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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 74 106
Rank change year-on-year +7 +32 -54
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 738 746 907
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.62% 4.77% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 5.05% 3.01%
Number of salaries quoted 391 375 693
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,800 £37,500
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% -15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,751 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,250 £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 16,752 14,764 30,098
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.21% 94.38% 88.98%
Number of salaries quoted 12,199 8,615 23,204
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,500 £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 £79,688 £75,750
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 26 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 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.22%) Confluence
3 8 (1.08%) Apache
3 8 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.81%) CMS
5 5 (0.68%) Anypoint
5 5 (0.68%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.68%) Mule
6 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.27%) Camunda
7 2 (0.27%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.27%) JBoss
7 2 (0.27%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.27%) Lightworks
3 2 (0.27%) Simulink
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 354 (47.97%) AWS
2 210 (28.46%) Azure
3 138 (18.70%) GCP
4 76 (10.30%) Serverless
5 73 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (9.49%) SaaS
7 60 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (7.99%) GitHub
9 36 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (3.66%) Power Platform
11 23 (3.12%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.71%) Azure AKS
13 18 (2.44%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (2.03%) PaaS
16 14 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
16 14 (1.90%) Entra ID
16 14 (1.90%) Firebase
16 14 (1.90%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 69 (9.35%) Broadband
2 9 (1.22%) CHAP
3 5 (0.68%) DNS
3 5 (0.68%) SMS
3 5 (0.68%) SSL
4 3 (0.41%) Firewall
4 3 (0.41%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.27%) MQTT
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) Wireless
6 1 (0.14%) HTTP
6 1 (0.14%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (8.94%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.47%) NoSQL
4 24 (3.25%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.44%) MySQL
6 17 (2.30%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.03%) Semantic Layer
8 11 (1.49%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.49%) Metadata
8 11 (1.49%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.36%) Power BI
9 10 (1.36%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.68%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.54%) Big Data
12 4 (0.54%) Redis
13 3 (0.41%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.41%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 59 (7.99%) TeamCity
2 50 (6.78%) Git
3 48 (6.50%) Selenium
4 46 (6.23%) Jenkins
5 38 (5.15%) GitLab
6 29 (3.93%) JIRA
7 26 (3.52%) Cypress.io
8 24 (3.25%) Postman
9 21 (2.85%) JMeter
10 17 (2.30%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.90%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.90%) SpecFlow
11 14 (1.90%) XCTest
12 11 (1.49%) REST Assured
13 9 (1.22%) WebDriver
14 8 (1.08%) Claude Code
14 8 (1.08%) JUnit
15 7 (0.95%) Appium
15 7 (0.95%) XCUITest
16 6 (0.81%) TestRail
General
1 191 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 177 (23.98%) Finance
3 118 (15.99%) Banking
4 109 (14.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 93 (12.60%) Law
6 91 (12.33%) Public Sector
7 83 (11.25%) Retail
8 50 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
8 50 (6.78%) Financial Institution
9 48 (6.50%) Games
10 42 (5.69%) Back Office
11 22 (2.98%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.71%) Legal
13 19 (2.57%) Marketing
14 11 (1.49%) Electronics
14 11 (1.49%) Investment Banking
15 9 (1.22%) Legal Technology
16 7 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
16 7 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (28.86%) Senior
2 135 (18.29%) Software Engineer
3 124 (16.80%) Lead
4 94 (12.74%) Developer
5 59 (7.99%) Test Engineer
6 50 (6.78%) Java Engineer
6 50 (6.78%) Senior Software Engineer
7 41 (5.56%) QA Engineer
8 40 (5.42%) Senior Developer
9 39 (5.28%) Engineering Manager
10 36 (4.88%) Software Manager
11 35 (4.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 35 (4.74%) Java Software Engineer
12 33 (4.47%) Software Engineering Manager
13 32 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
