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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 78 83
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 -38
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 527 638 833
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.50% 3.87% 3.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 4.14% 4.14%
Number of salaries quoted 327 384 651
10th Percentile £45,750 £39,125 £40,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,375 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%

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 13,165 15,405 20,125
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.43% 93.51% 93.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,370 9,087 16,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,875 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 10 January 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 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (1.52%) Confluence
3 7 (1.33%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.57%) Apache
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.38%) CMS
6 2 (0.38%) nginx
6 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Oracle Smart View
2 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 43 (8.16%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.76%) Hyperion Planning
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.57%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 250 (47.44%) Azure
2 157 (29.79%) GitHub
3 150 (28.46%) Azure DevOps
4 118 (22.39%) AWS
5 75 (14.23%) GitHub Copilot
6 65 (12.33%) SaaS
7 46 (8.73%) GitHub Actions
8 45 (8.54%) GCP
9 37 (7.02%) Entra ID
9 37 (7.02%) OCI
10 36 (6.83%) Power Platform
11 34 (6.45%) Serverless
12 33 (6.26%) Azure Data Factory
13 30 (5.69%) PaaS
14 28 (5.31%) Snowflake
15 21 (3.98%) dbt
16 20 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
17 18 (3.42%) Azure Event Grid
17 18 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
18 15 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.33%) CHAP
2 4 (0.76%) 5G
2 4 (0.76%) HTTP
2 4 (0.76%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.76%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.76%) WAN
3 3 (0.57%) Internet
3 3 (0.57%) VPN
4 2 (0.38%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.19%) Broadband
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Firewall
5 1 (0.19%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.83%) SQL Server
2 28 (5.31%) Power BI
3 25 (4.74%) MySQL
3 25 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (3.98%) NoSQL
6 19 (3.61%) Tableau
7 16 (3.04%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.66%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.52%) MariaDB
10 8 (1.52%) Metadata
11 7 (1.33%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.33%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.14%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.76%) Essbase
15 3 (0.57%) Pinecone
16 2 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
16 2 (0.38%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 71 (13.47%) JIRA
2 64 (12.14%) Selenium
3 58 (11.01%) Jenkins
4 53 (10.06%) Git
5 41 (7.78%) Oracle Forms
6 35 (6.64%) Cypress.io
7 22 (4.17%) TeamCity
8 18 (3.42%) Postman
9 13 (2.47%) Cucumber
10 12 (2.28%) JUnit
11 11 (2.09%) GitLab
11 11 (2.09%) WebDriver
12 10 (1.90%) JMeter
13 7 (1.33%) Storybook
14 6 (1.14%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.14%) LoadRunner
14 6 (1.14%) SpecFlow
14 6 (1.14%) TestRail
15 5 (0.95%) MLflow
15 5 (0.95%) Subversion
General
1 221 (41.94%) Finance
2 178 (33.78%) Social Skills
3 73 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (11.39%) Law
5 44 (8.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 38 (7.21%) Banking
7 29 (5.50%) Public Sector
8 28 (5.31%) Financial Institution
9 27 (5.12%) Retail
10 20 (3.80%) Back Office
11 19 (3.61%) Marketing
12 12 (2.28%) Legal
13 10 (1.90%) Games
14 9 (1.71%) Front Office
15 8 (1.52%) Automotive
16 7 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (1.14%) Electronics
17 6 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.76%) Billing
18 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 151 (28.65%) Senior
2 85 (16.13%) Developer
3 79 (14.99%) Lead
4 49 (9.30%) Software Engineer
5 44 (8.35%) Applications Engineer
6 41 (7.78%) Cloud Engineer
6 41 (7.78%) QA Engineer
7 38 (7.21%) Test Engineer
8 28 (5.31%) Test Automation Engineer
9 26 (4.93%) QA Automation Engineer
9 26 (4.93%) Senior Developer
10 25 (4.74%) Analyst
11 24 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (4.36%) Lead Developer
13 22 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
13 22 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 19 (3.61%) Tester
