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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 69 95
Rank change year-on-year +13 +26 -46
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 695 574 987
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.89% 4.30% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 4.54% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 390 456 764
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,716 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +5.26% -12.31%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £101,375 £98,474 £83,750
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 14,857 12,645 29,601
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.17% 94.76% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,372 8,952 23,522
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,644 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +7.21% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%

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 21 April 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 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (0.86%) Confluence
2 6 (0.86%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.72%) CMS
4 4 (0.58%) Apache
5 3 (0.43%) nginx
6 2 (0.29%) JBoss
6 2 (0.29%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Camunda
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (2.30%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 275 (39.57%) Azure
2 264 (37.99%) AWS
3 134 (19.28%) GitHub
4 126 (18.13%) Azure DevOps
5 118 (16.98%) GCP
6 72 (10.36%) SaaS
7 71 (10.22%) Serverless
8 58 (8.35%) Amazon EKS
9 56 (8.06%) GitHub Copilot
10 47 (6.76%) GitHub Actions
11 33 (4.75%) Azure Data Factory
12 31 (4.46%) Power Platform
13 30 (4.32%) Entra ID
14 24 (3.45%) Azure Event Grid
14 24 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
15 21 (3.02%) PaaS
16 18 (2.59%) Azure AKS
16 18 (2.59%) Nutanix
16 18 (2.59%) Snowflake
17 17 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.59%) Broadband
2 13 (1.87%) CHAP
3 3 (0.43%) DNS
3 3 (0.43%) Firewall
3 3 (0.43%) VPN
4 2 (0.29%) Internet
4 2 (0.29%) Network Security
4 2 (0.29%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (5.32%) MongoDB
2 37 (5.32%) NoSQL
3 36 (5.18%) SQL Server
4 19 (2.73%) MySQL
5 18 (2.59%) Power BI
6 14 (2.01%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.87%) Metadata
8 8 (1.15%) Data Lake
8 8 (1.15%) Tableau
9 7 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (0.86%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.86%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.86%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.72%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.58%) Redis
13 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 65 (9.35%) Selenium
2 56 (8.06%) TeamCity
3 55 (7.91%) Git
4 53 (7.63%) JIRA
5 46 (6.62%) Jenkins
6 34 (4.89%) Cypress.io
7 23 (3.31%) GitLab
8 22 (3.17%) JMeter
8 22 (3.17%) Postman
9 17 (2.45%) Cucumber
10 16 (2.30%) Oracle Forms
11 15 (2.16%) SpecFlow
12 11 (1.58%) REST Assured
13 10 (1.44%) Crashlytics
13 10 (1.44%) WebDriver
13 10 (1.44%) XCTest
14 9 (1.29%) JUnit
15 8 (1.15%) Storybook
15 8 (1.15%) TestRail
16 7 (1.01%) CircleCI
General
1 248 (35.68%) Finance
2 197 (28.35%) Social Skills
3 106 (15.25%) Banking
4 103 (14.82%) Law
5 89 (12.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (11.37%) Retail
7 62 (8.92%) Analytical Skills
8 57 (8.20%) Public Sector
9 56 (8.06%) Financial Institution
10 42 (6.04%) Back Office
11 23 (3.31%) Marketing
12 22 (3.17%) Games
13 18 (2.59%) Legal
14 16 (2.30%) Manufacturing
15 14 (2.01%) Electronics
16 7 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.86%) Investment Banking
18 5 (0.72%) Front Office
19 4 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 193 (27.77%) Senior
2 126 (18.13%) Software Engineer
3 105 (15.11%) Lead
4 76 (10.94%) Developer
5 57 (8.20%) QA Engineer
6 55 (7.91%) Test Engineer
7 51 (7.34%) Senior Software Engineer
8 47 (6.76%) Java Engineer
9 39 (5.61%) Java Software Engineer
10 33 (4.75%) QA Automation Engineer
11 32 (4.60%) Automation Engineer
11 32 (4.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 30 (4.32%) Senior Developer
12 30 (4.32%) Test Automation Engineer
13 28 (4.03%) Tester
14 23 (3.31%) Applications Engineer
15 22 (3.17%) Lead Developer
16 21 (3.02%) Senior Test Engineer
17 19 (2.73%) Cloud Engineer
17 19 (2.73%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (16.69%) React
