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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 69 105
Rank change year-on-year +4 +36 -53
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 732 743 946
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.63% 4.80% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.44% 5.08% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 395 372 710
10th Percentile £45,949 £37,575 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 16,496 14,625 30,850
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.89% 94.51% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 11,943 8,513 23,831
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 20 June 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 10 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.09%) Apache
2 8 (1.09%) Confluence
2 8 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.82%) CMS
4 5 (0.68%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.55%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.55%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.55%) Mule
6 2 (0.27%) Camunda
6 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.27%) JBoss
6 2 (0.27%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) nginx
7 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) SAS
7 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 341 (46.58%) AWS
2 208 (28.42%) Azure
3 135 (18.44%) GCP
4 75 (10.25%) Serverless
5 74 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
6 64 (8.74%) SaaS
7 58 (7.92%) GitHub
8 55 (7.51%) Amazon EKS
9 35 (4.78%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (3.83%) Power Platform
11 23 (3.14%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.73%) Azure AKS
13 18 (2.46%) Amazon S3
14 17 (2.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (2.05%) PaaS
16 14 (1.91%) Entra ID
16 14 (1.91%) Firebase
16 14 (1.91%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 68 (9.29%) Broadband
2 9 (1.23%) CHAP
3 5 (0.68%) DNS
3 5 (0.68%) SMS
4 4 (0.55%) SSL
5 3 (0.41%) Firewall
5 3 (0.41%) VPN
6 2 (0.27%) Network Security
6 2 (0.27%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.14%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.14%) HTTP
7 1 (0.14%) MQTT
7 1 (0.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (12.02%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (9.02%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.51%) NoSQL
4 22 (3.01%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.46%) MySQL
6 17 (2.32%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.05%) Semantic Layer
8 11 (1.50%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.50%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.37%) Metadata
9 10 (1.37%) Power BI
9 10 (1.37%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.96%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.68%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.55%) Big Data
13 3 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.41%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 55 (7.51%) TeamCity
2 50 (6.83%) Selenium
3 48 (6.56%) Git
4 46 (6.28%) Jenkins
5 39 (5.33%) GitLab
6 31 (4.23%) JIRA
7 29 (3.96%) Cypress.io
8 25 (3.42%) Postman
9 21 (2.87%) JMeter
10 17 (2.32%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.91%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.91%) XCTest
12 13 (1.78%) SpecFlow
13 12 (1.64%) REST Assured
14 9 (1.23%) WebDriver
15 8 (1.09%) Appium
15 8 (1.09%) Claude Code
15 8 (1.09%) JUnit
16 7 (0.96%) XCUITest
17 6 (0.82%) TestRail
General
1 187 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 172 (23.50%) Finance
3 114 (15.57%) Banking
4 104 (14.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (12.16%) Law
6 87 (11.89%) Public Sector
7 79 (10.79%) Retail
8 50 (6.83%) Games
9 48 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
10 47 (6.42%) Financial Institution
11 39 (5.33%) Back Office
12 22 (3.01%) Manufacturing
13 20 (2.73%) Legal
14 18 (2.46%) Marketing
15 11 (1.50%) Electronics
15 11 (1.50%) Investment Banking
16 9 (1.23%) Legal Technology
17 7 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
19 5 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (28.69%) Senior
2 129 (17.62%) Software Engineer
3 124 (16.94%) Lead
4 90 (12.30%) Developer
5 64 (8.74%) Test Engineer
6 50 (6.83%) Java Engineer
7 49 (6.69%) Senior Software Engineer
8 47 (6.42%) QA Engineer
9 39 (5.33%) Senior Developer
10 38 (5.19%) Engineering Manager
11 36 (4.92%) Software Manager
12 35 (4.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 35 (4.78%) Java Software Engineer
13 33 (4.51%) Software Engineering Manager
14 30 (4.10%) Test Automation Engineer
15 29 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
16 28 (3.83%) Architect
