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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 60 97
Rank change year-on-year +5 +37 -46
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 722 797 960
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.90% 5.48% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 5.77% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 395 430 744
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,716 £38,250
25th Percentile £51,875 £47,625 £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 £80,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £81,250
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 15,329 13,820 29,562
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.82% 95.08% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,874 8,648 23,364
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,100 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +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% -9.84%

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 14 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 8 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.97%) Confluence
2 7 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.83%) Apache
4 5 (0.69%) CMS
5 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.42%) nginx
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.28%) JBoss
6 2 (0.28%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Camunda
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
7 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 (1.94%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.55%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.14%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 295 (40.86%) AWS
2 259 (35.87%) Azure
3 121 (16.76%) Azure DevOps
4 116 (16.07%) GCP
5 108 (14.96%) GitHub
6 71 (9.83%) Serverless
7 63 (8.73%) SaaS
8 52 (7.20%) Amazon EKS
9 47 (6.51%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (5.12%) GitHub Copilot
11 29 (4.02%) Azure Service Bus
11 29 (4.02%) Power Platform
12 27 (3.74%) Entra ID
13 25 (3.46%) Azure AKS
14 22 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (2.91%) Azure Event Grid
16 17 (2.35%) Amazon S3
17 16 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (2.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.68%) Broadband
2 12 (1.66%) CHAP
3 4 (0.55%) DNS
4 3 (0.42%) Firewall
4 3 (0.42%) VPN
5 2 (0.28%) Network Security
5 2 (0.28%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.14%) HTTP
6 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (11.77%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (8.17%) MongoDB
3 35 (4.85%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.60%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.49%) MySQL
6 14 (1.94%) Metadata
7 13 (1.80%) Power BI
8 10 (1.39%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.39%) DynamoDB
8 10 (1.39%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.11%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (0.97%) Tableau
11 5 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.69%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.69%) Spark SQL
12 4 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (7.89%) Selenium
2 51 (7.06%) Git
2 51 (7.06%) TeamCity
3 48 (6.65%) Jenkins
4 46 (6.37%) JIRA
5 35 (4.85%) Cypress.io
6 34 (4.71%) GitLab
7 22 (3.05%) JMeter
8 19 (2.63%) Postman
9 17 (2.35%) Oracle Forms
10 13 (1.80%) Crashlytics
10 13 (1.80%) SpecFlow
10 13 (1.80%) XCTest
11 12 (1.66%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.52%) WebDriver
13 10 (1.39%) Cucumber
14 7 (0.97%) Appium
14 7 (0.97%) Locust
14 7 (0.97%) MLflow
14 7 (0.97%) TestRail
General
1 215 (29.78%) Finance
2 188 (26.04%) Social Skills
3 105 (14.54%) Banking
4 97 (13.43%) Law
5 94 (13.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (10.80%) Public Sector
7 77 (10.66%) Retail
8 57 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
9 47 (6.51%) Financial Institution
10 37 (5.12%) Games
11 36 (4.99%) Back Office
12 20 (2.77%) Legal
12 20 (2.77%) Manufacturing
13 18 (2.49%) Marketing
14 16 (2.22%) Electronics
15 9 (1.25%) Investment Banking
16 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
18 5 (0.69%) Front Office
19 4 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 205 (28.39%) Senior
2 116 (16.07%) Lead
3 115 (15.93%) Software Engineer
4 74 (10.25%) Developer
5 65 (9.00%) Test Engineer
6 54 (7.48%) QA Engineer
7 48 (6.65%) Senior Software Engineer
8 45 (6.23%) Java Engineer
9 38 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 34 (4.71%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (4.43%) QA Automation Engineer
11 32 (4.43%) Senior Developer
11 32 (4.43%) Test Automation Engineer
12 29 (4.02%) Automation Engineer
12 29 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
12 29 (4.02%) Tester
13 23 (3.19%) Engineering Manager
13 23 (3.19%) Software Manager
14 21 (2.91%) Software Engineering Manager
14 21 (2.91%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (14.82%) React
2 72 (9.97%) RESTful
3 70 (9.70%) REST
4 64 (8.86%) .NET
5 62 (8.59%) Playwright
6 52 (7.20%) Node.js
7 45 (6.23%) Spring
8 32 (4.43%) JSON
9 25 (3.46%) Spring Boot
10 23 (3.19%) React Native
10 23 (3.19%) SOAP
11 22 (3.05%) Next.js
12 20 (2.77%) AngularJS
13 19 (2.63%) AWS CDK
13 19 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
14 18 (2.49%) XML
15 17 (2.35%) OAuth
16 16 (2.22%) CSS
16 16 (2.22%) OAuth2
16 16 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 165 (22.85%) Cloud Native
2 92 (12.74%) Product Ownership
3 41 (5.68%) Mobile App
4 29 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (4.02%) Low-Code
5 27 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (3.32%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.19%) Video\Live Streaming
8 21 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (2.77%) Blog
10 15 (2.08%) Onboarding
10 15 (2.08%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (1.25%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.25%) Algorithms
14 9 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (1.25%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 51 (7.06%) Apple iOS
2 50 (6.93%) Linux
3 41 (5.68%) Android
4 24 (3.32%) Unix
5 17 (2.35%) Windows
6 3 (0.42%) CentOS
7 2 (0.28%) Debian
7 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (56.37%) CI/CD
2 337 (46.68%) Agile
3 249 (34.49%) DevOps
4 220 (30.47%) Mentoring
5 211 (29.22%) Software Engineering
6 195 (27.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 169 (23.41%) Coaching
8 152 (21.05%) Microservices
9 144 (19.94%) AI
9 144 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
10 142 (19.67%) Clean Code
11 131 (18.14%) Observability
12 126 (17.45%) Infrastructure as Code
13 122 (16.90%) Full-Stack Development
14 94 (13.02%) Deployment Automation
15 92 (12.74%) Test Strategy
16 82 (11.36%) Software Testing
17 78 (10.80%) Fintech
17 78 (10.80%) Technical Leadership
18 76 (10.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 212 (29.36%) Java
2 181 (25.07%) Python
3 119 (16.48%) SQL
4 101 (13.99%) TypeScript
5 95 (13.16%) JavaScript
6 69 (9.56%) C#
7 35 (4.85%) Go
8 28 (3.88%) PowerShell
9 22 (3.05%) Bash
10 18 (2.49%) Apex Code
11 17 (2.35%) Kotlin
11 17 (2.35%) PL/SQL
12 16 (2.22%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.94%) Bicep
13 14 (1.94%) Swift
14 9 (1.25%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.97%) PHP
16 6 (0.83%) Clojure
17 5 (0.69%) C++
17 5 (0.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 59 (8.17%) Security Cleared
2 56 (7.76%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.65%) Degree
4 24 (3.32%) ISTQB
5 18 (2.49%) CISSP
6 14 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.66%) CGEIT
7 12 (1.66%) CISA
7 12 (1.66%) CISM
7 12 (1.66%) FFIEC
7 12 (1.66%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.66%) SANS
8 11 (1.52%) Azure Certification
8 11 (1.52%) CEH
9 8 (1.11%) CREST Certified
9 8 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 8 (1.11%) OSCP
10 7 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (0.69%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.55%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (24.38%) QA
2 59 (8.17%) Accessibility
3 30 (4.16%) GDPR
4 28 (3.88%) NIST
5 21 (2.91%) Data Quality
6 19 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.66%) COBIT
8 11 (1.52%) ISO 22301
8 11 (1.52%) WCAG
9 9 (1.25%) GRC
10 8 (1.11%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
12 4 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.14%) NCSC
13 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.14%) PERC
13 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 72 (9.97%) Docker
2 15 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 146 (20.22%) Terraform
2 123 (17.04%) Kubernetes
3 64 (8.86%) Grafana
4 22 (3.05%) Argo
5 16 (2.22%) Ansible
6 15 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.55%) logstash
7 4 (0.55%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.28%) MIIS
9 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.14%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 66 (9.14%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.54%) Oracle
3 22 (3.05%) Databricks
3 22 (3.05%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.49%) VMware
5 15 (2.08%) Commvault
6 13 (1.80%) Amplitude
6 13 (1.80%) Braze
7 11 (1.52%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.25%) SAP
9 8 (1.11%) Google
10 7 (0.97%) Ab Initio
10 7 (0.97%) Okta
10 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.83%) IFS
12 4 (0.55%) Workday
13 3 (0.42%) Dynatrace
13 3 (0.42%) Foundry
13 3 (0.42%) Informatica
14 2 (0.28%) IBM