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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 83 98
Rank change year-on-year +20 +15 -26
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 908 684 657
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.65% 4.12% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 4.39% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 416 293 376
10th Percentile £43,269 £42,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,289 £51,250 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -3.23%
75th Percentile £81,000 £83,750 £74,063
90th Percentile £95,625 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,493 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.40% +8.33% -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 20,041 15,592 19,047
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.56% 93.83% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14,244 8,414 11,252
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,700
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 11 October 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 (1.87%) Confluence
2 13 (1.43%) Anypoint
2 13 (1.43%) Mule
3 10 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 9 (0.99%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.88%) CMS
5 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.77%) Apache
7 6 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.66%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.55%) Camunda
8 5 (0.55%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.22%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.77%) Moqups
4 6 (0.66%) Simulink
5 5 (0.55%) Lightworks
6 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.22%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (3.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.97%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.22%) Magento
3 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.22%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 423 (46.59%) AWS
2 284 (31.28%) Azure
3 207 (22.80%) SaaS
4 143 (15.75%) GCP
5 80 (8.81%) GitHub
6 73 (8.04%) Amazon EKS
7 63 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (6.39%) Serverless
9 40 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (3.52%) Power Platform
11 23 (2.53%) Azure AKS
11 23 (2.53%) Azure Functions
11 23 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 21 (2.31%) Amazon S3
13 20 (2.20%) GitHub Copilot
14 15 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
15 14 (1.54%) Entra ID
15 14 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (1.43%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 54 (5.95%) Broadband
2 14 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.43%) SSL
4 10 (1.10%) DNS
5 8 (0.88%) Ethernet
6 6 (0.66%) Firewall
6 6 (0.66%) Network Security
7 5 (0.55%) DHCP
7 5 (0.55%) MQTT
7 5 (0.55%) SMS
8 4 (0.44%) LAN
8 4 (0.44%) WAN
8 4 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.44%) Wireless
9 3 (0.33%) VPN
9 3 (0.33%) X.509
10 2 (0.22%) 5G
10 2 (0.22%) CHAP
10 2 (0.22%) HTTP
10 2 (0.22%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (5.18%) MongoDB
3 35 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 22 (2.42%) Relational Database
5 19 (2.09%) NoSQL
6 18 (1.98%) BigQuery
6 18 (1.98%) Power BI
7 17 (1.87%) Metadata
8 16 (1.76%) Data Lake
8 16 (1.76%) Semantic Layer
9 15 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (1.54%) MySQL
11 13 (1.43%) Redis
12 11 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (1.10%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.77%) Big Data
14 7 (0.77%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.77%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 90 (9.91%) Git
2 74 (8.15%) TeamCity
3 64 (7.05%) GitLab
4 47 (5.18%) Selenium
5 45 (4.96%) Jenkins
6 37 (4.07%) Cypress.io
7 31 (3.41%) JIRA
8 30 (3.30%) Postman
9 20 (2.20%) JUnit
10 15 (1.65%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.99%) JMeter
12 8 (0.88%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.88%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.77%) Appium
14 6 (0.66%) Claude Code
14 6 (0.66%) Gatling
14 6 (0.66%) Storybook
15 5 (0.55%) Android Studio
15 5 (0.55%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 282 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 209 (23.02%) Finance
3 153 (16.85%) Law
4 139 (15.31%) Banking
5 134 (14.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
7 111 (12.22%) Public Sector
8 100 (11.01%) Retail
9 83 (9.14%) Legal
10 58 (6.39%) Financial Institution
11 57 (6.28%) Back Office
12 44 (4.85%) Marketing
13 30 (3.30%) Games
14 22 (2.42%) Manufacturing
15 20 (2.20%) Aerospace
15 20 (2.20%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.98%) Electronics
17 10 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
17 10 (1.10%) Retail Banking
18 8 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 258 (28.41%) Senior
2 176 (19.38%) Software Engineer
3 136 (14.98%) Lead
4 106 (11.67%) Developer
5 70 (7.71%) Test Engineer
6 49 (5.40%) Senior Manager
6 49 (5.40%) Testing Manager
7 48 (5.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 48 (5.29%) IT Manager
