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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 67 101
Rank change year-on-year +10 +34 -49
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 741 744 949
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.89% 5.13% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 5.40% 3.20%
Number of salaries quoted 409 386 743
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £38,050
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,063 £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 £85,000 £81,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £80,000
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 15,823 13,768 29,697
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.03% 94.85% 90.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,289 8,032 23,418
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,826 £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 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,375 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.78% +6.14% -9.84%

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 27 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 9 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (1.21%) Confluence
2 8 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.94%) Apache
4 5 (0.67%) CMS
4 5 (0.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.54%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.40%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.27%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.27%) Camunda
7 2 (0.27%) JBoss
7 2 (0.27%) Mule
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 2 (0.27%) WordPress
8 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (1.35%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
6 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 311 (41.97%) AWS
2 243 (32.79%) Azure
3 128 (17.27%) GCP
4 106 (14.30%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (12.55%) GitHub
6 71 (9.58%) Serverless
7 67 (9.04%) SaaS
8 58 (7.83%) Amazon EKS
9 45 (6.07%) GitHub Actions
10 32 (4.32%) Power Platform
11 27 (3.64%) Azure Service Bus
12 25 (3.37%) Entra ID
12 25 (3.37%) GitHub Copilot
13 24 (3.24%) Azure AKS
14 19 (2.56%) Amazon S3
14 19 (2.56%) Azure Event Grid
15 18 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (2.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.07%) Broadband
2 11 (1.48%) CHAP
3 5 (0.67%) DNS
3 5 (0.67%) SMS
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
4 3 (0.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.27%) SSL
6 1 (0.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (11.20%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (7.83%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.45%) NoSQL
4 25 (3.37%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.29%) MySQL
6 15 (2.02%) Metadata
7 13 (1.75%) Power BI
8 12 (1.62%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.48%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.35%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.21%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.08%) Semantic Layer
13 7 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
15 5 (0.67%) Spark SQL
15 5 (0.67%) Tableau
16 4 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
17 3 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 57 (7.69%) TeamCity
2 53 (7.15%) Selenium
3 50 (6.75%) Git
4 47 (6.34%) Jenkins
5 43 (5.80%) JIRA
6 36 (4.86%) GitLab
7 32 (4.32%) Cypress.io
8 22 (2.97%) JMeter
9 20 (2.70%) Postman
10 13 (1.75%) Crashlytics
10 13 (1.75%) Oracle Forms
10 13 (1.75%) REST Assured
10 13 (1.75%) XCTest
11 12 (1.62%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.62%) SpecFlow
12 10 (1.35%) WebDriver
13 8 (1.08%) Appium
14 7 (0.94%) MLflow
14 7 (0.94%) TestRail
15 6 (0.81%) Locust
General
1 206 (27.80%) Finance
2 194 (26.18%) Social Skills
3 114 (15.38%) Banking
4 105 (14.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (13.36%) Law
6 86 (11.61%) Public Sector
6 86 (11.61%) Retail
7 55 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
8 52 (7.02%) Financial Institution
9 42 (5.67%) Back Office
10 37 (4.99%) Games
11 21 (2.83%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.70%) Legal
12 20 (2.70%) Marketing
13 17 (2.29%) Electronics
14 10 (1.35%) Investment Banking
15 8 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 211 (28.48%) Senior
2 122 (16.46%) Lead
3 120 (16.19%) Software Engineer
4 83 (11.20%) Developer
5 71 (9.58%) Test Engineer
6 51 (6.88%) QA Engineer
7 49 (6.61%) Java Engineer
8 48 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 39 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 37 (4.99%) Senior Developer
11 35 (4.72%) Java Software Engineer
12 31 (4.18%) Test Automation Engineer
13 29 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
