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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 98 67
Rank change year-on-year +14 -31 -31
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 683 703 1,086
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.21% 3.01% 4.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.51% 3.43% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 311 431 930
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,306 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,991 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £84,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £62,734
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.36% +4.56%

All Process and 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 15,130 20,481 23,676
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 87.75% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8,605 12,629 19,503
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,950
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Test Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Automation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Test Automation
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

Test Automation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Test Automation over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Test Automation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 164 (24.01%) Confluence
2 8 (1.17%) Headless CMS
3 6 (0.88%) Apache Solr
3 6 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.73%) Apache
4 5 (0.73%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.44%) CMS
6 2 (0.29%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) Appian
7 1 (0.15%) JBoss
7 1 (0.15%) Mendix
Applications
1 8 (1.17%) Blender
2 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.59%) Oracle Smart View
2 4 (0.59%) SOLIDWORKS
3 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (2.34%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (1.76%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (1.17%) Elite 3E
3 8 (1.17%) Shopify
4 4 (0.59%) Hyperion Planning
4 4 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
4 4 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 395 (57.83%) Azure
2 326 (47.73%) AWS
3 180 (26.35%) GCP
4 80 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (9.22%) GitHub
6 51 (7.47%) SaaS
7 26 (3.81%) PaaS
8 24 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (3.51%) Serverless
9 18 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (2.64%) Power Automate
10 17 (2.49%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (2.20%) Power Platform
12 13 (1.90%) Entra ID
12 13 (1.90%) GitHub Copilot
12 13 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (1.76%) OCI
14 11 (1.61%) Vercel
15 9 (1.32%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.49%) 5G
2 16 (2.34%) SD-WAN
2 16 (2.34%) WAN
3 6 (0.88%) HTTP
3 6 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.73%) Firewall
5 4 (0.59%) Broadband
6 3 (0.44%) VPN
7 2 (0.29%) BGP
7 2 (0.29%) Internet
7 2 (0.29%) Multicast
7 2 (0.29%) Network Security
7 2 (0.29%) OSPF
7 2 (0.29%) RFID
7 2 (0.29%) SAN
7 2 (0.29%) VLAN
8 1 (0.15%) 4G
8 1 (0.15%) Diameter Protocol
8 1 (0.15%) DNS
8 1 (0.15%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (41.73%) SQL Server
2 30 (4.39%) NoSQL
3 25 (3.66%) MySQL
4 17 (2.49%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (1.46%) Power BI
8 9 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.17%) QGIS
10 6 (0.88%) Big Data
10 6 (0.88%) MariaDB
10 6 (0.88%) Tableau
11 5 (0.73%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.59%) Essbase
12 4 (0.59%) Tick Data
13 3 (0.44%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.44%) Pinecone
13 3 (0.44%) Redis
Development Applications
1 325 (47.58%) Selenium
2 296 (43.34%) JIRA
3 257 (37.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 256 (37.48%) GitLab
4 256 (37.48%) Maven
4 256 (37.48%) SonarQube
5 252 (36.90%) Cucumber
6 247 (36.16%) Bitbucket
7 66 (9.66%) Git
8 49 (7.17%) Cypress.io
9 43 (6.30%) Jenkins
10 17 (2.49%) Postman
11 16 (2.34%) JUnit
11 16 (2.34%) Oracle Forms
12 13 (1.90%) Appium
13 11 (1.61%) TeamCity
14 10 (1.46%) JMeter
15 7 (1.02%) WebDriver
16 6 (0.88%) Locust
17 5 (0.73%) Katalon Studio
General
1 344 (50.37%) Finance
2 278 (40.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 272 (39.82%) Banking
4 148 (21.67%) Social Skills
5 99 (14.49%) Retail
6 94 (13.76%) Investment Banking
7 90 (13.18%) Corporate Banking
8 57 (8.35%) Analytical Skills
9 55 (8.05%) Law
10 29 (4.25%) Public Sector
11 27 (3.95%) Legal
12 19 (2.78%) Back Office
13 13 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
14 12 (1.76%) Games
15 8 (1.17%) Automotive
15 8 (1.17%) Front Office
15 8 (1.17%) Local Government
15 8 (1.17%) Mandarin Language
15 8 (1.17%) Military
16 7 (1.02%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 291 (42.61%) Software Engineer
2 99 (14.49%) Senior
3 96 (14.06%) Developer
4 74 (10.83%) Lead
5 36 (5.27%) Test Engineer
6 35 (5.12%) QA Engineer
7 25 (3.66%) Senior Software Engineer
8 23 (3.37%) Test Automation Engineer
8 23 (3.37%) Tester
9 22 (3.22%) Analyst