17 27 (3.69%) Test Leader
18 26 (3.55%) Tester
19 25 (3.42%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (12.70%) React
2 62 (8.47%) Spring
3 60 (8.20%) .NET
3 60 (8.20%) Node.js
4 58 (7.92%) Playwright
4 58 (7.92%) RESTful
5 57 (7.79%) REST
6 30 (4.10%) Spring Boot
7 22 (3.01%) AngularJS
7 22 (3.01%) AWS CDK
8 19 (2.60%) Next.js
9 18 (2.46%) React Native
10 16 (2.19%) CSS
10 16 (2.19%) HTML
11 15 (2.05%) Kafka
11 15 (2.05%) SwiftUI
12 14 (1.91%) UIKit
13 13 (1.78%) Django
13 13 (1.78%) JSON
13 13 (1.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 181 (24.73%) Cloud Native
2 100 (13.66%) Product Ownership
3 42 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (5.19%) Mobile App
5 36 (4.92%) Low-Code
6 32 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
6 32 (4.37%) Video\Live Streaming
7 27 (3.69%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.87%) Management Information System
9 18 (2.46%) Blog
9 18 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (2.19%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (1.50%) Cyberattack
13 10 (1.37%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.23%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.23%) Podcast
15 8 (1.09%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 53 (7.24%) Linux
2 44 (6.01%) Apple iOS
3 32 (4.37%) Android
4 24 (3.28%) Unix
4 24 (3.28%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) CentOS
6 1 (0.14%) Debian
6 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (57.92%) CI/CD
2 325 (44.40%) Agile
3 250 (34.15%) Software Engineering
4 249 (34.02%) Mentoring
5 217 (29.64%) DevOps
6 198 (27.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 156 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
8 150 (20.49%) Microservices
9 145 (19.81%) AI
10 137 (18.72%) Coaching
11 133 (18.17%) Infrastructure as Code
12 121 (16.53%) Clean Code
12 121 (16.53%) Full-Stack Development
13 118 (16.12%) Observability
14 107 (14.62%) Technical Leadership
15 97 (13.25%) Roadmaps
16 95 (12.98%) Deployment Automation
16 95 (12.98%) Validation
17 92 (12.57%) Software Testing
18 91 (12.43%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 232 (31.69%) Java
2 190 (25.96%) Python
3 102 (13.93%) SQL
4 100 (13.66%) JavaScript
5 93 (12.70%) TypeScript
6 67 (9.15%) C#
7 47 (6.42%) Go
8 23 (3.14%) Bash
9 21 (2.87%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.32%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.05%) Swift
12 8 (1.09%) C++
12 8 (1.09%) Clojure
12 8 (1.09%) PHP
13 6 (0.82%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.82%) C
14 5 (0.68%) Ruby
14 5 (0.68%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.55%) Rust
15 4 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (9.15%) Security Cleared
2 63 (8.61%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.28%) Degree
4 29 (3.96%) ISTQB
5 15 (2.05%) CISSP
6 12 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.23%) CGEIT
8 9 (1.23%) CISA
8 9 (1.23%) CISM
8 9 (1.23%) FFIEC
8 9 (1.23%) SANS
9 8 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (0.96%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.96%) CEH
11 6 (0.82%) CREST Certified
11 6 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.82%) OSCP
12 5 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (24.04%) QA
2 70 (9.56%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.96%) Data Quality
4 24 (3.28%) GDPR
5 19 (2.60%) NIST
6 13 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.50%) GRC
8 10 (1.37%) WCAG
9 9 (1.23%) COBIT
10 7 (0.96%) ISO 22301
10 7 (0.96%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.96%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.41%) PERC
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.14%) ECSS
12 1 (0.14%) MiFID
12 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 78 (10.66%) Docker
2 10 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 130 (17.76%) Terraform
2 126 (17.21%) Kubernetes
3 66 (9.02%) Grafana
4 18 (2.46%) Argo
5 15 (2.05%) Ansible
6 5 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.55%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.27%) MIIS
9 1 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.14%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.42%) Oracle
3 20 (2.73%) ServiceNow
4 18 (2.46%) Databricks
5 17 (2.32%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.19%) Braze
7 14 (1.91%) Amplitude
8 13 (1.78%) VMware
9 10 (1.37%) Commvault
9 10 (1.37%) Google
10 8 (1.09%) IFS
11 7 (0.96%) SAP
12 6 (0.82%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.68%) dotdigital
13 5 (0.68%) MuleSoft
14 4 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (0.55%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.55%) Pega
15 3 (0.41%) Foundry
15 3 (0.41%) Informatica