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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 73 86
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 -39
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 612 654 950
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.74% 4.27% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 4.49% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 350 415 739
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,388 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,741 £62,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.59% +6.84% -6.40%
75th Percentile £86,250 £81,500 £73,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £92,047
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 14,069 14,554 25,755
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.89% 94.92% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,144 8,791 21,402
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,760
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 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 22 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 15 (2.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (0.98%) Confluence
3 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (0.65%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.65%) CMS
3 4 (0.65%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.49%) Apache
4 3 (0.49%) nginx
4 3 (0.49%) WordPress
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.33%) JBoss
6 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 37 (6.05%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.33%) Hyperion Planning
3 2 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 259 (42.32%) Azure
2 193 (31.54%) AWS
3 155 (25.33%) GitHub
4 136 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (14.87%) GCP
6 76 (12.42%) SaaS
7 71 (11.60%) GitHub Copilot
8 51 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
9 48 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (7.35%) Serverless
11 34 (5.56%) Entra ID
11 34 (5.56%) Power Platform
12 33 (5.39%) OCI
13 32 (5.23%) Azure Data Factory
14 26 (4.25%) Snowflake
15 25 (4.08%) Azure Event Grid
15 25 (4.08%) PaaS
16 19 (3.10%) dbt
17 17 (2.78%) Nutanix
18 16 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
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 45 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 32 (5.23%) MySQL
3 32 (5.23%) NoSQL
4 26 (4.25%) Power BI
5 20 (3.27%) MongoDB
6 19 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (2.78%) Tableau
8 12 (1.96%) Snowflake Schema
9 11 (1.80%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.47%) Metadata
11 8 (1.31%) MariaDB
12 7 (1.14%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.14%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
15 3 (0.49%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.49%) Redis
16 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
16 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 68 (11.11%) Selenium
2 61 (9.97%) JIRA
3 56 (9.15%) Jenkins
4 51 (8.33%) Git
5 50 (8.17%) TeamCity
6 36 (5.88%) Cypress.io
7 35 (5.72%) Oracle Forms
8 21 (3.43%) Postman
9 16 (2.61%) JMeter
10 15 (2.45%) Cucumber
10 15 (2.45%) WebDriver
11 13 (2.12%) GitLab
11 13 (2.12%) SpecFlow
12 11 (1.80%) JUnit
13 8 (1.31%) Storybook
14 7 (1.14%) CircleCI
14 7 (1.14%) MLflow
15 6 (0.98%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.98%) Subversion
15 6 (0.98%) TestRail
General
1 257 (41.99%) Finance
2 180 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 91 (14.87%) Law
4 80 (13.07%) Banking
5 77 (12.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 67 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
6 67 (10.95%) Retail
7 48 (7.84%) Financial Institution
8 47 (7.68%) Public Sector
9 36 (5.88%) Back Office
10 22 (3.59%) Marketing
11 14 (2.29%) Games
12 10 (1.63%) Legal
13 8 (1.31%) Automotive
14 6 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.98%) Electronics
14 6 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (0.82%) Billing
15 5 (0.82%) Front Office
16 4 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 178 (29.08%) Senior
2 98 (16.01%) Software Engineer
3 78 (12.75%) Lead
4 73 (11.93%) Developer
5 56 (9.15%) QA Engineer
6 45 (7.35%) Test Engineer
7 40 (6.54%) Applications Engineer
7 40 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
8 38 (6.21%) Java Engineer
9 37 (6.05%) Cloud Engineer