10 21 (3.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 19 (2.78%) Senior Developer
12 17 (2.49%) SaaS Developer
13 16 (2.34%) DevOps Engineer
14 15 (2.20%) QA Automation Engineer
14 15 (2.20%) Test Analyst
15 14 (2.05%) Automation Tester
15 14 (2.05%) Lead Developer
16 13 (1.90%) Test Leader
17 12 (1.76%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (43.92%) React
2 294 (43.05%) HTML
3 290 (42.46%) CSS
4 265 (38.80%) Spring Boot
5 264 (38.65%) Spring
6 258 (37.77%) Kafka
7 251 (36.75%) Redux
8 247 (36.16%) JPA
9 168 (24.60%) Hibernate
10 142 (20.79%) RESTful
11 118 (17.28%) REST
12 104 (15.23%) Jest
13 101 (14.79%) HTML5
14 96 (14.06%) CSS3
15 91 (13.32%) Sass
16 57 (8.35%) .NET
17 50 (7.32%) Playwright
18 37 (5.42%) JSON
19 34 (4.98%) Node.js
20 26 (3.81%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 262 (38.36%) Product Ownership
2 260 (38.07%) Enterprise Software
3 62 (9.08%) Cloud Native
4 24 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (3.22%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.78%) Mobile App
7 16 (2.34%) Self-Driving Car
8 13 (1.90%) NHS
9 10 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.46%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.32%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
10 9 (1.32%) GNSS
11 7 (1.02%) Mobile Games
12 6 (0.88%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 5 (0.73%) Client/Server
13 5 (0.73%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.59%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.95%) Linux
2 20 (2.93%) Windows
3 14 (2.05%) Unix
4 8 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.59%) Android
7 2 (0.29%) Solaris
7 2 (0.29%) VMS
7 2 (0.29%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.15%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (70.13%) Agile
2 430 (62.96%) CI/CD
3 412 (60.32%) DevOps
4 322 (47.14%) Microservices
4 322 (47.14%) SDLC
5 311 (45.53%) Software Engineering
6 276 (40.41%) Containerisation
6 276 (40.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 269 (39.39%) Front End Development
8 253 (37.04%) Performance Optimisation
9 225 (32.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 203 (29.72%) Clean Code
11 195 (28.55%) TDD
12 176 (25.77%) Mentoring
13 137 (20.06%) User Experience
14 125 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
15 109 (15.96%) Migration
16 99 (14.49%) Strategic Thinking
17 94 (13.76%) Responsive Web Design
18 54 (7.91%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 369 (54.03%) SQL
2 349 (51.10%) JavaScript
3 345 (50.51%) Java
4 135 (19.77%) TypeScript
5 133 (19.47%) Python
6 88 (12.88%) C#
7 33 (4.83%) C++
8 26 (3.81%) C
9 22 (3.22%) PHP
10 20 (2.93%) PowerShell
11 16 (2.34%) Go
11 16 (2.34%) MATLAB
12 15 (2.20%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.76%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.02%) Bicep
14 7 (1.02%) Groovy
15 4 (0.59%) Bash
15 4 (0.59%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.59%) Scala
16 3 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 65 (9.52%) Degree
2 41 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 40 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (5.12%) ISTQB
5 34 (4.98%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 8 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
8 6 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 5 (0.73%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.15%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.15%) CHECK Team Leader
12 1 (0.15%) CHECK Team Member
12 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.15%) ISEB
12 1 (0.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 353 (51.68%) QA
2 118 (17.28%) Accessibility
3 35 (5.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.76%) ISO 9001
5 10 (1.46%) NIST
6 9 (1.32%) NCSC
7 6 (0.88%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.73%) GDPR
9 4 (0.59%) SLA
10 3 (0.44%) PMBOK
10 3 (0.44%) WCAG
11 2 (0.29%) GRC
12 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.15%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.15%) SEPA
System Software
1 294 (43.05%) Docker
2 13 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.02%) vSphere
5 2 (0.29%) Firmware
5 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.15%) KVM
6 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 283 (41.43%) Kubernetes
2 49 (7.17%) Terraform
3 12 (1.76%) Ansible
3 12 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (1.32%) Istio
5 5 (0.73%) Grafana
6 4 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.29%) Iperf
7 2 (0.29%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.15%) CFEngine
8 1 (0.15%) Nessus
8 1 (0.15%) Packer
8 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 247 (36.16%) Solace
2 77 (11.27%) Microsoft
3 23 (3.37%) Oracle
4 16 (2.34%) Apple
5 15 (2.20%) Google
6 11 (1.61%) VMware
7 10 (1.46%) Databricks
8 9 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 6 (0.88%) Okta
10 5 (0.73%) iManage
11 4 (0.59%) Hyperion
11 4 (0.59%) IBM
11 4 (0.59%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.44%) Siebel
13 2 (0.29%) Cisco
13 2 (0.29%) Kofax
13 2 (0.29%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.29%) Pega
13 2 (0.29%) Qualys
13 2 (0.29%) SolarWinds