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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 79 81
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -36
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 528 635 824
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.50% 3.86% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 4.12% 4.16%
Number of salaries quoted 328 381 643
10th Percentile £45,875 £38,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,375 £93,778 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%

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 13,199 15,404 19,804
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.42% 93.53% 93.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8,377 9,084 15,996
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,713 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 9 January 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 17 (3.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (1.52%) Confluence
3 7 (1.33%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.57%) Apache
6 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.38%) nginx
6 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) CMS
7 1 (0.19%) JBoss
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.76%) Oracle Smart View
2 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 43 (8.14%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.76%) Hyperion Planning
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.57%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 252 (47.73%) Azure
2 158 (29.92%) GitHub
3 152 (28.79%) Azure DevOps
4 118 (22.35%) AWS
5 75 (14.20%) GitHub Copilot
6 65 (12.31%) SaaS
7 47 (8.90%) GitHub Actions
8 45 (8.52%) GCP
9 37 (7.01%) Entra ID
9 37 (7.01%) OCI
10 36 (6.82%) Power Platform
11 33 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 33 (6.25%) Serverless
12 32 (6.06%) PaaS
13 28 (5.30%) Snowflake
14 21 (3.98%) dbt
15 19 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
16 18 (3.41%) Azure Event Grid
16 18 (3.41%) Azure Logic Apps
17 15 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.14%) CHAP
2 4 (0.76%) 5G
2 4 (0.76%) HTTP
2 4 (0.76%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.76%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.76%) WAN
3 3 (0.57%) Internet
3 3 (0.57%) VPN
4 2 (0.38%) Broadband
4 2 (0.38%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.19%) DNS
5 1 (0.19%) Firewall
5 1 (0.19%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.82%) SQL Server
2 28 (5.30%) Power BI
3 25 (4.73%) MySQL
3 25 (4.73%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (3.98%) NoSQL
6 19 (3.60%) Tableau
7 17 (3.22%) Relational Database
8 14 (2.65%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.52%) MariaDB
10 8 (1.52%) Metadata
11 7 (1.33%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.33%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.14%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.76%) Essbase
15 3 (0.57%) Pinecone
16 2 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
16 2 (0.38%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 72 (13.64%) JIRA
2 64 (12.12%) Selenium
3 58 (10.98%) Jenkins
4 53 (10.04%) Git
5 41 (7.77%) Oracle Forms
6 35 (6.63%) Cypress.io
7 23 (4.36%) TeamCity
8 18 (3.41%) Postman
9 13 (2.46%) Cucumber
10 12 (2.27%) JUnit
11 11 (2.08%) GitLab
11 11 (2.08%) WebDriver
12 10 (1.89%) JMeter
13 7 (1.33%) Storybook
14 6 (1.14%) CircleCI
14 6 (1.14%) LoadRunner
14 6 (1.14%) SpecFlow
14 6 (1.14%) TestRail
15 5 (0.95%) Appium
15 5 (0.95%) Subversion
General
1 218 (41.29%) Finance
2 177 (33.52%) Social Skills
3 73 (13.83%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (11.55%) Law
5 45 (8.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 37 (7.01%) Banking
7 29 (5.49%) Public Sector
8 27 (5.11%) Financial Institution
8 27 (5.11%) Retail
9 20 (3.79%) Back Office
10 19 (3.60%) Marketing
11 12 (2.27%) Legal
12 10 (1.89%) Games
13 9 (1.70%) Front Office
14 8 (1.52%) Automotive
15 7 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (1.14%) Electronics
16 6 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.76%) Billing
17 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 151 (28.60%) Senior
2 86 (16.29%) Developer
3 81 (15.34%) Lead
4 47 (8.90%) Software Engineer
5 44 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
6 41 (7.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 40 (7.58%) QA Engineer
8 39 (7.39%) Test Engineer
9 29 (5.49%) Test Automation Engineer
10 26 (4.92%) QA Automation Engineer
10 26 (4.92%) Senior Developer
11 25 (4.73%) Analyst
12 24 (4.55%) Lead Developer
13 23 (4.36%) Senior Software Engineer
14 22 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
14 22 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 19 (3.60%) Tester
16 18 (3.41%) .NET Developer
16 18 (3.41%) Software Developer
17 16 (3.03%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (15.53%) RESTful
2 64 (12.12%) React
3 57 (10.80%) JSON
4 51 (9.66%) .NET
5 49 (9.28%) SOAP
6 46 (8.71%) REST
7 36 (6.82%) OAuth
8 35 (6.63%) OAuth2
9 32 (6.06%) Playwright
10 31 (5.87%) XML
11 25 (4.73%) Node.js
12 23 (4.36%) Lightning Web Components
13 19 (3.60%) .NET Framework
13 19 (3.60%) Spring
14 18 (3.41%) Next.js
15 17 (3.22%) CSS
15 17 (3.22%) Entity Framework
15 17 (3.22%) SAML
16 15 (2.84%) HTML
17 13 (2.46%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 126 (23.86%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 39 (7.39%) Enterprise Software
4 24 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 13 (2.46%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.27%) GNSS
7 12 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 11 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.70%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.52%) Satnav
10 8 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 6 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (0.95%) AI Agents
12 5 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
12 5 (0.95%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.92%) Linux
2 19 (3.60%) Android
2 19 (3.60%) Apple iOS
3 12 (2.27%) Windows
4 9 (1.70%) Unix
4 9 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.57%) CentOS
6 2 (0.38%) Solaris
7 1 (0.19%) Debian
7 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (58.33%) CI/CD
2 278 (52.65%) Agile
3 236 (44.70%) DevOps
4 162 (30.68%) Coaching
5 157 (29.73%) Mentoring
6 138 (26.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 126 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
8 120 (22.73%) AI
9 116 (21.97%) Asset Management
10 101 (19.13%) Clean Code
11 99 (18.75%) Software Engineering
12 94 (17.80%) Observability
13 91 (17.23%) Microservices
14 90 (17.05%) Analytics
15 70 (13.26%) Sprint Planning
16 64 (12.12%) Sprint Retrospective
17 61 (11.55%) Data Modelling
18 58 (10.98%) Test Strategy
19 53 (10.04%) ERP
20 51 (9.66%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 159 (30.11%) Python
2 134 (25.38%) SQL
3 123 (23.30%) Java
4 69 (13.07%) JavaScript
5 64 (12.12%) C#
6 62 (11.74%) TypeScript
7 39 (7.39%) Shell Script
8 37 (7.01%) PL/SQL
9 32 (6.06%) PowerShell
10 22 (4.17%) Apex Code
10 22 (4.17%) PHP
11 19 (3.60%) Bicep
12 12 (2.27%) Bash
12 12 (2.27%) Go
13 9 (1.70%) T-SQL
14 6 (1.14%) C++
14 6 (1.14%) Delphi
15 5 (0.95%) Groovy
16 4 (0.76%) C
17 3 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 48 (9.09%) Degree
2 33 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 33 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 27 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.55%) ISTQB
5 18 (3.41%) Master's Degree
6 11 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 9 (1.70%) CEH
8 8 (1.52%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.33%) CISA
10 6 (1.14%) CGEIT
10 6 (1.14%) CISM
10 6 (1.14%) CISSP
10 6 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.14%) FFIEC
10 6 (1.14%) SANS
11 4 (0.76%) ISEB
12 3 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.57%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.38%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (24.24%) QA
2 32 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 31 (5.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (4.92%) NIST
5 22 (4.17%) GDPR
6 14 (2.65%) Data Quality
7 11 (2.08%) WCAG
8 10 (1.89%) ISO 9001
9 9 (1.70%) ISO 22301
10 8 (1.52%) NCSC
11 7 (1.33%) SLA
12 6 (1.14%) COBIT
13 5 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.38%) GRC
14 2 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
15 1 (0.19%) Section 508
15 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 49 (9.28%) Docker
2 37 (7.01%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (19.89%) Terraform
2 66 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 37 (7.01%) Single Sign-On
4 31 (5.87%) Grafana
5 16 (3.03%) Ansible
6 5 (0.95%) Argo
7 4 (0.76%) logstash
8 3 (0.57%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.38%) Control-M
9 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.38%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 71 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 60 (11.36%) Oracle
3 27 (5.11%) Salesforce
4 20 (3.79%) Okta
5 19 (3.60%) Databricks
6 18 (3.41%) VMware
7 14 (2.65%) Ab Initio
8 12 (2.27%) Commvault
9 7 (1.33%) SAP
10 5 (0.95%) Google
10 5 (0.95%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.76%) Hyperion
11 4 (0.76%) Workday
12 3 (0.57%) Foundry
12 3 (0.57%) IBM
12 3 (0.57%) iManage
12 3 (0.57%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.38%) Guidewire
13 2 (0.38%) Qualys
13 2 (0.38%) Splunk