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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 63 100
Rank change year-on-year +5 +37 -49
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 721 795 957
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.85% 5.27% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 5.54% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 393 430 745
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,716 £37,700
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,625 £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 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £81,200
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 15,505 14,349 29,620
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.74% 95.06% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 11,008 8,690 23,384
10th Percentile £34,000 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £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 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%

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 19 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 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.97%) Confluence
2 7 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.83%) Apache
3 6 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.69%) CMS
5 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.42%) nginx
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.28%) JBoss
6 2 (0.28%) WordPress
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 12 (1.66%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.14%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 297 (41.19%) AWS
2 243 (33.70%) Azure
3 121 (16.78%) GCP
4 111 (15.40%) Azure DevOps
5 100 (13.87%) GitHub
6 71 (9.85%) Serverless
7 63 (8.74%) SaaS
8 56 (7.77%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (4.30%) GitHub Copilot
11 28 (3.88%) Azure Service Bus
11 28 (3.88%) Power Platform
12 26 (3.61%) Entra ID
13 25 (3.47%) Azure AKS
14 20 (2.77%) Azure Data Factory
14 20 (2.77%) Azure Event Grid
15 17 (2.36%) Amazon S3
16 16 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
17 15 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (6.10%) Broadband
2 11 (1.53%) CHAP
3 4 (0.55%) DNS
4 3 (0.42%) Firewall
4 3 (0.42%) SMS
4 3 (0.42%) VPN
5 2 (0.28%) Network Security
5 2 (0.28%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (11.51%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (8.18%) MongoDB
3 35 (4.85%) NoSQL
4 25 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.50%) MySQL
6 14 (1.94%) Metadata
7 12 (1.66%) Power BI
8 11 (1.53%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.39%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.25%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.11%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.97%) Semantic Layer
13 6 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.83%) Tableau
14 5 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (0.69%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.69%) Spark SQL
15 4 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (7.63%) Selenium
1 55 (7.63%) TeamCity
2 49 (6.80%) Git
3 48 (6.66%) Jenkins
4 43 (5.96%) JIRA
5 34 (4.72%) GitLab
6 33 (4.58%) Cypress.io
7 22 (3.05%) JMeter
8 20 (2.77%) Postman
9 15 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
10 13 (1.80%) Crashlytics
10 13 (1.80%) REST Assured
10 13 (1.80%) SpecFlow
10 13 (1.80%) XCTest
11 11 (1.53%) Cucumber
11 11 (1.53%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.97%) Appium
12 7 (0.97%) MLflow
13 6 (0.83%) Locust
13 6 (0.83%) TestRail
General
1 209 (28.99%) Finance
2 187 (25.94%) Social Skills
3 108 (14.98%) Banking
4 101 (14.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 97 (13.45%) Law
6 82 (11.37%) Public Sector
7 81 (11.23%) Retail
8 54 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
9 50 (6.93%) Financial Institution
10 40 (5.55%) Back Office
11 37 (5.13%) Games
12 20 (2.77%) Legal
12 20 (2.77%) Manufacturing
13 18 (2.50%) Marketing
14 16 (2.22%) Electronics
15 9 (1.25%) Investment Banking
16 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.69%) Front Office
18 5 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 206 (28.57%) Senior
2 117 (16.23%) Software Engineer
3 116 (16.09%) Lead
4 74 (10.26%) Developer
5 70 (9.71%) Test Engineer
6 51 (7.07%) QA Engineer
7 49 (6.80%) Senior Software Engineer
8 46 (6.38%) Java Engineer
9 38 (5.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 35 (4.85%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (4.44%) Senior Developer
11 32 (4.44%) Test Automation Engineer
12 29 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
12 29 (4.02%) QA Automation Engineer
12 29 (4.02%) Tester
13 26 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
