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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 80 107
Rank change year-on-year +17 +27 -46
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 870 701 711
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.74% 4.24% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.56% 4.56% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 395 329 517
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,300 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £48,000 £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 £80,500 £82,500 £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 19,083 15,382 21,719
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.10% 92.95% 87.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13,785 8,957 14,909
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 August 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 (1.84%) Confluence
2 13 (1.49%) Anypoint
2 13 (1.49%) Mule
3 11 (1.26%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.80%) Apache
4 7 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.69%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.57%) CMS
6 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.46%) Camunda
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (0.57%) Moqups
3 4 (0.46%) Lightworks
3 4 (0.46%) Simulink
4 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (3.10%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.23%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.11%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.11%) Magento
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 418 (48.05%) AWS
2 264 (30.34%) Azure
3 185 (21.26%) SaaS
4 131 (15.06%) GCP
5 72 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (7.47%) GitHub
7 61 (7.01%) Serverless
8 51 (5.86%) Amazon EKS
9 38 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (3.22%) Power Platform
11 22 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 21 (2.41%) Azure AKS
13 18 (2.07%) Entra ID
14 14 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (1.61%) Datadog
15 13 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (1.49%) Figma
15 13 (1.49%) GitHub Copilot
15 13 (1.49%) TestFlight
16 12 (1.38%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 69 (7.93%) Broadband
2 13 (1.49%) SSL
3 12 (1.38%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.15%) DNS
5 6 (0.69%) Firewall
6 5 (0.57%) CHAP
6 5 (0.57%) DHCP
6 5 (0.57%) 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 (0.34%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.34%) VPN
8 3 (0.34%) Wireless
8 3 (0.34%) X.509
9 2 (0.23%) HTTP
10 1 (0.11%) 5G
10 1 (0.11%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 34 (3.91%) SQL Server
4 25 (2.87%) NoSQL
5 22 (2.53%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.07%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
8 13 (1.49%) Power BI
9 12 (1.38%) MySQL
10 11 (1.26%) Metadata
11 9 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.03%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.03%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.92%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.80%) Big Data
14 6 (0.69%) Redis
15 5 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.57%) Spark SQL
16 4 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 80 (9.20%) Git
2 55 (6.32%) TeamCity
3 53 (6.09%) Selenium
4 52 (5.98%) GitLab
4 52 (5.98%) Jenkins
5 37 (4.25%) Cypress.io
6 32 (3.68%) JIRA
7 27 (3.10%) Postman
8 17 (1.95%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.84%) JMeter
10 15 (1.72%) JUnit
11 11 (1.26%) Crashlytics
11 11 (1.26%) XCTest
12 10 (1.15%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.03%) Gatling
13 9 (1.03%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.80%) Appium
14 7 (0.80%) NUnit
14 7 (0.80%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.80%) TestRail
General
1 282 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 179 (20.57%) Finance
3 143 (16.44%) Law
4 119 (13.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 109 (12.53%) Banking
6 94 (10.80%) Public Sector
7 92 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
8 91 (10.46%) Legal
9 77 (8.85%) Retail
10 49 (5.63%) Financial Institution
11 46 (5.29%) Back Office
12 42 (4.83%) Marketing
13 41 (4.71%) Games
14 23 (2.64%) Manufacturing
15 21 (2.41%) Electronics
16 17 (1.95%) Aerospace
17 14 (1.61%) Telecoms
18 11 (1.26%) Investment Banking
19 9 (1.03%) Legal Technology
19 9 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 250 (28.74%) Senior
2 149 (17.13%) Lead
3 128 (14.71%) Software Engineer
4 111 (12.76%) Developer
5 58 (6.67%) Test Engineer
6 50 (5.75%) Senior Manager
7 49 (5.63%) Testing Manager
8 48 (5.52%) IT Manager
8 48 (5.52%) IT Services Manager
8 48 (5.52%) Resilience Manager
8 48 (5.52%) Service Manager
9 43 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 43 (4.94%) Engineering Manager
9 43 (4.94%) Software Manager
10 40 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 38 (4.37%) Software Engineering Manager
12 34 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 34 (3.91%) Java Engineer
13 33 (3.79%) Senior DevOps
13 33 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (14.48%) Terraform
2 112 (12.87%) React
3 75 (8.62%) REST
4 71 (8.16%) Node.js
5 68 (7.82%) Spring
6 64 (7.36%) Playwright
7 60 (6.90%) .NET
8 53 (6.09%) RESTful
9 50 (5.75%) Middleware
10 31 (3.56%) Spring Boot
11 29 (3.33%) AngularJS
12 24 (2.76%) CSS
13 23 (2.64%) Next.js
14 20 (2.30%) AWS CDK
14 20 (2.30%) Django
14 20 (2.30%) React Native
15 18 (2.07%) HTML
16 17 (1.95%) OAuth
17 16 (1.84%) Kafka
17 16 (1.84%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 175 (20.11%) Cloud Native
2 134 (15.40%) Product Ownership
3 60 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.55%) Virtual Team
5 56 (6.44%) Cyber Threat
6 44 (5.06%) Mobile App
7 39 (4.48%) Low-Code
8 37 (4.25%) Blog
9 32 (3.68%) Video\Live Streaming
10 31 (3.56%) Public Cloud
11 28 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
12 27 (3.10%) Marketing Technology
13 25 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (1.72%) Algorithms
16 13 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
17 12 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
18 11 (1.26%) AI Agents
18 11 (1.26%) Data Structures
18 11 (1.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 65 (7.47%) Linux
2 43 (4.94%) Windows
3 32 (3.68%) Apple iOS
4 31 (3.56%) Unix
5 28 (3.22%) Android
6 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.34%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.23%) CentOS
8 2 (0.23%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (58.16%) CI/CD
2 396 (45.52%) Agile
3 341 (39.20%) Software Engineering
4 337 (38.74%) DevOps
5 320 (36.78%) Mentoring
6 297 (34.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 210 (24.14%) AI
8 194 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
9 147 (16.90%) Software Testing
10 146 (16.78%) Coaching
11 138 (15.86%) Microservices
12 137 (15.75%) Test Strategy
13 133 (15.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 130 (14.94%) Infrastructure as Code
15 129 (14.83%) Technical Leadership
16 128 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
17 123 (14.14%) Observability
18 114 (13.10%) Clean Code
19 109 (12.53%) Decision-Making
20 108 (12.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 257 (29.54%) Python
2 231 (26.55%) Java
3 172 (19.77%) JavaScript
4 150 (17.24%) TypeScript
5 136 (15.63%) C#
6 103 (11.84%) SQL
7 64 (7.36%) PowerShell
8 51 (5.86%) Go
9 23 (2.64%) Bash
9 23 (2.64%) Kotlin
10 16 (1.84%) C++
11 14 (1.61%) Swift
12 13 (1.49%) DataWeave
13 12 (1.38%) PHP
14 10 (1.15%) C
14 10 (1.15%) Rust
15 8 (0.92%) Clojure
16 5 (0.57%) Scala
16 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.46%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 84 (9.66%) Security Cleared
2 65 (7.47%) SC Cleared
3 57 (6.55%) ITIL Certification
4 56 (6.44%) Degree
5 53 (6.09%) CISM
5 53 (6.09%) CISSP
6 27 (3.10%) ISTQB
7 16 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.69%) CISA
11 5 (0.57%) CGEIT
11 5 (0.57%) FFIEC
11 5 (0.57%) 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 (0.34%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (24.94%) QA
2 75 (8.62%) Accessibility
3 57 (6.55%) NIST
4 50 (5.75%) ISO 22301
5 35 (4.02%) Data Quality
6 17 (1.95%) GDPR
7 16 (1.84%) WCAG
8 12 (1.38%) GRC
9 9 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.57%) COBIT
11 4 (0.46%) SLA
11 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.34%) ECSS
12 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.34%) PERC
13 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.11%) EMIR
13 1 (0.11%) ISAE 3402
13 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 102 (11.72%) Docker
2 9 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.80%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.57%) Firmware
5 1 (0.11%) KVM
5 1 (0.11%) QEMU
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 135 (15.52%) Kubernetes
2 68 (7.82%) Grafana
3 17 (1.95%) Ansible
4 16 (1.84%) Argo
5 13 (1.49%) CloudHub
6 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.92%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.23%) MIIS
8 1 (0.11%) Consul
8 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.11%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 76 (8.74%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.99%) Salesforce
3 23 (2.64%) ServiceNow
4 21 (2.41%) Oracle
5 18 (2.07%) Databricks
6 15 (1.72%) SAP
7 14 (1.61%) MuleSoft
8 13 (1.49%) Braze
9 12 (1.38%) Pega
10 11 (1.26%) Amplitude
11 9 (1.03%) Google
11 9 (1.03%) VMware
12 8 (0.92%) IFS
13 5 (0.57%) dotdigital
14 4 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (0.46%) Red Hat
14 4 (0.46%) Zscaler
15 3 (0.34%) Informatica
15 3 (0.34%) Perforce
15 3 (0.34%) Xilinx