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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 67 97
Rank change year-on-year +14 +30 -47
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 711 566 975
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.92% 4.20% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 4.44% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 400 445 749
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,716 £38,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +6.54% -13.36%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £102,750 £98,474 £81,250
UK median annual salary £63,875 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.46% +4.35% -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 15,018 12,758 29,714
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.78% 94.74% 91.33%
Number of salaries quoted 10,546 8,888 23,579
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £33,794
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £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 £58,396 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.67% +9.09% -10.57%

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 2 May 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 8 (1.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.84%) Confluence
3 6 (0.84%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.70%) Apache
4 5 (0.70%) CMS
5 3 (0.42%) nginx
6 2 (0.28%) JBoss
6 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.28%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Camunda
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (2.25%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 278 (39.10%) AWS
2 270 (37.97%) Azure
3 127 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
4 121 (17.02%) GitHub
5 115 (16.17%) GCP
6 70 (9.85%) Serverless
7 65 (9.14%) SaaS
8 50 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
9 47 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (6.33%) GitHub Copilot
11 30 (4.22%) Azure Service Bus
12 29 (4.08%) Entra ID
12 29 (4.08%) Power Platform
13 26 (3.66%) Azure Data Factory
14 24 (3.38%) Azure AKS
15 22 (3.09%) Azure Event Grid
16 19 (2.67%) PaaS
17 17 (2.39%) Nutanix
18 16 (2.25%) Amazon S3
18 16 (2.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.36%) Broadband
2 14 (1.97%) CHAP
3 3 (0.42%) DNS
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
3 3 (0.42%) VPN
4 2 (0.28%) Network Security
4 2 (0.28%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (6.89%) MongoDB
3 37 (5.20%) NoSQL
4 35 (4.92%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.67%) MySQL
6 15 (2.11%) Metadata
6 15 (2.11%) Power BI
7 13 (1.83%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.41%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.13%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.13%) Oracle Database
10 8 (1.13%) Tableau
11 7 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.84%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.70%) Spark SQL
14 4 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 64 (9.00%) Selenium
2 55 (7.74%) Git
3 53 (7.45%) Jenkins
4 51 (7.17%) JIRA
5 49 (6.89%) TeamCity
6 37 (5.20%) GitLab
7 33 (4.64%) Cypress.io
8 22 (3.09%) JMeter
8 22 (3.09%) Postman
9 19 (2.67%) Oracle Forms
10 17 (2.39%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.83%) SpecFlow
12 12 (1.69%) Crashlytics
12 12 (1.69%) XCTest
13 11 (1.55%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.55%) WebDriver
14 9 (1.27%) JUnit
15 8 (1.13%) TestRail
16 7 (0.98%) Appium
16 7 (0.98%) CircleCI
General
1 225 (31.65%) Finance
2 202 (28.41%) Social Skills
3 101 (14.21%) Banking
4 96 (13.50%) Law
5 89 (12.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 74 (10.41%) Retail
7 69 (9.70%) Public Sector
8 59 (8.30%) Analytical Skills
9 50 (7.03%) Financial Institution
10 35 (4.92%) Back Office
11 27 (3.80%) Games
12 20 (2.81%) Legal
12 20 (2.81%) Manufacturing
13 19 (2.67%) Marketing
14 16 (2.25%) Electronics
15 8 (1.13%) Investment Banking
16 7 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.70%) Front Office
19 4 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 200 (28.13%) Senior
2 113 (15.89%) Lead
2 113 (15.89%) Software Engineer
3 76 (10.69%) Developer
4 57 (8.02%) QA Engineer
4 57 (8.02%) Test Engineer
5 47 (6.61%) Senior Software Engineer
6 44 (6.19%) Java Engineer
7 36 (5.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 34 (4.78%) Java Software Engineer
8 34 (4.78%) QA Automation Engineer
9 32 (4.50%) Automation Engineer
10 31 (4.36%) Senior Developer
10 31 (4.36%) Test Automation Engineer
11 28 (3.94%) Tester
12 26 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
13 20 (2.81%) Applications Engineer
13 20 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
13 20 (2.81%) Lead Developer
13 20 (2.81%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (15.75%) React
2 71 (9.99%) REST
3 67 (9.42%) .NET
3 67 (9.42%) RESTful
4 59 (8.30%) Playwright
5 52 (7.31%) Node.js
6 44 (6.19%) Spring
7 34 (4.78%) JSON
8 28 (3.94%) SOAP
8 28 (3.94%) Spring Boot
9 23 (3.23%) Next.js
9 23 (3.23%) React Native
10 21 (2.95%) Lightning Web Components
10 21 (2.95%) XML
11 19 (2.67%) AngularJS
11 19 (2.67%) Django
11 19 (2.67%) OAuth
12 18 (2.53%) OAuth2
13 17 (2.39%) .NET Framework
13 17 (2.39%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 159 (22.36%) Cloud Native
2 91 (12.80%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.63%) Mobile App
4 26 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 25 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (2.67%) Low-Code
10 18 (2.53%) Blog
11 15 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.83%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.83%) Video\Live Streaming
13 12 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.55%) Public Cloud
15 10 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
16 9 (1.27%) AI Agents
16 9 (1.27%) Algorithms
16 9 (1.27%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.17%) Linux
2 49 (6.89%) Apple iOS
3 40 (5.63%) Android
4 24 (3.38%) Unix
5 18 (2.53%) Windows
6 4 (0.56%) CentOS
7 2 (0.28%) Debian
7 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (55.41%) CI/CD
2 335 (47.12%) Agile
3 254 (35.72%) DevOps
4 218 (30.66%) Mentoring
5 201 (28.27%) Software Engineering
6 187 (26.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 173 (24.33%) Coaching
8 161 (22.64%) Microservices
9 145 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
10 141 (19.83%) Clean Code
11 138 (19.41%) AI
12 124 (17.44%) Observability
13 114 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
14 112 (15.75%) Infrastructure as Code
15 93 (13.08%) Deployment Automation
16 92 (12.94%) Test Strategy
17 83 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
18 80 (11.25%) Analytics
19 76 (10.69%) Software Testing
20 75 (10.55%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 206 (28.97%) Java
2 183 (25.74%) Python
3 128 (18.00%) SQL
4 102 (14.35%) TypeScript
5 91 (12.80%) JavaScript
6 68 (9.56%) C#
7 31 (4.36%) PowerShell
8 27 (3.80%) Go
9 21 (2.95%) Bash
10 20 (2.81%) Apex Code
11 19 (2.67%) PL/SQL
12 18 (2.53%) Shell Script
13 16 (2.25%) Kotlin
14 15 (2.11%) Bicep
15 13 (1.83%) Swift
16 9 (1.27%) PHP
16 9 (1.27%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.84%) C
17 6 (0.84%) Clojure
17 6 (0.84%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 52 (7.31%) Security Cleared
2 49 (6.89%) Degree
3 48 (6.75%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.66%) ISTQB
5 20 (2.81%) CISSP
6 16 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.97%) CGEIT
7 14 (1.97%) CISA
7 14 (1.97%) CISM
7 14 (1.97%) FFIEC
7 14 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.97%) SANS
8 12 (1.69%) CEH
9 10 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (0.98%) CREST Certified
10 7 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.98%) OSCP
11 5 (0.70%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (25.04%) QA
2 53 (7.45%) Accessibility
3 33 (4.64%) NIST
4 32 (4.50%) GDPR
5 22 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (2.95%) Data Quality
7 14 (1.97%) COBIT
8 12 (1.69%) ISO 22301
8 12 (1.69%) WCAG
9 8 (1.13%) GRC
9 8 (1.13%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.84%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.28%) NCSC
13 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 76 (10.69%) Docker
2 18 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 142 (19.97%) Terraform
2 124 (17.44%) Kubernetes
3 67 (9.42%) Grafana
4 21 (2.95%) Argo
5 17 (2.39%) Ansible
5 17 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.56%) logstash
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.28%) MIIS
7 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.14%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 62 (8.72%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.89%) Oracle
3 24 (3.38%) Databricks
4 23 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.81%) VMware
6 17 (2.39%) Commvault
7 12 (1.69%) Amplitude
7 12 (1.69%) Braze
8 11 (1.55%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.27%) SAP
10 8 (1.13%) Ab Initio
10 8 (1.13%) Okta
11 7 (0.98%) Google
11 7 (0.98%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.84%) IFS
13 4 (0.56%) Workday
14 3 (0.42%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.42%) Informatica
15 2 (0.28%) IBM
15 2 (0.28%) Red Hat