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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 52 98
Rank change year-on-year -5 +46 -47
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 705 821 966
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.82% 5.62% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 5.91% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 394 452 750
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,716 £38,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £56,318
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +6.54% -13.36%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £104,250 £98,474 £81,250
UK median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +4.35% -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 15,256 13,894 29,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 95.05% 91.08%
Number of salaries quoted 10,822 8,909 23,455
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,208 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +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 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -10.10%

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 11 May 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 7 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 7 (0.99%) SharePoint
2 6 (0.85%) Confluence
3 5 (0.71%) Apache
3 5 (0.71%) CMS
4 3 (0.43%) nginx
5 2 (0.28%) JBoss
5 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.28%) WordPress
6 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.14%) Camunda
6 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 14 (1.99%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 280 (39.72%) AWS
2 256 (36.31%) Azure
3 118 (16.74%) Azure DevOps
4 110 (15.60%) GCP
5 104 (14.75%) GitHub
6 70 (9.93%) Serverless
7 58 (8.23%) SaaS
8 46 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
9 44 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (5.25%) GitHub Copilot
11 29 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
11 29 (4.11%) Power Platform
12 26 (3.69%) Entra ID
13 24 (3.40%) Azure AKS
14 22 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (2.98%) Azure Event Grid
16 16 (2.27%) Amazon S3
16 16 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (2.27%) Nutanix
16 16 (2.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.82%) Broadband
2 14 (1.99%) CHAP
3 3 (0.43%) DNS
3 3 (0.43%) Firewall
3 3 (0.43%) VPN
4 2 (0.28%) Network Security
4 2 (0.28%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (11.77%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (8.37%) MongoDB
3 35 (4.96%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.69%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.70%) MySQL
6 14 (1.99%) Metadata
7 13 (1.84%) Power BI
7 13 (1.84%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.42%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.13%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.13%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.13%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (0.99%) Tableau
11 5 (0.71%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.71%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (0.57%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (8.23%) Selenium
2 49 (6.95%) Git
3 46 (6.52%) Jenkins
3 46 (6.52%) JIRA
4 45 (6.38%) TeamCity
5 34 (4.82%) Cypress.io
6 31 (4.40%) GitLab
7 22 (3.12%) JMeter
7 22 (3.12%) Postman
8 17 (2.41%) Oracle Forms
9 13 (1.84%) SpecFlow
10 12 (1.70%) Crashlytics
10 12 (1.70%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.70%) REST Assured
10 12 (1.70%) XCTest
11 11 (1.56%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.99%) Appium
12 7 (0.99%) CircleCI
12 7 (0.99%) MLflow
12 7 (0.99%) TestRail
General
1 211 (29.93%) Finance
2 189 (26.81%) Social Skills
3 98 (13.90%) Banking
4 91 (12.91%) Law
5 85 (12.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 70 (9.93%) Public Sector
6 70 (9.93%) Retail
7 56 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
8 45 (6.38%) Financial Institution
9 37 (5.25%) Games
10 32 (4.54%) Back Office
11 20 (2.84%) Legal
11 20 (2.84%) Manufacturing
12 18 (2.55%) Marketing
13 16 (2.27%) Electronics
14 9 (1.28%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.71%) Front Office
18 4 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 200 (28.37%) Senior
2 111 (15.74%) Lead
3 110 (15.60%) Software Engineer
4 73 (10.35%) Developer
5 60 (8.51%) Test Engineer
6 57 (8.09%) QA Engineer
7 45 (6.38%) Senior Software Engineer
8 43 (6.10%) Java Engineer
9 37 (5.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 34 (4.82%) QA Automation Engineer
11 32 (4.54%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (4.54%) Test Automation Engineer
12 31 (4.40%) Automation Engineer
12 31 (4.40%) Senior Developer
