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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 68 99
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 -47
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 735 747 954
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.90% 5.11% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 5.39% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 405 389 746
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £38,125
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.81% +7.83% -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 15,628 13,867 29,674
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 94.93% 90.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,147 8,130 23,403
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £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 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 25 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 9 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (1.22%) Confluence
2 8 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.95%) Apache
4 5 (0.68%) CMS
4 5 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.41%) nginx
7 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.27%) JBoss
7 2 (0.27%) Mule
7 2 (0.27%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) Camunda
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (1.36%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 304 (41.36%) AWS
2 244 (33.20%) Azure
3 126 (17.14%) GCP
4 107 (14.56%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (12.65%) GitHub
6 70 (9.52%) Serverless
7 64 (8.71%) SaaS
8 58 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (4.35%) Power Platform
11 27 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
12 25 (3.40%) Azure AKS
12 25 (3.40%) Entra ID
12 25 (3.40%) GitHub Copilot
13 19 (2.59%) Amazon S3
13 19 (2.59%) Azure Event Grid
14 18 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
15 17 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (2.18%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (2.18%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.12%) Broadband
2 11 (1.50%) CHAP
3 5 (0.68%) DNS
3 5 (0.68%) SMS
4 3 (0.41%) Firewall
4 3 (0.41%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.27%) SSL
6 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (8.03%) MongoDB
3 34 (4.63%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.54%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.45%) MySQL
6 14 (1.90%) Metadata
7 13 (1.77%) Power BI
8 12 (1.63%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.50%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.22%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.09%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
12 7 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.82%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.68%) Spark SQL
14 5 (0.68%) Tableau
15 4 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (7.76%) TeamCity
2 54 (7.35%) Selenium
3 48 (6.53%) Git
4 47 (6.39%) Jenkins
5 42 (5.71%) JIRA
6 35 (4.76%) GitLab
7 32 (4.35%) Cypress.io
8 22 (2.99%) JMeter
9 20 (2.72%) Postman
10 13 (1.77%) Crashlytics
10 13 (1.77%) Oracle Forms
10 13 (1.77%) REST Assured
10 13 (1.77%) SpecFlow
10 13 (1.77%) XCTest
11 12 (1.63%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.50%) WebDriver
13 8 (1.09%) Appium
14 7 (0.95%) MLflow
14 7 (0.95%) TestRail
15 6 (0.82%) Locust
General
1 203 (27.62%) Finance
2 191 (25.99%) Social Skills
3 113 (15.37%) Banking
4 105 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (13.61%) Law
6 85 (11.56%) Public Sector
7 84 (11.43%) Retail
8 56 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
9 52 (7.07%) Financial Institution
10 42 (5.71%) Back Office
11 37 (5.03%) Games
12 20 (2.72%) Legal
12 20 (2.72%) Manufacturing
13 18 (2.45%) Marketing
14 17 (2.31%) Electronics
15 10 (1.36%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
19 5 (0.68%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 208 (28.30%) Senior
2 121 (16.46%) Lead
3 119 (16.19%) Software Engineer
4 80 (10.88%) Developer
5 71 (9.66%) Test Engineer
6 51 (6.94%) QA Engineer
7 48 (6.53%) Java Engineer
7 48 (6.53%) Senior Software Engineer
8 39 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 35 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
9 35 (4.76%) Senior Developer
10 31 (4.22%) Test Automation Engineer
11 29 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
11 29 (3.95%) QA Automation Engineer
11 29 (3.95%) Tester
12 26 (3.54%) Automation Engineer
12 26 (3.54%) Engineering Manager
12 26 (3.54%) Software Manager
13 24 (3.27%) Software Engineering Manager
14 23 (3.13%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (13.88%) React
