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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 87 93
Rank change year-on-year +22 +6 -20
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 880 677 687
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.54% 4.09% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.38% 4.36% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 404 290 398
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,925 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £82,241 £71,991
90th Percentile £94,250 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -4.71%

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 20,108 15,510 19,787
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.96% 93.68% 88.06%
Number of salaries quoted 14,355 8,405 11,799
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,188
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,015 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 29 September 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 17 (1.93%) Confluence
2 13 (1.48%) Anypoint
2 13 (1.48%) Mule
3 9 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 9 (1.02%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.80%) Apache
4 7 (0.80%) CMS
4 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.57%) Camunda
7 4 (0.45%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.80%) Moqups
4 6 (0.68%) Simulink
5 5 (0.57%) Lightworks
6 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.23%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (3.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (3.07%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.23%) Magento
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.23%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 405 (46.02%) AWS
2 272 (30.91%) Azure
3 198 (22.50%) SaaS
4 138 (15.68%) GCP
5 70 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
6 67 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (7.27%) GitHub
8 57 (6.48%) Serverless
9 35 (3.98%) GitHub Actions
10 31 (3.52%) Power Platform
11 25 (2.84%) Azure Service Bus
12 24 (2.73%) Azure AKS
13 20 (2.27%) Azure Functions
14 18 (2.05%) Amazon S3
15 15 (1.70%) GitHub Copilot
16 14 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
16 14 (1.59%) Entra ID
17 13 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
18 12 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.14%) Broadband
2 14 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.48%) SSL
4 9 (1.02%) DNS
5 8 (0.91%) Ethernet
6 5 (0.57%) DHCP
6 5 (0.57%) Firewall
6 5 (0.57%) MQTT
6 5 (0.57%) Network Security
6 5 (0.57%) SMS
7 4 (0.45%) LAN
7 4 (0.45%) WAN
7 4 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.45%) Wireless
8 3 (0.34%) CHAP
8 3 (0.34%) X.509
9 2 (0.23%) 5G
9 2 (0.23%) HTTP
9 2 (0.23%) Profibus
9 2 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (5.57%) MongoDB
3 35 (3.98%) SQL Server
4 26 (2.95%) Relational Database
5 21 (2.39%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.05%) BigQuery
7 17 (1.93%) Power BI
8 16 (1.82%) Data Lake
9 15 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
9 15 (1.70%) Semantic Layer
10 14 (1.59%) Redis
11 12 (1.36%) Metadata
12 11 (1.25%) MySQL
12 11 (1.25%) Oracle Database
13 10 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
14 9 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.80%) Big Data
15 7 (0.80%) DynamoDB
15 7 (0.80%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 93 (10.57%) Git
2 70 (7.95%) TeamCity
3 59 (6.70%) GitLab
4 50 (5.68%) Selenium
5 44 (5.00%) Jenkins
6 36 (4.09%) Cypress.io
7 31 (3.52%) JIRA
8 29 (3.30%) Postman
9 18 (2.05%) JUnit
10 13 (1.48%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.02%) JMeter
12 8 (0.91%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.91%) SpecFlow
13 6 (0.68%) Appium
13 6 (0.68%) Gatling
13 6 (0.68%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.68%) Storybook
13 6 (0.68%) TestRail
14 5 (0.57%) Crashlytics
14 5 (0.57%) XCTest
General
1 278 (31.59%) Social Skills
2 198 (22.50%) Finance
3 152 (17.27%) Law
4 133 (15.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 128 (14.55%) Banking
6 112 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
7 102 (11.59%) Public Sector
8 97 (11.02%) Retail
9 86 (9.77%) Legal
10 56 (6.36%) Financial Institution
11 54 (6.14%) Back Office
12 44 (5.00%) Marketing
13 30 (3.41%) Games
14 25 (2.84%) Manufacturing
15 21 (2.39%) Aerospace
16 20 (2.27%) Electronics
17 19 (2.16%) Telecoms
18 11 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
19 10 (1.14%) Investment Banking
20 8 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 242 (27.50%) Senior
2 148 (16.82%) Software Engineer
3 145 (16.48%) Lead
4 99 (11.25%) Developer
5 66 (7.50%) Test Engineer
6 49 (5.57%) Senior Manager
6 49 (5.57%) Testing Manager
7 48 (5.45%) IT Manager
7 48 (5.45%) IT Services Manager
7 48 (5.45%) Resilience Manager
7 48 (5.45%) Service Manager
8 45 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
9 37 (4.20%) Software Manager
10 35 (3.98%) Engineering Manager
