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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 80 106
Rank change year-on-year +15 +26 -42
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 861 680 695
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.68% 4.24% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.50% 4.56% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 388 310 472
10th Percentile £45,000 £39,875 £40,125
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,250 £82,751 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 19,138 14,917 20,728
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.87% 92.96% 87.48%
Number of salaries quoted 13,805 8,582 13,608
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,266 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 4 September 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 16 (1.86%) Confluence
2 13 (1.51%) Anypoint
2 13 (1.51%) Mule
3 11 (1.28%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.70%) Apache
4 6 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.70%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.58%) CMS
5 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.46%) Camunda
7 2 (0.23%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.58%) Moqups
2 5 (0.58%) Simulink
3 4 (0.46%) Lightworks
4 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (3.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (3.14%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.23%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.12%) Magento
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 411 (47.74%) AWS
2 264 (30.66%) Azure
3 182 (21.14%) SaaS
4 131 (15.21%) GCP
5 73 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
6 64 (7.43%) GitHub
7 57 (6.62%) Serverless
8 52 (6.04%) Amazon EKS
9 38 (4.41%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (3.25%) Power Platform
11 23 (2.67%) Azure AKS
12 22 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
13 17 (1.97%) Entra ID
14 14 (1.63%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (1.51%) GitHub Copilot
16 12 (1.39%) Figma
16 12 (1.39%) TestFlight
17 11 (1.28%) Datadog
17 11 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 68 (7.90%) Broadband
2 14 (1.63%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.51%) SSL
4 10 (1.16%) DNS
5 6 (0.70%) Firewall
6 5 (0.58%) CHAP
6 5 (0.58%) DHCP
6 5 (0.58%) SMS
7 4 (0.46%) LAN
7 4 (0.46%) MQTT
7 4 (0.46%) Network Security
7 4 (0.46%) WAN
7 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.35%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.35%) VPN
8 3 (0.35%) Wireless
8 3 (0.35%) X.509
9 2 (0.23%) HTTP
10 1 (0.12%) 5G
10 1 (0.12%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (6.50%) MongoDB
3 33 (3.83%) SQL Server
4 25 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 23 (2.67%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.09%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
8 13 (1.51%) Power BI
9 12 (1.39%) MySQL
10 10 (1.16%) Metadata
11 9 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.05%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.93%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.93%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.81%) Big Data
14 6 (0.70%) Redis
15 5 (0.58%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.58%) Spark SQL
16 4 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 81 (9.41%) Git
2 56 (6.50%) TeamCity
3 53 (6.16%) GitLab
4 52 (6.04%) Selenium
5 51 (5.92%) Jenkins
6 36 (4.18%) Cypress.io
7 31 (3.60%) JIRA
8 27 (3.14%) Postman
9 15 (1.74%) JUnit
10 14 (1.63%) Cucumber
11 13 (1.51%) JMeter
12 10 (1.16%) Crashlytics
12 10 (1.16%) XCTest
13 9 (1.05%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.05%) Gatling
14 8 (0.93%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.81%) NUnit
15 7 (0.81%) TestRail
16 6 (0.70%) Appium
16 6 (0.70%) REST Assured
General
1 277 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 179 (20.79%) Finance
3 141 (16.38%) Law
4 118 (13.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 111 (12.89%) Banking
6 95 (11.03%) Public Sector
7 92 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
8 90 (10.45%) Legal
9 79 (9.18%) Retail
10 49 (5.69%) Financial Institution
11 46 (5.34%) Back Office
12 42 (4.88%) Marketing
13 40 (4.65%) Games
14 22 (2.56%) Electronics
14 22 (2.56%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.97%) Aerospace
16 16 (1.86%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.28%) Investment Banking
18 9 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
19 8 (0.93%) Legal Technology
Job Titles
1 248 (28.80%) Senior
2 148 (17.19%) Lead
3 128 (14.87%) Software Engineer
4 110 (12.78%) Developer
5 62 (7.20%) Test Engineer
6 50 (5.81%) Senior Manager
7 49 (5.69%) Testing Manager
8 48 (5.57%) IT Manager
8 48 (5.57%) IT Services Manager
