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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 77 107
Rank change year-on-year +17 +30 -49
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 891 734 698
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.99% 4.42% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.81% 4.75% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 409 361 535
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £39,508
25th Percentile £50,468 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,250 £95,000 £82,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,425
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.17% -8.58%

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 18,510 15,440 22,079
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.99% 92.97% 87.75%
Number of salaries quoted 13,413 9,132 16,008
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £41,000 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% 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 3 August 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 14 (1.57%) Confluence
2 12 (1.35%) Anypoint
2 12 (1.35%) Mule
3 11 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.90%) Apache
6 5 (0.56%) CMS
6 5 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.45%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.34%) Camunda
8 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.34%) WordPress
9 2 (0.22%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.45%) Lightworks
3 4 (0.45%) Simulink
4 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.34%) Moqups
4 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 33 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (3.03%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.22%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 430 (48.26%) AWS
2 280 (31.43%) Azure
3 173 (19.42%) SaaS
4 139 (15.60%) GCP
5 78 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (7.97%) Serverless
7 70 (7.86%) GitHub
8 52 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
9 42 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (3.14%) Power Platform
11 24 (2.69%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.24%) Azure AKS
13 19 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (1.91%) Entra ID
15 15 (1.68%) TestFlight
16 14 (1.57%) Amazon S3
16 14 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
16 14 (1.57%) Firebase
16 14 (1.57%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 70 (7.86%) Broadband
2 12 (1.35%) SSL
3 8 (0.90%) DNS
4 7 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.67%) CHAP
5 6 (0.67%) Firewall
6 5 (0.56%) SMS
7 4 (0.45%) MQTT
8 3 (0.34%) DHCP
8 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.34%) LAN
8 3 (0.34%) Network Security
8 3 (0.34%) VPN
8 3 (0.34%) WAN
8 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.34%) Wireless
9 2 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (7.63%) MongoDB
3 34 (3.82%) NoSQL
4 32 (3.59%) SQL Server
5 20 (2.24%) MySQL
6 18 (2.02%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.68%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.68%) Semantic Layer
8 13 (1.46%) Metadata
9 11 (1.23%) Oracle Database
9 11 (1.23%) Power BI
10 10 (1.12%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (0.79%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.56%) Big Data
14 5 (0.56%) Redis
14 5 (0.56%) Spark SQL
15 4 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 69 (7.74%) Git
2 57 (6.40%) Selenium
3 54 (6.06%) TeamCity
4 52 (5.84%) Jenkins
5 47 (5.27%) GitLab
6 37 (4.15%) Cypress.io
7 31 (3.48%) JIRA
8 28 (3.14%) Postman
9 17 (1.91%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.91%) JMeter
10 14 (1.57%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.57%) XCTest
11 13 (1.46%) JUnit
12 12 (1.35%) SpecFlow
13 9 (1.01%) Gatling
14 8 (0.90%) Appium
14 8 (0.90%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.90%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.79%) NUnit
15 7 (0.79%) TestRail
General
1 277 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 182 (20.43%) Finance
3 146 (16.39%) Law
4 114 (12.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 107 (12.01%) Banking
6 103 (11.56%) Public Sector
7 94 (10.55%) Legal
8 83 (9.32%) Analytical Skills
9 78 (8.75%) Retail
10 47 (5.27%) Financial Institution
11 45 (5.05%) Marketing
12 44 (4.94%) Games
13 43 (4.83%) Back Office
14 24 (2.69%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.80%) Electronics
16 11 (1.23%) Investment Banking
17 10 (1.12%) Aerospace
18 9 (1.01%) Legal Technology
19 8 (0.90%) Telecoms
20 7 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 258 (28.96%) Senior
2 147 (16.50%) Lead
3 135 (15.15%) Software Engineer
4 105 (11.78%) Developer
5 54 (6.06%) Test Engineer
6 52 (5.84%) Senior Manager
7 49 (5.50%) Testing Manager
8 48 (5.39%) IT Manager
8 48 (5.39%) IT Services Manager
8 48 (5.39%) Resilience Manager
8 48 (5.39%) Service Manager
9 43 (4.83%) Java Engineer
10 42 (4.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 41 (4.60%) Engineering Manager
12 40 (4.49%) Senior Developer
12 40 (4.49%) Software Manager
13 39 (4.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 38 (4.26%) QA Engineer
15 37 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
16 36 (4.04%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (12.35%) React
2 69 (7.74%) Node.js
2 69 (7.74%) Playwright
3 68 (7.63%) REST
4 64 (7.18%) .NET
4 64 (7.18%) Spring
5 61 (6.85%) RESTful
6 51 (5.72%) Middleware
7 31 (3.48%) Spring Boot
8 29 (3.25%) AngularJS
9 24 (2.69%) AWS CDK
9 24 (2.69%) Next.js
10 21 (2.36%) Django
11 19 (2.13%) CSS
11 19 (2.13%) React Native
12 16 (1.80%) HTML
12 16 (1.80%) OAuth
13 15 (1.68%) OAuth2
14 14 (1.57%) SwiftUI
14 14 (1.57%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 183 (20.54%) Cloud Native
2 120 (13.47%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.62%) Cyber Threat
4 57 (6.40%) Virtual Team
5 52 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
6 46 (5.16%) Mobile App
7 41 (4.60%) Blog
8 37 (4.15%) Low-Code
9 32 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
9 32 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (3.59%) Video\Live Streaming
10 29 (3.25%) Public Cloud
11 27 (3.03%) Marketing Technology
12 16 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (1.57%) Management Information System
14 13 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (1.35%) Algorithms
16 11 (1.23%) Cyberattack
16 11 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
16 11 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.96%) Linux
2 39 (4.38%) Windows
3 37 (4.15%) Apple iOS
4 32 (3.59%) Unix
5 29 (3.25%) Android
6 3 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.22%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (55.89%) CI/CD
2 410 (46.02%) Agile
3 340 (38.16%) DevOps
4 335 (37.60%) Mentoring
5 329 (36.92%) Software Engineering
6 297 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 199 (22.33%) AI
8 176 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
9 159 (17.85%) Coaching
10 151 (16.95%) Microservices
11 149 (16.72%) Software Testing
12 138 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
13 135 (15.15%) Test Strategy
14 134 (15.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 131 (14.70%) Full-Stack Development
16 129 (14.48%) Observability
17 124 (13.92%) Technical Leadership
18 121 (13.58%) Clean Code
19 110 (12.35%) Decision-Making
19 110 (12.35%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 256 (28.73%) Python
2 236 (26.49%) Java
3 166 (18.63%) JavaScript
4 149 (16.72%) TypeScript
5 128 (14.37%) C#
6 111 (12.46%) SQL
7 66 (7.41%) PowerShell
8 47 (5.27%) Go
9 23 (2.58%) Kotlin
10 22 (2.47%) Bash
11 16 (1.80%) Swift
12 13 (1.46%) C++
13 12 (1.35%) DataWeave
14 11 (1.23%) PHP
15 9 (1.01%) C
16 8 (0.90%) Clojure
16 8 (0.90%) Rust
17 6 (0.67%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.56%) Ruby
18 5 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (8.75%) Security Cleared
2 71 (7.97%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.73%) ITIL Certification
4 58 (6.51%) CISSP
5 54 (6.06%) CISM
5 54 (6.06%) Degree
6 25 (2.81%) ISTQB
7 10 (1.12%) DV Cleared
8 8 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.79%) CISA
9 7 (0.79%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.67%) CGEIT
10 6 (0.67%) FFIEC
10 6 (0.67%) SANS
11 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.45%) CEH
11 4 (0.45%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (25.03%) QA
2 77 (8.64%) Accessibility
3 61 (6.85%) NIST
4 52 (5.84%) ISO 22301
5 36 (4.04%) Data Quality
6 21 (2.36%) GDPR
7 15 (1.68%) WCAG
8 11 (1.23%) GRC
9 9 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.67%) COBIT
11 4 (0.45%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.34%) ECSS
12 3 (0.34%) PERC
12 3 (0.34%) SLA
13 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.11%) ISAE 3402
14 1 (0.11%) ITGC
14 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 88 (9.88%) Docker
2 10 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) KVM
6 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 130 (14.59%) Kubernetes
2 125 (14.03%) Terraform
3 68 (7.63%) Grafana
4 17 (1.91%) Ansible
5 16 (1.80%) Argo
6 12 (1.35%) CloudHub
7 8 (0.90%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.22%) MIIS
10 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.11%) Podman
10 1 (0.11%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 72 (8.08%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.03%) ServiceNow
3 24 (2.69%) Oracle
3 24 (2.69%) Salesforce
4 21 (2.36%) Databricks
5 16 (1.80%) Braze
6 14 (1.57%) Amplitude
6 14 (1.57%) SAP
7 13 (1.46%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.35%) Pega
8 12 (1.35%) VMware
9 11 (1.23%) Google
10 8 (0.90%) IFS
11 5 (0.56%) Commvault
11 5 (0.56%) dotdigital
12 4 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (0.34%) HubSpot
13 3 (0.34%) Informatica
13 3 (0.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.34%) Zscaler