13 28 (3.97%) Tester
14 26 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (2.98%) Engineering Manager
15 21 (2.98%) Software Manager
16 20 (2.84%) Senior Test Engineer
16 20 (2.84%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (15.46%) React
2 72 (10.21%) RESTful
3 70 (9.93%) REST
4 64 (9.08%) .NET
5 61 (8.65%) Playwright
6 52 (7.38%) Node.js
7 43 (6.10%) Spring
8 31 (4.40%) JSON
9 25 (3.55%) SOAP
9 25 (3.55%) Spring Boot
10 23 (3.26%) React Native
11 21 (2.98%) Next.js
12 20 (2.84%) AngularJS
13 19 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
13 19 (2.70%) XML
14 17 (2.41%) AWS CDK
14 17 (2.41%) OAuth
15 16 (2.27%) CSS
15 16 (2.27%) HTML
15 16 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 158 (22.41%) Cloud Native
2 90 (12.77%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.67%) Mobile App
4 29 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (4.11%) Low-Code
5 26 (3.69%) Management Information System
6 25 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
7 23 (3.26%) Video\Live Streaming
8 22 (3.12%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (2.55%) Blog
11 13 (1.84%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.84%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (1.28%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.28%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.28%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.09%) Linux
2 49 (6.95%) Apple iOS
3 40 (5.67%) Android
4 24 (3.40%) Unix
5 17 (2.41%) Windows
6 3 (0.43%) CentOS
7 2 (0.28%) Debian
7 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (55.04%) CI/CD
2 328 (46.52%) Agile
3 241 (34.18%) DevOps
4 210 (29.79%) Mentoring
5 201 (28.51%) Software Engineering
6 194 (27.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 162 (22.98%) Coaching
8 148 (20.99%) Microservices
9 142 (20.14%) AI
10 140 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
11 133 (18.87%) Clean Code
12 127 (18.01%) Observability
13 122 (17.30%) Full-Stack Development
13 122 (17.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 94 (13.33%) Test Strategy
15 87 (12.34%) Deployment Automation
16 80 (11.35%) Software Testing
17 78 (11.06%) Validation
18 76 (10.78%) Technical Leadership
19 75 (10.64%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 200 (28.37%) Java
2 180 (25.53%) Python
3 121 (17.16%) SQL
4 99 (14.04%) TypeScript
5 91 (12.91%) JavaScript
6 67 (9.50%) C#
7 37 (5.25%) Go
8 28 (3.97%) PowerShell
9 20 (2.84%) Bash
10 18 (2.55%) Apex Code
11 17 (2.41%) PL/SQL
12 16 (2.27%) Kotlin
12 16 (2.27%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.99%) Bicep
14 13 (1.84%) Swift
15 9 (1.28%) PHP
16 8 (1.13%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.85%) Clojure
18 5 (0.71%) C
18 5 (0.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 55 (7.80%) Security Cleared
2 52 (7.38%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.67%) Degree
4 25 (3.55%) ISTQB
5 20 (2.84%) CISSP
6 14 (1.99%) CGEIT
6 14 (1.99%) CISA
6 14 (1.99%) CISM
6 14 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.99%) FFIEC
6 14 (1.99%) SANS
7 12 (1.70%) CEH
7 12 (1.70%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (0.99%) CREST Certified
10 7 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
10 7 (0.99%) OSCP
11 5 (0.71%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (25.25%) QA
2 55 (7.80%) Accessibility
3 32 (4.54%) GDPR
4 31 (4.40%) NIST
5 20 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (2.70%) Data Quality
7 14 (1.99%) COBIT
8 12 (1.70%) ISO 22301
9 11 (1.56%) WCAG
10 9 (1.28%) GRC
11 8 (1.13%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
13 4 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.14%) NCSC
14 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.14%) PERC
14 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 71 (10.07%) Docker
2 15 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 137 (19.43%) Terraform
2 115 (16.31%) Kubernetes
3 56 (7.94%) Grafana
4 21 (2.98%) Argo
5 17 (2.41%) Ansible
6 15 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.57%) logstash
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.28%) MIIS
8 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.14%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 63 (8.94%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.82%) Oracle
3 22 (3.12%) Databricks
3 22 (3.12%) Salesforce
4 19 (2.70%) VMware
5 16 (2.27%) Commvault
6 12 (1.70%) Amplitude
6 12 (1.70%) Braze
7 11 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.28%) SAP
9 8 (1.13%) Google
10 7 (0.99%) Ab Initio
10 7 (0.99%) Okta
10 7 (0.99%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.85%) IFS
12 4 (0.57%) Workday
13 3 (0.43%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.43%) Informatica
14 2 (0.28%) Adobe
14 2 (0.28%) CheckPoint