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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 78 108
Rank change year-on-year +11 +30 -55
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 771 749 896
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.70% 4.66% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 4.98% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 398 376 688
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,875 £37,850
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 £82,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,125 £77,500
UK median annual salary £64,809 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.69% +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 17,169 15,050 29,747
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.41% 93.73% 88.99%
Number of salaries quoted 12,535 8,890 22,885
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,906 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £79,938 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 3 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 10 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.04%) Apache
3 8 (1.04%) Confluence
4 6 (0.78%) Anypoint
4 6 (0.78%) CMS
4 6 (0.78%) Mule
5 5 (0.65%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.26%) Camunda
7 2 (0.26%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.26%) JBoss
7 2 (0.26%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.52%) Lightworks
3 4 (0.52%) Simulink
4 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.26%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 383 (49.68%) AWS
2 227 (29.44%) Azure
3 139 (18.03%) GCP
4 95 (12.32%) SaaS
5 77 (9.99%) Serverless
6 72 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (7.91%) GitHub
8 60 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
9 36 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (3.37%) Power Platform
11 23 (2.98%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.59%) Azure AKS
13 18 (2.33%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (1.95%) Entra ID
14 15 (1.95%) PaaS
15 14 (1.82%) Firebase
15 14 (1.82%) Stripe
15 14 (1.82%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 70 (9.08%) Broadband
2 8 (1.04%) CHAP
3 6 (0.78%) DNS
3 6 (0.78%) SSL
4 5 (0.65%) SMS
5 4 (0.52%) Firewall
5 4 (0.52%) MQTT
6 3 (0.39%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.39%) Network Security
6 3 (0.39%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.39%) VPN
6 3 (0.39%) Wireless
7 2 (0.26%) HTTP
8 1 (0.13%) DHCP
8 1 (0.13%) LAN
8 1 (0.13%) WAN
8 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (11.80%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (8.69%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.28%) NoSQL
4 25 (3.24%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.46%) MySQL
6 17 (2.20%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.95%) Semantic Layer
8 12 (1.56%) Metadata
9 11 (1.43%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.43%) Oracle Database
9 11 (1.43%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.30%) Power BI
11 7 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.65%) Spark SQL
13 4 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.52%) Big Data
13 4 (0.52%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.52%) Redis
14 3 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 59 (7.65%) TeamCity
2 53 (6.87%) Git
3 47 (6.10%) Selenium
4 46 (5.97%) Jenkins
5 37 (4.80%) GitLab
6 25 (3.24%) Cypress.io
7 24 (3.11%) JIRA
8 23 (2.98%) Postman
9 21 (2.72%) JMeter
10 17 (2.20%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.82%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.82%) SpecFlow
11 14 (1.82%) XCTest
12 10 (1.30%) REST Assured
13 9 (1.17%) WebDriver
14 8 (1.04%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.04%) JUnit
15 7 (0.91%) XCUITest
16 6 (0.78%) Appium
16 6 (0.78%) TestRail
General
1 198 (25.68%) Social Skills
2 174 (22.57%) Finance
3 119 (15.43%) Law
4 116 (15.05%) Banking
5 111 (14.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 102 (13.23%) Public Sector
7 84 (10.89%) Retail
8 51 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
9 49 (6.36%) Financial Institution
10 46 (5.97%) Games
11 42 (5.45%) Back Office
12 30 (3.89%) Legal
13 23 (2.98%) Manufacturing
14 19 (2.46%) Marketing
15 12 (1.56%) Electronics
16 11 (1.43%) Investment Banking
17 9 (1.17%) Legal Technology
18 8 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
19 7 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (29.44%) Senior
2 136 (17.64%) Software Engineer
3 125 (16.21%) Lead
4 96 (12.45%) Developer
5 59 (7.65%) Test Engineer
6 50 (6.49%) Java Engineer
7 49 (6.36%) Senior Software Engineer
8 41 (5.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 41 (5.32%) Senior Developer
9 39 (5.06%) Engineering Manager
10 38 (4.93%) QA Engineer
11 37 (4.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 36 (4.67%) Software Manager
13 35 (4.54%) Java Software Engineer
14 33 (4.28%) Software Engineering Manager
15 31 (4.02%) Senior DevOps
16 29 (3.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 28 (3.63%) Architect
18 25 (3.24%) Test Leader
18 25 (3.24%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (12.58%) React
2 64 (8.30%) Node.js
3 63 (8.17%) .NET
4 62 (8.04%) Spring
5 60 (7.78%) RESTful
6 56 (7.26%) Playwright
7 55 (7.13%) REST
8 30 (3.89%) Spring Boot
9 26 (3.37%) AngularJS
10 22 (2.85%) AWS CDK
11 19 (2.46%) Middleware
11 19 (2.46%) Next.js
12 18 (2.33%) React Native
13 17 (2.20%) CSS
13 17 (2.20%) HTML
14 15 (1.95%) Kafka
15 14 (1.82%) Django
15 14 (1.82%) SwiftUI
15 14 (1.82%) UIKit
16 12 (1.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 187 (24.25%) Cloud Native
2 106 (13.75%) Product Ownership
3 47 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (5.06%) Mobile App
5 37 (4.80%) Low-Code
6 32 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
6 32 (4.15%) Video\Live Streaming
7 27 (3.50%) Public Cloud
8 26 (3.37%) Cyber Threat
9 20 (2.59%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.46%) Blog
10 19 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (2.46%) Virtual Team
11 17 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
12 14 (1.82%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.43%) Cyberattack
14 11 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
15 10 (1.30%) Algorithms
16 9 (1.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.91%) Linux
2 40 (5.19%) Apple iOS
3 33 (4.28%) Windows
4 32 (4.15%) Unix
5 29 (3.76%) Android
6 3 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.26%) CentOS
8 1 (0.13%) Debian
8 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (58.75%) CI/CD
2 356 (46.17%) Agile
3 280 (36.32%) Mentoring
4 273 (35.41%) Software Engineering
5 258 (33.46%) DevOps
6 215 (27.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 169 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
8 158 (20.49%) Microservices
9 154 (19.97%) AI
10 153 (19.84%) Coaching
11 141 (18.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 129 (16.73%) Full-Stack Development
13 126 (16.34%) Observability
14 123 (15.95%) Clean Code
15 110 (14.27%) Technical Leadership
16 104 (13.49%) Deployment Automation
17 103 (13.36%) Software Testing
18 102 (13.23%) Validation
19 97 (12.58%) Roadmaps
19 97 (12.58%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 237 (30.74%) Java
2 206 (26.72%) Python
3 115 (14.92%) JavaScript
4 107 (13.88%) SQL
5 99 (12.84%) TypeScript
6 83 (10.77%) C#
7 48 (6.23%) Go
8 30 (3.89%) PowerShell
9 23 (2.98%) Bash
10 18 (2.33%) Kotlin
11 14 (1.82%) Swift
12 10 (1.30%) C++
13 9 (1.17%) PHP
14 8 (1.04%) C
14 8 (1.04%) Clojure
15 6 (0.78%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.78%) DataWeave
15 6 (0.78%) Rust
16 5 (0.65%) Ruby
16 5 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (8.95%) Security Cleared
2 65 (8.43%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.61%) Degree
4 29 (3.76%) CISSP
5 27 (3.50%) ITIL Certification
6 25 (3.24%) ISTQB
7 23 (2.98%) CISM
8 11 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.04%) CGEIT
9 8 (1.04%) CISA
9 8 (1.04%) FFIEC
9 8 (1.04%) SANS
10 7 (0.91%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.78%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.78%) CEH
11 6 (0.78%) CREST Certified
11 6 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (0.78%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.78%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (22.70%) QA
2 67 (8.69%) Accessibility
3 32 (4.15%) Data Quality
3 32 (4.15%) NIST
4 23 (2.98%) GDPR
5 21 (2.72%) ISO 22301
6 12 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.43%) GRC
8 10 (1.30%) WCAG
9 8 (1.04%) COBIT
10 5 (0.65%) ISO 9001
10 5 (0.65%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.39%) ECSS
11 3 (0.39%) PERC
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.13%) SLA
12 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 77 (9.99%) Docker
2 10 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.39%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.39%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 135 (17.51%) Terraform
2 132 (17.12%) Kubernetes
3 70 (9.08%) Grafana
4 18 (2.33%) Argo
5 15 (1.95%) Ansible
6 6 (0.78%) CloudHub
7 5 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.26%) MIIS
10 1 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.13%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (8.30%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.24%) Oracle
3 22 (2.85%) ServiceNow
4 19 (2.46%) Salesforce
5 18 (2.33%) Databricks
6 16 (2.08%) Braze
7 14 (1.82%) Amplitude
8 13 (1.69%) VMware
9 12 (1.56%) Pega
10 11 (1.43%) Google
11 9 (1.17%) Commvault
12 8 (1.04%) IFS
12 8 (1.04%) SAP
13 7 (0.91%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.65%) dotdigital
14 5 (0.65%) OpenAI
15 4 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
15 4 (0.52%) HubSpot
16 3 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 3 (0.39%) Xilinx