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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 72 88
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 -38
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 631 597 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.76% 4.30% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 4.51% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 362 430 777
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,375 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +6.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £99,001 £91,934
UK median annual salary £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% -4.00%

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 14,297 13,240 27,544
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.26% 95.33% 92.13%
Number of salaries quoted 9,336 8,795 22,823
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 12 March 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 11 (1.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.79%) Apache
3 5 (0.79%) CMS
4 4 (0.63%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.63%) Confluence
4 4 (0.63%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.48%) nginx
5 3 (0.48%) WordPress
6 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.32%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) Camunda
7 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 27 (4.28%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.63%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.16%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 260 (41.20%) Azure
2 213 (33.76%) AWS
3 146 (23.14%) GitHub
4 128 (20.29%) Azure DevOps
5 97 (15.37%) GCP
6 74 (11.73%) SaaS
7 63 (9.98%) GitHub Copilot
8 58 (9.19%) Serverless
9 51 (8.08%) Amazon EKS
10 49 (7.77%) GitHub Actions
11 32 (5.07%) Azure Data Factory
11 32 (5.07%) Entra ID
11 32 (5.07%) Power Platform
12 27 (4.28%) Azure Event Grid
13 25 (3.96%) OCI
14 23 (3.65%) Snowflake
15 22 (3.49%) PaaS
16 21 (3.33%) Nutanix
17 20 (3.17%) dbt
18 18 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.58%) CHAP
2 8 (1.27%) Broadband
3 4 (0.63%) 5G
3 4 (0.63%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.63%) WAN
4 3 (0.48%) VPN
5 2 (0.32%) DNS
5 2 (0.32%) Firewall
5 2 (0.32%) HTTP
5 2 (0.32%) Internet
5 2 (0.32%) Network Security
5 2 (0.32%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.32%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.16%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (5.23%) SQL Server
3 32 (5.07%) NoSQL
4 27 (4.28%) MySQL
5 22 (3.49%) MongoDB
5 22 (3.49%) Power BI
6 16 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.06%) Tableau
8 12 (1.90%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.74%) Metadata
10 10 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (1.11%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.95%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.95%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.79%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
15 3 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 66 (10.46%) Selenium
2 54 (8.56%) JIRA
3 50 (7.92%) Git
3 50 (7.92%) Jenkins
4 49 (7.77%) TeamCity
5 37 (5.86%) Cypress.io
6 25 (3.96%) Oracle Forms
7 23 (3.65%) Postman
8 22 (3.49%) JMeter
9 18 (2.85%) Cucumber
10 15 (2.38%) GitLab
11 14 (2.22%) SpecFlow
11 14 (2.22%) WebDriver
12 9 (1.43%) JUnit
12 9 (1.43%) REST Assured
13 8 (1.27%) Storybook
14 7 (1.11%) Appium
14 7 (1.11%) CircleCI
14 7 (1.11%) MLflow
15 6 (0.95%) Crashlytics
General
1 245 (38.83%) Finance
2 181 (28.68%) Social Skills
3 99 (15.69%) Law
4 83 (13.15%) Banking
5 77 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 69 (10.94%) Retail
7 63 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
8 52 (8.24%) Public Sector
9 50 (7.92%) Financial Institution
10 37 (5.86%) Back Office
11 24 (3.80%) Marketing
12 20 (3.17%) Games
13 11 (1.74%) Legal
14 7 (1.11%) Electronics
15 6 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.95%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.63%) Automotive
16 4 (0.63%) Billing
16 4 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 181 (28.68%) Senior
2 106 (16.80%) Software Engineer
3 83 (13.15%) Lead
4 77 (12.20%) Developer
5 57 (9.03%) QA Engineer
6 50 (7.92%) Test Engineer
7 44 (6.97%) Senior Software Engineer
8 42 (6.66%) Java Engineer
9 38 (6.02%) Java Software Engineer
10 32 (5.07%) Applications Engineer
10 32 (5.07%) Test Automation Engineer
11 31 (4.91%) QA Automation Engineer
11 31 (4.91%) Senior Developer
12 29 (4.60%) Automation Engineer
12 29 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
13 25 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 23 (3.65%) Tester
15 22 (3.49%) Lead Developer
16 17 (2.69%) Analyst
16 17 (2.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (14.26%) React
2 78 (12.36%) RESTful
3 62 (9.83%) .NET
4 56 (8.87%) Playwright
5 51 (8.08%) REST
6 45 (7.13%) JSON
7 40 (6.34%) SOAP
8 29 (4.60%) Node.js
9 28 (4.44%) OAuth
9 28 (4.44%) OAuth2
9 28 (4.44%) Spring
10 27 (4.28%) XML
11 25 (3.96%) Lightning Web Components
12 22 (3.49%) Next.js
13 19 (3.01%) Spring Boot
14 18 (2.85%) .NET Framework
15 16 (2.54%) CSS
16 15 (2.38%) HTML
17 14 (2.22%) Entity Framework
17 14 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 148 (23.45%) Cloud Native
2 67 (10.62%) Product Ownership
3 30 (4.75%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (3.96%) Mobile App
5 24 (3.80%) Management Information System
6 21 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 20 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.69%) Blog
8 17 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
10 14 (2.22%) GNSS
11 11 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.74%) Low-Code
12 10 (1.58%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.58%) Satnav
13 9 (1.43%) Onboarding
13 9 (1.43%) Virtual Team
14 7 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
14 7 (1.11%) Cyberattack
14 7 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 39 (6.18%) Apple iOS
2 34 (5.39%) Android
3 30 (4.75%) Linux
4 10 (1.58%) Unix
5 7 (1.11%) Windows
6 4 (0.63%) CentOS
6 4 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.32%) Debian
7 2 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (53.25%) CI/CD
2 293 (46.43%) Agile
3 231 (36.61%) DevOps
4 194 (30.74%) Mentoring
5 178 (28.21%) Coaching
6 171 (27.10%) Software Engineering
7 152 (24.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 138 (21.87%) Microservices
9 136 (21.55%) Clean Code
10 129 (20.44%) AI
11 123 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
12 103 (16.32%) Observability
13 97 (15.37%) Asset Management
14 88 (13.95%) Analytics
14 88 (13.95%) Deployment Automation
15 82 (13.00%) Full-Stack Development
16 75 (11.89%) Infrastructure as Code
17 71 (11.25%) Fintech
18 69 (10.94%) Test Strategy
19 63 (9.98%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 177 (28.05%) Java
2 166 (26.31%) Python
3 129 (20.44%) SQL
4 93 (14.74%) TypeScript
5 85 (13.47%) JavaScript
6 50 (7.92%) C#
7 37 (5.86%) PowerShell
8 26 (4.12%) Shell Script
9 25 (3.96%) PL/SQL
10 24 (3.80%) Apex Code
11 18 (2.85%) Bash
11 18 (2.85%) Bicep
12 17 (2.69%) PHP
13 16 (2.54%) Go
14 8 (1.27%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.27%) Swift
14 8 (1.27%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.95%) Delphi
16 4 (0.63%) Perl
17 3 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (7.45%) Degree
2 43 (6.81%) Security Cleared
3 40 (6.34%) SC Cleared
4 21 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.69%) ISTQB
5 17 (2.69%) Master's Degree
6 16 (2.54%) CISSP
7 15 (2.38%) CEH
8 12 (1.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 11 (1.74%) CISA
10 10 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.58%) CGEIT
10 10 (1.58%) CISM
10 10 (1.58%) FFIEC
10 10 (1.58%) SANS
11 8 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (0.95%) CREST Certified
12 6 (0.95%) OSCP
13 5 (0.79%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.63%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (24.88%) QA
2 49 (7.77%) Accessibility
3 34 (5.39%) NIST
4 31 (4.91%) GDPR
5 27 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (2.38%) ISO 22301
7 14 (2.22%) Data Quality
8 13 (2.06%) WCAG
9 10 (1.58%) COBIT
9 10 (1.58%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.95%) Software Quality Assurance
11 5 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.63%) SLA
13 3 (0.48%) GRC
13 3 (0.48%) NCSC
14 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.16%) Section 508
System Software
1 67 (10.62%) Docker
2 28 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 136 (21.55%) Terraform
2 112 (17.75%) Kubernetes
3 67 (10.62%) Grafana
4 26 (4.12%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (3.17%) Ansible
6 7 (1.11%) Argo
7 4 (0.63%) logstash
8 3 (0.48%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.32%) Control-M
9 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.16%) MIIS
10 1 (0.16%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 55 (8.72%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.77%) Oracle
3 28 (4.44%) Salesforce
4 24 (3.80%) VMware
5 22 (3.49%) Databricks
6 21 (3.33%) Commvault
7 14 (2.22%) Okta
8 13 (2.06%) Ab Initio
9 11 (1.74%) ServiceNow
10 8 (1.27%) SAP
11 7 (1.11%) Google
12 6 (0.95%) Amplitude
12 6 (0.95%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.63%) Workday
14 3 (0.48%) Foundry
14 3 (0.48%) IBM
15 2 (0.32%) CheckPoint
15 2 (0.32%) Facebook
15 2 (0.32%) Red Hat
15 2 (0.32%) Splunk