 (0.27%) JBoss
7 2 (0.27%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 323 (43.83%) AWS
2 227 (30.80%) Azure
3 131 (17.77%) GCP
4 91 (12.35%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (10.58%) GitHub
6 75 (10.18%) Serverless
7 67 (9.09%) SaaS
8 57 (7.73%) Amazon EKS
9 41 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (3.93%) Power Platform
11 26 (3.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 22 (2.99%) Azure AKS
13 21 (2.85%) Entra ID
14 19 (2.58%) Amazon S3
15 18 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (2.17%) Azure Event Grid
17 16 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
17 16 (2.17%) PaaS
18 14 (1.90%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.78%) Broadband
2 11 (1.49%) CHAP
3 5 (0.68%) DNS
3 5 (0.68%) SMS
4 3 (0.41%) Firewall
4 3 (0.41%) SSL
4 3 (0.41%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.13%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (7.73%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.48%) NoSQL
4 22 (2.99%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.31%) MySQL
6 15 (2.04%) BigQuery
7 14 (1.90%) Metadata
8 11 (1.49%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.49%) Power BI
8 11 (1.49%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (1.36%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.36%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.68%) Spark SQL
13 4 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.54%) Big Data
14 3 (0.41%) Redis
14 3 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (7.60%) TeamCity
2 52 (7.06%) Selenium
3 50 (6.78%) Git
4 45 (6.11%) Jenkins
5 39 (5.29%) GitLab
6 36 (4.88%) JIRA
7 30 (4.07%) Cypress.io
8 22 (2.99%) Postman
9 20 (2.71%) JMeter
10 16 (2.17%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.90%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.90%) XCTest
12 13 (1.76%) SpecFlow
13 12 (1.63%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.36%) WebDriver
15 9 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (1.09%) Appium
16 8 (1.09%) JUnit
17 7 (0.95%) Claude Code
17 7 (0.95%) XCUITest
General
1 198 (26.87%) Finance
2 195 (26.46%) Social Skills
3 116 (15.74%) Banking
4 106 (14.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 98 (13.30%) Law
6 86 (11.67%) Public Sector
7 85 (11.53%) Retail
8 51 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
9 50 (6.78%) Financial Institution
10 40 (5.43%) Back Office
11 37 (5.02%) Games
12 22 (2.99%) Manufacturing
13 21 (2.85%) Legal
14 19 (2.58%) Marketing
15 15 (2.04%) Electronics
16 10 (1.36%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
19 5 (0.68%) Advertising
19 5 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 208 (28.22%) Senior
2 124 (16.82%) Software Engineer
3 119 (16.15%) Lead
4 84 (11.40%) Developer
5 68 (9.23%) Test Engineer
6 49 (6.65%) Java Engineer
6 49 (6.65%) QA Engineer
7 48 (6.51%) Senior Software Engineer
8 39 (5.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 36 (4.88%) Senior Developer
10 35 (4.75%) Java Software Engineer
11 34 (4.61%) Engineering Manager
11 34 (4.61%) Software Manager
12 31 (4.21%) Software Engineering Manager
12 31 (4.21%) Test Automation Engineer
13 28 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
14 26 (3.53%) QA Automation Engineer
14 26 (3.53%) Test Leader
14 26 (3.53%) Tester
15 25 (3.39%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (13.43%) React
2 62 (8.41%) Playwright
2 62 (8.41%) REST
3 61 (8.28%) .NET
4 60 (8.14%) Spring
5 58 (7.87%) Node.js
5 58 (7.87%) RESTful
6 29 (3.93%) Spring Boot
7 22 (2.99%) AngularJS
8 21 (2.85%) AWS CDK
9 20 (2.71%) JSON
9 20 (2.71%) Next.js
9 20 (2.71%) React Native
10 16 (2.17%) CSS
10 16 (2.17%) HTML
11 15 (2.04%) Kafka
11 15 (2.04%) SwiftUI
12 14 (1.90%) UIKit
12 14 (1.90%) XML
13 13 (1.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 170 (23.07%) Cloud Native
2 101 (13.70%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.56%) Mobile App
4 32 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (3.93%) Greenfield Project
6 27 (3.66%) Low-Code
7 25 (3.39%) Public Cloud
8 23 (3.12%) Management Information System
8 23 (3.12%) Video\Live Streaming
9 20 (2.71%) Blog
9 20 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.17%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.36%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.36%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.22%) Podcast
14 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.78%) Apple iOS
2 49 (6.65%) Linux
3 39 (5.29%) Android
4 23 (3.12%) Unix
5 18 (2.44%) Windows
6 3 (0.41%) CentOS
7 2 (0.27%) Debian
7 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (56.85%) CI/CD
2 332 (45.05%) Agile
3 234 (31.75%) Mentoring
4 230 (31.21%) Software Engineering
5 228 (30.94%) DevOps
6 192 (26.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 155 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
8 152 (20.62%) Microservices
9 150 (20.35%) Coaching
10 140 (19.00%) AI
11 132 (17.91%) Clean Code
12 128 (17.37%) Infrastructure as Code
13 122 (16.55%) Observability
14 116 (15.74%) Full-Stack Development
15 98 (13.30%) Technical Leadership
16 97 (13.16%) Deployment Automation
17 94 (12.75%) Test Strategy
18 90 (12.21%) Roadmaps
19 89 (12.08%) Software Testing
20 84 (11.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 233 (31.61%) Java
2 181 (24.56%) Python
3 110 (14.93%) SQL
4 99 (13.43%) TypeScript
5 98 (13.30%) JavaScript
6 67 (9.09%) C#
7 38 (5.16%) Go
8 25 (3.39%) Bash
8 25 (3.39%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.44%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.04%) Swift
11 11 (1.49%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.22%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.09%) Bicep
13 8 (1.09%) Clojure
13 8 (1.09%) PHP
13 8 (1.09%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.09%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.81%) C++
15 5 (0.68%) C
Qualifications
1 67 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 64 (8.68%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.24%) Degree
4 26 (3.53%) ISTQB
5 17 (2.31%) CISSP
6 13 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.49%) CGEIT
7 11 (1.49%) CISA
7 11 (1.49%) CISM
7 11 (1.49%) FFIEC
7 11 (1.49%) SANS
8 9 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.22%) CEH
9 8 (1.09%) CREST Certified
9 8 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.09%) OSCP
10 7 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.68%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (24.15%) QA
2 68 (9.23%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.93%) GDPR
4 28 (3.80%) Data Quality
5 23 (3.12%) NIST
6 15 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.49%) COBIT
7 11 (1.49%) GRC
8 10 (1.36%) WCAG
9 9 (1.22%) ISO 22301
10 8 (1.09%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.95%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.41%) PERC
12 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.14%) MiFID
13 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 75 (10.18%) Docker
2 11 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.09%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 143 (19.40%) Terraform
2 128 (17.37%) Kubernetes
3 67 (9.09%) Grafana
4 20 (2.71%) Argo
5 16 (2.17%) Ansible
6 7 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.41%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.27%) logstash
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.27%) MIIS
10 1 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.14%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 65 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 32 (4.34%) Oracle
3 22 (2.99%) Databricks
4 21 (2.85%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.17%) Braze
6 15 (2.04%) VMware
7 14 (1.90%) Amplitude
7 14 (1.90%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.63%) Commvault
9 11 (1.49%) SAP
10 9 (1.22%) Google
11 8 (1.09%) IFS
12 7 (0.95%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.68%) dotdigital
14 4 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (0.54%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.54%) MuleSoft
15 3 (0.41%) Okta
15 3 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 3 (0.41%) Workday