2 68 (9.25%) REST
3 63 (8.57%) .NET
3 63 (8.57%) RESTful
4 62 (8.44%) Playwright
5 53 (7.21%) Node.js
6 51 (6.94%) Spring
7 28 (3.81%) Spring Boot
8 25 (3.40%) JSON
9 22 (2.99%) AngularJS
10 21 (2.86%) React Native
11 20 (2.72%) Next.js
12 19 (2.59%) AWS CDK
13 17 (2.31%) SOAP
14 16 (2.18%) CSS
14 16 (2.18%) HTML
14 16 (2.18%) Web Services
14 16 (2.18%) XML
15 15 (2.04%) OAuth
16 14 (1.90%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 170 (23.13%) Cloud Native
2 96 (13.06%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.58%) Mobile App
4 30 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (3.95%) Low-Code
6 27 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (3.13%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
8 20 (2.72%) Blog
9 19 (2.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (2.45%) Public Cloud
11 17 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (2.18%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
15 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
16 9 (1.22%) AI Agents
16 9 (1.22%) Algorithms
16 9 (1.22%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.80%) Apple iOS
1 50 (6.80%) Linux
2 40 (5.44%) Android
3 24 (3.27%) Unix
4 17 (2.31%) Windows
5 3 (0.41%) CentOS
6 2 (0.27%) Debian
6 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (56.19%) CI/CD
2 340 (46.26%) Agile
3 243 (33.06%) DevOps
4 232 (31.56%) Mentoring
5 219 (29.80%) Software Engineering
6 198 (26.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 160 (21.77%) Coaching
8 155 (21.09%) Microservices
9 150 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
10 141 (19.18%) AI
11 139 (18.91%) Clean Code
12 128 (17.41%) Observability
13 126 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
14 116 (15.78%) Full-Stack Development
15 97 (13.20%) Deployment Automation
16 93 (12.65%) Test Strategy
17 87 (11.84%) Software Testing
18 82 (11.16%) Technical Leadership
19 81 (11.02%) Validation
20 80 (10.88%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 228 (31.02%) Java
2 179 (24.35%) Python
3 116 (15.78%) SQL
4 100 (13.61%) JavaScript
5 96 (13.06%) TypeScript
6 67 (9.12%) C#
7 35 (4.76%) Go
8 27 (3.67%) PowerShell
9 25 (3.40%) Bash
10 17 (2.31%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.04%) Apex Code
12 14 (1.90%) Swift
13 13 (1.77%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.63%) Shell Script
15 11 (1.50%) Bicep
16 9 (1.22%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.95%) PHP
18 6 (0.82%) Clojure
19 5 (0.68%) C++
19 5 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 64 (8.71%) Security Cleared
2 61 (8.30%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.67%) Degree
4 25 (3.40%) ISTQB
5 17 (2.31%) CISSP
6 14 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.50%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.50%) CGEIT
7 11 (1.50%) CISA
7 11 (1.50%) CISM
7 11 (1.50%) FFIEC
7 11 (1.50%) SANS
8 10 (1.36%) CEH
8 10 (1.36%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.09%) CREST Certified
9 8 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.09%) OSCP
10 7 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (0.68%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (24.22%) QA
2 64 (8.71%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.95%) GDPR
4 25 (3.40%) Data Quality
5 24 (3.27%) NIST
6 16 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.50%) COBIT
8 10 (1.36%) GRC
8 10 (1.36%) ISO 22301
9 9 (1.22%) WCAG
10 8 (1.09%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.82%) Software Quality Assurance
12 4 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.41%) PERC
14 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 73 (9.93%) Docker
2 12 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 148 (20.14%) Terraform
2 129 (17.55%) Kubernetes
3 71 (9.66%) Grafana
4 21 (2.86%) Argo
5 16 (2.18%) Ansible
6 11 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.41%) logstash
9 2 (0.27%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.27%) MIIS
10 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.14%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 70 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.03%) Oracle
3 24 (3.27%) Salesforce
4 22 (2.99%) Databricks
5 16 (2.18%) VMware
6 15 (2.04%) Braze
7 13 (1.77%) Amplitude
7 13 (1.77%) Commvault
7 13 (1.77%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.50%) SAP
9 10 (1.36%) Google
10 7 (0.95%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.82%) IFS
12 5 (0.68%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.68%) dotdigital
12 5 (0.68%) Okta
13 4 (0.54%) Workday
14 3 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
14 3 (0.41%) Dynatrace
14 3 (0.41%) MuleSoft