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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 75 108
Rank change year-on-year +11 +33 -54
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 807 752 895
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.82% 4.63% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 4.94% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 406 374 687
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,725 £37,800
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 £82,375 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,875 £103,375 £77,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +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 17,480 15,224 29,144
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.73% 93.65% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,756 9,023 22,315
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 8 July 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 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 8 (0.99%) Apache
4 7 (0.87%) Anypoint
4 7 (0.87%) CMS
4 7 (0.87%) Confluence
4 7 (0.87%) Mule
5 5 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.37%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) Camunda
8 2 (0.25%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.25%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.50%) Lightworks
3 4 (0.50%) Simulink
4 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.25%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 401 (49.69%) AWS
2 245 (30.36%) Azure
3 142 (17.60%) GCP
4 124 (15.37%) SaaS
5 77 (9.54%) Serverless
6 74 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (7.93%) GitHub
8 60 (7.43%) Amazon EKS
9 37 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (3.22%) Power Platform
11 23 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.48%) Azure AKS
13 18 (2.23%) Amazon S3
13 18 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (1.86%) Entra ID
14 15 (1.86%) PaaS
15 14 (1.73%) Firebase
15 14 (1.73%) Stripe
15 14 (1.73%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 70 (8.67%) Broadband
2 8 (0.99%) CHAP
3 7 (0.87%) SSL
4 6 (0.74%) DNS
5 5 (0.62%) SMS
6 4 (0.50%) Firewall
6 4 (0.50%) MQTT
7 3 (0.37%) Ethernet
7 3 (0.37%) Network Security
7 3 (0.37%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.37%) VPN
7 3 (0.37%) Wireless
8 2 (0.25%) HTTP
9 1 (0.12%) DHCP
9 1 (0.12%) LAN
9 1 (0.12%) WAN
9 1 (0.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (11.40%) PostgreSQL
2 67 (8.30%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.09%) NoSQL
4 25 (3.10%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.35%) MySQL
6 17 (2.11%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.86%) Semantic Layer
8 12 (1.49%) Metadata
8 12 (1.49%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.36%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.36%) Oracle Database
10 10 (1.24%) Power BI
11 7 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.62%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.62%) Spark SQL
13 4 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.50%) Big Data
13 4 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.50%) Redis
14 3 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 59 (7.31%) TeamCity
2 56 (6.94%) Git
3 52 (6.44%) Selenium
4 46 (5.70%) Jenkins
5 37 (4.58%) GitLab
6 29 (3.59%) Cypress.io
7 24 (2.97%) JIRA
8 23 (2.85%) Postman
9 21 (2.60%) JMeter
10 17 (2.11%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.86%) SpecFlow
12 14 (1.73%) Crashlytics
12 14 (1.73%) XCTest
13 10 (1.24%) REST Assured
14 9 (1.12%) WebDriver
15 8 (0.99%) Claude Code
15 8 (0.99%) JUnit
16 7 (0.87%) TestRail
16 7 (0.87%) XCUITest
17 6 (0.74%) Appium
General
1 214 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 174 (21.56%) Finance
3 149 (18.46%) Law
4 115 (14.25%) Banking
5 111 (13.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 102 (12.64%) Public Sector
7 84 (10.41%) Retail
8 51 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
9 49 (6.07%) Financial Institution
10 46 (5.70%) Games
11 45 (5.58%) Legal
12 42 (5.20%) Back Office
13 23 (2.85%) Manufacturing
14 19 (2.35%) Marketing
15 12 (1.49%) Electronics
16 11 (1.36%) Investment Banking
17 9 (1.12%) Legal Technology
18 8 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
19 7 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
19 7 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 241 (29.86%) Senior
2 137 (16.98%) Software Engineer
3 131 (16.23%) Lead
4 100 (12.39%) Developer
5 57 (7.06%) Test Engineer
6 50 (6.20%) Java Engineer
7 48 (5.95%) Senior Software Engineer
8 42 (5.20%) Senior Developer
9 41 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
10 40 (4.96%) QA Engineer
11 39 (4.83%) Engineering Manager
11 39 (4.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 36 (4.46%) Software Manager
13 35 (4.34%) Java Software Engineer
14 33 (4.09%) Software Engineering Manager
15 31 (3.84%) Senior DevOps
16 29 (3.59%) IT Manager
16 29 (3.59%) Resilience Manager
16 29 (3.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 29 (3.59%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (12.27%) React
2 66 (8.18%) Node.js
3 64 (7.93%) Spring
4 62 (7.68%) .NET
5 61 (7.56%) RESTful
6 60 (7.43%) Playwright
7 57 (7.06%) REST
8 33 (4.09%) Middleware
9 32 (3.97%) Spring Boot
10 26 (3.22%) AngularJS
11 22 (2.73%) AWS CDK
12 19 (2.35%) Next.js
13 18 (2.23%) React Native
14 17 (2.11%) CSS
14 17 (2.11%) HTML
15 15 (1.86%) Django
15 15 (1.86%) Kafka
16 14 (1.73%) SwiftUI
16 14 (1.73%) UIKit
17 12 (1.49%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 186 (23.05%) Cloud Native
2 107 (13.26%) Product Ownership
3 47 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
4 40 (4.96%) Cyber Threat
4 40 (4.96%) Mobile App
5 37 (4.58%) Low-Code
6 33 (4.09%) Virtual Team
7 32 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
7 32 (3.97%) Video\Live Streaming
8 27 (3.35%) Public Cloud
9 20 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (2.48%) Management Information System
10 19 (2.35%) Blog
11 17 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.61%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.36%) Cyberattack
14 11 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
15 10 (1.24%) Algorithms
16 9 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.56%) Linux
2 40 (4.96%) Apple iOS
3 33 (4.09%) Windows
4 32 (3.97%) Unix
5 30 (3.72%) Android
6 3 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.25%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (57.25%) CI/CD
2 376 (46.59%) Agile
3 301 (37.30%) Mentoring
4 292 (36.18%) Software Engineering
5 291 (36.06%) DevOps
6 235 (29.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 171 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
8 161 (19.95%) Microservices
9 155 (19.21%) AI
10 152 (18.84%) Coaching
11 143 (17.72%) Infrastructure as Code
12 133 (16.48%) Full-Stack Development
13 126 (15.61%) Observability
14 123 (15.24%) Clean Code
15 122 (15.12%) Software Testing
16 111 (13.75%) Test Strategy
17 110 (13.63%) Technical Leadership
18 104 (12.89%) Deployment Automation
19 102 (12.64%) Validation
20 97 (12.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 241 (29.86%) Java
2 223 (27.63%) Python
3 134 (16.60%) JavaScript
4 116 (14.37%) TypeScript
5 109 (13.51%) SQL
6 99 (12.27%) C#
7 48 (5.95%) Go
8 45 (5.58%) PowerShell
9 23 (2.85%) Bash
10 19 (2.35%) Kotlin
11 14 (1.73%) Swift
12 11 (1.36%) PHP
13 10 (1.24%) C++
14 8 (0.99%) C
14 8 (0.99%) Clojure
15 7 (0.87%) DataWeave
16 6 (0.74%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.74%) Rust
17 5 (0.62%) Ruby
17 5 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (8.67%) Security Cleared
2 66 (8.18%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.44%) Degree
4 43 (5.33%) CISSP
5 41 (5.08%) ITIL Certification
6 37 (4.58%) CISM
7 25 (3.10%) ISTQB
8 11 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (0.99%) CGEIT
9 8 (0.99%) CISA
9 8 (0.99%) FFIEC
9 8 (0.99%) SANS
10 7 (0.87%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.74%) CEH
11 6 (0.74%) CREST Certified
11 6 (0.74%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (0.74%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.74%) OSCP
12 5 (0.62%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (23.79%) QA
2 67 (8.30%) Accessibility
3 46 (5.70%) NIST
4 35 (4.34%) ISO 22301
5 33 (4.09%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.85%) GDPR
7 12 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.36%) GRC
9 10 (1.24%) WCAG
10 8 (0.99%) COBIT
11 5 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
12 4 (0.50%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.37%) ECSS
13 3 (0.37%) PERC
14 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.12%) MiFID
14 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.12%) SLA
14 1 (0.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 81 (10.04%) Docker
2 10 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.37%) Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 135 (16.73%) Kubernetes
1 135 (16.73%) Terraform
2 70 (8.67%) Grafana
3 18 (2.23%) Argo
4 15 (1.86%) Ansible
5 7 (0.87%) CloudHub
6 5 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.25%) MIIS
9 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.12%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (7.93%) Microsoft
2 25 (3.10%) Oracle
3 23 (2.85%) ServiceNow
4 20 (2.48%) Salesforce
5 18 (2.23%) Databricks
6 16 (1.98%) Braze
7 14 (1.73%) Amplitude
8 13 (1.61%) VMware
9 12 (1.49%) Pega
10 11 (1.36%) Google
11 9 (1.12%) Commvault
11 9 (1.12%) SAP
12 8 (0.99%) IFS
12 8 (0.99%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.62%) dotdigital
14 4 (0.50%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (0.50%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.50%) OpenAI
15 3 (0.37%) Informatica
15 3 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud