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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 76 104
Rank change year-on-year +18 +28 -47
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 879 738 765
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.05% 4.48% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 4.81% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 408 363 597
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,550 £38,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £82,313 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,474 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +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 17,978 15,345 25,010
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 93.19% 88.41%
Number of salaries quoted 13,054 9,077 18,589
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 24 July 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 12 (1.37%) Confluence
2 11 (1.25%) Anypoint
2 11 (1.25%) Mule
2 11 (1.25%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (0.91%) Apache
5 7 (0.80%) CMS
6 5 (0.57%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.46%) WordPress
8 2 (0.23%) Camunda
8 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.23%) JBoss
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.46%) Lightworks
3 4 (0.46%) Simulink
4 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.23%) Moqups
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 33 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (3.07%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.23%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 419 (47.67%) AWS
2 269 (30.60%) Azure
3 167 (19.00%) SaaS
4 134 (15.24%) GCP
5 74 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (8.42%) Serverless
6 68 (7.74%) GitHub
7 50 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
8 39 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
9 29 (3.30%) Power Platform
10 24 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
11 20 (2.28%) Azure AKS
12 17 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (1.93%) Entra ID
13 16 (1.82%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (1.59%) Firebase
14 14 (1.59%) PaaS
14 14 (1.59%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 70 (7.96%) Broadband
2 11 (1.25%) SSL
3 7 (0.80%) DNS
4 6 (0.68%) CHAP
4 6 (0.68%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.57%) Firewall
5 5 (0.57%) SMS
6 4 (0.46%) MQTT
6 4 (0.46%) Network Security
7 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.34%) VPN
7 3 (0.34%) Wireless
8 2 (0.23%) DHCP
8 2 (0.23%) HTTP
8 2 (0.23%) LAN
8 2 (0.23%) WAN
8 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (7.74%) MongoDB
3 35 (3.98%) NoSQL
4 27 (3.07%) SQL Server
5 21 (2.39%) MySQL
6 17 (1.93%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
8 14 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.48%) Metadata
10 11 (1.25%) Oracle Database
10 11 (1.25%) Power BI
11 10 (1.14%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (0.80%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.57%) Big Data
13 5 (0.57%) Spark SQL
14 4 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
15 3 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 67 (7.62%) Git
2 54 (6.14%) Selenium
3 51 (5.80%) TeamCity
4 48 (5.46%) Jenkins
5 43 (4.89%) GitLab
6 33 (3.75%) Cypress.io
7 28 (3.19%) JIRA
8 25 (2.84%) Postman
9 19 (2.16%) JMeter
10 17 (1.93%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.59%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.59%) XCTest
12 12 (1.37%) SpecFlow
13 11 (1.25%) JUnit
14 8 (0.91%) Gatling
14 8 (0.91%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.80%) Appium
15 7 (0.80%) TestRail
15 7 (0.80%) WebDriver
15 7 (0.80%) XCUITest
General
1 266 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 175 (19.91%) Finance
3 141 (16.04%) Law
4 108 (12.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 106 (12.06%) Banking
6 102 (11.60%) Public Sector
7 94 (10.69%) Legal
8 82 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
9 74 (8.42%) Retail
10 46 (5.23%) Marketing
11 45 (5.12%) Games
12 44 (5.01%) Financial Institution
13 41 (4.66%) Back Office
14 24 (2.73%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.71%) Electronics
16 11 (1.25%) Investment Banking
17 9 (1.02%) Legal Technology
18 7 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
18 7 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 260 (29.58%) Senior
2 140 (15.93%) Lead
3 132 (15.02%) Software Engineer
4 107 (12.17%) Developer
5 52 (5.92%) Senior Manager
5 52 (5.92%) Test Engineer
6 49 (5.57%) Testing Manager
7 48 (5.46%) IT Manager
7 48 (5.46%) IT Services Manager
7 48 (5.46%) Resilience Manager
7 48 (5.46%) Service Manager
8 44 (5.01%) Java Engineer