15 18 (3.42%) .NET Developer
15 18 (3.42%) Software Developer
16 16 (3.04%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (15.75%) RESTful
2 66 (12.52%) React
3 55 (10.44%) JSON
4 51 (9.68%) .NET
5 49 (9.30%) SOAP
6 46 (8.73%) REST
7 36 (6.83%) OAuth
8 35 (6.64%) OAuth2
9 32 (6.07%) Playwright
10 30 (5.69%) XML
11 25 (4.74%) Node.js
12 23 (4.36%) Lightning Web Components
13 20 (3.80%) Spring
14 19 (3.61%) .NET Framework
14 19 (3.61%) Next.js
15 17 (3.23%) CSS
15 17 (3.23%) Entity Framework
15 17 (3.23%) SAML
16 15 (2.85%) HTML
17 13 (2.47%) ASP.NET Web Forms
Miscellaneous
1 126 (23.91%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.11%) Product Ownership
3 39 (7.40%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.85%) Mobile App
6 13 (2.47%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.28%) GNSS
7 12 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.28%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.71%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.52%) Satnav
10 8 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 7 (1.33%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.14%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
13 5 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
13 5 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
14 4 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.93%) Linux
2 20 (3.80%) Android
2 20 (3.80%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.28%) Windows
4 9 (1.71%) Unix
4 9 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.57%) CentOS
6 2 (0.38%) Solaris
7 1 (0.19%) Debian
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (58.25%) CI/CD
2 276 (52.37%) Agile
3 234 (44.40%) DevOps
4 163 (30.93%) Coaching
5 158 (29.98%) Mentoring
6 138 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 127 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
8 121 (22.96%) AI
9 116 (22.01%) Asset Management
10 102 (19.35%) Clean Code
11 100 (18.98%) Software Engineering
12 93 (17.65%) Observability
13 92 (17.46%) Analytics
14 91 (17.27%) Microservices
15 70 (13.28%) Sprint Planning
16 64 (12.14%) Sprint Retrospective
17 59 (11.20%) Data Modelling
17 59 (11.20%) Test Strategy
18 53 (10.06%) ERP
19 52 (9.87%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 156 (29.60%) Python
2 132 (25.05%) SQL
3 124 (23.53%) Java
4 69 (13.09%) JavaScript
5 64 (12.14%) C#
6 63 (11.95%) TypeScript
7 39 (7.40%) Shell Script
8 37 (7.02%) PL/SQL
9 30 (5.69%) PowerShell
10 22 (4.17%) Apex Code
11 21 (3.98%) PHP
12 19 (3.61%) Bicep
13 12 (2.28%) Bash
13 12 (2.28%) Go
14 9 (1.71%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.14%) C++
15 6 (1.14%) Delphi
16 5 (0.95%) Groovy
17 4 (0.76%) C
18 3 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 47 (8.92%) Degree
2 32 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
2 32 (6.07%) Security Cleared
3 26 (4.93%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.55%) ISTQB
5 18 (3.42%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 9 (1.71%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.71%) CEH
8 8 (1.52%) CISA
9 7 (1.33%) CGEIT
9 7 (1.33%) CISM
9 7 (1.33%) CISSP
9 7 (1.33%) FFIEC
9 7 (1.33%) SANS
10 6 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.76%) ISEB
12 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.38%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (24.48%) QA
2 32 (6.07%) Accessibility
3 28 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (4.74%) NIST
5 23 (4.36%) GDPR
6 13 (2.47%) Data Quality
7 11 (2.09%) WCAG
8 10 (1.90%) ISO 9001
9 9 (1.71%) ISO 22301
10 7 (1.33%) COBIT
10 7 (1.33%) SLA
11 6 (1.14%) NCSC
12 5 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.38%) GRC
13 2 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.19%) Section 508
14 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (9.11%) Docker
2 37 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (20.11%) Terraform
2 66 (12.52%) Kubernetes
3 37 (7.02%) Single Sign-On
4 31 (5.88%) Grafana
5 16 (3.04%) Ansible
6 5 (0.95%) Argo
7 4 (0.76%) logstash
8 3 (0.57%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.38%) Control-M
9 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 70 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 60 (11.39%) Oracle
3 27 (5.12%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.80%) Okta
5 19 (3.61%) Databricks
6 17 (3.23%) VMware
7 14 (2.66%) Ab Initio
8 12 (2.28%) Commvault
9 7 (1.33%) SAP
10 5 (0.95%) Google
10 5 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.76%) Hyperion
11 4 (0.76%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.76%) Workday
12 3 (0.57%) Foundry
12 3 (0.57%) IBM
12 3 (0.57%) iManage
13 2 (0.38%) Guidewire
13 2 (0.38%) Qualys
13 2 (0.38%) Splunk