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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 85 95
Rank change year-on-year +22 +10 -26
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 920 684 643
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.67% 4.14% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 4.41% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 420 293 365
10th Percentile £43,269 £42,750 £40,500
25th Percentile £48,635 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +5.00% -3.23%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,927 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.27% +8.33% -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 20,211 15,506 18,481
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.62% 93.82% 88.04%
Number of salaries quoted 14,358 8,387 11,009
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,031 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 14 October 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 18 (1.96%) Confluence
2 13 (1.41%) Anypoint
2 13 (1.41%) Mule
3 10 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.98%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.87%) Apache
5 8 (0.87%) CMS
5 8 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.65%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.54%) Camunda
8 5 (0.54%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.43%) WordPress
10 3 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.76%) Moqups
4 6 (0.65%) Simulink
5 5 (0.54%) Lightworks
6 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.22%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 36 (3.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.93%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.22%) Magento
3 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.22%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 427 (46.41%) AWS
2 289 (31.41%) Azure
3 209 (22.72%) SaaS
4 144 (15.65%) GCP
5 81 (8.80%) GitHub
6 74 (8.04%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (6.20%) Serverless
9 40 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (3.48%) Power Platform
11 23 (2.50%) Azure Functions
12 22 (2.39%) Amazon S3
12 22 (2.39%) Azure AKS
12 22 (2.39%) Azure Service Bus
13 21 (2.28%) GitHub Copilot
14 15 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
14 15 (1.63%) Entra ID
15 14 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (1.41%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.87%) Broadband
2 14 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.41%) SSL
4 10 (1.09%) DNS
5 8 (0.87%) Ethernet
6 6 (0.65%) Firewall
6 6 (0.65%) Network Security
7 5 (0.54%) DHCP
7 5 (0.54%) MQTT
7 5 (0.54%) SMS
8 4 (0.43%) LAN
8 4 (0.43%) WAN
8 4 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.43%) Wireless
9 3 (0.33%) VPN
9 3 (0.33%) X.509
10 2 (0.22%) 5G
10 2 (0.22%) CHAP
10 2 (0.22%) HTTP
10 2 (0.22%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 48 (5.22%) MongoDB
3 34 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 23 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 20 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 18 (1.96%) BigQuery
6 18 (1.96%) Power BI
7 17 (1.85%) Data Lake
7 17 (1.85%) Metadata
8 16 (1.74%) MySQL
8 16 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
9 15 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (1.41%) Redis
11 11 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.09%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.87%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.76%) Big Data
14 7 (0.76%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 93 (10.11%) Git
2 75 (8.15%) TeamCity
3 64 (6.96%) GitLab
4 47 (5.11%) Selenium
5 46 (5.00%) Jenkins
6 37 (4.02%) Cypress.io
7 34 (3.70%) JIRA
8 30 (3.26%) Postman
9 22 (2.39%) JUnit
10 15 (1.63%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.98%) JMeter
12 8 (0.87%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.87%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.76%) Appium
14 6 (0.65%) Android Studio
14 6 (0.65%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.65%) Gatling
14 6 (0.65%) Mockito
14 6 (0.65%) Storybook
15 5 (0.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 285 (30.98%) Social Skills
2 219 (23.80%) Finance
3 154 (16.74%) Law
4 145 (15.76%) Banking
5 138 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (12.72%) Analytical Skills
7 111 (12.07%) Public Sector
8 100 (10.87%) Retail
9 83 (9.02%) Legal
10 59 (6.41%) Financial Institution
11 58 (6.30%) Back Office
12 44 (4.78%) Marketing
13 30 (3.26%) Games
14 22 (2.39%) Manufacturing
15 20 (2.17%) Aerospace
15 20 (2.17%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.96%) Electronics
17 12 (1.30%) Retail Banking
18 10 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 262 (28.48%) Senior
2 180 (19.57%) Software Engineer
3 136 (14.78%) Lead
4 109 (11.85%) Developer
5 70 (7.61%) Test Engineer
6 49 (5.33%) Senior Manager
6 49 (5.33%) Testing Manager
7 48 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 48 (5.22%) IT Manager
7 48 (5.22%) IT Services Manager
7 48 (5.22%) Resilience Manager
7 48 (5.22%) Service Manager
8 41 (4.46%) Senior Developer
9 40 (4.35%) Java Engineer