2 71 (10.22%) .NET
3 70 (10.07%) REST
4 67 (9.64%) RESTful
5 60 (8.63%) Playwright
6 42 (6.04%) Node.js
6 42 (6.04%) Spring
7 38 (5.47%) JSON
8 30 (4.32%) SOAP
9 26 (3.74%) Spring Boot
10 24 (3.45%) Next.js
11 23 (3.31%) Lightning Web Components
11 23 (3.31%) OAuth
11 23 (3.31%) React Native
12 22 (3.17%) OAuth2
12 22 (3.17%) XML
13 19 (2.73%) Django
14 18 (2.59%) .NET Framework
14 18 (2.59%) CSS
14 18 (2.59%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 162 (23.31%) Cloud Native
2 88 (12.66%) Product Ownership
3 39 (5.61%) Mobile App
4 26 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 22 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (2.59%) Blog
8 17 (2.45%) Low-Code
9 16 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.01%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.58%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.29%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.29%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.29%) Podcast
15 8 (1.15%) GNSS
15 8 (1.15%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.91%) Apple iOS
2 42 (6.04%) Linux
3 41 (5.90%) Android
4 16 (2.30%) Unix
5 9 (1.29%) Windows
6 4 (0.58%) CentOS
7 2 (0.29%) Debian
7 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (55.68%) CI/CD
2 324 (46.62%) Agile
3 252 (36.26%) DevOps
4 208 (29.93%) Software Engineering
5 202 (29.06%) Mentoring
6 185 (26.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 178 (25.61%) Coaching
8 160 (23.02%) Microservices
9 146 (21.01%) Clean Code
10 145 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
11 138 (19.86%) AI
12 114 (16.40%) Observability
13 107 (15.40%) Full-Stack Development
14 102 (14.68%) Deployment Automation
15 101 (14.53%) Infrastructure as Code
16 91 (13.09%) Test Strategy
17 83 (11.94%) Analytics
18 79 (11.37%) Asset Management
19 77 (11.08%) Fintech
20 74 (10.65%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 199 (28.63%) Java
2 174 (25.04%) Python
3 127 (18.27%) SQL
4 105 (15.11%) TypeScript
5 94 (13.53%) JavaScript
6 66 (9.50%) C#
7 33 (4.75%) PowerShell
8 22 (3.17%) Apex Code
8 22 (3.17%) Go
9 18 (2.59%) Bash
9 18 (2.59%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.45%) Bicep
11 16 (2.30%) PL/SQL
12 15 (2.16%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.73%) Swift
14 11 (1.58%) T-SQL
15 10 (1.44%) PHP
16 6 (0.86%) Delphi
17 5 (0.72%) Ruby
18 4 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 47 (6.76%) Degree
2 45 (6.47%) Security Cleared
3 41 (5.90%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.74%) ISTQB
5 19 (2.73%) CISSP
6 16 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.16%) Master's Degree
8 14 (2.01%) CISA
9 13 (1.87%) CGEIT
9 13 (1.87%) CISM
9 13 (1.87%) FFIEC
9 13 (1.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 13 (1.87%) SANS
10 12 (1.73%) CEH
11 10 (1.44%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (1.01%) CREST Certified
13 7 (1.01%) OSCP
14 5 (0.72%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (24.46%) QA
2 54 (7.77%) Accessibility
3 33 (4.75%) GDPR
3 33 (4.75%) NIST
4 23 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (2.45%) Data Quality
6 14 (2.01%) WCAG
7 13 (1.87%) COBIT
8 12 (1.73%) ISO 22301
9 8 (1.15%) ISO 9001
10 7 (1.01%) GRC
11 6 (0.86%) Software Quality Assurance
12 5 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.29%) NCSC
14 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 80 (11.51%) Docker
2 19 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 145 (20.86%) Terraform
2 134 (19.28%) Kubernetes
3 74 (10.65%) Grafana
4 17 (2.45%) Ansible
4 17 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (1.87%) Argo
6 4 (0.58%) logstash
6 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.29%) MIIS
7 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.14%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 63 (9.06%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.47%) Oracle
3 25 (3.60%) Databricks
3 25 (3.60%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.02%) VMware
5 18 (2.59%) Commvault
6 11 (1.58%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.44%) Ab Initio
7 10 (1.44%) Amplitude
7 10 (1.44%) Braze
8 8 (1.15%) Okta
8 8 (1.15%) SAP
9 7 (1.01%) Google
9 7 (1.01%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.58%) Foundry
10 4 (0.58%) IFS
10 4 (0.58%) Workday
11 3 (0.43%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.29%) Guidewire
12 2 (0.29%) Samsung