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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 77 109
Rank change year-on-year +16 +32 -53
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 902 727 706
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.00% 4.41% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 4.75% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 416 355 537
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,600 £39,589
25th Percentile £50,468 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,625 £95,000 £81,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £58,750
% change year-on-year +4.00% +6.38% -9.62%

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 18,662 15,317 22,161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.81% 92.95% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 13,504 9,019 15,975
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,903 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,250 £58,800
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +0.77% -5.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 6 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 14 (1.55%) Confluence
2 13 (1.44%) Anypoint
2 13 (1.44%) Mule
3 12 (1.33%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.89%) Apache
6 5 (0.55%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.55%) CMS
6 5 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.44%) Camunda
7 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.33%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.11%) JBoss
9 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.44%) Lightworks
2 4 (0.44%) Simulink
3 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.33%) Moqups
3 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 33 (3.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (2.99%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.44%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.22%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.11%) Magento
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 435 (48.23%) AWS
2 286 (31.71%) Azure
3 173 (19.18%) SaaS
4 140 (15.52%) GCP
5 78 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (8.09%) Serverless
7 71 (7.87%) GitHub
8 52 (5.76%) Amazon EKS
9 42 (4.66%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (3.10%) Power Platform
11 24 (2.66%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.22%) Azure AKS
13 19 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (2.00%) Entra ID
15 16 (1.77%) TestFlight
16 14 (1.55%) Amazon S3
16 14 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (1.55%) Datadog
16 14 (1.55%) Firebase
16 14 (1.55%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 71 (7.87%) Broadband
2 13 (1.44%) SSL
3 9 (1.00%) DNS
4 8 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.78%) Firewall
6 6 (0.67%) CHAP
7 5 (0.55%) SMS
8 4 (0.44%) DHCP
8 4 (0.44%) LAN
8 4 (0.44%) MQTT
8 4 (0.44%) Network Security
8 4 (0.44%) WAN
8 4 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.33%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.33%) VPN
9 3 (0.33%) Wireless
10 2 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (7.54%) MongoDB
3 35 (3.88%) NoSQL
4 33 (3.66%) SQL Server
5 21 (2.33%) MySQL
6 18 (2.00%) BigQuery
7 17 (1.88%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.66%) Semantic Layer
9 13 (1.44%) Metadata
10 11 (1.22%) Power BI
11 10 (1.11%) DynamoDB
11 10 (1.11%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.78%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.67%) Big Data
15 5 (0.55%) Redis
15 5 (0.55%) Spark SQL
16 4 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 74 (8.20%) Git
2 56 (6.21%) Selenium
3 55 (6.10%) TeamCity
4 53 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 48 (5.32%) GitLab
6 37 (4.10%) Cypress.io
7 33 (3.66%) JIRA
8 28 (3.10%) Postman
9 17 (1.88%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.88%) JMeter
10 14 (1.55%) Crashlytics
10 14 (1.55%) XCTest
11 13 (1.44%) JUnit
12 12 (1.33%) SpecFlow
13 9 (1.00%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.00%) Gatling
14 8 (0.89%) Appium
14 8 (0.89%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.78%) NUnit
15 7 (0.78%) TestRail
General
1 282 (31.26%) Social Skills
2 184 (20.40%) Finance
3 149 (16.52%) Law
4 115 (12.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 108 (11.97%) Banking
6 105 (11.64%) Public Sector
7 94 (10.42%) Legal
8 86 (9.53%) Analytical Skills
9 80 (8.87%) Retail
10 47 (5.21%) Financial Institution
11 46 (5.10%) Marketing
12 44 (4.88%) Games
13 43 (4.77%) Back Office
14 25 (2.77%) Manufacturing
15 17 (1.88%) Electronics
16 13 (1.44%) Aerospace
17 12 (1.33%) Investment Banking
18 10 (1.11%) Telecoms
19 9 (1.00%) Legal Technology
20 7 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 262 (29.05%) Senior
2 150 (16.63%) Lead
3 138 (15.30%) Software Engineer
4 107 (11.86%) Developer
5 53 (5.88%) Test Engineer
6 52 (5.76%) Senior Manager
7 49 (5.43%) Testing Manager
8 48 (5.32%) IT Manager
8 48 (5.32%) IT Services Manager
8 48 (5.32%) Resilience Manager
8 48 (5.32%) Service Manager
9 44 (4.88%) Java Engineer
10 42 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