9 40 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
10 34 (3.70%) QA Engineer
10 34 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
11 33 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 33 (3.59%) Software Manager
12 32 (3.48%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (15.87%) Terraform
2 83 (9.02%) React
3 81 (8.80%) REST
4 70 (7.61%) Node.js
5 66 (7.17%) .NET
5 66 (7.17%) Spring
6 60 (6.52%) Playwright
7 59 (6.41%) RESTful
8 53 (5.76%) Middleware
9 35 (3.80%) Spring Boot
10 30 (3.26%) CSS
11 24 (2.61%) AngularJS
12 23 (2.50%) HTML
12 23 (2.50%) Next.js
13 20 (2.17%) OAuth
14 19 (2.07%) GraphQL
14 19 (2.07%) OAuth2
15 18 (1.96%) JWT
15 18 (1.96%) PySpark
15 18 (1.96%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 211 (22.93%) Cloud Native
2 136 (14.78%) Product Ownership
3 68 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.20%) Virtual Team
5 52 (5.65%) Cyber Threat
6 46 (5.00%) Blog
7 34 (3.70%) Mobile App
8 33 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (3.59%) Low-Code
9 29 (3.15%) Public Cloud
10 27 (2.93%) Marketing Technology
11 26 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (2.72%) Video\Live Streaming
13 18 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
14 14 (1.52%) AI Agents
14 14 (1.52%) Onboarding
15 13 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
15 13 (1.41%) Management Information System
15 13 (1.41%) Mobile Banking
16 10 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.74%) Linux
2 44 (4.78%) Windows
3 34 (3.70%) Unix
4 29 (3.15%) Android
5 24 (2.61%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.43%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.33%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.22%) CentOS
8 2 (0.22%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (58.91%) CI/CD
2 398 (43.26%) Software Engineering
3 376 (40.87%) Agile
4 357 (38.80%) DevOps
5 352 (38.26%) Mentoring
6 303 (32.93%) Continuous Improvement
7 244 (26.52%) AI
8 195 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
9 181 (19.67%) Coaching
10 153 (16.63%) Microservices
11 150 (16.30%) Software Testing
12 142 (15.43%) Technical Leadership
13 127 (13.80%) Test Strategy
14 126 (13.70%) Clean Code
15 125 (13.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 123 (13.37%) Validation
17 121 (13.15%) Observability
18 120 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
19 116 (12.61%) Deployment Automation
20 107 (11.63%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 283 (30.76%) Python
2 259 (28.15%) Java
3 177 (19.24%) JavaScript
4 158 (17.17%) TypeScript
5 146 (15.87%) C#
6 137 (14.89%) SQL
7 65 (7.07%) PowerShell
8 58 (6.30%) Go
9 30 (3.26%) Kotlin
10 27 (2.93%) Bash
11 21 (2.28%) Rust
12 18 (1.96%) C++
13 16 (1.74%) PHP
14 13 (1.41%) DataWeave
15 11 (1.20%) Bicep
16 10 (1.09%) C
17 8 (0.87%) Swift
18 6 (0.65%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.65%) MATLAB
18 6 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 108 (11.74%) Security Cleared
2 87 (9.46%) SC Cleared
3 54 (5.87%) Degree
4 53 (5.76%) ITIL Certification
5 50 (5.43%) CISM
5 50 (5.43%) CISSP
6 23 (2.50%) ISTQB
7 20 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.63%) DV Cleared
10 14 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.87%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.54%) AWS Certification
12 5 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.43%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.43%) OSCP
14 3 (0.33%) CISA
14 3 (0.33%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.33%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (21.20%) QA
2 83 (9.02%) Accessibility
3 52 (5.65%) NIST
4 48 (5.22%) Data Quality
4 48 (5.22%) ISO 22301
5 19 (2.07%) WCAG
6 12 (1.30%) GDPR
7 7 (0.76%) GRC
8 5 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.43%) ECSS
9 4 (0.43%) SLA
9 4 (0.43%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.33%) EMIR
10 3 (0.33%) PERC
11 2 (0.22%) COBIT
11 2 (0.22%) PMO
12 1 (0.11%) DO-160
12 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.11%) MiFID
12 1 (0.11%) WAI
System Software
1 113 (12.28%) Docker
2 7 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.65%) Firmware
4 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) KVM
5 1 (0.11%) QEMU
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 162 (17.61%) Kubernetes
2 95 (10.33%) Grafana
3 13 (1.41%) Argo
3 13 (1.41%) CloudHub
4 12 (1.30%) Ansible
5 9 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.33%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.11%) Consul
8 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
8 1 (0.11%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (9.57%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.04%) Salesforce
3 22 (2.39%) Google
3 22 (2.39%) Oracle
4 20 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 18 (1.96%) SAP
6 17 (1.85%) Databricks
7 14 (1.52%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.30%) Pega
9 8 (0.87%) Foundry
10 7 (0.76%) Dynatrace
10 7 (0.76%) Palantir
11 6 (0.65%) Braze
11 6 (0.65%) IFS
11 6 (0.65%) VMware
12 5 (0.54%) dotdigital
12 5 (0.54%) YouTube
13 4 (0.43%) Amplitude
13 4 (0.43%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.43%) Red Hat