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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 82 97
Rank change year-on-year +12 +15 -25
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 862 677 684
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.52% 4.19% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 4.50% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 391 300 407
10th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £49,375 £50,000 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,000 £82,241 £71,991
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 19,905 15,060 19,973
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.30% 93.30% 87.74%
Number of salaries quoted 14,270 8,510 12,254
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 22 September 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 16 (1.86%) Confluence
2 13 (1.51%) Anypoint
2 13 (1.51%) Mule
3 9 (1.04%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.81%) Apache
4 7 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.70%) CMS
5 6 (0.70%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.46%) Camunda
7 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.70%) Moqups
3 6 (0.70%) Simulink
4 5 (0.58%) Lightworks
5 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (3.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (3.13%) 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 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 401 (46.52%) AWS
2 268 (31.09%) Azure
3 195 (22.62%) SaaS
4 135 (15.66%) GCP
5 69 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (7.54%) Amazon EKS
7 59 (6.84%) GitHub
8 56 (6.50%) Serverless
9 33 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (3.36%) Power Platform
11 24 (2.78%) Azure AKS
11 24 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.32%) Azure Functions
13 16 (1.86%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.86%) Entra ID
14 14 (1.62%) Azure Key Vault
14 14 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (1.62%) GitHub Copilot
15 13 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.26%) Broadband
2 14 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.51%) SSL
4 9 (1.04%) DNS
5 6 (0.70%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.58%) DHCP
6 5 (0.58%) Firewall
6 5 (0.58%) MQTT
6 5 (0.58%) Network Security
6 5 (0.58%) SMS
7 4 (0.46%) LAN
7 4 (0.46%) WAN
7 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.46%) Wireless
8 3 (0.35%) CHAP
8 3 (0.35%) X.509
9 2 (0.23%) 5G
9 2 (0.23%) HTTP
9 2 (0.23%) VPN
10 1 (0.12%) Diameter Protocol
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (5.68%) MongoDB
3 34 (3.94%) SQL Server
4 25 (2.90%) Relational Database
5 23 (2.67%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.09%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.74%) Data Lake
7 15 (1.74%) Power BI
7 15 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
8 14 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (1.39%) Redis
10 11 (1.28%) Metadata
10 11 (1.28%) MySQL
11 10 (1.16%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.81%) Big Data
14 7 (0.81%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.81%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 91 (10.56%) Git
2 67 (7.77%) TeamCity
3 54 (6.26%) GitLab
4 48 (5.57%) Selenium
5 44 (5.10%) Jenkins
6 35 (4.06%) Cypress.io
7 30 (3.48%) JIRA
8 28 (3.25%) Postman
9 17 (1.97%) JUnit
10 14 (1.62%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.04%) JMeter
12 8 (0.93%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.93%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.70%) Appium
13 6 (0.70%) Gatling
13 6 (0.70%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.70%) Storybook
13 6 (0.70%) TestRail
14 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
14 5 (0.58%) XCTest
General
1 271 (31.44%) Social Skills
2 200 (23.20%) Finance
3 150 (17.40%) Law
4 130 (15.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (14.62%) Banking
6 104 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
7 96 (11.14%) Public Sector
8 93 (10.79%) Retail
9 87 (10.09%) Legal
10 55 (6.38%) Financial Institution
11 53 (6.15%) Back Office
12 44 (5.10%) Marketing
13 30 (3.48%) Games
14 24 (2.78%) Manufacturing
15 20 (2.32%) Electronics
16 19 (2.20%) Aerospace
17 18 (2.09%) Telecoms
18 11 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
19 10 (1.16%) Investment Banking
20 8 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 234 (27.15%) Senior
2 144 (16.71%) Lead
3 142 (16.47%) Software Engineer
4 100 (11.60%) Developer
5 60 (6.96%) Test Engineer
6 49 (5.68%) Senior Manager
6 49 (5.68%) Testing Manager
7 48 (5.57%) IT Manager
7 48 (5.57%) IT Services Manager
7 48 (5.57%) Resilience Manager
7 48 (5.57%) Service Manager
8 44 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
9 39 (4.52%) Software Manager
10 38 (4.41%) Engineering Manager