11 41 (4.55%) Engineering Manager
11 41 (4.55%) Senior Developer
12 40 (4.43%) QA Engineer
12 40 (4.43%) Software Manager
13 39 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 38 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
15 36 (3.99%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (12.53%) React
2 70 (7.76%) Node.js
2 70 (7.76%) REST
3 68 (7.54%) Playwright
4 66 (7.32%) .NET
5 65 (7.21%) Spring
6 61 (6.76%) RESTful
7 51 (5.65%) Middleware
8 31 (3.44%) Spring Boot
9 29 (3.22%) AngularJS
10 24 (2.66%) AWS CDK
10 24 (2.66%) Next.js
11 21 (2.33%) Django
12 20 (2.22%) CSS
13 19 (2.11%) React Native
14 17 (1.88%) HTML
14 17 (1.88%) OAuth
15 16 (1.77%) OAuth2
16 14 (1.55%) Kafka
16 14 (1.55%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 185 (20.51%) Cloud Native
2 122 (13.53%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.54%) Cyber Threat
4 57 (6.32%) Virtual Team
5 54 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
6 47 (5.21%) Mobile App
7 41 (4.55%) Blog
8 37 (4.10%) Low-Code
9 32 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
9 32 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
9 32 (3.55%) Video\Live Streaming
10 29 (3.22%) Public Cloud
11 27 (2.99%) Marketing Technology
12 17 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.66%) Management Information System
14 13 (1.44%) Algorithms
14 13 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (1.22%) Cyberattack
16 11 (1.22%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.87%) Linux
2 40 (4.43%) Windows
3 37 (4.10%) Apple iOS
4 32 (3.55%) Unix
5 29 (3.22%) Android
6 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.22%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.11%) CentOS
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
9 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 511 (56.65%) CI/CD
2 421 (46.67%) Agile
3 344 (38.14%) DevOps
4 339 (37.58%) Mentoring
4 339 (37.58%) Software Engineering
5 299 (33.15%) Continuous Improvement
6 204 (22.62%) AI
7 180 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
8 158 (17.52%) Coaching
9 152 (16.85%) Microservices
10 151 (16.74%) Software Testing
11 140 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
12 136 (15.08%) Test Strategy
13 134 (14.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 132 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
15 130 (14.41%) Observability
16 127 (14.08%) Technical Leadership
17 124 (13.75%) Clean Code
18 114 (12.64%) Decision-Making
19 111 (12.31%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 262 (29.05%) Python
2 238 (26.39%) Java
3 167 (18.51%) JavaScript
4 149 (16.52%) TypeScript
5 129 (14.30%) C#
6 113 (12.53%) SQL
7 66 (7.32%) PowerShell
8 47 (5.21%) Go
9 23 (2.55%) Kotlin
10 22 (2.44%) Bash
11 16 (1.77%) Swift
12 13 (1.44%) C++
12 13 (1.44%) DataWeave
13 11 (1.22%) PHP
14 9 (1.00%) C
15 8 (0.89%) Clojure
15 8 (0.89%) Rust
16 6 (0.67%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.67%) Ruby
17 5 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (9.31%) Security Cleared
2 75 (8.31%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.65%) ITIL Certification
4 58 (6.43%) CISSP
5 56 (6.21%) Degree
6 54 (5.99%) CISM
7 25 (2.77%) ISTQB
8 13 (1.44%) DV Cleared
9 10 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.78%) CISA
10 7 (0.78%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.67%) CGEIT
11 6 (0.67%) FFIEC
11 6 (0.67%) SANS
12 4 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.44%) CEH
12 4 (0.44%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (25.06%) QA
2 80 (8.87%) Accessibility
3 61 (6.76%) NIST
4 52 (5.76%) ISO 22301
5 36 (3.99%) Data Quality
6 21 (2.33%) GDPR
7 16 (1.77%) WCAG
8 12 (1.33%) GRC
9 10 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.67%) COBIT
11 4 (0.44%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.44%) SLA
12 3 (0.33%) ECSS
12 3 (0.33%) PERC
12 3 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.11%) ISAE 3402
14 1 (0.11%) ITGC
14 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 91 (10.09%) Docker
2 10 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.67%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.33%) Firmware
5 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) KVM
6 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 133 (14.75%) Kubernetes
2 127 (14.08%) Terraform
3 68 (7.54%) Grafana
4 19 (2.11%) Ansible
5 16 (1.77%) Argo
6 13 (1.44%) CloudHub
7 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.89%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.22%) MIIS
9 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.11%) Podman
9 1 (0.11%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 75 (8.31%) Microsoft
2 27 (2.99%) ServiceNow
3 25 (2.77%) Salesforce
4 23 (2.55%) Oracle
5 21 (2.33%) Databricks
6 16 (1.77%) Braze
7 15 (1.66%) SAP
8 14 (1.55%) Amplitude
8 14 (1.55%) MuleSoft
9 13 (1.44%) VMware
10 12 (1.33%) Google
10 12 (1.33%) Pega
11 8 (0.89%) IFS
12 5 (0.55%) Commvault
12 5 (0.55%) dotdigital
13 4 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.44%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.33%) HubSpot
14 3 (0.33%) Informatica
14 3 (0.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud