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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 75 83
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -35
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 599 652 960
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.71% 4.16% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.30% 4.39% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 349 403 748
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,319 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,750 £75,781
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,284 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +6.25% -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 13,929 14,866 25,619
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.27% 94.76% 92.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,007 8,893 21,194
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,760
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,549
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.09% -7.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,700 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 13 February 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 (2.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (1.17%) Apache Solr
2 7 (1.17%) Confluence
3 5 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.67%) Apache
4 4 (0.67%) CMS
4 4 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.50%) nginx
5 3 (0.50%) WordPress
6 2 (0.33%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.17%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Oracle Smart View
2 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 43 (7.18%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.67%) Hyperion Planning
2 4 (0.67%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.17%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 258 (43.07%) Azure
2 178 (29.72%) AWS
3 160 (26.71%) GitHub
4 139 (23.21%) Azure DevOps
5 83 (13.86%) GCP
6 76 (12.69%) SaaS
7 75 (12.52%) GitHub Copilot
8 49 (8.18%) GitHub Actions
9 48 (8.01%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (7.18%) Serverless
11 37 (6.18%) Entra ID
11 37 (6.18%) OCI
12 36 (6.01%) Power Platform
13 34 (5.68%) Azure Data Factory
14 28 (4.67%) Snowflake
15 27 (4.51%) PaaS
16 22 (3.67%) Azure Event Grid
17 21 (3.51%) dbt
18 17 (2.84%) Azure Logic Apps
19 16 (2.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.34%) CHAP
2 4 (0.67%) 5G
2 4 (0.67%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.67%) WAN
3 3 (0.50%) HTTP
3 3 (0.50%) VPN
4 2 (0.33%) DNS
4 2 (0.33%) Internet
4 2 (0.33%) Network Security
4 2 (0.33%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.17%) Broadband
5 1 (0.17%) Firewall
5 1 (0.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (7.51%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (6.01%) SQL Server
3 34 (5.68%) MySQL
4 31 (5.18%) NoSQL
5 29 (4.84%) Power BI
6 21 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
7 19 (3.17%) Tableau
8 17 (2.84%) MongoDB
9 14 (2.34%) Snowflake Schema
10 13 (2.17%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.50%) MariaDB
12 9 (1.50%) Metadata
13 8 (1.34%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.17%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.67%) Essbase
15 4 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
16 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
16 3 (0.50%) Redis
17 2 (0.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 66 (11.02%) Selenium
2 65 (10.85%) JIRA
3 58 (9.68%) Jenkins
4 57 (9.52%) Git
5 49 (8.18%) TeamCity
6 41 (6.84%) Oracle Forms
7 36 (6.01%) Cypress.io
8 20 (3.34%) Postman
9 16 (2.67%) JMeter
10 15 (2.50%) Cucumber
11 14 (2.34%) WebDriver
12 12 (2.00%) GitLab
12 12 (2.00%) JUnit
13 11 (1.84%) SpecFlow
14 8 (1.34%) Storybook
15 7 (1.17%) CircleCI
15 7 (1.17%) MLflow
16 6 (1.00%) REST Assured
16 6 (1.00%) Subversion
17 5 (0.83%) LoadRunner
General
1 252 (42.07%) Finance
2 176 (29.38%) Social Skills
3 86 (14.36%) Law
4 74 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (12.35%) Banking
4 74 (12.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (10.18%) Retail
6 46 (7.68%) Financial Institution
7 39 (6.51%) Public Sector
8 34 (5.68%) Back Office
9 21 (3.51%) Marketing
10 13 (2.17%) Games
11 8 (1.34%) Automotive
11 8 (1.34%) Legal
12 7 (1.17%) Front Office
13 6 (1.00%) Electronics
13 6 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.83%) Billing
14 5 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 181 (30.22%) Senior
2 90 (15.03%) Software Engineer
3 83 (13.86%) Developer
4 78 (13.02%) Lead
5 51 (8.51%) QA Engineer
6 44 (7.35%) Applications Engineer
6 44 (7.35%) Test Engineer
7 41 (6.84%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (6.68%) Senior Software Engineer
9 34 (5.68%) Java Engineer
10 32 (5.34%) QA Automation Engineer
11 31 (5.18%) Java Software Engineer
11 31 (5.18%) Test Automation Engineer
12 29 (4.84%) Automation Engineer
13 27 (4.51%) Senior Developer
14 23 (3.84%) Lead Developer
14 23 (3.84%) Tester
15 22 (3.67%) Analyst
16 20 (3.34%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 18 (3.01%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (15.03%) RESTful
2 74 (12.35%) React
3 56 (9.35%) .NET
4 52 (8.68%) JSON
5 50 (8.35%) REST
6 49 (8.18%) SOAP
7 46 (7.68%) Playwright
8 36 (6.01%) OAuth
9 35 (5.84%) OAuth2
10 33 (5.51%) Node.js
11 30 (5.01%) XML
12 25 (4.17%) Spring
13 24 (4.01%) Lightning Web Components
14 19 (3.17%) .NET Framework
14 19 (3.17%) CSS
14 19 (3.17%) Next.js
15 18 (3.01%) SAML
16 17 (2.84%) HTML
17 16 (2.67%) Entity Framework
17 16 (2.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 165 (27.55%) Cloud Native
2 62 (10.35%) Product Ownership
3 40 (6.68%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (2.84%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.67%) Blog
6 16 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 14 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.00%) GNSS
10 11 (1.84%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.67%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.50%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.50%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.34%) Satnav
14 7 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (1.17%) Security Posture
14 7 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.18%) Linux
2 27 (4.51%) Android
2 27 (4.51%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.00%) Unix
3 12 (2.00%) Windows
4 9 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.67%) CentOS
6 2 (0.33%) Debian
6 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.33%) Solaris
6 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 338 (56.43%) CI/CD
2 284 (47.41%) Agile
3 237 (39.57%) DevOps
4 181 (30.22%) Coaching
4 181 (30.22%) Mentoring
5 153 (25.54%) Software Engineering
6 147 (24.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 133 (22.20%) Clean Code
8 131 (21.87%) AI
9 130 (21.70%) Microservices
10 126 (21.04%) Problem-Solving
11 116 (19.37%) Asset Management
12 94 (15.69%) Analytics
13 93 (15.53%) Observability
14 82 (13.69%) Deployment Automation
15 68 (11.35%) Sprint Planning
16 64 (10.68%) Sprint Retrospective
17 63 (10.52%) Full-Stack Development
18 62 (10.35%) Fintech
19 59 (9.85%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 174 (29.05%) Java
2 171 (28.55%) Python
3 144 (24.04%) SQL
4 81 (13.52%) TypeScript
5 77 (12.85%) JavaScript
6 55 (9.18%) C#
7 40 (6.68%) Shell Script
8 37 (6.18%) PL/SQL
9 33 (5.51%) PowerShell
10 24 (4.01%) PHP
11 23 (3.84%) Apex Code
12 18 (3.01%) Bicep
13 17 (2.84%) Bash
14 15 (2.50%) Go
15 9 (1.50%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.00%) Delphi
17 5 (0.83%) Groovy
18 4 (0.67%) Kotlin
18 4 (0.67%) Perl
19 3 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 54 (9.02%) Degree
2 41 (6.84%) Security Cleared
3 36 (6.01%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.34%) Master's Degree
6 19 (3.17%) ISTQB
7 12 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 11 (1.84%) CEH
9 10 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.67%) CISSP
10 9 (1.50%) CISA
11 8 (1.34%) CGEIT
11 8 (1.34%) CISM
11 8 (1.34%) FFIEC
11 8 (1.34%) SANS
12 6 (1.00%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.83%) CREST Certified
13 5 (0.83%) OSCP
14 4 (0.67%) ISEB
15 3 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (23.04%) QA
2 39 (6.51%) Accessibility
3 27 (4.51%) GDPR
3 27 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (4.51%) NIST
4 11 (1.84%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.84%) ISO 22301
5 10 (1.67%) WCAG
6 8 (1.34%) COBIT
6 8 (1.34%) ISO 9001
7 7 (1.17%) SLA
8 5 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
9 3 (0.50%) NCSC
10 2 (0.33%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) Section 508
11 1 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 61 (10.18%) Docker
2 36 (6.01%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.50%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 139 (23.21%) Terraform
2 103 (17.20%) Kubernetes
3 59 (9.85%) Grafana
4 38 (6.34%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (3.34%) Ansible
6 7 (1.17%) Argo
7 4 (0.67%) logstash
8 3 (0.50%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.33%) Control-M
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.17%) Packer
10 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 64 (10.68%) Oracle
2 62 (10.35%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.84%) Salesforce
4 22 (3.67%) VMware
5 21 (3.51%) Databricks
6 20 (3.34%) Okta
7 16 (2.67%) Commvault
8 14 (2.34%) Ab Initio
9 8 (1.34%) SAP
10 6 (1.00%) Google
10 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.83%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.67%) Hyperion
12 4 (0.67%) Workday
13 3 (0.50%) Foundry
13 3 (0.50%) IBM
14 2 (0.33%) Adobe
14 2 (0.33%) Facebook
14 2 (0.33%) Qualys
14 2 (0.33%) Splunk