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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 75 109
Rank change year-on-year +12 +34 -57
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 741 737 938
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.71% 4.80% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.53% 5.08% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 398 373 709
10th Percentile £45,524 £37,650 £37,900
25th Percentile £50,664 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £68,750
90th Percentile £98,250 £104,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +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 16,346 14,518 30,753
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.87% 94.57% 88.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11,794 8,418 23,762
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 17 June 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 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.08%) Apache
2 8 (1.08%) Confluence
2 8 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.81%) CMS
4 5 (0.67%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.40%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.40%) Mule
7 2 (0.27%) Camunda
7 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.27%) JBoss
7 2 (0.27%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 336 (45.34%) AWS
2 214 (28.88%) Azure
3 135 (18.22%) GCP
4 79 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
5 75 (10.12%) Serverless
6 64 (8.64%) GitHub
7 63 (8.50%) SaaS
8 56 (7.56%) Amazon EKS
9 36 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (3.91%) Power Platform
11 24 (3.24%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.70%) Azure AKS
13 19 (2.56%) Amazon S3
14 18 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (2.16%) Entra ID
17 15 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (2.02%) PaaS
18 14 (1.89%) Firebase
18 14 (1.89%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 68 (9.18%) Broadband
2 9 (1.21%) CHAP
3 5 (0.67%) DNS
3 5 (0.67%) SMS
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
4 3 (0.40%) SSL
4 3 (0.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.13%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.13%) HTTP
6 1 (0.13%) MQTT
6 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (8.91%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.45%) NoSQL
4 22 (2.97%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.43%) MySQL
6 17 (2.29%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.02%) Semantic Layer
8 11 (1.48%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.48%) Metadata
8 11 (1.48%) Oracle Database
8 11 (1.48%) Power BI
9 10 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.67%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.54%) Big Data
12 4 (0.54%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 55 (7.42%) TeamCity
2 50 (6.75%) Selenium
3 49 (6.61%) Git
4 47 (6.34%) Jenkins
5 39 (5.26%) GitLab
6 33 (4.45%) JIRA
7 29 (3.91%) Cypress.io
8 24 (3.24%) Postman
9 21 (2.83%) JMeter
10 16 (2.16%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.89%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.89%) XCTest
12 13 (1.75%) SpecFlow
13 12 (1.62%) REST Assured
14 9 (1.21%) WebDriver
15 8 (1.08%) Appium
15 8 (1.08%) Claude Code
15 8 (1.08%) JUnit
16 7 (0.94%) XCUITest
17 6 (0.81%) TestRail
General
1 195 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 179 (24.16%) Finance
3 113 (15.25%) Banking
4 104 (14.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 89 (12.01%) Law
6 87 (11.74%) Public Sector
7 80 (10.80%) Retail
8 50 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
8 50 (6.75%) Games
9 46 (6.21%) Financial Institution
10 38 (5.13%) Back Office
11 22 (2.97%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.70%) Legal
13 19 (2.56%) Marketing
14 11 (1.48%) Electronics
14 11 (1.48%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.21%) Legal Technology
16 7 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (28.74%) Senior
2 128 (17.27%) Software Engineer
3 122 (16.46%) Lead
4 90 (12.15%) Developer
5 65 (8.77%) Test Engineer
6 50 (6.75%) Senior Software Engineer
7 49 (6.61%) Java Engineer
8 48 (6.48%) QA Engineer
9 39 (5.26%) Senior Developer
10 36 (4.86%) Engineering Manager
10 36 (4.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 35 (4.72%) Java Software Engineer
12 34 (4.59%) Software Manager
13 31 (4.18%) Software Engineering Manager
13 31 (4.18%) Test Automation Engineer
14 28 (3.78%) Architect
14 28 (3.78%) Tester
15 27 (3.64%) DevOps Engineer
16 26 (3.51%) Test Leader
17 25 (3.37%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (12.96%) React
2 61 (8.23%) .NET
2 61 (8.23%) Node.js
2 61 (8.23%) RESTful
3 60 (8.10%) Spring
4 59 (7.96%) Playwright
4 59 (7.96%) REST
5 29 (3.91%) Spring Boot
6 22 (2.97%) AngularJS
6 22 (2.97%) AWS CDK
7 19 (2.56%) Next.js
8 18 (2.43%) React Native
9 16 (2.16%) CSS
9 16 (2.16%) HTML
10 15 (2.02%) JSON
10 15 (2.02%) Kafka
10 15 (2.02%) SwiftUI
11 14 (1.89%) UIKit
12 13 (1.75%) Django
12 13 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 183 (24.70%) Cloud Native
2 98 (13.23%) Product Ownership
3 42 (5.67%) Distributed Systems
4 39 (5.26%) Mobile App
5 36 (4.86%) Low-Code
6 32 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
6 32 (4.32%) Video\Live Streaming
7 25 (3.37%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.83%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.56%) Blog
10 18 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
11 16 (2.16%) Onboarding
12 11 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
12 11 (1.48%) Cyberattack
12 11 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.35%) AI Agents
13 10 (1.35%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.75%) Linux
2 45 (6.07%) Apple iOS
3 34 (4.59%) Android
4 23 (3.10%) Unix
5 21 (2.83%) Windows
6 3 (0.40%) CentOS
7 2 (0.27%) Debian
7 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (57.35%) CI/CD
2 328 (44.26%) Agile
3 247 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 244 (32.93%) Mentoring
5 218 (29.42%) DevOps
6 201 (27.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 158 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
8 150 (20.24%) AI
9 149 (20.11%) Microservices
10 140 (18.89%) Coaching
11 134 (18.08%) Infrastructure as Code
12 125 (16.87%) Clean Code
13 124 (16.73%) Observability
14 123 (16.60%) Full-Stack Development
15 104 (14.04%) Technical Leadership
16 96 (12.96%) Roadmaps
17 95 (12.82%) Deployment Automation
17 95 (12.82%) Validation
18 92 (12.42%) Software Testing
19 91 (12.28%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 232 (31.31%) Java
2 191 (25.78%) Python
3 106 (14.30%) SQL
4 100 (13.50%) JavaScript
5 95 (12.82%) TypeScript
6 68 (9.18%) C#
7 49 (6.61%) Go
8 23 (3.10%) Bash
9 21 (2.83%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.43%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.02%) Swift
12 8 (1.08%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.08%) Clojure
12 8 (1.08%) PHP
13 7 (0.94%) C++
14 6 (0.81%) C
14 6 (0.81%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.67%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.67%) Ruby
16 4 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 66 (8.91%) Security Cleared
2 63 (8.50%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.21%) Degree
4 28 (3.78%) ISTQB
5 15 (2.02%) CISSP
6 12 (1.62%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.21%) CGEIT
8 9 (1.21%) CISA
8 9 (1.21%) CISM
8 9 (1.21%) FFIEC
8 9 (1.21%) SANS
9 8 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (0.94%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.94%) CEH
10 7 (0.94%) CREST Certified
10 7 (0.94%) OSCP
11 6 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.81%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (24.02%) QA
2 70 (9.45%) Accessibility
3 30 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 25 (3.37%) GDPR
5 19 (2.56%) NIST
6 13 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.48%) GRC
8 10 (1.35%) WCAG
9 9 (1.21%) COBIT
10 8 (1.08%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.94%) ISO 22301
11 7 (0.94%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.40%) PERC
13 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.13%) ECSS
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 76 (10.26%) Docker
2 11 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.54%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 135 (18.22%) Terraform
2 127 (17.14%) Kubernetes
3 66 (8.91%) Grafana
4 18 (2.43%) Argo
5 16 (2.16%) Ansible
6 5 (0.67%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.40%) CloudHub
7 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.27%) MIIS
9 1 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.13%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 65 (8.77%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.78%) Oracle
3 20 (2.70%) Databricks
4 19 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 18 (2.43%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.16%) Braze
7 14 (1.89%) Amplitude
8 13 (1.75%) VMware
9 10 (1.35%) Commvault
9 10 (1.35%) Google
10 8 (1.08%) IFS
10 8 (1.08%) SAP
11 7 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.67%) dotdigital
13 4 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.54%) HubSpot
13 4 (0.54%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.40%) Foundry
14 3 (0.40%) Informatica
14 3 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud