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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 84 98
Rank change year-on-year +16 +14 -29
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 885 685 679
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.56% 4.08% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 4.34% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 406 294 391
10th Percentile £44,000 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -3.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,435 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,018 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.13% +8.33% -4.00%

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 20,042 15,769 19,580
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.69% 93.82% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 14,290 8,427 11,609
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,430
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.45% -0.95%

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 5 October 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 17 (1.92%) Confluence
2 13 (1.47%) Anypoint
2 13 (1.47%) Mule
3 9 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.90%) CMS
5 7 (0.79%) Apache
5 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.56%) Camunda
7 5 (0.56%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 10 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.79%) Moqups
4 6 (0.68%) Simulink
5 5 (0.56%) Lightworks
6 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.23%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (3.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (3.05%) 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 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 410 (46.33%) AWS
2 275 (31.07%) Azure
3 197 (22.26%) SaaS
4 136 (15.37%) GCP
5 68 (7.68%) Amazon EKS
5 68 (7.68%) GitHub
6 64 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (6.21%) Serverless
8 37 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (3.39%) Power Platform
10 24 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
11 23 (2.60%) Azure AKS
12 21 (2.37%) Azure Functions
13 18 (2.03%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.92%) GitHub Copilot
15 13 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
15 13 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (1.36%) Entra ID
17 11 (1.24%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.10%) Broadband
2 14 (1.58%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.47%) SSL
4 9 (1.02%) DNS
5 8 (0.90%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.56%) DHCP
6 5 (0.56%) Firewall
6 5 (0.56%) MQTT
6 5 (0.56%) Network Security
6 5 (0.56%) SMS
7 4 (0.45%) LAN
7 4 (0.45%) WAN
7 4 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.45%) Wireless
8 3 (0.34%) CHAP
8 3 (0.34%) X.509
9 2 (0.23%) 5G
9 2 (0.23%) HTTP
9 2 (0.23%) Profibus
9 2 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (5.65%) MongoDB
3 34 (3.84%) SQL Server
4 23 (2.60%) Relational Database
5 20 (2.26%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.03%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.81%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.81%) Metadata
7 16 (1.81%) Power BI
7 16 (1.81%) Semantic Layer
8 15 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
9 13 (1.47%) MySQL
9 13 (1.47%) Redis
10 11 (1.24%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.79%) Big Data
12 7 (0.79%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.79%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 91 (10.28%) Git
2 69 (7.80%) TeamCity
3 62 (7.01%) GitLab
4 48 (5.42%) Selenium
5 45 (5.08%) Jenkins
6 35 (3.95%) Cypress.io
7 32 (3.62%) JIRA
8 29 (3.28%) Postman
9 20 (2.26%) JUnit
10 13 (1.47%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.02%) JMeter
12 8 (0.90%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.90%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.79%) Appium
14 6 (0.68%) Gatling
14 6 (0.68%) Storybook
15 5 (0.56%) Crashlytics
15 5 (0.56%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
15 5 (0.56%) XCTest
General
1 275 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 199 (22.49%) Finance
3 149 (16.84%) Law
4 133 (15.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 131 (14.80%) Banking
6 114 (12.88%) Analytical Skills
7 109 (12.32%) Public Sector
8 95 (10.73%) Retail
9 84 (9.49%) Legal
10 56 (6.33%) Financial Institution
11 54 (6.10%) Back Office
12 44 (4.97%) Marketing
13 30 (3.39%) Games
14 24 (2.71%) Manufacturing
15 20 (2.26%) Aerospace
15 20 (2.26%) Telecoms
16 19 (2.15%) Electronics
17 10 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
18 8 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 248 (28.02%) Senior
2 158 (17.85%) Software Engineer
3 138 (15.59%) Lead
4 98 (11.07%) Developer
5 66 (7.46%) Test Engineer
6 49 (5.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 49 (5.54%) Senior Manager
6 49 (5.54%) Testing Manager
7 48 (5.42%) IT Manager
7 48 (5.42%) IT Services Manager
7 48 (5.42%) Resilience Manager
7 48 (5.42%) Service Manager
8 37 (4.18%) Senior DevOps
9 36 (4.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 35 (3.95%) Java Engineer
10 35 (3.95%) Software Manager
11 33 (3.73%) Engineering Manager
11 33 (3.73%) QA Engineer
12 32 (3.62%) Senior Developer
12 32 (3.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (15.37%) Terraform
2 81 (9.15%) React
3 71 (8.02%) REST
4 69 (7.80%) Node.js
5 64 (7.23%) Spring
6 61 (6.89%) .NET
7 59 (6.67%) Playwright
8 54 (6.10%) RESTful
9 52 (5.88%) Middleware
10 31 (3.50%) Spring Boot
11 29 (3.28%) CSS
12 23 (2.60%) AngularJS
12 23 (2.60%) Next.js
13 21 (2.37%) HTML
14 18 (2.03%) GraphQL
14 18 (2.03%) OAuth
15 17 (1.92%) LangChain
15 17 (1.92%) OAuth2
15 17 (1.92%) TensorFlow
16 16 (1.81%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 195 (22.03%) Cloud Native
2 132 (14.92%) Product Ownership
3 63 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.44%) Virtual Team
5 52 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
6 44 (4.97%) Blog
7 35 (3.95%) Mobile App
8 33 (3.73%) Low-Code
9 31 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
10 30 (3.39%) Public Cloud
11 27 (3.05%) Marketing Technology
12 25 (2.82%) Video\Live Streaming
13 20 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (1.47%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
15 10 (1.13%) Data Structures
15 10 (1.13%) Management Information System
15 10 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.02%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.12%) Linux
2 47 (5.31%) Windows
3 37 (4.18%) Unix
4 31 (3.50%) Android
5 27 (3.05%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.45%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.34%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.23%) CentOS
8 2 (0.23%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (58.64%) CI/CD
2 370 (41.81%) Agile
3 368 (41.58%) Software Engineering
4 349 (39.44%) Mentoring
5 345 (38.98%) DevOps
6 294 (33.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 222 (25.08%) AI
8 194 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
9 176 (19.89%) Coaching
10 147 (16.61%) Software Testing
11 146 (16.50%) Microservices
12 138 (15.59%) Technical Leadership
13 128 (14.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 128 (14.46%) Test Strategy
14 121 (13.67%) Clean Code
15 118 (13.33%) Validation
16 116 (13.11%) Infrastructure as Code
17 115 (12.99%) Observability
18 107 (12.09%) Deployment Automation
19 105 (11.86%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 264 (29.83%) Python
2 243 (27.46%) Java
3 167 (18.87%) JavaScript
4 142 (16.05%) C#
4 142 (16.05%) TypeScript
5 122 (13.79%) SQL
6 64 (7.23%) PowerShell
7 49 (5.54%) Go
8 25 (2.82%) Bash
9 24 (2.71%) Kotlin
10 18 (2.03%) C++
11 15 (1.69%) Rust
12 13 (1.47%) DataWeave
13 12 (1.36%) PHP
14 10 (1.13%) C
15 9 (1.02%) Swift
16 8 (0.90%) Bicep
17 7 (0.79%) Clojure
18 6 (0.68%) MATLAB
18 6 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 102 (11.53%) Security Cleared
2 81 (9.15%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.10%) Degree
4 53 (5.99%) ITIL Certification
5 51 (5.76%) CISM
5 51 (5.76%) CISSP
6 27 (3.05%) ISTQB
7 16 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.56%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.56%) OSCP
13 4 (0.45%) CISA
13 4 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.34%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.34%) CGEIT
14 3 (0.34%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (21.92%) QA
2 79 (8.93%) Accessibility
3 53 (5.99%) NIST
4 48 (5.42%) ISO 22301
5 44 (4.97%) Data Quality
6 21 (2.37%) WCAG
7 12 (1.36%) GDPR
8 7 (0.79%) GRC
9 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.45%) ECSS
10 4 (0.45%) SLA
10 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.34%) COBIT
11 3 (0.34%) EMIR
11 3 (0.34%) PERC
12 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.11%) ISAE 3402
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 26262
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 101 (11.41%) Docker
2 7 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.68%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) KVM
5 1 (0.11%) QEMU
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 150 (16.95%) Kubernetes
2 85 (9.60%) Grafana
3 16 (1.81%) Argo
4 13 (1.47%) CloudHub
5 12 (1.36%) Ansible
6 9 (1.02%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.34%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.11%) Consul
9 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 82 (9.27%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.94%) Salesforce
3 22 (2.49%) Oracle
4 20 (2.26%) ServiceNow
5 18 (2.03%) SAP
6 16 (1.81%) Databricks
7 14 (1.58%) Google
7 14 (1.58%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.36%) Pega
9 7 (0.79%) Braze
9 7 (0.79%) IFS
9 7 (0.79%) VMware
10 6 (0.68%) Foundry
10 6 (0.68%) Palantir
11 5 (0.56%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.56%) dotdigital
11 5 (0.56%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.45%) UiPath
12 4 (0.45%) Zscaler