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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 84 98
Rank change year-on-year +15 +14 -31
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 853 683 703
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.54% 4.20% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 4.51% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 385 311 431
10th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £94,000 £95,000 £84,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.36%

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 19,632 15,135 20,484
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.43% 93.17% 87.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,097 8,610 12,632
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 16 September 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 17 (1.99%) Confluence
2 13 (1.52%) Anypoint
2 13 (1.52%) Mule
3 10 (1.17%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.70%) Apache
4 6 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.70%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.70%) Jupyter
5 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.47%) CMS
7 3 (0.35%) Camunda
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 9 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.70%) Moqups
4 5 (0.59%) Simulink
5 4 (0.47%) Lightworks
6 3 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 34 (3.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (3.17%) Dynamics GP
3 2 (0.23%) Magento
3 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.23%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 409 (47.95%) AWS
2 262 (30.72%) Azure
3 190 (22.27%) SaaS
4 138 (16.18%) GCP
5 66 (7.74%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
7 56 (6.57%) GitHub
8 54 (6.33%) Serverless
9 32 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (3.28%) Power Platform
11 23 (2.70%) Azure AKS
12 21 (2.46%) Azure Service Bus
13 16 (1.88%) Azure Functions
14 15 (1.76%) Amazon S3
15 14 (1.64%) Entra ID
15 14 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
15 14 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
17 12 (1.41%) Azure Key Vault
18 11 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.45%) Broadband
2 14 (1.64%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.52%) SSL
4 8 (0.94%) DNS
5 5 (0.59%) DHCP
5 5 (0.59%) SMS
6 4 (0.47%) CHAP
6 4 (0.47%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.47%) Firewall
6 4 (0.47%) LAN
6 4 (0.47%) MQTT
6 4 (0.47%) Network Security
6 4 (0.47%) WAN
6 4 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.35%) Wireless
7 3 (0.35%) X.509
8 2 (0.23%) 5G
8 2 (0.23%) HTTP
9 1 (0.12%) Diameter Protocol
9 1 (0.12%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (5.86%) MongoDB
3 32 (3.75%) SQL Server
4 24 (2.81%) NoSQL
5 23 (2.70%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.11%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.76%) Semantic Layer
8 14 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (1.64%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.64%) Power BI
9 11 (1.29%) MySQL
10 10 (1.17%) Metadata
11 9 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.06%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.94%) Redis
13 7 (0.82%) Big Data
13 7 (0.82%) DynamoDB
14 6 (0.70%) Parquet
15 5 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 87 (10.20%) Git
2 67 (7.85%) TeamCity
3 53 (6.21%) GitLab
4 49 (5.74%) Selenium
5 44 (5.16%) Jenkins
6 35 (4.10%) Cypress.io
7 32 (3.75%) JIRA
8 28 (3.28%) Postman
9 16 (1.88%) JUnit
10 14 (1.64%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.06%) JMeter
12 8 (0.94%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.94%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.82%) TestRail
14 6 (0.70%) Crashlytics
14 6 (0.70%) Gatling
14 6 (0.70%) NUnit
14 6 (0.70%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.70%) Storybook
14 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 269 (31.54%) Social Skills
2 199 (23.33%) Finance
3 149 (17.47%) Law
4 129 (15.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (14.89%) Banking
6 98 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
7 91 (10.67%) Retail
8 90 (10.55%) Public Sector
9 88 (10.32%) Legal
10 55 (6.45%) Financial Institution
11 52 (6.10%) Back Office
12 43 (5.04%) Marketing
13 31 (3.63%) Games
14 22 (2.58%) Manufacturing
15 20 (2.34%) Electronics
16 18 (2.11%) Aerospace
16 18 (2.11%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.29%) Investment Banking
17 11 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
18 8 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 235 (27.55%) Senior
2 144 (16.88%) Lead
3 139 (16.30%) Software Engineer
4 103 (12.08%) Developer
5 54 (6.33%) Test Engineer
6 49 (5.74%) Senior Manager
6 49 (5.74%) Testing Manager
7 48 (5.63%) IT Manager
7 48 (5.63%) IT Services Manager
7 48 (5.63%) Resilience Manager
7 48 (5.63%) Service Manager
8 44 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
9 39 (4.57%) Engineering Manager
9 39 (4.57%) Software Manager
