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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 70 104
Rank change year-on-year +12 +34 -52
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 739 738 943
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.85% 4.97% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 5.24% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 406 380 732
10th Percentile £46,250 £38,250 £38,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £68,901
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,875 £79,875
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 15,829 14,071 30,131
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.52% 94.77% 89.76%
Number of salaries quoted 11,309 8,239 23,590
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £80,000 £75,000
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% -9.69%

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 3 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 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (1.22%) Confluence
3 8 (1.08%) Apache
3 8 (1.08%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.68%) CMS
4 5 (0.68%) Jupyter
5 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.41%) Anypoint
6 3 (0.41%) Mule
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.27%) Camunda
7 2 (0.27%) JBoss
7 2 (0.27%) nginx
7 2 (0.27%) WordPress
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) SAS
8 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 320 (43.30%) AWS
2 228 (30.85%) Azure
3 131 (17.73%) GCP
4 92 (12.45%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (10.55%) GitHub
6 74 (10.01%) Serverless
7 68 (9.20%) SaaS
8 58 (7.85%) Amazon EKS
9 41 (5.55%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (4.06%) Power Platform
11 26 (3.52%) Azure Service Bus
12 23 (3.11%) Azure AKS
13 21 (2.84%) Entra ID
14 19 (2.57%) Amazon S3
15 18 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (2.17%) Azure Event Grid
16 16 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
16 16 (2.17%) PaaS
17 14 (1.89%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 50 (6.77%) Broadband
2 11 (1.49%) CHAP
3 5 (0.68%) DNS
3 5 (0.68%) SMS
4 3 (0.41%) Firewall
4 3 (0.41%) SSL
4 3 (0.41%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (11.10%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (7.85%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.47%) NoSQL
4 24 (3.25%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.30%) MySQL
6 15 (2.03%) BigQuery
7 14 (1.89%) Metadata
8 11 (1.49%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.49%) Power BI
8 11 (1.49%) Semantic Layer
9 10 (1.35%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.81%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.68%) Spark SQL
13 4 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.54%) Big Data
13 4 (0.54%) Redis
14 3 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 57 (7.71%) TeamCity
2 53 (7.17%) Selenium
3 50 (6.77%) Git
4 45 (6.09%) Jenkins
5 39 (5.28%) GitLab
6 37 (5.01%) JIRA
7 31 (4.19%) Cypress.io
8 22 (2.98%) Postman
9 20 (2.71%) JMeter
10 16 (2.17%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.89%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.89%) XCTest
12 13 (1.76%) SpecFlow
13 12 (1.62%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.35%) WebDriver
15 9 (1.22%) Oracle Forms
16 8 (1.08%) Appium
16 8 (1.08%) JUnit
17 7 (0.95%) Claude Code
18 6 (0.81%) XCUITest
General
1 197 (26.66%) Finance
2 195 (26.39%) Social Skills
3 114 (15.43%) Banking
4 107 (14.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (13.40%) Law
6 86 (11.64%) Public Sector
6 86 (11.64%) Retail
7 51 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (6.90%) Financial Institution
8 41 (5.55%) Back Office
9 37 (5.01%) Games
10 22 (2.98%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.84%) Legal
12 19 (2.57%) Marketing
13 15 (2.03%) Electronics
14 10 (1.35%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.68%) Advertising
17 5 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (28.28%) Senior
2 124 (16.78%) Software Engineer
3 122 (16.51%) Lead
4 85 (11.50%) Developer
5 68 (9.20%) Test Engineer
6 50 (6.77%) QA Engineer
7 49 (6.63%) Java Engineer
8 48 (6.50%) Senior Software Engineer
9 38 (5.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 37 (5.01%) Senior Developer
11 35 (4.74%) Java Software Engineer
12 32 (4.33%) Engineering Manager
12 32 (4.33%) Software Manager
13 31 (4.19%) Test Automation Engineer
14 29 (3.92%) Software Engineering Manager
15 28 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
15 28 (3.79%) QA Automation Engineer
16 27 (3.65%) Tester
17 26 (3.52%) Test Leader
18 25 (3.38%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (13.40%) React
2 63 (8.53%) Playwright
3 62 (8.39%) .NET
3 62 (8.39%) REST
4 58 (7.85%) Node.js
4 58 (7.85%) RESTful
4 58 (7.85%) Spring
5 29 (3.92%) Spring Boot
6 22 (2.98%) AngularJS
7 20 (2.71%) AWS CDK
7 20 (2.71%) JSON
7 20 (2.71%) Next.js
7 20 (2.71%) React Native
8 17 (2.30%) CSS
8 17 (2.30%) HTML
9 15 (2.03%) Kafka
9 15 (2.03%) SwiftUI
10 14 (1.89%) UIKit
10 14 (1.89%) XML
11 13 (1.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 171 (23.14%) Cloud Native
2 99 (13.40%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.41%) Mobile App
4 32 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
5 28 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
5 28 (3.79%) Low-Code
6 23 (3.11%) Management Information System
6 23 (3.11%) Public Cloud
6 23 (3.11%) Video\Live Streaming
7 20 (2.71%) Blog
7 20 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (2.17%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.35%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.35%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.22%) Podcast
12 9 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 49 (6.63%) Apple iOS
1 49 (6.63%) Linux
2 38 (5.14%) Android
3 23 (3.11%) Unix
4 18 (2.44%) Windows
5 3 (0.41%) CentOS
6 2 (0.27%) Debian
6 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 419 (56.70%) CI/CD
2 332 (44.93%) Agile
3 236 (31.94%) Mentoring
4 230 (31.12%) DevOps
5 229 (30.99%) Software Engineering
6 193 (26.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 154 (20.84%) Microservices
8 153 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
9 150 (20.30%) Coaching
10 140 (18.94%) AI
11 133 (18.00%) Clean Code
12 127 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
13 121 (16.37%) Observability
14 116 (15.70%) Full-Stack Development
15 97 (13.13%) Deployment Automation
16 95 (12.86%) Technical Leadership
17 94 (12.72%) Test Strategy
18 89 (12.04%) Software Testing
19 88 (11.91%) Roadmaps
20 84 (11.37%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 232 (31.39%) Java
2 180 (24.36%) Python
3 111 (15.02%) SQL
4 101 (13.67%) JavaScript
5 99 (13.40%) TypeScript
6 70 (9.47%) C#
7 38 (5.14%) Go
8 25 (3.38%) Bash
8 25 (3.38%) PowerShell
9 18 (2.44%) Kotlin
10 15 (2.03%) Swift
11 11 (1.49%) Apex Code
12 9 (1.22%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.08%) Bicep
13 8 (1.08%) Clojure
13 8 (1.08%) PHP
13 8 (1.08%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.81%) C++
15 5 (0.68%) C
Qualifications
1 67 (9.07%) Security Cleared
2 64 (8.66%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.36%) Degree
4 26 (3.52%) ISTQB
5 17 (2.30%) CISSP
6 13 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.49%) CGEIT
7 11 (1.49%) CISA
7 11 (1.49%) CISM
7 11 (1.49%) FFIEC
7 11 (1.49%) SANS
8 9 (1.22%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.22%) CEH
9 8 (1.08%) CREST Certified
9 8 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.08%) OSCP
10 7 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (0.95%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.81%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.68%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (24.36%) QA
2 67 (9.07%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.92%) GDPR
4 28 (3.79%) Data Quality
5 23 (3.11%) NIST
6 15 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.49%) COBIT
7 11 (1.49%) GRC
8 10 (1.35%) WCAG
9 9 (1.22%) ISO 22301
10 8 (1.08%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.95%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.41%) PERC
12 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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 76 (10.28%) Docker
2 11 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (1.08%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 144 (19.49%) Terraform
2 130 (17.59%) Kubernetes
3 69 (9.34%) Grafana
4 20 (2.71%) Argo
5 16 (2.17%) Ansible
6 7 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.41%) CloudHub
9 2 (0.27%) logstash
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.27%) MIIS
10 1 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.14%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 66 (8.93%) Microsoft
2 33 (4.47%) Oracle
3 22 (2.98%) Databricks
4 21 (2.84%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.17%) Braze
6 15 (2.03%) VMware
7 14 (1.89%) Amplitude
7 14 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.62%) Commvault
9 11 (1.49%) SAP
10 9 (1.22%) Google
11 8 (1.08%) IFS
12 7 (0.95%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.68%) dotdigital
14 4 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (0.54%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.54%) MuleSoft
15 3 (0.41%) Okta
15 3 (0.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 3 (0.41%) Workday