9 42 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
9 42 (4.78%) Senior Developer
10 41 (4.66%) Engineering Manager
10 41 (4.66%) Senior Software Engineer
11 38 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 38 (4.32%) Software Manager
12 37 (4.21%) QA Engineer
13 35 (3.98%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (11.72%) React
2 66 (7.51%) Node.js
2 66 (7.51%) Playwright
3 65 (7.39%) REST
4 64 (7.28%) Spring
5 61 (6.94%) .NET
6 60 (6.83%) RESTful
7 52 (5.92%) Middleware
8 33 (3.75%) Spring Boot
9 25 (2.84%) AngularJS
10 23 (2.62%) AWS CDK
10 23 (2.62%) Next.js
11 20 (2.28%) CSS
12 19 (2.16%) Django
13 17 (1.93%) HTML
13 17 (1.93%) React Native
14 15 (1.71%) OAuth
15 14 (1.59%) Kafka
15 14 (1.59%) OAuth2
15 14 (1.59%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 178 (20.25%) Cloud Native
2 113 (12.86%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.71%) Cyber Threat
4 57 (6.48%) Virtual Team
5 51 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
6 43 (4.89%) Mobile App
7 41 (4.66%) Blog
8 37 (4.21%) Low-Code
9 33 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (3.64%) Video\Live Streaming
11 28 (3.19%) Public Cloud
12 27 (3.07%) Marketing Technology
13 25 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
14 14 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
14 14 (1.59%) Management Information System
15 12 (1.37%) Onboarding
16 11 (1.25%) Algorithms
16 11 (1.25%) Cyberattack
16 11 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.05%) Linux
2 38 (4.32%) Windows
3 36 (4.10%) Apple iOS
4 31 (3.53%) Unix
5 28 (3.19%) Android
6 3 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (55.06%) CI/CD
2 401 (45.62%) Agile
3 332 (37.77%) Mentoring
4 331 (37.66%) DevOps
5 315 (35.84%) Software Engineering
6 286 (32.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 195 (22.18%) AI
8 174 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
9 156 (17.75%) Coaching
10 153 (17.41%) Microservices
11 149 (16.95%) Software Testing
12 140 (15.93%) Infrastructure as Code
13 134 (15.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 131 (14.90%) Full-Stack Development
15 130 (14.79%) Test Strategy
16 127 (14.45%) Observability
17 115 (13.08%) Clean Code
17 115 (13.08%) Technical Leadership
18 109 (12.40%) Enterprise Architecture
19 108 (12.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 251 (28.56%) Python
2 233 (26.51%) Java
3 161 (18.32%) JavaScript
4 144 (16.38%) TypeScript
5 125 (14.22%) C#
6 109 (12.40%) SQL
7 68 (7.74%) PowerShell
8 45 (5.12%) Go
9 24 (2.73%) Bash
10 22 (2.50%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.71%) Swift
12 12 (1.37%) PHP
13 11 (1.25%) DataWeave
14 10 (1.14%) C++
15 9 (1.02%) C
16 8 (0.91%) Clojure
17 7 (0.80%) Rust
18 6 (0.68%) Apex Code
19 5 (0.57%) Ruby
19 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (8.19%) Security Cleared
2 69 (7.85%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.83%) ITIL Certification
4 58 (6.60%) CISSP
5 54 (6.14%) CISM
6 53 (6.03%) Degree
7 25 (2.84%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.80%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.68%) CGEIT
10 6 (0.68%) CISA
10 6 (0.68%) FFIEC
10 6 (0.68%) SANS
11 5 (0.57%) CEH
12 4 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.46%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.46%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (24.91%) QA
2 74 (8.42%) Accessibility
3 60 (6.83%) NIST
4 53 (6.03%) ISO 22301
5 36 (4.10%) Data Quality
6 20 (2.28%) GDPR
7 14 (1.59%) WCAG
8 11 (1.25%) GRC
8 11 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.68%) COBIT
10 4 (0.46%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.34%) ECSS
11 3 (0.34%) PERC
12 2 (0.23%) SLA
12 2 (0.23%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 84 (9.56%) Docker
2 10 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.34%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) KVM
5 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 123 (13.99%) Kubernetes
1 123 (13.99%) Terraform
2 63 (7.17%) Grafana
3 16 (1.82%) Ansible
3 16 (1.82%) Argo
4 11 (1.25%) CloudHub
5 6 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.23%) MIIS
8 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.11%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (7.85%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.07%) ServiceNow
3 24 (2.73%) Salesforce
4 23 (2.62%) Oracle
5 19 (2.16%) Databricks
6 16 (1.82%) Braze
7 14 (1.59%) Amplitude
8 12 (1.37%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.37%) Pega
8 12 (1.37%) SAP
8 12 (1.37%) VMware
9 9 (1.02%) Google
10 8 (0.91%) IFS
11 6 (0.68%) Commvault
12 5 (0.57%) dotdigital
13 4 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.46%) HubSpot
14 3 (0.34%) Foundry
14 3 (0.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 3 (0.34%) Xilinx