10 36 (4.22%) Java Engineer
11 35 (4.10%) Senior Developer
11 35 (4.10%) Software Engineering Manager
12 33 (3.87%) QA Engineer
12 33 (3.87%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (3.75%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (15.36%) Terraform
2 95 (11.14%) React
3 69 (8.09%) Node.js
4 68 (7.97%) Spring
5 65 (7.62%) REST
6 60 (7.03%) Playwright
7 56 (6.57%) .NET
8 51 (5.98%) RESTful
9 48 (5.63%) Middleware
10 32 (3.75%) CSS
11 31 (3.63%) Spring Boot
12 30 (3.52%) AngularJS
13 24 (2.81%) HTML
14 20 (2.34%) Next.js
15 18 (2.11%) OAuth
15 18 (2.11%) React Native
16 16 (1.88%) JWT
16 16 (1.88%) OAuth2
16 16 (1.88%) PySpark
16 16 (1.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 193 (22.63%) Cloud Native
2 137 (16.06%) Product Ownership
3 57 (6.68%) Virtual Team
4 56 (6.57%) Distributed Systems
5 52 (6.10%) Cyber Threat
6 43 (5.04%) Blog
7 36 (4.22%) Mobile App
8 34 (3.99%) Low-Code
9 32 (3.75%) Public Cloud
10 28 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
11 27 (3.17%) Marketing Technology
12 26 (3.05%) Video\Live Streaming
13 19 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
14 18 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (1.52%) AI Agents
16 12 (1.41%) Embedded Systems
17 10 (1.17%) Data Structures
17 10 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
18 9 (1.06%) Algorithms
18 9 (1.06%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 57 (6.68%) Linux
2 43 (5.04%) Windows
3 31 (3.63%) Unix
4 26 (3.05%) Android
5 24 (2.81%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.35%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.23%) CentOS
8 2 (0.23%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.12%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (58.85%) CI/CD
2 364 (42.67%) Agile
3 347 (40.68%) Software Engineering
4 338 (39.62%) DevOps
5 330 (38.69%) Mentoring
6 276 (32.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 210 (24.62%) AI
8 194 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
9 154 (18.05%) Coaching
10 150 (17.58%) Software Testing
11 143 (16.76%) Microservices
12 130 (15.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 130 (15.24%) Technical Leadership
13 124 (14.54%) Test Strategy
14 114 (13.36%) Clean Code
15 108 (12.66%) Full-Stack Development
15 108 (12.66%) Infrastructure as Code
16 105 (12.31%) Observability
17 104 (12.19%) Enterprise Architecture
18 103 (12.08%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 247 (28.96%) Python
2 239 (28.02%) Java
3 175 (20.52%) JavaScript
4 143 (16.76%) TypeScript
5 137 (16.06%) C#
6 113 (13.25%) SQL
7 63 (7.39%) PowerShell
8 44 (5.16%) Go
9 22 (2.58%) Bash
10 19 (2.23%) Kotlin
11 15 (1.76%) C++
12 13 (1.52%) DataWeave
13 12 (1.41%) PHP
14 10 (1.17%) Rust
15 9 (1.06%) C
15 9 (1.06%) Swift
16 8 (0.94%) Clojure
17 7 (0.82%) Bicep
18 5 (0.59%) Scala
18 5 (0.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 93 (10.90%) Security Cleared
2 73 (8.56%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.21%) Degree
3 53 (6.21%) ITIL Certification
4 52 (6.10%) CISM
4 52 (6.10%) CISSP
5 30 (3.52%) ISTQB
6 15 (1.76%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.94%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.59%) CISA
11 4 (0.47%) CGEIT
11 4 (0.47%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.47%) FFIEC
11 4 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.47%) OSCP
11 4 (0.47%) SANS
12 3 (0.35%) ICAEW
12 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (23.45%) QA
2 77 (9.03%) Accessibility
3 54 (6.33%) NIST
4 48 (5.63%) ISO 22301
5 41 (4.81%) Data Quality
6 22 (2.58%) WCAG
7 15 (1.76%) GDPR
8 10 (1.17%) GRC
9 5 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.47%) COBIT
10 4 (0.47%) SLA
10 4 (0.47%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.35%) ECSS
11 3 (0.35%) PERC
12 2 (0.23%) EMIR
12 2 (0.23%) PMO
13 1 (0.12%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.12%) ISAE 3402
13 1 (0.12%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.12%) ITGC
System Software
1 95 (11.14%) Docker
2 7 (0.82%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.59%) Firmware
4 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.12%) KVM
5 1 (0.12%) QEMU
5 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 143 (16.76%) Kubernetes
2 76 (8.91%) Grafana
3 16 (1.88%) Argo
4 13 (1.52%) Ansible
4 13 (1.52%) CloudHub
5 9 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.12%) Consul
7 1 (0.12%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.12%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) MIIS
7 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 79 (9.26%) Microsoft
2 24 (2.81%) Salesforce
3 21 (2.46%) Oracle
3 21 (2.46%) ServiceNow
4 17 (1.99%) SAP
5 16 (1.88%) Databricks
6 14 (1.64%) MuleSoft
7 12 (1.41%) Pega
8 10 (1.17%) Google
9 8 (0.94%) Braze
9 8 (0.94%) IFS
10 7 (0.82%) VMware
11 6 (0.70%) Amplitude
12 5 (0.59%) dotdigital
13 4 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.47%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.47%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 3 (0.35%) Splunk
14 3 (0.35%) YouTube