14 24 (3.33%) Engineering Manager
14 24 (3.33%) Software Manager
15 22 (3.05%) Architect
15 22 (3.05%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (14.42%) React
2 69 (9.57%) RESTful
3 68 (9.43%) REST
4 63 (8.74%) .NET
4 63 (8.74%) Playwright
5 53 (7.35%) Node.js
6 47 (6.52%) Spring
7 28 (3.88%) JSON
8 26 (3.61%) Spring Boot
9 21 (2.91%) Next.js
9 21 (2.91%) React Native
10 20 (2.77%) AngularJS
10 20 (2.77%) SOAP
11 19 (2.64%) AWS CDK
12 17 (2.36%) Lightning Web Components
12 17 (2.36%) XML
13 16 (2.22%) Web Services
14 15 (2.08%) .NET Framework
14 15 (2.08%) CSS
14 15 (2.08%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 167 (23.16%) Cloud Native
2 92 (12.76%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.55%) Mobile App
4 29 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (3.88%) Low-Code
6 27 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (3.19%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.19%) Video\Live Streaming
8 20 (2.77%) Blog
9 19 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.22%) Public Cloud
11 15 (2.08%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (1.25%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.25%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.25%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.07%) Linux
2 49 (6.80%) Apple iOS
3 39 (5.41%) Android
4 24 (3.33%) Unix
5 17 (2.36%) Windows
6 3 (0.42%) CentOS
7 2 (0.28%) Debian
7 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (56.73%) CI/CD
2 337 (46.74%) Agile
3 243 (33.70%) DevOps
4 224 (31.07%) Mentoring
5 216 (29.96%) Software Engineering
6 194 (26.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 163 (22.61%) Coaching
8 153 (21.22%) Microservices
9 143 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
10 141 (19.56%) AI
10 141 (19.56%) Clean Code
11 130 (18.03%) Observability
12 126 (17.48%) Infrastructure as Code
13 119 (16.50%) Full-Stack Development
14 97 (13.45%) Deployment Automation
15 91 (12.62%) Test Strategy
16 82 (11.37%) Software Testing
17 79 (10.96%) Fintech
17 79 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
18 78 (10.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 221 (30.65%) Java
2 178 (24.69%) Python
3 116 (16.09%) SQL
4 98 (13.59%) TypeScript
5 95 (13.18%) JavaScript
6 67 (9.29%) C#
7 35 (4.85%) Go
8 25 (3.47%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.05%) Bash
10 17 (2.36%) Apex Code
10 17 (2.36%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.08%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.94%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.94%) Swift
13 13 (1.80%) Bicep
14 9 (1.25%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.97%) PHP
16 6 (0.83%) Clojure
17 5 (0.69%) C
17 5 (0.69%) C++
Qualifications
1 59 (8.18%) Security Cleared
2 56 (7.77%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.80%) Degree
4 24 (3.33%) ISTQB
5 17 (2.36%) CISSP
6 14 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 11 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.53%) CGEIT
8 11 (1.53%) CISA
8 11 (1.53%) CISM
8 11 (1.53%) FFIEC
8 11 (1.53%) SANS
9 10 (1.39%) CEH
10 8 (1.11%) CREST Certified
10 8 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (1.11%) OSCP
11 7 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.69%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (23.86%) QA
2 63 (8.74%) Accessibility
3 29 (4.02%) GDPR
4 24 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 24 (3.33%) NIST
5 16 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (1.53%) COBIT
7 10 (1.39%) GRC
7 10 (1.39%) ISO 22301
7 10 (1.39%) WCAG
8 8 (1.11%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
10 4 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.28%) PERC
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 71 (9.85%) Docker
2 14 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 146 (20.25%) Terraform
2 127 (17.61%) Kubernetes
3 68 (9.43%) Grafana
4 20 (2.77%) Argo
5 16 (2.22%) Ansible
6 13 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.55%) logstash
9 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.28%) MIIS
10 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.14%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 65 (9.02%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.27%) Oracle
3 23 (3.19%) Salesforce
4 22 (3.05%) Databricks
5 16 (2.22%) VMware
6 14 (1.94%) Braze
7 13 (1.80%) Amplitude
7 13 (1.80%) Commvault
8 11 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.25%) Google
9 9 (1.25%) SAP
10 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.83%) Ab Initio
11 6 (0.83%) IFS
11 6 (0.83%) Okta
12 4 (0.55%) Workday
13 3 (0.42%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.42%) dotdigital
13 3 (0.42%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.42%) Informatica