Test Automation Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Automated Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Test Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Automation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 100 52
Rank change year-on-year +29 -48 -14
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 570 993 2,379
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.81% 2.93% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 3.20% 5.79%
Number of salaries quoted 449 748 1,723
10th Percentile £37,716 £38,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,318 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -13.36% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £81,163 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +8.33%

All Process and 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 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Test Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Automation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Test Automation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Automation.

Test Automation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Test Automation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Test Automation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.16%) Confluence
2 7 (1.23%) SAS
3 5 (0.88%) CMS
4 4 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.70%) JBoss
5 3 (0.53%) Apache
5 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.53%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.18%) CICS
6 1 (0.18%) Moodle
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) Totara
6 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.70%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.18%) Blender
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.18%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.35%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 154 (27.02%) Azure
2 136 (23.86%) AWS
3 101 (17.72%) GCP
4 58 (10.18%) Serverless
5 48 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
5 48 (8.42%) GitHub
6 42 (7.37%) SaaS
7 41 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
9 16 (2.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 13 (2.28%) Apigee
10 13 (2.28%) npm
10 13 (2.28%) PaaS
11 12 (2.11%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.75%) IaaS
12 10 (1.75%) Power Platform
13 7 (1.23%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.81%) Internet
2 15 (2.63%) 5G
3 14 (2.46%) SD-WAN
3 14 (2.46%) WAN
4 11 (1.93%) Bluetooth
4 11 (1.93%) HTTP
5 7 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.88%) DNS
6 5 (0.88%) Multicast
6 5 (0.88%) SAN
7 4 (0.70%) SMTP
7 4 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.35%) ADSL
8 2 (0.35%) BGP
8 2 (0.35%) Firewall
8 2 (0.35%) OSPF
8 2 (0.35%) VLAN
9 1 (0.18%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.18%) VPN
9 1 (0.18%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (8.07%) NoSQL
2 33 (5.79%) DynamoDB
3 32 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (5.09%) Relational Database
5 27 (4.74%) MySQL
6 23 (4.04%) MongoDB
7 22 (3.86%) SQL Server
8 6 (1.05%) DB2
9 5 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (0.88%) Power BI
10 4 (0.70%) Big Data
10 4 (0.70%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.35%) Cloud Spanner
12 2 (0.35%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.35%) Redis
13 1 (0.18%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.18%) GIS
13 1 (0.18%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 147 (25.79%) Git
2 84 (14.74%) Selenium
3 81 (14.21%) Jenkins
4 37 (6.49%) JIRA
5 36 (6.32%) Postman
6 34 (5.96%) Cypress.io
7 33 (5.79%) Cucumber
8 32 (5.61%) Maven
9 30 (5.26%) SonarQube
9 30 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (4.91%) JUnit
11 27 (4.74%) Appium
12 20 (3.51%) webpack
13 17 (2.98%) GitLab
14 16 (2.81%) SoapUI
15 10 (1.75%) JMeter
15 10 (1.75%) SpecFlow
15 10 (1.75%) TestNG
16 9 (1.58%) Visual Studio
17 8 (1.40%) WebDriver
General
1 166 (29.12%) Finance
2 161 (28.25%) Social Skills
3 119 (20.88%) Banking
4 50 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
5 36 (6.32%) Games
6 33 (5.79%) Law
7 30 (5.26%) Legal
8 26 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (4.21%) Public Sector
10 15 (2.63%) Electronics
11 14 (2.46%) Aerospace
12 12 (2.11%) Marketing
13 8 (1.40%) Front Office
13 8 (1.40%) iGaming
13 8 (1.40%) Retail
14 7 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.05%) Mandarin Language
15 6 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.88%) Billing
17 4 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 163 (28.60%) Senior
2 123 (21.58%) Software Engineer
3 122 (21.40%) Developer
4 82 (14.39%) Lead
5 61 (10.70%) Senior Software Engineer
6 55 (9.65%) Senior Developer
7 42 (7.37%) QA Engineer
7 42 (7.37%) Test Engineer
8 40 (7.02%) Software Developer
9 29 (5.09%) Tester
10 28 (4.91%) Senior Software Developer