11 34 (3.94%) Software Engineering Manager
12 33 (3.83%) Java Engineer
13 32 (3.71%) QA Engineer
13 32 (3.71%) Senior DevOps
14 31 (3.60%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 30 (3.48%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (15.43%) Terraform
2 93 (10.79%) React
3 70 (8.12%) Node.js
4 65 (7.54%) REST
4 65 (7.54%) Spring
5 62 (7.19%) Playwright
6 59 (6.84%) .NET
7 52 (6.03%) RESTful
8 51 (5.92%) Middleware
9 31 (3.60%) CSS
10 30 (3.48%) AngularJS
11 28 (3.25%) Spring Boot
12 23 (2.67%) HTML
13 22 (2.55%) Next.js
14 20 (2.32%) OAuth
15 18 (2.09%) OAuth2
15 18 (2.09%) React Native
16 17 (1.97%) JWT
17 16 (1.86%) LangChain
17 16 (1.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 195 (22.62%) Cloud Native
2 136 (15.78%) Product Ownership
3 58 (6.73%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.61%) Virtual Team
5 52 (6.03%) Cyber Threat
6 43 (4.99%) Blog
7 37 (4.29%) Mobile App
8 33 (3.83%) Low-Code
9 32 (3.71%) Public Cloud
10 29 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
11 27 (3.13%) Marketing Technology
12 25 (2.90%) Video\Live Streaming
13 19 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.62%) Embedded Systems
16 13 (1.51%) AI Agents
17 11 (1.28%) Data Structures
18 10 (1.16%) Onboarding
19 9 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
20 8 (0.93%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 59 (6.84%) Linux
2 47 (5.45%) Windows
3 33 (3.83%) Unix
4 30 (3.48%) Android
5 27 (3.13%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.35%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.23%) CentOS
8 2 (0.23%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (59.40%) CI/CD
2 369 (42.81%) Agile
3 357 (41.42%) Software Engineering
4 348 (40.37%) DevOps
5 332 (38.52%) Mentoring
6 286 (33.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 211 (24.48%) AI
8 197 (22.85%) Problem-Solving
9 160 (18.56%) Coaching
10 148 (17.17%) Software Testing
11 143 (16.59%) Microservices
12 133 (15.43%) Technical Leadership
13 131 (15.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 128 (14.85%) Test Strategy
15 115 (13.34%) Clean Code
16 111 (12.88%) Infrastructure as Code
16 111 (12.88%) Observability
17 109 (12.65%) Validation
18 105 (12.18%) Deployment Automation
19 104 (12.06%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 252 (29.23%) Python
2 236 (27.38%) Java
3 170 (19.72%) JavaScript
4 144 (16.71%) TypeScript
5 141 (16.36%) C#
6 115 (13.34%) SQL
7 63 (7.31%) PowerShell
8 44 (5.10%) Go
9 22 (2.55%) Bash
10 20 (2.32%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.97%) C++
12 13 (1.51%) DataWeave
13 12 (1.39%) PHP
14 11 (1.28%) Rust
15 10 (1.16%) C
16 9 (1.04%) Bicep
16 9 (1.04%) Swift
17 8 (0.93%) Clojure
18 6 (0.70%) MATLAB
18 6 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 98 (11.37%) Security Cleared
2 78 (9.05%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.15%) ITIL Certification
4 52 (6.03%) Degree
5 51 (5.92%) CISM
5 51 (5.92%) CISSP
6 30 (3.48%) ISTQB
7 15 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.93%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.70%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.58%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.58%) OSCP
13 4 (0.46%) CISA
13 4 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.35%) CGEIT
14 3 (0.35%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (23.09%) QA
2 77 (8.93%) Accessibility
3 53 (6.15%) NIST
4 48 (5.57%) ISO 22301
5 42 (4.87%) Data Quality
6 22 (2.55%) WCAG
7 14 (1.62%) GDPR
8 9 (1.04%) GRC
9 5 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.46%) ECSS
10 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.35%) COBIT
11 3 (0.35%) PERC
12 2 (0.23%) EMIR
12 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.12%) ISAE 3402
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 26262
13 1 (0.12%) MiFID
System Software
1 96 (11.14%) Docker
2 7 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.12%) KVM
5 1 (0.12%) QEMU
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 144 (16.71%) Kubernetes
2 80 (9.28%) Grafana
3 16 (1.86%) Argo
4 13 (1.51%) Ansible
4 13 (1.51%) CloudHub
5 9 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.23%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.12%) Consul
8 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.12%) Kibana
8 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 82 (9.51%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.90%) Salesforce
3 22 (2.55%) Oracle
4 20 (2.32%) ServiceNow
5 17 (1.97%) Databricks
5 17 (1.97%) SAP
6 15 (1.74%) MuleSoft
7 12 (1.39%) Pega
8 10 (1.16%) Google
9 8 (0.93%) IFS
10 7 (0.81%) Braze
10 7 (0.81%) VMware
11 5 (0.58%) Amplitude
11 5 (0.58%) dotdigital
11 5 (0.58%) Dynatrace
12 4 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.46%) Red Hat
12 4 (0.46%) Xilinx
12 4 (0.46%) Zscaler
13 3 (0.35%) DevExpress