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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 76 105
Rank change year-on-year +16 +29 -49
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 870 751 793
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.03% 4.56% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.87% 4.89% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 405 371 612
10th Percentile £45,299 £38,750 £38,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £98,474 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% -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 17,875 15,362 25,786
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.74% 93.25% 88.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,022 9,082 19,277
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,089
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.84%

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 July 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 11 (1.26%) Anypoint
1 11 (1.26%) Mule
2 10 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.15%) Confluence
3 9 (1.03%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.92%) Apache
5 7 (0.80%) CMS
6 5 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.46%) WordPress
8 2 (0.23%) Camunda
8 2 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.23%) JBoss
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.46%) Lightworks
2 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.46%) Simulink
3 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 32 (3.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (2.99%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.23%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 425 (48.85%) AWS
2 265 (30.46%) Azure
3 160 (18.39%) SaaS
4 143 (16.44%) GCP
5 75 (8.62%) Serverless
6 74 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (7.70%) GitHub
8 59 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
9 40 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (3.10%) Power Platform
11 24 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.30%) Azure AKS
13 18 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (1.84%) Amazon S3
14 16 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (1.84%) Entra ID
15 15 (1.72%) PaaS
16 14 (1.61%) Firebase
16 14 (1.61%) Stripe
16 14 (1.61%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 70 (8.05%) Broadband
2 11 (1.26%) SSL
3 7 (0.80%) CHAP
4 6 (0.69%) DNS
5 5 (0.57%) SMS
5 5 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.46%) Firewall
6 4 (0.46%) MQTT
7 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.34%) Network Security
7 3 (0.34%) VPN
7 3 (0.34%) Wireless
8 2 (0.23%) HTTP
9 1 (0.11%) DHCP
9 1 (0.11%) LAN
9 1 (0.11%) WAN
9 1 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (10.92%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (7.70%) MongoDB
3 33 (3.79%) NoSQL
4 27 (3.10%) SQL Server
5 20 (2.30%) MySQL
6 16 (1.84%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
8 13 (1.49%) Metadata
9 11 (1.26%) Oracle Database
10 10 (1.15%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.15%) Power BI
11 7 (0.80%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.69%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.57%) Spark SQL
14 4 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.46%) Big Data
15 3 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.34%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 60 (6.90%) Git
1 60 (6.90%) TeamCity
2 52 (5.98%) Selenium
3 47 (5.40%) Jenkins
4 40 (4.60%) GitLab
5 31 (3.56%) Cypress.io
6 26 (2.99%) JIRA
7 22 (2.53%) Postman
8 19 (2.18%) JMeter
9 15 (1.72%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.61%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.61%) XCTest
11 12 (1.38%) SpecFlow
12 9 (1.03%) JUnit
13 8 (0.92%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.80%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.80%) TestRail
14 7 (0.80%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.80%) XCUITest
15 6 (0.69%) Gatling
General
1 259 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 177 (20.34%) Finance
3 151 (17.36%) Law
4 117 (13.45%) Banking
5 114 (13.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 105 (12.07%) Public Sector
7 90 (10.34%) Legal
8 82 (9.43%) Retail
9 79 (9.08%) Analytical Skills
10 50 (5.75%) Financial Institution
11 45 (5.17%) Back Office
11 45 (5.17%) Games
11 45 (5.17%) Marketing
12 23 (2.64%) Manufacturing
13 14 (1.61%) Electronics
14 11 (1.26%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.03%) Legal Technology
16 7 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 255 (29.31%) Senior
2 141 (16.21%) Lead
3 139 (15.98%) Software Engineer
4 103 (11.84%) Developer
5 52 (5.98%) Test Engineer
6 48 (5.52%) Java Engineer
6 48 (5.52%) Senior Manager
7 45 (5.17%) IT Manager
7 45 (5.17%) IT Services Manager
7 45 (5.17%) Resilience Manager
7 45 (5.17%) Service Manager
8 44 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 44 (5.06%) Testing Manager
9 42 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 41 (4.71%) Engineering Manager