10 35 (3.98%) Java Engineer
11 33 (3.75%) QA Engineer
11 33 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
12 32 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 31 (3.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 31 (3.52%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (15.68%) Terraform
2 89 (10.11%) React
3 71 (8.07%) REST
4 69 (7.84%) Node.js
5 65 (7.39%) .NET
5 65 (7.39%) Spring
6 64 (7.27%) Playwright
7 55 (6.25%) RESTful
8 52 (5.91%) Middleware
9 30 (3.41%) Spring Boot
10 29 (3.30%) AngularJS
10 29 (3.30%) CSS
11 23 (2.61%) Next.js
12 21 (2.39%) HTML
13 20 (2.27%) OAuth
14 18 (2.05%) OAuth2
15 17 (1.93%) JWT
16 16 (1.82%) .NET Core
16 16 (1.82%) LangChain
16 16 (1.82%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 198 (22.50%) Cloud Native
2 134 (15.23%) Product Ownership
3 61 (6.93%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.48%) Virtual Team
5 52 (5.91%) Cyber Threat
6 45 (5.11%) Blog
7 36 (4.09%) Mobile App
8 33 (3.75%) Low-Code
9 31 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
10 30 (3.41%) Public Cloud
11 27 (3.07%) Marketing Technology
12 25 (2.84%) Video\Live Streaming
13 20 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
16 13 (1.48%) AI Agents
17 10 (1.14%) Data Structures
17 10 (1.14%) Management Information System
17 10 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (1.02%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 60 (6.82%) Linux
2 47 (5.34%) Windows
3 33 (3.75%) Unix
4 30 (3.41%) Android
5 27 (3.07%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.45%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.34%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.23%) CentOS
8 2 (0.23%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 368 (41.82%) Agile
3 362 (41.14%) Software Engineering
4 346 (39.32%) DevOps
5 339 (38.52%) Mentoring
6 291 (33.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 217 (24.66%) AI
8 197 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
9 165 (18.75%) Coaching
10 148 (16.82%) Software Testing
11 147 (16.70%) Microservices
12 138 (15.68%) Technical Leadership
13 131 (14.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 130 (14.77%) Test Strategy
15 121 (13.75%) Clean Code
16 117 (13.30%) Validation
17 116 (13.18%) Observability
18 114 (12.95%) Infrastructure as Code
19 109 (12.39%) Deployment Automation
20 105 (11.93%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 254 (28.86%) Python
2 240 (27.27%) Java
3 167 (18.98%) JavaScript
4 147 (16.70%) C#
5 141 (16.02%) TypeScript
6 120 (13.64%) SQL
7 64 (7.27%) PowerShell
8 44 (5.00%) Go
9 23 (2.61%) Bash
10 20 (2.27%) Kotlin
11 17 (1.93%) C++
12 13 (1.48%) DataWeave
13 12 (1.36%) PHP
14 11 (1.25%) Rust
15 10 (1.14%) C
16 9 (1.02%) Bicep
16 9 (1.02%) Swift
17 8 (0.91%) Clojure
18 6 (0.68%) MATLAB
18 6 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 101 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 80 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 55 (6.25%) Degree
4 53 (6.02%) ITIL Certification
5 51 (5.80%) CISM
5 51 (5.80%) CISSP
6 29 (3.30%) ISTQB
7 16 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.70%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.91%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.68%) Azure Certification
12 5 (0.57%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.57%) OSCP
13 4 (0.45%) CISA
13 4 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.34%) CGEIT
14 3 (0.34%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (22.84%) QA
2 78 (8.86%) Accessibility
3 53 (6.02%) NIST
4 48 (5.45%) ISO 22301
5 44 (5.00%) Data Quality
6 21 (2.39%) WCAG
7 14 (1.59%) GDPR
8 8 (0.91%) GRC
9 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.45%) ECSS
10 4 (0.45%) SLA
10 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.34%) COBIT
11 3 (0.34%) EMIR
11 3 (0.34%) PERC
12 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 1 (0.11%) DO-160
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.11%) ITGC
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 101 (11.48%) Docker
2 7 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) KVM
5 1 (0.11%) QEMU
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 150 (17.05%) Kubernetes
2 84 (9.55%) Grafana
3 16 (1.82%) Argo
4 13 (1.48%) Ansible
4 13 (1.48%) CloudHub
5 9 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.34%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.11%) Consul
8 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 85 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.84%) Salesforce
3 23 (2.61%) Oracle
4 20 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 17 (1.93%) SAP
6 16 (1.82%) Databricks
7 15 (1.70%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.36%) Pega
9 10 (1.14%) Google
10 8 (0.91%) IFS
11 7 (0.80%) Braze
11 7 (0.80%) VMware
12 5 (0.57%) Amplitude
12 5 (0.57%) dotdigital
12 5 (0.57%) Dynatrace
13 4 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.45%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.45%) Xilinx
13 4 (0.45%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.34%) Sage