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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 73 106
Rank change year-on-year +14 +33 -51
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 851 758 865
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.99% 4.59% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 4.92% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 409 377 672
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,100 £37,550
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 £82,500 £69,176
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £75,900
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 17,659 15,399 28,229
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.69% 93.29% 88.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12,868 9,127 21,456
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,887 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,972 £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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,201 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.89% +4.00% -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 16 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 10 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (1.18%) Confluence
2 9 (1.06%) Anypoint
2 9 (1.06%) Mule
2 9 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.94%) Apache
4 7 (0.82%) CMS
5 5 (0.59%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.47%) WordPress
7 2 (0.24%) Camunda
7 2 (0.24%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.24%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
8 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.47%) Lightworks
3 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.47%) Simulink
4 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 19 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.53%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.24%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 419 (49.24%) AWS
2 262 (30.79%) Azure
3 153 (17.98%) SaaS
4 141 (16.57%) GCP
5 75 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
5 75 (8.81%) Serverless
6 66 (7.76%) GitHub
7 59 (6.93%) Amazon EKS
8 38 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (3.17%) Power Platform
10 24 (2.82%) Azure Service Bus
11 20 (2.35%) Azure AKS
12 18 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (1.88%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (1.76%) Entra ID
14 15 (1.76%) PaaS
15 14 (1.65%) Firebase
15 14 (1.65%) Stripe
15 14 (1.65%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 70 (8.23%) Broadband
2 9 (1.06%) SSL
3 7 (0.82%) CHAP
4 6 (0.71%) DNS
5 5 (0.59%) SMS
5 5 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.47%) Firewall
6 4 (0.47%) MQTT
7 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.35%) Network Security
7 3 (0.35%) VPN
7 3 (0.35%) Wireless
8 2 (0.24%) HTTP
9 1 (0.12%) DHCP
9 1 (0.12%) LAN
9 1 (0.12%) WAN
9 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (7.76%) MongoDB
3 33 (3.88%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.06%) SQL Server
5 20 (2.35%) MySQL
6 15 (1.76%) BigQuery
6 15 (1.76%) Semantic Layer
7 14 (1.65%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.53%) Metadata
9 11 (1.29%) Oracle Database
10 10 (1.18%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.18%) Power BI
11 7 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.71%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.59%) Spark SQL
14 4 (0.47%) Big Data
14 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
15 3 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 60 (7.05%) TeamCity
2 57 (6.70%) Git
3 52 (6.11%) Selenium
4 46 (5.41%) Jenkins
5 39 (4.58%) GitLab
6 32 (3.76%) Cypress.io
7 27 (3.17%) JIRA
8 22 (2.59%) Postman
9 19 (2.23%) JMeter
10 15 (1.76%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.65%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.65%) XCTest
12 13 (1.53%) SpecFlow
13 8 (0.94%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.94%) JUnit
13 8 (0.94%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.82%) TestRail
14 7 (0.82%) WebDriver
14 7 (0.82%) XCUITest
15 6 (0.71%) Appium
General
1 237 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 178 (20.92%) Finance
3 149 (17.51%) Law
4 116 (13.63%) Banking
5 114 (13.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 105 (12.34%) Public Sector
7 81 (9.52%) Retail
8 70 (8.23%) Legal
9 65 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
10 50 (5.88%) Financial Institution
11 46 (5.41%) Games
12 45 (5.29%) Back Office
13 32 (3.76%) Marketing
14 23 (2.70%) Manufacturing
15 14 (1.65%) Electronics
16 11 (1.29%) Investment Banking
17 9 (1.06%) Legal Technology
18 7 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
18 7 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 249 (29.26%) Senior
2 140 (16.45%) Software Engineer
3 138 (16.22%) Lead
4 102 (11.99%) Developer
5 54 (6.35%) Test Engineer
6 49 (5.76%) Java Engineer
7 46 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
8 44 (5.17%) IT Manager
8 44 (5.17%) IT Services Manager