10 41 (4.71%) Senior Developer
11 39 (4.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 38 (4.37%) Software Manager
13 36 (4.14%) QA Engineer
14 35 (4.02%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (11.38%) React
2 64 (7.36%) Node.js
2 64 (7.36%) Spring
3 63 (7.24%) Playwright
4 61 (7.01%) .NET
4 61 (7.01%) RESTful
5 58 (6.67%) REST
6 49 (5.63%) Middleware
7 32 (3.68%) Spring Boot
8 25 (2.87%) AngularJS
9 23 (2.64%) AWS CDK
10 20 (2.30%) Next.js
11 17 (1.95%) CSS
11 17 (1.95%) Django
11 17 (1.95%) HTML
12 15 (1.72%) OAuth
12 15 (1.72%) React Native
13 14 (1.61%) Kafka
13 14 (1.61%) OAuth2
13 14 (1.61%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 187 (21.49%) Cloud Native
2 113 (12.99%) Product Ownership
3 56 (6.44%) Cyber Threat
4 52 (5.98%) Virtual Team
5 50 (5.75%) Distributed Systems
6 44 (5.06%) Blog
7 40 (4.60%) Mobile App
8 37 (4.25%) Low-Code
9 33 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (3.68%) Video\Live Streaming
11 28 (3.22%) Public Cloud
12 26 (2.99%) Marketing Technology
13 25 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
14 19 (2.18%) Management Information System
15 16 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
16 13 (1.49%) Onboarding
17 12 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
18 11 (1.26%) Cyberattack
18 11 (1.26%) Embedded Systems
19 10 (1.15%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.13%) Linux
2 37 (4.25%) Windows
3 35 (4.02%) Apple iOS
4 31 (3.56%) Unix
5 26 (2.99%) Android
6 3 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.11%) CentOS
7 1 (0.11%) Debian
7 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (55.29%) CI/CD
2 390 (44.83%) Agile
3 329 (37.82%) Mentoring
4 325 (37.36%) DevOps
5 315 (36.21%) Software Engineering
6 280 (32.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 187 (21.49%) AI
8 171 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
9 159 (18.28%) Microservices
10 158 (18.16%) Coaching
11 142 (16.32%) Infrastructure as Code
12 140 (16.09%) Software Testing
13 130 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
14 126 (14.48%) Observability
15 123 (14.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 122 (14.02%) Clean Code
17 121 (13.91%) Test Strategy
18 116 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
19 105 (12.07%) Deployment Automation
20 102 (11.72%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 244 (28.05%) Python
2 242 (27.82%) Java
3 154 (17.70%) JavaScript
4 135 (15.52%) TypeScript
5 119 (13.68%) C#
6 108 (12.41%) SQL
7 65 (7.47%) PowerShell
8 46 (5.29%) Go
9 25 (2.87%) Bash
10 20 (2.30%) Kotlin
11 14 (1.61%) Swift
12 11 (1.26%) DataWeave
12 11 (1.26%) PHP
13 10 (1.15%) C++
14 9 (1.03%) C
15 8 (0.92%) Clojure
16 7 (0.80%) Rust
17 6 (0.69%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.57%) Ruby
18 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 68 (7.82%) SC Cleared
3 58 (6.67%) CISSP
4 57 (6.55%) ITIL Certification
5 52 (5.98%) CISM
6 51 (5.86%) Degree
7 25 (2.87%) ISTQB
8 9 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.80%) CGEIT
9 7 (0.80%) CISA
9 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.80%) FFIEC
9 7 (0.80%) SANS
10 6 (0.69%) CEH
11 5 (0.57%) CREST Certified
11 5 (0.57%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.57%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.57%) OSCP
12 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (24.02%) QA
2 64 (7.36%) Accessibility
3 60 (6.90%) NIST
4 51 (5.86%) ISO 22301
5 35 (4.02%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.64%) GDPR
7 11 (1.26%) GRC
7 11 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.26%) WCAG
8 7 (0.80%) COBIT
9 4 (0.46%) ISO 9001
9 4 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.34%) ECSS
10 3 (0.34%) PERC
11 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
11 1 (0.11%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.11%) SLA
11 1 (0.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 80 (9.20%) Docker
2 10 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.34%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) KVM
5 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 132 (15.17%) Terraform
2 131 (15.06%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.16%) Grafana
4 16 (1.84%) Argo
5 15 (1.72%) Ansible
6 11 (1.26%) CloudHub
7 6 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.23%) MIIS
10 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.11%) Podman
10 1 (0.11%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (7.70%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.10%) ServiceNow
3 24 (2.76%) Oracle
3 24 (2.76%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.07%) Databricks
5 16 (1.84%) Braze
6 14 (1.61%) Amplitude
7 13 (1.49%) VMware
8 12 (1.38%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.38%) Pega
8 12 (1.38%) SAP
9 11 (1.26%) Google
10 8 (0.92%) Commvault
10 8 (0.92%) IFS
11 5 (0.57%) dotdigital
12 4 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.46%) HubSpot
13 3 (0.34%) Foundry
13 3 (0.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.34%) Xilinx