7 48 (5.29%) IT Services Manager
7 48 (5.29%) Resilience Manager
7 48 (5.29%) Service Manager
8 39 (4.30%) Java Engineer
8 39 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
9 38 (4.19%) Senior Developer
10 34 (3.74%) QA Engineer
10 34 (3.74%) Senior DevOps
10 34 (3.74%) Software Manager
11 33 (3.63%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 32 (3.52%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (16.08%) Terraform
2 80 (8.81%) React
3 76 (8.37%) REST
4 67 (7.38%) .NET
4 67 (7.38%) Node.js
5 65 (7.16%) Spring
6 59 (6.50%) Playwright
7 58 (6.39%) RESTful
8 53 (5.84%) Middleware
9 33 (3.63%) Spring Boot
10 30 (3.30%) CSS
11 23 (2.53%) AngularJS
11 23 (2.53%) HTML
12 22 (2.42%) Next.js
13 19 (2.09%) GraphQL
13 19 (2.09%) OAuth
14 18 (1.98%) LangChain
14 18 (1.98%) OAuth2
14 18 (1.98%) TensorFlow
15 17 (1.87%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 209 (23.02%) Cloud Native
2 135 (14.87%) Product Ownership
3 68 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.28%) Virtual Team
5 52 (5.73%) Cyber Threat
6 46 (5.07%) Blog
7 33 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
7 33 (3.63%) Low-Code
7 33 (3.63%) Mobile App
8 29 (3.19%) Public Cloud
9 27 (2.97%) Marketing Technology
10 25 (2.75%) Video\Live Streaming
11 24 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (1.54%) AI Agents
14 13 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
14 13 (1.43%) Management Information System
14 13 (1.43%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.21%) Mobile Banking
16 10 (1.10%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.83%) Linux
2 44 (4.85%) Windows
3 34 (3.74%) Unix
4 28 (3.08%) Android
5 24 (2.64%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.33%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.33%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.22%) CentOS
8 2 (0.22%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (58.92%) CI/CD
2 392 (43.17%) Software Engineering
3 374 (41.19%) Agile
4 354 (38.99%) DevOps
5 352 (38.77%) Mentoring
6 302 (33.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 239 (26.32%) AI
8 195 (21.48%) Problem-Solving
9 180 (19.82%) Coaching
10 150 (16.52%) Microservices
10 150 (16.52%) Software Testing
11 145 (15.97%) Technical Leadership
12 125 (13.77%) Clean Code
12 125 (13.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 125 (13.77%) Test Strategy
13 122 (13.44%) Infrastructure as Code
13 122 (13.44%) Validation
14 121 (13.33%) Observability
15 115 (12.67%) Deployment Automation
16 107 (11.78%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 278 (30.62%) Python
2 252 (27.75%) Java
3 173 (19.05%) JavaScript
4 151 (16.63%) TypeScript
5 146 (16.08%) C#
6 134 (14.76%) SQL
7 65 (7.16%) PowerShell
8 56 (6.17%) Go
9 27 (2.97%) Bash
9 27 (2.97%) Kotlin
10 20 (2.20%) Rust
11 19 (2.09%) C++
12 14 (1.54%) PHP
13 13 (1.43%) DataWeave
14 11 (1.21%) Bicep
14 11 (1.21%) C
15 8 (0.88%) Swift
16 6 (0.66%) Clojure
16 6 (0.66%) MATLAB
16 6 (0.66%) Scala
Qualifications
1 108 (11.89%) Security Cleared
2 87 (9.58%) SC Cleared
3 54 (5.95%) Degree
4 53 (5.84%) ITIL Certification
5 50 (5.51%) CISM
5 50 (5.51%) CISSP
6 23 (2.53%) ISTQB
7 18 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 18 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (0.88%) DBS Check
11 5 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.44%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.44%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.44%) OSCP
13 3 (0.33%) CISA
13 3 (0.33%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.33%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (21.48%) QA
2 81 (8.92%) Accessibility
3 52 (5.73%) NIST
4 48 (5.29%) Data Quality
4 48 (5.29%) ISO 22301
5 19 (2.09%) WCAG
6 12 (1.32%) GDPR
7 7 (0.77%) GRC
8 5 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.44%) ECSS
9 4 (0.44%) SLA
9 4 (0.44%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.33%) EMIR
10 3 (0.33%) PERC
11 2 (0.22%) COBIT
11 2 (0.22%) PMO
12 1 (0.11%) DO-160
12 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
12 1 (0.11%) MiFID
12 1 (0.11%) WAI
System Software
1 109 (12.00%) Docker
2 7 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.66%) Firmware
4 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) KVM
5 1 (0.11%) QEMU
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 162 (17.84%) Kubernetes
2 94 (10.35%) Grafana
3 13 (1.43%) Argo
3 13 (1.43%) CloudHub
4 12 (1.32%) Ansible
5 9 (0.99%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.33%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.11%) Consul
8 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
8 1 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 86 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.86%) Salesforce
3 21 (2.31%) Oracle
4 20 (2.20%) Google
4 20 (2.20%) ServiceNow
5 18 (1.98%) SAP
6 16 (1.76%) Databricks
7 14 (1.54%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.32%) Pega
9 7 (0.77%) Dynatrace
9 7 (0.77%) Foundry
9 7 (0.77%) Palantir
10 6 (0.66%) Braze
10 6 (0.66%) IFS
10 6 (0.66%) VMware
11 5 (0.55%) dotdigital
11 5 (0.55%) YouTube
12 4 (0.44%) Amplitude
12 4 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.44%) Zscaler