8 44 (5.17%) Resilience Manager
8 44 (5.17%) Service Manager
9 42 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 42 (4.94%) Senior Developer
10 41 (4.82%) Senior Manager
11 40 (4.70%) Engineering Manager
12 39 (4.58%) QA Engineer
13 38 (4.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 37 (4.35%) Software Manager
14 37 (4.35%) Testing Manager
15 34 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (11.87%) React
2 65 (7.64%) Node.js
3 63 (7.40%) .NET
3 63 (7.40%) Playwright
3 63 (7.40%) Spring
4 60 (7.05%) RESTful
5 58 (6.82%) REST
6 48 (5.64%) Middleware
7 31 (3.64%) Spring Boot
8 26 (3.06%) AngularJS
9 22 (2.59%) AWS CDK
10 20 (2.35%) Next.js
11 17 (2.00%) CSS
11 17 (2.00%) Django
11 17 (2.00%) HTML
12 16 (1.88%) React Native
13 15 (1.76%) Kafka
14 14 (1.65%) SwiftUI
14 14 (1.65%) UIKit
15 12 (1.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 190 (22.33%) Cloud Native
2 113 (13.28%) Product Ownership
3 55 (6.46%) Cyber Threat
4 50 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
5 46 (5.41%) Virtual Team
6 40 (4.70%) Mobile App
7 37 (4.35%) Low-Code
8 33 (3.88%) Greenfield Project
9 32 (3.76%) Video\Live Streaming
10 31 (3.64%) Blog
11 27 (3.17%) Public Cloud
12 24 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (2.23%) Management Information System
14 16 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (1.53%) Marketing Technology
15 13 (1.53%) Onboarding
16 12 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
17 11 (1.29%) Cyberattack
17 11 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
18 10 (1.18%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 62 (7.29%) Linux
2 37 (4.35%) Windows
3 36 (4.23%) Apple iOS
4 31 (3.64%) Unix
5 27 (3.17%) Android
6 3 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.12%) CentOS
7 1 (0.12%) Debian
7 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (56.29%) CI/CD
2 391 (45.95%) Agile
3 319 (37.49%) Mentoring
4 318 (37.37%) DevOps
5 307 (36.08%) Software Engineering
6 261 (30.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 176 (20.68%) AI
8 170 (19.98%) Problem-Solving
9 160 (18.80%) Microservices
10 157 (18.45%) Coaching
11 142 (16.69%) Infrastructure as Code
12 132 (15.51%) Software Testing
13 130 (15.28%) Full-Stack Development
14 127 (14.92%) Observability
15 122 (14.34%) Clean Code
16 116 (13.63%) Technical Leadership
17 115 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 115 (13.51%) Test Strategy
18 105 (12.34%) Deployment Automation
19 104 (12.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 241 (28.32%) Java
2 238 (27.97%) Python
3 146 (17.16%) JavaScript
4 127 (14.92%) TypeScript
5 112 (13.16%) C#
6 109 (12.81%) SQL
7 58 (6.82%) PowerShell
8 46 (5.41%) Go
9 25 (2.94%) Bash
10 20 (2.35%) Kotlin
11 14 (1.65%) Swift
12 12 (1.41%) PHP
13 10 (1.18%) C++
14 9 (1.06%) C
14 9 (1.06%) DataWeave
15 8 (0.94%) Clojure
16 7 (0.82%) Rust
17 6 (0.71%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.59%) Ruby
18 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (7.99%) Security Cleared
2 65 (7.64%) SC Cleared
3 57 (6.70%) CISSP
4 56 (6.58%) ITIL Certification
5 51 (5.99%) CISM
5 51 (5.99%) Degree
6 25 (2.94%) ISTQB
7 9 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (0.82%) CGEIT
8 7 (0.82%) CISA
8 7 (0.82%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.82%) FFIEC
8 7 (0.82%) SANS
9 6 (0.71%) CEH
10 5 (0.59%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.59%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.59%) OSCP
11 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (24.21%) QA
2 62 (7.29%) Accessibility
3 59 (6.93%) NIST
4 50 (5.88%) ISO 22301
5 35 (4.11%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.70%) GDPR
7 11 (1.29%) GRC
7 11 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.18%) WCAG
9 7 (0.82%) COBIT
10 4 (0.47%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.47%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.35%) ECSS
11 3 (0.35%) PERC
12 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.12%) SLA
12 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 76 (8.93%) Docker
2 10 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.35%) Firmware
4 2 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.12%) KVM
5 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 133 (15.63%) Terraform
2 129 (15.16%) Kubernetes
3 71 (8.34%) Grafana
4 16 (1.88%) Argo
5 15 (1.76%) Ansible
6 9 (1.06%) CloudHub
7 6 (0.71%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.24%) MIIS
10 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.12%) Podman
10 1 (0.12%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 25 (2.94%) ServiceNow
3 24 (2.82%) Oracle
4 22 (2.59%) Salesforce
5 18 (2.12%) Databricks
6 16 (1.88%) Braze
7 14 (1.65%) Amplitude
8 13 (1.53%) VMware
9 12 (1.41%) Pega
10 11 (1.29%) Google
10 11 (1.29%) SAP
11 10 (1.18%) MuleSoft
12 8 (0.94%) Commvault
12 8 (0.94%) IFS
13 5 (0.59%) dotdigital
14 4 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (0.47%) HubSpot
15 3 (0.35%) Informatica
15 3 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 3 (0.35%) Xilinx