10 35 (5.72%) Java Software Engineer
11 33 (5.39%) Test Automation Engineer
12 32 (5.23%) QA Automation Engineer
13 29 (4.74%) Automation Engineer
14 26 (4.25%) Senior Developer
14 26 (4.25%) Tester
15 21 (3.43%) Analyst
16 20 (3.27%) Lead Developer
17 18 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 18 (2.94%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (14.05%) RESTful
2 78 (12.75%) React
3 58 (9.48%) .NET
4 51 (8.33%) JSON
4 51 (8.33%) Playwright
5 50 (8.17%) REST
6 47 (7.68%) SOAP
7 34 (5.56%) OAuth
8 33 (5.39%) OAuth2
9 30 (4.90%) XML
10 28 (4.58%) Node.js
11 25 (4.08%) Lightning Web Components
11 25 (4.08%) Spring
12 20 (3.27%) Next.js
13 18 (2.94%) .NET Framework
14 17 (2.78%) CSS
15 16 (2.61%) SAML
15 16 (2.61%) Spring Boot
16 15 (2.45%) HTML
17 14 (2.29%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 165 (26.96%) Cloud Native
2 61 (9.97%) Product Ownership
3 36 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (3.59%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (3.27%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.78%) Blog
6 17 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.96%) GNSS
9 10 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.63%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.63%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.47%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.31%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.31%) Satnav
11 8 (1.31%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 34 (5.56%) Apple iOS
2 32 (5.23%) Android
3 30 (4.90%) Linux
4 13 (2.12%) 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
1 334 (54.58%) CI/CD
2 290 (47.39%) Agile
3 236 (38.56%) DevOps
4 188 (30.72%) Mentoring
5 186 (30.39%) Coaching
6 158 (25.82%) Software Engineering
7 149 (24.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 136 (22.22%) Clean Code
9 133 (21.73%) Microservices
10 127 (20.75%) AI
11 117 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
12 110 (17.97%) Asset Management
13 98 (16.01%) Observability
14 89 (14.54%) Analytics
15 87 (14.22%) Deployment Automation
16 71 (11.60%) Fintech
17 67 (10.95%) Full-Stack Development
18 66 (10.78%) Sprint Planning
19 63 (10.29%) Continuous Deployment
19 63 (10.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 178 (29.08%) Java
2 162 (26.47%) Python
3 142 (23.20%) SQL
4 85 (13.89%) TypeScript
5 73 (11.93%) JavaScript
6 50 (8.17%) C#
7 36 (5.88%) Shell Script
8 33 (5.39%) PL/SQL
8 33 (5.39%) PowerShell
9 24 (3.92%) Apex Code
10 19 (3.10%) PHP
11 18 (2.94%) Bicep
12 17 (2.78%) Bash
13 15 (2.45%) Go
14 9 (1.47%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.98%) Delphi
15 6 (0.98%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.82%) Swift
17 4 (0.65%) Perl
18 2 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 49 (8.01%) Degree
2 44 (7.19%) Security Cleared
3 39 (6.37%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.94%) ISTQB
5 18 (2.94%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.29%) CISSP
7 12 (1.96%) CEH
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%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (24.18%) QA
2 42 (6.86%) Accessibility
3 30 (4.90%) GDPR
4 28 (4.58%) NIST
5 25 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.96%) ISO 22301
7 11 (1.80%) Data Quality
8 10 (1.63%) WCAG
9 8 (1.31%) COBIT
9 8 (1.31%) ISO 9001
10 7 (1.14%) SLA
11 6 (0.98%) Software Quality Assurance
12 5 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.49%) NCSC
14 2 (0.33%) GRC
15 1 (0.16%) Section 508
15 1 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 58 (9.48%) Docker
2 33 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.33%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 136 (22.22%) Terraform
2 105 (17.16%) Kubernetes
3 62 (10.13%) Grafana
4 34 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (3.10%) 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 60 (9.80%) Oracle
2 57 (9.31%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.74%) Salesforce
4 22 (3.59%) VMware
5 19 (3.10%) Databricks
6 18 (2.94%) Okta
7 17 (2.78%) Commvault
8 14 (2.29%) Ab Initio
9 8 (1.31%) Google
9 8 (1.31%) SAP
10 6 (0.98%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.98%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.65%) Workday
12 3 (0.49%) Amplitude
12 3 (0.49%) Foundry
12 3 (0.49%) IBM
13 2 (0.33%) Adobe
13 2 (0.33%) CheckPoint
13 2 (0.33%) Hyperion
13 2 (0.33%) Red Hat