13 29 (3.91%) QA Automation Engineer
14 28 (3.78%) Engineering Manager
14 28 (3.78%) Software Manager
14 28 (3.78%) Tester
15 26 (3.51%) Automation Engineer
15 26 (3.51%) Software Engineering Manager
16 24 (3.24%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (13.50%) React
2 67 (9.04%) REST
3 64 (8.64%) RESTful
4 62 (8.37%) .NET
4 62 (8.37%) Playwright
5 55 (7.42%) Spring
6 54 (7.29%) Node.js
7 29 (3.91%) Spring Boot
8 25 (3.37%) JSON
9 22 (2.97%) AngularJS
10 20 (2.70%) Next.js
10 20 (2.70%) React Native
11 19 (2.56%) AWS CDK
12 17 (2.29%) HTML
12 17 (2.29%) SOAP
13 16 (2.16%) CSS
13 16 (2.16%) Kafka
13 16 (2.16%) XML
14 15 (2.02%) OAuth
15 14 (1.89%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 173 (23.35%) Cloud Native
2 99 (13.36%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.40%) Mobile App
4 30 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
5 29 (3.91%) Low-Code
6 27 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (3.10%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.10%) Video\Live Streaming
8 20 (2.70%) Blog
8 20 (2.70%) Public Cloud
9 19 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (2.16%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.35%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.35%) Algorithms
14 10 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
14 10 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.21%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 51 (6.88%) Linux
2 49 (6.61%) Apple iOS
3 39 (5.26%) Android
4 24 (3.24%) Unix
5 18 (2.43%) Windows
6 3 (0.40%) CentOS
7 2 (0.27%) Debian
7 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 420 (56.68%) CI/CD
2 339 (45.75%) Agile
3 243 (32.79%) DevOps
4 233 (31.44%) Mentoring
5 221 (29.82%) Software Engineering
6 199 (26.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 160 (21.59%) Coaching
8 157 (21.19%) Microservices
9 152 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
10 145 (19.57%) AI
11 140 (18.89%) Clean Code
12 128 (17.27%) Observability
13 127 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
14 118 (15.92%) Full-Stack Development
15 98 (13.23%) Deployment Automation
16 92 (12.42%) Test Strategy
17 87 (11.74%) Software Testing
18 86 (11.61%) Technical Leadership
19 81 (10.93%) Fintech
19 81 (10.93%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 232 (31.31%) Java
2 181 (24.43%) Python
3 114 (15.38%) SQL
4 101 (13.63%) JavaScript
5 97 (13.09%) TypeScript
6 66 (8.91%) C#
7 36 (4.86%) Go
8 26 (3.51%) PowerShell
9 25 (3.37%) Bash
10 17 (2.29%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.02%) Apex Code
12 14 (1.89%) Swift
13 13 (1.75%) PL/SQL
14 12 (1.62%) Shell Script
15 11 (1.48%) Bicep
16 9 (1.21%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.94%) Clojure
17 7 (0.94%) PHP
18 6 (0.81%) C++
19 5 (0.67%) C
Qualifications
1 64 (8.64%) Security Cleared
2 61 (8.23%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.61%) Degree
4 26 (3.51%) ISTQB
5 17 (2.29%) CISSP
6 14 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 11 (1.48%) CGEIT
7 11 (1.48%) CISA
7 11 (1.48%) CISM
7 11 (1.48%) FFIEC
7 11 (1.48%) SANS
8 10 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.21%) CEH
10 8 (1.08%) CREST Certified
10 8 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
10 8 (1.08%) OSCP
11 7 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 6 (0.81%) DV Cleared
13 5 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (24.02%) QA
2 65 (8.77%) Accessibility
3 30 (4.05%) GDPR
4 26 (3.51%) Data Quality
5 23 (3.10%) NIST
6 15 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.48%) COBIT
7 11 (1.48%) GRC
8 9 (1.21%) ISO 22301
8 9 (1.21%) WCAG
9 8 (1.08%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.40%) PERC
13 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 75 (10.12%) Docker
2 12 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 149 (20.11%) Terraform
2 130 (17.54%) Kubernetes
3 70 (9.45%) Grafana
4 21 (2.83%) Argo
5 16 (2.16%) Ansible
6 11 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.81%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.40%) logstash
9 2 (0.27%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.27%) MIIS
10 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.13%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 70 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.99%) Oracle
3 24 (3.24%) Salesforce
4 23 (3.10%) Databricks
5 15 (2.02%) Braze
5 15 (2.02%) VMware
6 13 (1.75%) Amplitude
6 13 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.62%) Commvault
8 11 (1.48%) SAP
9 9 (1.21%) Google
10 7 (0.94%) IFS
10 7 (0.94%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.67%) Ab Initio
11 5 (0.67%) dotdigital
11 5 (0.67%) Okta
12 4 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.54%) Workday
13 3 (0.40%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.40%) HubSpot