8 48 (5.57%) Resilience Manager
8 48 (5.57%) Service Manager
9 44 (5.11%) DevOps Engineer
10 42 (4.88%) Engineering Manager
10 42 (4.88%) Software Manager
11 38 (4.41%) Senior Developer
12 37 (4.30%) Software Engineering Manager
13 34 (3.95%) Java Engineer
14 33 (3.83%) QA Engineer
14 33 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
14 33 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (14.52%) Terraform
2 106 (12.31%) React
3 72 (8.36%) REST
4 71 (8.25%) Node.js
5 68 (7.90%) Spring
6 62 (7.20%) Playwright
7 58 (6.74%) .NET
8 52 (6.04%) RESTful
9 50 (5.81%) Middleware
10 31 (3.60%) Spring Boot
11 28 (3.25%) AngularJS
12 23 (2.67%) CSS
13 22 (2.56%) Next.js
14 20 (2.32%) React Native
15 19 (2.21%) AWS CDK
15 19 (2.21%) Django
16 17 (1.97%) HTML
16 17 (1.97%) OAuth
17 16 (1.86%) Kafka
17 16 (1.86%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 176 (20.44%) Cloud Native
2 133 (15.45%) Product Ownership
3 60 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.62%) Virtual Team
5 56 (6.50%) Cyber Threat
6 42 (4.88%) Mobile App
7 38 (4.41%) Blog
7 38 (4.41%) Low-Code
8 31 (3.60%) Public Cloud
8 31 (3.60%) Video\Live Streaming
9 27 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
9 27 (3.14%) Marketing Technology
10 23 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.63%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.63%) Embedded Systems
13 11 (1.28%) AI Agents
13 11 (1.28%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (1.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.32%) Linux
2 44 (5.11%) Windows
3 31 (3.60%) Apple iOS
3 31 (3.60%) Unix
4 27 (3.14%) Android
5 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.35%) VxWorks
7 2 (0.23%) CentOS
7 2 (0.23%) OpenWrt
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (57.96%) CI/CD
2 386 (44.83%) Agile
3 339 (39.37%) Software Engineering
4 333 (38.68%) DevOps
5 319 (37.05%) Mentoring
6 290 (33.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 206 (23.93%) AI
8 191 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
9 150 (17.42%) Software Testing
10 146 (16.96%) Coaching
11 137 (15.91%) Microservices
12 135 (15.68%) Test Strategy
13 131 (15.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 128 (14.87%) Technical Leadership
15 125 (14.52%) Infrastructure as Code
16 121 (14.05%) Full-Stack Development
17 119 (13.82%) Observability
18 112 (13.01%) Clean Code
19 104 (12.08%) Enterprise Architecture
19 104 (12.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 252 (29.27%) Python
2 225 (26.13%) Java
3 169 (19.63%) JavaScript
4 145 (16.84%) TypeScript
5 134 (15.56%) C#
6 105 (12.20%) SQL
7 65 (7.55%) PowerShell
8 49 (5.69%) Go
9 24 (2.79%) Bash
10 22 (2.56%) Kotlin
11 16 (1.86%) C++
12 13 (1.51%) DataWeave
12 13 (1.51%) Swift
13 12 (1.39%) PHP
14 10 (1.16%) C
14 10 (1.16%) Rust
15 8 (0.93%) Clojure
16 6 (0.70%) Bicep
17 5 (0.58%) Scala
17 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 65 (7.55%) SC Cleared
3 57 (6.62%) ITIL Certification
4 56 (6.50%) Degree
5 53 (6.16%) CISM
5 53 (6.16%) CISSP
6 29 (3.37%) ISTQB
7 16 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.81%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.70%) CISA
11 5 (0.58%) CGEIT
11 5 (0.58%) FFIEC
11 5 (0.58%) SANS
12 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.46%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.46%) OSCP
13 3 (0.35%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (24.04%) QA
2 71 (8.25%) Accessibility
3 56 (6.50%) NIST
4 49 (5.69%) ISO 22301
5 34 (3.95%) Data Quality
6 17 (1.97%) GDPR
7 13 (1.51%) WCAG
8 11 (1.28%) GRC
9 8 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.58%) COBIT
11 4 (0.46%) SLA
11 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.35%) ECSS
12 3 (0.35%) PERC
13 2 (0.23%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.12%) DO-160
14 1 (0.12%) ISAE 3402
14 1 (0.12%) MiFID
14 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 99 (11.50%) Docker
2 8 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.70%) Firmware
5 1 (0.12%) KVM
5 1 (0.12%) QEMU
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 135 (15.68%) Kubernetes
2 66 (7.67%) Grafana
3 16 (1.86%) Ansible
3 16 (1.86%) Argo
4 13 (1.51%) CloudHub
5 8 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) MIIS
7 1 (0.12%) Consul
7 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 77 (8.94%) Microsoft
2 26 (3.02%) Salesforce
3 23 (2.67%) ServiceNow
4 21 (2.44%) Oracle
5 17 (1.97%) Databricks
6 15 (1.74%) SAP
7 14 (1.63%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.39%) Braze
8 12 (1.39%) Pega
9 10 (1.16%) Amplitude
10 9 (1.05%) Google
11 8 (0.93%) IFS
11 8 (0.93%) VMware
12 5 (0.58%) dotdigital
13 4 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.46%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.46%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.35%) Cisco
14 3 (0.35%) HP
14 3 (0.35%) Informatica