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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 71 94
Rank change year-on-year +14 +23 -46
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 693 564 985
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.86% 4.23% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.46% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 396 448 762
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,716 £38,025
25th Percentile £52,400 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,641 £60,000 £56,750
Median % change year-on-year +9.40% +5.73% -12.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £71,991
90th Percentile £101,250 £98,474 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,788 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% +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 14,918 12,640 29,709
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.13% 94.72% 91.45%
Number of salaries quoted 10,427 8,943 23,621
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,206 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.97% +6.45% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 24 April 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 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (0.87%) Confluence
2 6 (0.87%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.72%) CMS
4 4 (0.58%) Apache
5 3 (0.43%) nginx
6 2 (0.29%) JBoss
6 2 (0.29%) WordPress
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.14%) Camunda
7 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (2.31%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.58%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 275 (39.68%) Azure
2 266 (38.38%) AWS
3 127 (18.33%) GitHub
4 126 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
5 112 (16.16%) GCP
6 70 (10.10%) Serverless
7 64 (9.24%) SaaS
8 51 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
8 51 (7.36%) GitHub Copilot
9 46 (6.64%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (4.18%) Azure Data Factory
10 29 (4.18%) Entra ID
10 29 (4.18%) Power Platform
11 28 (4.04%) Azure Service Bus
12 23 (3.32%) Azure AKS
12 23 (3.32%) Azure Event Grid
13 20 (2.89%) PaaS
14 18 (2.60%) Nutanix
15 17 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (2.31%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.60%) Broadband
2 13 (1.88%) CHAP
3 3 (0.43%) DNS
3 3 (0.43%) Firewall
3 3 (0.43%) VPN
4 2 (0.29%) Internet
4 2 (0.29%) Network Security
4 2 (0.29%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.06%) MongoDB
3 36 (5.19%) NoSQL
4 35 (5.05%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.74%) MySQL
6 16 (2.31%) Power BI
7 14 (2.02%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.73%) Metadata
9 8 (1.15%) Tableau
10 7 (1.01%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.01%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.87%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.87%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.72%) Spark SQL
13 4 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.58%) Redis
14 3 (0.43%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 65 (9.38%) Selenium
2 55 (7.94%) Git
3 51 (7.36%) JIRA
4 49 (7.07%) TeamCity
5 47 (6.78%) Jenkins
6 34 (4.91%) Cypress.io
7 29 (4.18%) GitLab
8 22 (3.17%) JMeter
9 21 (3.03%) Postman
10 17 (2.45%) Cucumber
10 17 (2.45%) Oracle Forms
11 15 (2.16%) SpecFlow
12 11 (1.59%) Crashlytics
12 11 (1.59%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.59%) XCTest
13 10 (1.44%) WebDriver
14 9 (1.30%) JUnit
15 8 (1.15%) TestRail
16 7 (1.01%) CircleCI
16 7 (1.01%) MLflow
General
1 235 (33.91%) Finance
2 196 (28.28%) Social Skills
3 100 (14.43%) Banking
4 96 (13.85%) Law
5 82 (11.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 73 (10.53%) Retail
7 63 (9.09%) Public Sector
8 59 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
9 49 (7.07%) Financial Institution
10 35 (5.05%) Back Office
11 22 (3.17%) Games
12 21 (3.03%) Marketing
13 18 (2.60%) Legal
13 18 (2.60%) Manufacturing
14 15 (2.16%) Electronics
15 7 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (1.01%) Investment Banking
16 6 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.72%) Front Office
18 4 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 194 (27.99%) Senior
2 119 (17.17%) Software Engineer
3 105 (15.15%) Lead
4 75 (10.82%) Developer
5 56 (8.08%) QA Engineer
6 55 (7.94%) Test Engineer
7 48 (6.93%) Senior Software Engineer
8 45 (6.49%) Java Engineer
9 36 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
10 34 (4.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 33 (4.76%) QA Automation Engineer
12 32 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
13 30 (4.33%) Senior Developer
13 30 (4.33%) Test Automation Engineer
14 28 (4.04%) Tester
15 21 (3.03%) Applications Engineer
15 21 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
15 21 (3.03%) Senior Test Engineer
16 20 (2.89%) Lead Developer
17 19 (2.74%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (16.74%) React
2 70 (10.10%) .NET
2 70 (10.10%) REST
3 65 (9.38%) RESTful
4 61 (8.80%) Playwright
5 47 (6.78%) Node.js
6 44 (6.35%) Spring
7 36 (5.19%) JSON
8 29 (4.18%) SOAP
9 27 (3.90%) Spring Boot
10 24 (3.46%) Next.js
11 23 (3.32%) React Native
12 22 (3.17%) Lightning Web Components
13 21 (3.03%) OAuth
13 21 (3.03%) XML
14 20 (2.89%) OAuth2
15 19 (2.74%) Django
16 18 (2.60%) AngularJS
17 17 (2.45%) .NET Framework
17 17 (2.45%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 153 (22.08%) Cloud Native
2 88 (12.70%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.77%) Mobile App
4 26 (3.75%) Management Information System
5 23 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
6 22 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.60%) Blog
8 16 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.16%) Low-Code
10 14 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.88%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.73%) Public Cloud
13 9 (1.30%) AI Agents
13 9 (1.30%) Algorithms
13 9 (1.30%) Podcast
14 8 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
14 8 (1.15%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.07%) Apple iOS
2 48 (6.93%) Linux
3 41 (5.92%) Android
4 21 (3.03%) Unix
5 14 (2.02%) Windows
6 4 (0.58%) CentOS
7 2 (0.29%) Debian
7 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (55.27%) CI/CD
2 328 (47.33%) Agile
3 250 (36.08%) DevOps
4 206 (29.73%) Mentoring
5 200 (28.86%) Software Engineering
6 183 (26.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 175 (25.25%) Coaching
8 157 (22.66%) Microservices
9 144 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
10 140 (20.20%) Clean Code
11 134 (19.34%) AI
12 113 (16.31%) Observability
13 108 (15.58%) Full-Stack Development
14 103 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
15 94 (13.56%) Deployment Automation
16 91 (13.13%) Test Strategy
17 81 (11.69%) Analytics
18 75 (10.82%) Fintech
18 75 (10.82%) Technical Leadership
19 72 (10.39%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 199 (28.72%) Java
2 171 (24.68%) Python
3 122 (17.60%) SQL
4 105 (15.15%) TypeScript
5 93 (13.42%) JavaScript
6 66 (9.52%) C#
7 33 (4.76%) PowerShell
8 22 (3.17%) Go
9 21 (3.03%) Apex Code
10 19 (2.74%) Bash
11 18 (2.60%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.45%) PL/SQL
13 16 (2.31%) Bicep
13 16 (2.31%) Kotlin
14 13 (1.88%) Swift
15 10 (1.44%) PHP
15 10 (1.44%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.87%) Delphi
17 5 (0.72%) Clojure
17 5 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (6.78%) Degree
2 45 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 41 (5.92%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.75%) ISTQB
5 19 (2.74%) CISSP
6 15 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.88%) CGEIT
8 13 (1.88%) CISA
8 13 (1.88%) CISM
8 13 (1.88%) FFIEC
8 13 (1.88%) SANS
9 12 (1.73%) CEH
9 12 (1.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 10 (1.44%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (1.01%) CREST Certified
12 7 (1.01%) OSCP
13 5 (0.72%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.58%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (24.53%) QA
2 53 (7.65%) Accessibility
3 33 (4.76%) NIST
4 32 (4.62%) GDPR
5 23 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (2.31%) Data Quality
7 13 (1.88%) COBIT
7 13 (1.88%) WCAG
8 12 (1.73%) ISO 22301
9 8 (1.15%) ISO 9001
10 7 (1.01%) GRC
11 6 (0.87%) Software Quality Assurance
12 4 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.29%) NCSC
14 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 79 (11.40%) Docker
2 18 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 141 (20.35%) Terraform
2 127 (18.33%) Kubernetes
3 67 (9.67%) Grafana
4 18 (2.60%) Argo
5 17 (2.45%) Ansible
5 17 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.58%) logstash
6 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.29%) MIIS
7 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.14%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 62 (8.95%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.78%) Oracle
3 24 (3.46%) Databricks
3 24 (3.46%) Salesforce
4 21 (3.03%) VMware
5 18 (2.60%) Commvault
6 11 (1.59%) Amplitude
6 11 (1.59%) Braze
6 11 (1.59%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.30%) Ab Initio
7 9 (1.30%) SAP
8 8 (1.15%) Okta
9 7 (1.01%) Google
9 7 (1.01%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.72%) IFS
11 4 (0.58%) Foundry
11 4 (0.58%) Workday
12 3 (0.43%) Dynatrace
13 2 (0.29%) Guidewire
13 2 (0.29%) Samsung