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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 56 95
Rank change year-on-year -1 +39 -44
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 709 785 971
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.87% 5.46% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 5.75% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 395 451 750
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,716 £38,225
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £104,000 £98,474 £80,113
UK median annual salary £64,809 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.02% +4.35% -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 15,177 13,659 29,626
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 95.05% 91.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10,750 8,839 23,447
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,498 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 9 May 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 7 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 7 (0.99%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.85%) Confluence
3 5 (0.71%) Apache
3 5 (0.71%) CMS
4 3 (0.42%) nginx
5 2 (0.28%) JBoss
5 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.28%) WordPress
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) Camunda
6 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (1.97%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 284 (40.06%) AWS
2 256 (36.11%) Azure
3 118 (16.64%) Azure DevOps
4 114 (16.08%) GCP
5 105 (14.81%) GitHub
6 71 (10.01%) Serverless
7 64 (9.03%) SaaS
8 50 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (5.22%) GitHub Copilot
11 29 (4.09%) Azure Service Bus
11 29 (4.09%) Power Platform
12 27 (3.81%) Entra ID
13 24 (3.39%) Azure AKS
14 22 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (2.96%) Azure Event Grid
16 17 (2.40%) PaaS
17 16 (2.26%) Amazon S3
17 16 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (2.26%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.78%) Broadband
2 14 (1.97%) CHAP
3 3 (0.42%) DNS
3 3 (0.42%) Firewall
3 3 (0.42%) VPN
4 2 (0.28%) Network Security
4 2 (0.28%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (8.32%) MongoDB
3 36 (5.08%) NoSQL
4 27 (3.81%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.68%) MySQL
6 14 (1.97%) Metadata
7 13 (1.83%) Power BI
7 13 (1.83%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.41%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.13%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.13%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (0.99%) Tableau
11 5 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.71%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.56%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 58 (8.18%) Selenium
2 49 (6.91%) Git
2 49 (6.91%) TeamCity
3 47 (6.63%) Jenkins
4 46 (6.49%) JIRA
5 34 (4.80%) Cypress.io
6 31 (4.37%) GitLab
7 22 (3.10%) Postman
8 21 (2.96%) JMeter
9 17 (2.40%) Oracle Forms
10 13 (1.83%) SpecFlow
11 12 (1.69%) Crashlytics
11 12 (1.69%) XCTest
12 11 (1.55%) Cucumber
12 11 (1.55%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.55%) WebDriver
13 8 (1.13%) TestRail
14 7 (0.99%) Appium
14 7 (0.99%) CircleCI
14 7 (0.99%) MLflow
General
1 214 (30.18%) Finance
2 190 (26.80%) Social Skills
3 102 (14.39%) Banking
4 95 (13.40%) Law
5 89 (12.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 74 (10.44%) Retail
7 70 (9.87%) Public Sector
8 56 (7.90%) Analytical Skills
9 49 (6.91%) Financial Institution
10 37 (5.22%) Games
11 36 (5.08%) Back Office
12 20 (2.82%) Legal
12 20 (2.82%) Manufacturing
13 18 (2.54%) Marketing
14 16 (2.26%) Electronics
15 9 (1.27%) Investment Banking
16 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.71%) Front Office
19 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 202 (28.49%) Senior
2 114 (16.08%) Software Engineer
3 113 (15.94%) Lead
4 74 (10.44%) Developer
5 59 (8.32%) Test Engineer
6 58 (8.18%) QA Engineer
7 47 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
8 45 (6.35%) Java Engineer
9 37 (5.22%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 35 (4.94%) QA Automation Engineer
11 34 (4.80%) Java Software Engineer
12 32 (4.51%) Automation Engineer
12 32 (4.51%) Test Automation Engineer
13 31 (4.37%) Senior Developer
14 29 (4.09%) Tester
15 26 (3.67%) DevOps Engineer
16 20 (2.82%) Engineering Manager
16 20 (2.82%) Python Engineer
16 20 (2.82%) Software Manager
16 20 (2.82%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (15.51%) React
2 73 (10.30%) RESTful
3 70 (9.87%) REST
4 65 (9.17%) .NET
5 61 (8.60%) Playwright
6 52 (7.33%) Node.js
7 42 (5.92%) Spring
8 30 (4.23%) JSON
9 25 (3.53%) SOAP
9 25 (3.53%) Spring Boot
10 23 (3.24%) React Native
11 21 (2.96%) Next.js
12 20 (2.82%) AngularJS
13 19 (2.68%) Lightning Web Components
13 19 (2.68%) XML
14 17 (2.40%) AWS CDK
14 17 (2.40%) OAuth
15 16 (2.26%) CSS
15 16 (2.26%) OAuth2
15 16 (2.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 162 (22.85%) Cloud Native
2 91 (12.83%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.64%) Mobile App
4 29 (4.09%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (4.09%) Low-Code
5 26 (3.67%) Management Information System
6 25 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (3.24%) Video\Live Streaming
8 22 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (2.54%) Blog
11 13 (1.83%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.69%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (1.27%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.27%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.27%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.19%) Linux
2 49 (6.91%) Apple iOS
3 40 (5.64%) Android
4 24 (3.39%) Unix
5 18 (2.54%) Windows
6 4 (0.56%) CentOS
7 2 (0.28%) Debian
7 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (55.15%) CI/CD
2 329 (46.40%) Agile
3 241 (33.99%) DevOps
4 212 (29.90%) Mentoring
5 204 (28.77%) Software Engineering
6 195 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 163 (22.99%) Coaching
8 152 (21.44%) Microservices
9 142 (20.03%) AI
10 140 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
11 137 (19.32%) Clean Code
12 127 (17.91%) Observability
13 123 (17.35%) Full-Stack Development
14 122 (17.21%) Infrastructure as Code
15 94 (13.26%) Test Strategy
16 91 (12.83%) Deployment Automation
17 79 (11.14%) Software Testing
18 78 (11.00%) Validation
19 77 (10.86%) Technical Leadership
20 76 (10.72%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 202 (28.49%) Java
2 180 (25.39%) Python
3 122 (17.21%) SQL
4 100 (14.10%) TypeScript
5 91 (12.83%) JavaScript
6 68 (9.59%) C#
7 37 (5.22%) Go
8 29 (4.09%) PowerShell
9 21 (2.96%) Bash
10 18 (2.54%) Apex Code
11 17 (2.40%) PL/SQL
12 16 (2.26%) Kotlin
12 16 (2.26%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.97%) Bicep
14 13 (1.83%) Swift
15 9 (1.27%) PHP
16 8 (1.13%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.85%) Clojure
18 5 (0.71%) C++
18 5 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (7.62%) Security Cleared
2 50 (7.05%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.77%) Degree
4 25 (3.53%) ISTQB
5 20 (2.82%) CISSP
6 15 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.97%) CGEIT
7 14 (1.97%) CISA
7 14 (1.97%) CISM
7 14 (1.97%) FFIEC
7 14 (1.97%) SANS
8 13 (1.83%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.69%) CEH
10 10 (1.41%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (0.99%) CREST Certified
12 7 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.99%) OSCP
13 5 (0.71%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (25.39%) QA
2 54 (7.62%) Accessibility
3 32 (4.51%) GDPR
4 31 (4.37%) NIST
5 20 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.68%) Data Quality
7 14 (1.97%) COBIT
8 12 (1.69%) ISO 22301
9 11 (1.55%) WCAG
10 9 (1.27%) GRC
11 8 (1.13%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
13 4 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.14%) NCSC
14 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.14%) PERC
14 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 72 (10.16%) Docker
2 16 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 141 (19.89%) Terraform
2 120 (16.93%) Kubernetes
3 61 (8.60%) Grafana
4 21 (2.96%) Argo
5 17 (2.40%) Ansible
6 15 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.56%) logstash
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.28%) MIIS
8 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.14%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 63 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.78%) Oracle
3 22 (3.10%) Databricks
3 22 (3.10%) Salesforce
4 19 (2.68%) VMware
5 16 (2.26%) Commvault
6 12 (1.69%) Amplitude
6 12 (1.69%) Braze
7 11 (1.55%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.27%) SAP
9 8 (1.13%) Google
10 7 (0.99%) Ab Initio
10 7 (0.99%) Okta
10 7 (0.99%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.85%) IFS
12 4 (0.56%) Workday
13 3 (0.42%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.42%) Informatica
14 2 (0.28%) IBM
14 2 (0.28%) Red Hat