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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 55 95
Rank change year-on-year -4 +40 -45
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 704 816 966
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.81% 5.61% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 5.90% 3.26%
Number of salaries quoted 392 446 750
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,716 £38,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £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 £101,250 £98,474 £81,250
UK median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +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 15,280 13,822 29,655
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.76% 95.02% 91.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,821 8,823 23,459
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 12 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
1 281 (39.91%) AWS
2 255 (36.22%) Azure
3 119 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
4 109 (15.48%) GCP
5 104 (14.77%) GitHub
6 69 (9.80%) Serverless
7 58 (8.24%) SaaS
8 46 (6.53%) Amazon EKS
9 44 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 37 (5.26%) GitHub Copilot
11 29 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
11 29 (4.12%) Power Platform
12 26 (3.69%) Entra ID
13 24 (3.41%) Azure AKS
14 22 (3.13%) 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%) PaaS
17 15 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.82%) Broadband
2 12 (1.70%) 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 (11.79%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (8.38%) MongoDB
3 35 (4.97%) NoSQL
4 26 (3.69%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.70%) MySQL
6 14 (1.99%) Metadata
7 13 (1.85%) Power BI
7 13 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.42%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (1.14%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.14%) 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%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 59 (8.38%) Selenium
2 50 (7.10%) Git
3 47 (6.68%) Jenkins
4 46 (6.53%) JIRA
5 45 (6.39%) TeamCity
6 35 (4.97%) Cypress.io
7 31 (4.40%) GitLab
8 22 (3.13%) JMeter
8 22 (3.13%) Postman
9 17 (2.41%) Oracle Forms
10 13 (1.85%) SpecFlow
11 12 (1.70%) Crashlytics
11 12 (1.70%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.70%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.70%) XCTest
12 11 (1.56%) WebDriver
13 7 (0.99%) Appium
13 7 (0.99%) Locust
13 7 (0.99%) MLflow
13 7 (0.99%) TestRail
General
1 211 (29.97%) Finance
2 186 (26.42%) Social Skills
3 98 (13.92%) Banking
4 90 (12.78%) Law
5 85 (12.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 71 (10.09%) Public Sector
7 70 (9.94%) Retail
8 55 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
9 43 (6.11%) Financial Institution
10 37 (5.26%) Games
11 32 (4.55%) Back Office
12 20 (2.84%) Manufacturing
13 19 (2.70%) Legal
14 18 (2.56%) Marketing
15 16 (2.27%) Electronics
16 9 (1.28%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
19 5 (0.71%) Front Office
20 4 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 200 (28.41%) Senior
2 112 (15.91%) Lead
3 109 (15.48%) Software Engineer
4 73 (10.37%) Developer
5 60 (8.52%) Test Engineer
6 57 (8.10%) QA Engineer
7 45 (6.39%) Senior Software Engineer
8 43 (6.11%) Java Engineer
9 37 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 34 (4.83%) QA Automation Engineer
11 32 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (4.55%) Test Automation Engineer
12 31 (4.40%) Automation Engineer
12 31 (4.40%) Senior Developer
13 28 (3.98%) Tester
14 26 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
15 23 (3.27%) Engineering Manager
15 23 (3.27%) Software Manager
16 21 (2.98%) Software Engineering Manager
16 21 (2.98%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (15.34%) React
2 72 (10.23%) RESTful
3 70 (9.94%) REST
4 64 (9.09%) .NET
5 62 (8.81%) Playwright
6 52 (7.39%) Node.js
7 45 (6.39%) Spring
8 31 (4.40%) JSON
9 25 (3.55%) SOAP
9 25 (3.55%) Spring Boot
10 23 (3.27%) 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%) OAuth2
15 16 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 158 (22.44%) Cloud Native
2 92 (13.07%) Product Ownership
3 40 (5.68%) Mobile App
4 29 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 29 (4.12%) Low-Code
5 25 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (3.41%) Management Information System
7 23 (3.27%) Video\Live Streaming
8 21 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (2.98%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (2.56%) Blog
10 15 (2.13%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.85%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (1.42%) Embedded Systems
15 9 (1.28%) AI Agents
15 9 (1.28%) Algorithms
15 9 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.28%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 50 (7.10%) Linux
2 49 (6.96%) Apple iOS
3 40 (5.68%) Android
4 24 (3.41%) 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
1 390 (55.40%) CI/CD
2 327 (46.45%) Agile
3 241 (34.23%) DevOps
4 209 (29.69%) Mentoring
5 202 (28.69%) Software Engineering
6 193 (27.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 160 (22.73%) Coaching
8 148 (21.02%) Microservices
9 142 (20.17%) AI
10 140 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
11 133 (18.89%) Clean Code
12 127 (18.04%) Observability
13 122 (17.33%) Full-Stack Development
14 121 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
15 93 (13.21%) Test Strategy
16 87 (12.36%) Deployment Automation
17 80 (11.36%) Software Testing
18 78 (11.08%) Technical Leadership
19 75 (10.65%) Fintech
19 75 (10.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 202 (28.69%) Java
2 178 (25.28%) Python
3 121 (17.19%) SQL
4 99 (14.06%) TypeScript
5 90 (12.78%) JavaScript
6 67 (9.52%) C#
7 37 (5.26%) Go
8 26 (3.69%) PowerShell
9 19 (2.70%) Bash
10 18 (2.56%) 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 (1.85%) Swift
15 9 (1.28%) PHP
16 8 (1.14%) T-SQL
17 6 (0.85%) Clojure
18 5 (0.71%) C++
18 5 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 56 (7.95%) Security Cleared
2 53 (7.53%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.68%) Degree
4 25 (3.55%) ISTQB
5 18 (2.56%) CISSP
6 14 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.70%) CGEIT
7 12 (1.70%) CISA
7 12 (1.70%) CISM
7 12 (1.70%) FFIEC
7 12 (1.70%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.70%) SANS
8 11 (1.56%) CEH
9 10 (1.42%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 7 (0.99%) CREST Certified
11 7 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.99%) OSCP
12 5 (0.71%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.57%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (25.28%) QA
2 55 (7.81%) Accessibility
3 30 (4.26%) GDPR
4 28 (3.98%) NIST
5 19 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 19 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.70%) COBIT
7 11 (1.56%) ISO 22301
7 11 (1.56%) WCAG
8 9 (1.28%) GRC
9 8 (1.14%) ISO 9001
10 6 (0.85%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.14%) NCSC
12 1 (0.14%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.14%) PERC
12 1 (0.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 71 (10.09%) 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
1 136 (19.32%) Terraform
2 115 (16.34%) Kubernetes
3 56 (7.95%) Grafana
4 21 (2.98%) Argo
5 16 (2.27%) 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 (8.95%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.82%) Oracle
3 22 (3.13%) Databricks
3 22 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 18 (2.56%) VMware
5 15 (2.13%) Commvault
6 12 (1.70%) Amplitude
6 12 (1.70%) Braze
7 11 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.28%) SAP
9 8 (1.14%) 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%) IBM