11 26 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (4.56%) Java Engineer
12 22 (3.86%) Test Automation Engineer
13 20 (3.51%) Analyst
14 18 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
15 17 (2.98%) Automation Tester
15 17 (2.98%) Embedded Engineer
15 17 (2.98%) Java Software Engineer
15 17 (2.98%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (17.02%) React
2 67 (11.75%) Node.js
3 65 (11.40%) Spring Boot
4 60 (10.53%) RESTful
5 59 (10.35%) HTML
6 53 (9.30%) Spring
7 51 (8.95%) .NET
7 51 (8.95%) CSS
8 42 (7.37%) Playwright
9 40 (7.02%) REST
10 38 (6.67%) GraphQL
11 35 (6.14%) JSON
12 32 (5.61%) AngularJS
13 28 (4.91%) Web Services
14 18 (3.16%) Jest
15 16 (2.81%) .NET Core
15 16 (2.81%) HTML5
16 15 (2.63%) Kafka
16 15 (2.63%) OAuth
16 15 (2.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.77%) Product Ownership
2 42 (7.37%) Mobile App
3 37 (6.49%) Cloud Native
4 28 (4.91%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (4.91%) Management Information System
5 27 (4.74%) Public Cloud
6 24 (4.21%) Algorithms
6 24 (4.21%) Embedded Systems
7 21 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (3.51%) Onboarding
9 18 (3.16%) Virtual Team
10 17 (2.98%) Client/Server
11 14 (2.46%) GNSS
11 14 (2.46%) Self-Driving Car
12 13 (2.28%) Mobile Games
13 10 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.58%) Cyber Security Posture
14 9 (1.58%) Online Banking
14 9 (1.58%) Security Posture
15 8 (1.40%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 58 (10.18%) Linux
2 37 (6.49%) Windows
3 27 (4.74%) Android
4 26 (4.56%) Apple iOS
5 18 (3.16%) Unix
6 7 (1.23%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.53%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.35%) VMS
10 1 (0.18%) Debian
10 1 (0.18%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (43.51%) Agile
2 193 (33.86%) CI/CD
3 181 (31.75%) DevOps
4 178 (31.23%) Software Engineering
5 148 (25.96%) Microservices
6 120 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 110 (19.30%) Software Testing
8 103 (18.07%) Mentoring
9 89 (15.61%) Unit Testing
10 84 (14.74%) Containerisation
11 83 (14.56%) Full-Stack Development
12 72 (12.63%) TDD
13 70 (12.28%) Manual Testing
13 70 (12.28%) Scrum
14 67 (11.75%) Event-Driven
14 67 (11.75%) SDLC
15 66 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
16 65 (11.40%) Continuous Integration
17 58 (10.18%) Clean Code
18 57 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 161 (28.25%) JavaScript
2 158 (27.72%) Java
3 141 (24.74%) Python
4 133 (23.33%) SQL
5 90 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 87 (15.26%) C#
7 55 (9.65%) C++
8 44 (7.72%) C
9 28 (4.91%) PHP
10 20 (3.51%) Go
11 15 (2.63%) Kotlin
12 14 (2.46%) Bash
13 9 (1.58%) R
13 9 (1.58%) Ruby
14 7 (1.23%) Perl
14 7 (1.23%) Swift
15 6 (1.05%) Groovy
15 6 (1.05%) Ladder Logic
15 6 (1.05%) Scala
16 4 (0.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 62 (10.88%) Degree
2 41 (7.19%) Security Cleared
3 29 (5.09%) ISTQB
4 26 (4.56%) SC Cleared
5 23 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.58%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.70%) ISEB
13 3 (0.53%) OCP
13 3 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.35%) DV Cleared
15 1 (0.18%) CISSP
15 1 (0.18%) CSQA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (25.26%) QA
2 19 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 18 (3.16%) GDPR
4 12 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.11%) PMO
5 9 (1.58%) NCSC
5 9 (1.58%) NIST
6 8 (1.40%) Basel III
6 8 (1.40%) IFRS
6 8 (1.40%) IFRS 9
7 7 (1.23%) Basel II
7 7 (1.23%) Dodd-Frank
7 7 (1.23%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.53%) PMBOK
9 2 (0.35%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.35%) GRC
9 2 (0.35%) SLA
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 112 (19.65%) Docker
2 9 (1.58%) Embedded Firmware
2 9 (1.58%) Firmware
3 5 (0.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.18%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 98 (17.19%) Kubernetes
2 55 (9.65%) Terraform
3 20 (3.51%) Ansible
4 16 (2.81%) Istio
5 9 (1.58%) Argo
5 9 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.70%) Grafana
7 3 (0.53%) Packer
7 3 (0.53%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.53%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.35%) Iperf
8 2 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.18%) CA Service Virtualization
9 1 (0.18%) cPanel
9 1 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 39 (6.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (2.98%) Google
3 12 (2.11%) IBM
4 10 (1.75%) Oracle
5 7 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 6 (1.05%) Atlassian
6 6 (1.05%) Databricks
6 6 (1.05%) New Relic
6 6 (1.05%) SAP
6 6 (1.05%) Siemens
7 5 (0.88%) Cisco
8 4 (0.70%) Adobe
8 4 (0.70%) F5
8 4 (0.70%) Intel
8 4 (0.70%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.70%) Tealium
9 3 (0.53%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.53%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.53%) Twitter
9 3 (0.53%) VMware