14 28 (3.79%) Architect
15 26 (3.52%) Senior DevOps
15 26 (3.52%) Test Automation Engineer
15 26 (3.52%) Test Leader
15 26 (3.52%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (12.74%) React
2 62 (8.40%) Spring
3 61 (8.27%) .NET
3 61 (8.27%) Node.js
4 59 (7.99%) RESTful
5 57 (7.72%) Playwright
6 56 (7.59%) REST
7 30 (4.07%) Spring Boot
8 24 (3.25%) AngularJS
9 22 (2.98%) AWS CDK
10 19 (2.57%) Next.js
11 18 (2.44%) React Native
12 17 (2.30%) CSS
12 17 (2.30%) HTML
13 15 (2.03%) Kafka
13 15 (2.03%) SwiftUI
14 14 (1.90%) UIKit
15 13 (1.76%) Django
16 12 (1.63%) JSON
16 12 (1.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 187 (25.34%) Cloud Native
2 105 (14.23%) Product Ownership
3 45 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (5.15%) Mobile App
5 36 (4.88%) Low-Code
6 32 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
6 32 (4.34%) Video\Live Streaming
7 27 (3.66%) Public Cloud
8 21 (2.85%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.57%) Blog
10 18 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (2.03%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (1.49%) Cyberattack
13 11 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (1.36%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.36%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.22%) Culture of Ownership
15 9 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (7.59%) Linux
2 42 (5.69%) Apple iOS
3 30 (4.07%) Android
4 27 (3.66%) Unix
4 27 (3.66%) Windows
5 2 (0.27%) CentOS
5 2 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.14%) Debian
6 1 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (59.49%) CI/CD
2 331 (44.85%) Agile
3 260 (35.23%) Mentoring
4 259 (35.09%) Software Engineering
5 224 (30.35%) DevOps
6 206 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 164 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 158 (21.41%) Microservices
9 152 (20.60%) AI
10 146 (19.78%) Coaching
11 136 (18.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 126 (17.07%) Clean Code
13 124 (16.80%) Full-Stack Development
14 121 (16.40%) Observability
15 109 (14.77%) Technical Leadership
16 100 (13.55%) Deployment Automation
17 99 (13.41%) Validation
18 97 (13.14%) Roadmaps
19 93 (12.60%) Software Testing
20 90 (12.20%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 237 (32.11%) Java
2 191 (25.88%) Python
3 106 (14.36%) SQL
4 102 (13.82%) JavaScript
5 91 (12.33%) TypeScript
6 70 (9.49%) C#
7 48 (6.50%) Go
8 23 (3.12%) Bash
9 20 (2.71%) PowerShell
10 17 (2.30%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.03%) Swift
12 9 (1.22%) C++
12 9 (1.22%) PHP
13 8 (1.08%) Clojure
14 7 (0.95%) C
15 6 (0.81%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.68%) DataWeave
16 5 (0.68%) Ruby
16 5 (0.68%) Rust
16 5 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 64 (8.67%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.64%) Degree
4 27 (3.66%) ISTQB
5 15 (2.03%) CISSP
6 12 (1.63%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.22%) CGEIT
8 9 (1.22%) CISA
8 9 (1.22%) CISM
8 9 (1.22%) FFIEC
8 9 (1.22%) SANS
9 7 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.95%) DBS Check
9 7 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 6 (0.81%) CEH
10 6 (0.81%) CREST Certified
10 6 (0.81%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.81%) OSCP
11 5 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (22.90%) QA
2 68 (9.21%) Accessibility
3 30 (4.07%) Data Quality
4 24 (3.25%) GDPR
5 18 (2.44%) NIST
6 12 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.49%) GRC
8 10 (1.36%) WCAG
9 9 (1.22%) COBIT
10 6 (0.81%) ISO 22301
10 6 (0.81%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.41%) PERC
12 2 (0.27%) ECSS
13 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.14%) MiFID
13 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 77 (10.43%) Docker
2 10 (1.36%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.27%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 134 (18.16%) Terraform
2 128 (17.34%) Kubernetes
3 70 (9.49%) Grafana
4 18 (2.44%) Argo
5 15 (2.03%) Ansible
6 5 (0.68%) CloudHub
6 5 (0.68%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.27%) MIIS
8 1 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.14%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (8.54%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.39%) Oracle
3 21 (2.85%) ServiceNow
4 18 (2.44%) Databricks
4 18 (2.44%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.17%) Braze
6 14 (1.90%) Amplitude
7 12 (1.63%) VMware
8 10 (1.36%) Google
9 9 (1.22%) Commvault
10 8 (1.08%) IFS
10 8 (1.08%) SAP
11 7 (0.95%) Pega
12 6 (0.81%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.81%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.68%) dotdigital
14 4 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (0.54%) HubSpot
15 3 (0.41%) Foundry
15 3 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud