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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 74 84
Rank change year-on-year +11 +10 -36
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 612 659 942
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.72% 4.24% 3.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 4.47% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 354 417 735
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,594 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -3.23%
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £94,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 14,165 14,737 25,483
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.13% 94.91% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,173 8,842 21,140
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,199 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -12.00%

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 February 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 16 (2.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (0.98%) Confluence
3 5 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.65%) Apache
4 4 (0.65%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.65%) CMS
4 4 (0.65%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.49%) nginx
5 3 (0.49%) WordPress
6 2 (0.33%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Oracle Smart View
2 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 40 (6.54%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.49%) Hyperion Planning
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 262 (42.81%) Azure
2 191 (31.21%) AWS
3 159 (25.98%) GitHub
4 139 (22.71%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (14.38%) GCP
6 77 (12.58%) SaaS
7 73 (11.93%) GitHub Copilot
8 51 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
9 50 (8.17%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (7.35%) Serverless
11 36 (5.88%) Entra ID
11 36 (5.88%) Power Platform
12 35 (5.72%) OCI
13 34 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 27 (4.41%) PaaS
14 27 (4.41%) Snowflake
15 24 (3.92%) Azure Event Grid
16 20 (3.27%) dbt
17 17 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
17 17 (2.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.31%) CHAP
2 4 (0.65%) 5G
2 4 (0.65%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.65%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.65%) WAN
3 3 (0.49%) HTTP
3 3 (0.49%) VPN
4 2 (0.33%) Internet
4 2 (0.33%) Network Security
4 2 (0.33%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) DNS
5 1 (0.16%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (7.52%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 34 (5.56%) MySQL
3 34 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 28 (4.58%) Power BI
5 20 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (3.27%) MongoDB
6 18 (2.94%) Tableau
7 13 (2.12%) Snowflake Schema
8 12 (1.96%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.47%) MariaDB
9 9 (1.47%) Metadata
10 8 (1.31%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.14%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.49%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.49%) Essbase
13 3 (0.49%) Redis
14 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (10.78%) Selenium
2 61 (9.97%) JIRA
3 57 (9.31%) Jenkins
4 52 (8.50%) Git
4 52 (8.50%) TeamCity
5 38 (6.21%) Oracle Forms
6 36 (5.88%) Cypress.io
7 22 (3.59%) Postman
8 16 (2.61%) JMeter
9 15 (2.45%) Cucumber
9 15 (2.45%) WebDriver
10 12 (1.96%) GitLab
10 12 (1.96%) SpecFlow
11 11 (1.80%) JUnit
12 8 (1.31%) Storybook
13 7 (1.14%) CircleCI
13 7 (1.14%) MLflow
14 6 (0.98%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.98%) Subversion
15 5 (0.82%) TestRail
General
1 256 (41.83%) Finance
2 178 (29.08%) Social Skills
3 91 (14.87%) Law
4 79 (12.91%) Banking
5 77 (12.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 73 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
7 66 (10.78%) Retail
8 48 (7.84%) Financial Institution
9 45 (7.35%) Public Sector
10 36 (5.88%) Back Office
11 22 (3.59%) Marketing
12 13 (2.12%) Games
13 8 (1.31%) Automotive
13 8 (1.31%) Legal
14 6 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.98%) Electronics
14 6 (0.98%) Front Office
14 6 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.82%) Billing
15 5 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 181 (29.58%) Senior
2 97 (15.85%) Software Engineer
3 78 (12.75%) Developer
3 78 (12.75%) Lead
4 53 (8.66%) QA Engineer
5 45 (7.35%) Test Engineer
6 42 (6.86%) Applications Engineer
7 40 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
8 39 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
9 38 (6.21%) Java Engineer
10 35 (5.72%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (5.23%) Test Automation Engineer
12 31 (5.07%) QA Automation Engineer
13 29 (4.74%) Automation Engineer
14 26 (4.25%) Senior Developer
15 24 (3.92%) Tester
16 23 (3.76%) Lead Developer
17 20 (3.27%) Analyst
18 19 (3.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 18 (2.94%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (14.87%) RESTful
2 76 (12.42%) React
3 60 (9.80%) .NET
4 52 (8.50%) JSON
5 50 (8.17%) REST
6 49 (8.01%) Playwright
7 48 (7.84%) SOAP
8 35 (5.72%) OAuth
9 34 (5.56%) OAuth2
10 30 (4.90%) Node.js
10 30 (4.90%) XML
11 25 (4.08%) Lightning Web Components
11 25 (4.08%) Spring
12 20 (3.27%) Next.js
13 19 (3.10%) .NET Framework
14 18 (2.94%) CSS
15 17 (2.78%) SAML
16 16 (2.61%) Entity Framework
16 16 (2.61%) HTML
16 16 (2.61%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 170 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 61 (9.97%) Product Ownership
3 38 (6.21%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.94%) Mobile App
7 17 (2.78%) Blog
7 17 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.96%) GNSS
10 11 (1.80%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.63%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.47%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.47%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.31%) Satnav
13 8 (1.31%) Security Posture
14 7 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 32 (5.23%) Apple iOS
2 31 (5.07%) Android
3 28 (4.58%) Linux
4 12 (1.96%) Unix
5 9 (1.47%) Windows
6 6 (0.98%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.65%) CentOS
8 2 (0.33%) Debian
8 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.33%) Solaris
8 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 290 (47.39%) Agile
3 240 (39.22%) DevOps
4 188 (30.72%) Mentoring
5 187 (30.56%) Coaching
6 157 (25.65%) Software Engineering
7 150 (24.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 137 (22.39%) Clean Code
9 136 (22.22%) Microservices
10 128 (20.92%) AI
11 122 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
12 113 (18.46%) Asset Management
13 97 (15.85%) Observability
14 93 (15.20%) Analytics
15 86 (14.05%) Deployment Automation
16 68 (11.11%) Fintech
16 68 (11.11%) Sprint Planning
17 66 (10.78%) Full-Stack Development
18 64 (10.46%) Sprint Retrospective
19 63 (10.29%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 180 (29.41%) Java
2 166 (27.12%) Python
3 145 (23.69%) SQL
4 84 (13.73%) TypeScript
5 73 (11.93%) JavaScript
6 54 (8.82%) C#
7 38 (6.21%) Shell Script
8 35 (5.72%) PL/SQL
9 34 (5.56%) PowerShell
10 24 (3.92%) Apex Code
11 21 (3.43%) PHP
12 18 (2.94%) Bicep
13 17 (2.78%) Bash
14 16 (2.61%) Go
15 9 (1.47%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.98%) Delphi
17 5 (0.82%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.65%) Groovy
18 4 (0.65%) Perl
18 4 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 53 (8.66%) Degree
2 43 (7.03%) Security Cleared
3 38 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.27%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.94%) ISTQB
7 12 (1.96%) CEH
7 12 (1.96%) CISSP
7 12 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 10 (1.63%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.47%) CISA
10 8 (1.31%) CGEIT
10 8 (1.31%) CISM
10 8 (1.31%) FFIEC
10 8 (1.31%) SANS
11 6 (0.98%) CREST Certified
11 6 (0.98%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.98%) OSCP
12 4 (0.65%) ISEB
13 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (23.37%) QA
2 41 (6.70%) Accessibility
3 29 (4.74%) GDPR
4 28 (4.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (4.58%) NIST
5 12 (1.96%) ISO 22301
6 11 (1.80%) Data Quality
7 10 (1.63%) WCAG
8 8 (1.31%) COBIT
8 8 (1.31%) ISO 9001
9 7 (1.14%) SLA
10 6 (0.98%) Software Quality Assurance
11 5 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.49%) NCSC
13 2 (0.33%) GRC
14 1 (0.16%) Section 508
14 1 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 57 (9.31%) Docker
2 35 (5.72%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.49%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 140 (22.88%) Terraform
2 106 (17.32%) Kubernetes
3 62 (10.13%) Grafana
4 36 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (2.94%) Ansible
6 7 (1.14%) Argo
7 4 (0.65%) logstash
8 3 (0.49%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.33%) Control-M
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.16%) Packer
10 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 62 (10.13%) Oracle
2 59 (9.64%) Microsoft
3 30 (4.90%) Salesforce
4 23 (3.76%) VMware
5 21 (3.43%) Databricks
6 19 (3.10%) Okta
7 17 (2.78%) Commvault
8 14 (2.29%) Ab Initio
9 8 (1.31%) SAP
10 7 (1.14%) Google
11 6 (0.98%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.65%) Workday
14 3 (0.49%) Foundry
14 3 (0.49%) Hyperion
14 3 (0.49%) IBM
15 2 (0.33%) Adobe
15 2 (0.33%) CheckPoint
15 2 (0.33%) Qualys
15 2 (0.33%) Red Hat