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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 82 93
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 -21
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 890 687 669
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.59% 4.09% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 4.36% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 411 295 385
10th Percentile £44,000 £42,200 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,289 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -3.24%
75th Percentile £80,500 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,967 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.67% +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 19,983 15,760 19,273
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.57% 93.83% 88.14%
Number of salaries quoted 14,257 8,411 11,456
10th Percentile £33,900 £29,750 £35,134
25th Percentile £44,500 £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 £78,125 £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 8 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 (1.91%) Confluence
2 13 (1.46%) Anypoint
2 13 (1.46%) Mule
3 10 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.01%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.90%) CMS
5 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.79%) Apache
7 6 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.67%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.56%) Camunda
8 5 (0.56%) Headless CMS
8 5 (0.56%) 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 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.79%) Moqups
4 6 (0.67%) Simulink
5 5 (0.56%) Lightworks
6 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.22%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (3.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (3.03%) 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
1 413 (46.40%) AWS
2 278 (31.24%) Azure
3 202 (22.70%) SaaS
4 140 (15.73%) GCP
5 72 (8.09%) GitHub
6 70 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
7 65 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (6.40%) Serverless
9 40 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (3.37%) Power Platform
11 25 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
12 24 (2.70%) Azure AKS
13 23 (2.58%) Azure Functions
14 19 (2.13%) Amazon S3
15 18 (2.02%) GitHub Copilot
16 14 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
16 14 (1.57%) Entra ID
17 13 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
17 13 (1.46%) Datadog
17 13 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 54 (6.07%) Broadband
2 14 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.46%) SSL
4 10 (1.12%) DNS
5 8 (0.90%) Ethernet
6 6 (0.67%) Firewall
6 6 (0.67%) Network Security
7 5 (0.56%) DHCP
7 5 (0.56%) MQTT
7 5 (0.56%) SMS
8 4 (0.45%) LAN
8 4 (0.45%) WAN
8 4 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.45%) Wireless
9 3 (0.34%) VPN
9 3 (0.34%) 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 88 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (5.62%) MongoDB
3 34 (3.82%) SQL Server
4 22 (2.47%) Relational Database
5 20 (2.25%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.02%) BigQuery
7 17 (1.91%) Metadata
8 16 (1.80%) Data Lake
8 16 (1.80%) Power BI
8 16 (1.80%) Semantic Layer
9 15 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (1.46%) MySQL
10 13 (1.46%) Redis
11 11 (1.24%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.79%) Big Data
14 7 (0.79%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.79%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 90 (10.11%) Git
2 71 (7.98%) TeamCity
3 64 (7.19%) GitLab
4 49 (5.51%) Selenium
5 45 (5.06%) Jenkins
6 36 (4.04%) Cypress.io
7 32 (3.60%) JIRA
8 29 (3.26%) Postman
9 21 (2.36%) JUnit
10 15 (1.69%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.12%) SpecFlow
12 9 (1.01%) JMeter
13 8 (0.90%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.79%) Appium
15 6 (0.67%) Gatling
15 6 (0.67%) Mockito
15 6 (0.67%) Storybook
16 5 (0.56%) Crashlytics
16 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
16 5 (0.56%) XCTest
General
1 278 (31.24%) Social Skills
2 202 (22.70%) Finance
3 151 (16.97%) Law
4 135 (15.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 130 (14.61%) Banking
6 114 (12.81%) Analytical Skills
7 111 (12.47%) Public Sector
8 97 (10.90%) Retail
9 83 (9.33%) Legal
10 57 (6.40%) Financial Institution
11 56 (6.29%) Back Office
12 44 (4.94%) Marketing
13 30 (3.37%) Games
14 24 (2.70%) Manufacturing
15 20 (2.25%) Telecoms
16 19 (2.13%) Aerospace
16 19 (2.13%) Electronics
17 10 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
19 7 (0.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 250 (28.09%) Senior
2 162 (18.20%) Software Engineer
3 138 (15.51%) Lead
4 99 (11.12%) Developer
5 65 (7.30%) Test Engineer
6 49 (5.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 49 (5.51%) Senior Manager
6 49 (5.51%) Testing Manager
7 48 (5.39%) IT Manager
7 48 (5.39%) IT Services Manager
7 48 (5.39%) Resilience Manager
7 48 (5.39%) Service Manager
8 37 (4.16%) Senior DevOps
9 36 (4.04%) Java Engineer
9 36 (4.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 35 (3.93%) QA Engineer
11 34 (3.82%) Software Manager
12 33 (3.71%) Senior Developer
12 33 (3.71%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (3.60%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (15.73%) Terraform
2 80 (8.99%) React
3 74 (8.31%) REST
4 70 (7.87%) Node.js
5 64 (7.19%) Spring
6 63 (7.08%) .NET
7 59 (6.63%) Playwright
8 54 (6.07%) RESTful
9 53 (5.96%) Middleware
10 32 (3.60%) Spring Boot
11 29 (3.26%) CSS
12 23 (2.58%) AngularJS
12 23 (2.58%) Next.js
13 21 (2.36%) HTML
14 20 (2.25%) GraphQL
15 19 (2.13%) OAuth
16 18 (2.02%) OAuth2
17 17 (1.91%) JWT
17 17 (1.91%) PySpark
17 17 (1.91%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 199 (22.36%) Cloud Native
2 133 (14.94%) Product Ownership
3 64 (7.19%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.40%) Virtual Team
5 52 (5.84%) Cyber Threat
6 44 (4.94%) Blog
7 35 (3.93%) Mobile App
8 33 (3.71%) Low-Code
9 31 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (3.26%) Public Cloud
11 27 (3.03%) Marketing Technology
12 25 (2.81%) Video\Live Streaming
13 21 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (1.46%) AI Agents
15 13 (1.46%) Embedded Systems
16 11 (1.24%) Management Information System
16 11 (1.24%) Onboarding
17 10 (1.12%) Data Structures
17 10 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.08%) Linux
2 47 (5.28%) Windows
3 37 (4.16%) Unix
4 31 (3.48%) Android
5 27 (3.03%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.45%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.34%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.22%) CentOS
8 2 (0.22%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (59.21%) CI/CD
2 373 (41.91%) Software Engineering
3 371 (41.69%) Agile
4 350 (39.33%) Mentoring
5 348 (39.10%) DevOps
6 297 (33.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 225 (25.28%) AI
8 191 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
9 178 (20.00%) Coaching
10 148 (16.63%) Microservices
11 146 (16.40%) Software Testing
12 138 (15.51%) Technical Leadership
13 126 (14.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 126 (14.16%) Test Strategy
14 123 (13.82%) Clean Code
15 121 (13.60%) Validation
16 119 (13.37%) Observability
17 117 (13.15%) Infrastructure as Code
18 111 (12.47%) Deployment Automation
19 105 (11.80%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 265 (29.78%) Python
2 244 (27.42%) Java
3 169 (18.99%) JavaScript
4 144 (16.18%) TypeScript
5 143 (16.07%) C#
6 126 (14.16%) SQL
7 64 (7.19%) PowerShell
8 49 (5.51%) Go
9 25 (2.81%) Bash
10 24 (2.70%) Kotlin
11 18 (2.02%) C++
12 15 (1.69%) Rust
13 13 (1.46%) DataWeave
14 12 (1.35%) PHP
15 10 (1.12%) Bicep
15 10 (1.12%) C
16 9 (1.01%) Swift
17 7 (0.79%) Clojure
18 6 (0.67%) MATLAB
18 6 (0.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 104 (11.69%) Security Cleared
2 83 (9.33%) SC Cleared
3 54 (6.07%) Degree
4 53 (5.96%) ITIL Certification
5 50 (5.62%) CISM
5 50 (5.62%) CISSP
6 27 (3.03%) ISTQB
7 17 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 12 (1.35%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.56%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.56%) OSCP
12 5 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.45%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.34%) ICAEW
14 3 (0.34%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (21.91%) QA
2 78 (8.76%) Accessibility
3 52 (5.84%) NIST
4 48 (5.39%) ISO 22301
5 45 (5.06%) Data Quality
6 20 (2.25%) WCAG
7 11 (1.24%) GDPR
8 7 (0.79%) GRC
9 5 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.45%) ECSS
10 4 (0.45%) SLA
10 4 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.34%) EMIR
11 3 (0.34%) PERC
12 2 (0.22%) COBIT
12 2 (0.22%) PMO
13 1 (0.11%) DO-160
13 1 (0.11%) IEC 61508
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) WAI
System Software
1 104 (11.69%) Docker
2 7 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.67%) Firmware
4 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.11%) KVM
5 1 (0.11%) QEMU
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 154 (17.30%) Kubernetes
2 91 (10.22%) Grafana
3 16 (1.80%) Argo
4 13 (1.46%) CloudHub
5 12 (1.35%) Ansible
6 9 (1.01%) Prometheus
7 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.34%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.11%) Consul
9 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.11%) Kibana
9 1 (0.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 84 (9.44%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.92%) Salesforce
3 22 (2.47%) Oracle
4 20 (2.25%) ServiceNow
5 18 (2.02%) SAP
6 16 (1.80%) Databricks
7 14 (1.57%) Google
7 14 (1.57%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.35%) Pega
9 7 (0.79%) Braze
9 7 (0.79%) Dynatrace
9 7 (0.79%) Foundry
9 7 (0.79%) IFS
9 7 (0.79%) Palantir
9 7 (0.79%) VMware
10 5 (0.56%) Amplitude
10 5 (0.56%) dotdigital
11 4 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
11 4 (0.45%) UiPath
11 4 (0.45%) Zscaler