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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 81 84
Rank change year-on-year +10 +3 -38
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 536 641 825
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.52% 3.89% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 4.15% 4.10%
Number of salaries quoted 332 382 639
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,284 £41,200
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,899 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% +3.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%

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 13,292 15,442 20,133
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.37% 93.78% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8,469 9,092 16,280
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 15 January 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 (3.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (1.49%) Confluence
3 7 (1.31%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.56%) Apache
6 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.37%) CMS
6 2 (0.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.19%) SAS
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.75%) Oracle Smart View
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 43 (8.02%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.75%) Hyperion Planning
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.56%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 252 (47.01%) Azure
2 157 (29.29%) GitHub
3 146 (27.24%) Azure DevOps
4 127 (23.69%) AWS
5 75 (13.99%) GitHub Copilot
6 67 (12.50%) SaaS
7 51 (9.51%) GCP
8 46 (8.58%) GitHub Actions
9 37 (6.90%) Entra ID
9 37 (6.90%) OCI
10 36 (6.72%) Power Platform
10 36 (6.72%) Serverless
11 33 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
12 29 (5.41%) PaaS
13 28 (5.22%) Snowflake
14 22 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
15 21 (3.92%) dbt
16 19 (3.54%) Azure Event Grid
17 18 (3.36%) Azure Logic Apps
18 15 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.31%) CHAP
2 4 (0.75%) 5G
2 4 (0.75%) HTTP
2 4 (0.75%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.75%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.75%) WAN
3 3 (0.56%) VPN
4 2 (0.37%) Internet
4 2 (0.37%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.19%) Broadband
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Firewall
5 1 (0.19%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.72%) SQL Server
2 28 (5.22%) Power BI
3 27 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (4.66%) MySQL
5 23 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (4.10%) NoSQL
7 19 (3.54%) Tableau
8 16 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 14 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
10 10 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.68%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.49%) MariaDB
12 8 (1.49%) Metadata
12 8 (1.49%) MongoDB
13 7 (1.31%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
15 4 (0.75%) Essbase
16 3 (0.56%) Pinecone
16 3 (0.56%) Redis
17 2 (0.37%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 72 (13.43%) JIRA
2 66 (12.31%) Selenium
3 59 (11.01%) Jenkins
4 55 (10.26%) Git
5 41 (7.65%) Oracle Forms
6 36 (6.72%) Cypress.io
7 24 (4.48%) TeamCity
8 21 (3.92%) Postman
9 15 (2.80%) Cucumber
10 13 (2.43%) JMeter
10 13 (2.43%) WebDriver
11 12 (2.24%) JUnit
12 11 (2.05%) GitLab
13 8 (1.49%) CircleCI
13 8 (1.49%) SpecFlow
14 7 (1.31%) REST Assured
14 7 (1.31%) Storybook
15 6 (1.12%) LoadRunner
15 6 (1.12%) MLflow
15 6 (1.12%) TestRail
General
1 222 (41.42%) Finance
2 176 (32.84%) Social Skills
3 74 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (11.57%) Law
5 46 (8.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (7.65%) Banking
7 32 (5.97%) Retail
8 30 (5.60%) Public Sector
9 29 (5.41%) Financial Institution
10 21 (3.92%) Back Office
11 19 (3.54%) Marketing
12 10 (1.87%) Games
12 10 (1.87%) Legal
13 9 (1.68%) Front Office
14 8 (1.49%) Automotive
15 7 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.12%) Electronics
17 4 (0.75%) Billing
17 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 157 (29.29%) Senior
2 87 (16.23%) Developer
3 76 (14.18%) Lead
4 52 (9.70%) Software Engineer
5 44 (8.21%) Applications Engineer
6 42 (7.84%) Test Engineer
7 41 (7.65%) Cloud Engineer
7 41 (7.65%) QA Engineer
8 29 (5.41%) Test Automation Engineer
9 27 (5.04%) QA Automation Engineer
9 27 (5.04%) Senior Developer
10 25 (4.66%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (4.48%) Analyst
12 23 (4.29%) Automation Engineer
12 23 (4.29%) Lead Developer
13 22 (4.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 20 (3.73%) Tester
15 18 (3.36%) .NET Developer
15 18 (3.36%) Software Developer
16 16 (2.99%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (15.49%) RESTful
2 68 (12.69%) React
3 54 (10.07%) JSON
4 50 (9.33%) SOAP
5 48 (8.96%) .NET
5 48 (8.96%) REST
6 36 (6.72%) OAuth
7 35 (6.53%) OAuth2
8 33 (6.16%) Playwright
9 31 (5.78%) XML
10 28 (5.22%) Node.js
11 23 (4.29%) Lightning Web Components
12 21 (3.92%) Spring
13 19 (3.54%) .NET Framework
13 19 (3.54%) Next.js
14 17 (3.17%) CSS
14 17 (3.17%) Entity Framework
14 17 (3.17%) SAML
15 15 (2.80%) HTML
16 13 (2.43%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 127 (23.69%) Cloud Native
2 50 (9.33%) Product Ownership
3 39 (7.28%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (2.99%) Mobile App
6 13 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.24%) GNSS
7 12 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.24%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.68%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.49%) Satnav
10 8 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 7 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.31%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
13 4 (0.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.04%) Linux
2 22 (4.10%) Android
3 21 (3.92%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.24%) Windows
5 11 (2.05%) Unix
6 9 (1.68%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.75%) CentOS
8 2 (0.37%) Debian
8 2 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.37%) Solaris
8 2 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (56.53%) CI/CD
2 277 (51.68%) Agile
3 233 (43.47%) DevOps
4 162 (30.22%) Coaching
5 158 (29.48%) Mentoring
6 143 (26.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 126 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
8 122 (22.76%) AI
9 116 (21.64%) Asset Management
10 106 (19.78%) Software Engineering
11 105 (19.59%) Clean Code
12 98 (18.28%) Microservices
13 93 (17.35%) Analytics
13 93 (17.35%) Observability
14 70 (13.06%) Sprint Planning
15 64 (11.94%) Sprint Retrospective
16 61 (11.38%) Test Strategy
17 59 (11.01%) Data Modelling
18 53 (9.89%) ERP
18 53 (9.89%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 159 (29.66%) Python
2 135 (25.19%) SQL
3 127 (23.69%) Java
4 74 (13.81%) JavaScript
5 68 (12.69%) TypeScript
6 61 (11.38%) C#
7 39 (7.28%) Shell Script
8 37 (6.90%) PL/SQL
9 29 (5.41%) PowerShell
10 22 (4.10%) Apex Code
11 21 (3.92%) PHP
12 19 (3.54%) Bicep
13 12 (2.24%) Bash
13 12 (2.24%) Go
14 9 (1.68%) T-SQL
15 6 (1.12%) C++
15 6 (1.12%) Delphi
16 5 (0.93%) Groovy
17 4 (0.75%) C
18 3 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 51 (9.51%) Degree
2 34 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (6.16%) Security Cleared
4 27 (5.04%) SC Cleared
5 26 (4.85%) ISTQB
6 19 (3.54%) Master's Degree
7 13 (2.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 10 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.68%) CEH
10 8 (1.49%) CISA
11 7 (1.31%) CGEIT
11 7 (1.31%) CISM
11 7 (1.31%) CISSP
11 7 (1.31%) FFIEC
11 7 (1.31%) SANS
12 6 (1.12%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.75%) ISEB
14 3 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.37%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (24.07%) QA
2 35 (6.53%) Accessibility
3 27 (5.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (4.48%) NIST
5 23 (4.29%) GDPR
6 13 (2.43%) Data Quality
7 11 (2.05%) WCAG
8 10 (1.87%) ISO 9001
9 9 (1.68%) ISO 22301
10 7 (1.31%) COBIT
10 7 (1.31%) SLA
11 5 (0.93%) NCSC
11 5 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.56%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.37%) GRC
14 1 (0.19%) Section 508
14 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 53 (9.89%) Docker
2 37 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (20.90%) Terraform
2 72 (13.43%) Kubernetes
3 37 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
4 33 (6.16%) Grafana
5 17 (3.17%) Ansible
6 7 (1.31%) Argo
7 4 (0.75%) logstash
8 3 (0.56%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.37%) Control-M
9 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.37%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 69 (12.87%) Microsoft
2 61 (11.38%) Oracle
3 27 (5.04%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.73%) Databricks
4 20 (3.73%) Okta
5 17 (3.17%) VMware
6 14 (2.61%) Ab Initio
7 12 (2.24%) Commvault
8 7 (1.31%) SAP
9 5 (0.93%) Google
9 5 (0.93%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.93%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.75%) Hyperion
10 4 (0.75%) Workday
11 3 (0.56%) IBM
11 3 (0.56%) iManage
12 2 (0.37%) Checkmarx
12 2 (0.37%) CheckPoint
12 2 (0.37%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.37%) Samsung