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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 79 80
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 -34
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 567 655 961
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.59% 4.08% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 4.32% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 339 396 745
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,422 £38,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,109 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £81,938 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,528 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -3.23%

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 13,657 15,174 25,524
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.56% 94.51% 92.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,670 8,919 21,083
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +6.40% -5.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 2 February 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 (3.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (1.41%) Confluence
3 7 (1.23%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.71%) CMS
4 4 (0.71%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.53%) Apache
5 3 (0.53%) nginx
6 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.35%) WordPress
7 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.18%) JBoss
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Oracle Smart View
2 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 43 (7.58%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.71%) Hyperion Planning
2 4 (0.71%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
2 4 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.71%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.71%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.53%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 250 (44.09%) Azure
2 157 (27.69%) AWS
3 155 (27.34%) GitHub
4 136 (23.99%) Azure DevOps
5 75 (13.23%) GitHub Copilot
6 74 (13.05%) SaaS
7 72 (12.70%) GCP
8 45 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
9 39 (6.88%) Serverless
10 38 (6.70%) Amazon EKS
11 37 (6.53%) Entra ID
11 37 (6.53%) OCI
12 36 (6.35%) Power Platform
13 34 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 28 (4.94%) PaaS
14 28 (4.94%) Snowflake
15 21 (3.70%) Azure Event Grid
15 21 (3.70%) dbt
16 17 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
17 16 (2.82%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.41%) CHAP
2 4 (0.71%) 5G
2 4 (0.71%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.71%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.71%) WAN
3 3 (0.53%) HTTP
4 2 (0.35%) Internet
4 2 (0.35%) Network Security
4 2 (0.35%) PuTTY
4 2 (0.35%) VPN
5 1 (0.18%) Broadband
5 1 (0.18%) DNS
5 1 (0.18%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
1 36 (6.35%) SQL Server
2 29 (5.11%) Power BI
3 28 (4.94%) MySQL
4 27 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 20 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (3.35%) Tableau
7 14 (2.47%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.47%) Snowflake Schema
8 11 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (1.94%) MongoDB
9 9 (1.59%) BigQuery
9 9 (1.59%) MariaDB
10 8 (1.41%) Metadata
11 7 (1.23%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.71%) Essbase
12 4 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.53%) Pinecone
13 3 (0.53%) Redis
14 2 (0.35%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 67 (11.82%) JIRA
2 65 (11.46%) Selenium
3 58 (10.23%) Jenkins
4 56 (9.88%) Git
5 41 (7.23%) Oracle Forms
6 40 (7.05%) TeamCity
7 35 (6.17%) Cypress.io
8 19 (3.35%) Postman
9 15 (2.65%) Cucumber
9 15 (2.65%) JMeter
10 14 (2.47%) WebDriver
11 12 (2.12%) GitLab
11 12 (2.12%) JUnit
12 10 (1.76%) SpecFlow
13 8 (1.41%) Storybook
14 7 (1.23%) CircleCI
15 6 (1.06%) MLflow
16 5 (0.88%) LoadRunner
16 5 (0.88%) REST Assured
16 5 (0.88%) TestRail
General
1 239 (42.15%) Finance
2 176 (31.04%) Social Skills
3 78 (13.76%) Law
4 71 (12.52%) Analytical Skills
5 62 (10.93%) Banking
5 62 (10.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 50 (8.82%) Retail
7 40 (7.05%) Financial Institution
8 34 (6.00%) Public Sector
9 28 (4.94%) Back Office
10 20 (3.53%) Marketing
11 12 (2.12%) Games
12 10 (1.76%) Legal
13 9 (1.59%) Front Office
14 8 (1.41%) Automotive
15 7 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.06%) Electronics
17 5 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
18 4 (0.71%) Billing
Job Titles
1 174 (30.69%) Senior
2 87 (15.34%) Developer
3 76 (13.40%) Lead
4 72 (12.70%) Software Engineer
5 48 (8.47%) QA Engineer
6 44 (7.76%) Applications Engineer
7 42 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (7.05%) Test Engineer
9 35 (6.17%) Senior Software Engineer
10 32 (5.64%) QA Automation Engineer
11 29 (5.11%) Senior Developer
12 27 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
12 27 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
13 24 (4.23%) Java Engineer
14 23 (4.06%) Analyst
15 22 (3.88%) Lead Developer
16 21 (3.70%) Java Software Engineer
16 21 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 21 (3.70%) Tester
17 20 (3.53%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (14.81%) RESTful
2 73 (12.87%) React
3 52 (9.17%) .NET
4 51 (8.99%) JSON
4 51 (8.99%) REST
5 50 (8.82%) SOAP
6 40 (7.05%) Playwright
7 36 (6.35%) OAuth
8 35 (6.17%) OAuth2
9 33 (5.82%) Node.js
10 29 (5.11%) XML
11 26 (4.59%) Spring
12 23 (4.06%) Lightning Web Components
13 20 (3.53%) .NET Framework
13 20 (3.53%) CSS
13 20 (3.53%) Next.js
14 18 (3.17%) HTML
15 17 (3.00%) Entity Framework
15 17 (3.00%) SAML
16 16 (2.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 150 (26.46%) Cloud Native
2 59 (10.41%) Product Ownership
3 39 (6.88%) Enterprise Software
4 25 (4.41%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 16 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (2.12%) GNSS
7 12 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.12%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.12%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.94%) Blog
9 10 (1.76%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.59%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.41%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.41%) Satnav
11 8 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 7 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (1.06%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 29 (5.11%) Linux
2 25 (4.41%) Android
3 24 (4.23%) Apple iOS
4 12 (2.12%) Unix
4 12 (2.12%) Windows
5 9 (1.59%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.71%) CentOS
7 2 (0.35%) Debian
7 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.35%) Solaris
7 2 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (56.97%) CI/CD
2 275 (48.50%) Agile
3 231 (40.74%) DevOps
4 170 (29.98%) Coaching
5 169 (29.81%) Mentoring
6 142 (25.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 135 (23.81%) Software Engineering
8 128 (22.57%) AI
9 127 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
10 121 (21.34%) Clean Code
11 116 (20.46%) Asset Management
11 116 (20.46%) Microservices
12 95 (16.75%) Analytics
13 94 (16.58%) Observability
14 70 (12.35%) Deployment Automation
15 69 (12.17%) Sprint Planning
16 64 (11.29%) Sprint Retrospective
17 60 (10.58%) Full-Stack Development
18 59 (10.41%) Test Strategy
19 57 (10.05%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 163 (28.75%) Python
2 151 (26.63%) Java
3 138 (24.34%) SQL
4 76 (13.40%) TypeScript
5 75 (13.23%) JavaScript
6 58 (10.23%) C#
7 39 (6.88%) Shell Script
8 37 (6.53%) PL/SQL
9 32 (5.64%) PowerShell
10 24 (4.23%) PHP
11 22 (3.88%) Apex Code
12 18 (3.17%) Bicep
13 15 (2.65%) Bash
14 14 (2.47%) Go
15 9 (1.59%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.06%) Delphi
17 5 (0.88%) Groovy
18 4 (0.71%) C++
19 3 (0.53%) Kotlin
19 3 (0.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 49 (8.64%) Degree
2 40 (7.05%) Security Cleared
3 34 (6.00%) SC Cleared
4 31 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.70%) ISTQB
6 19 (3.35%) Master's Degree
7 12 (2.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 11 (1.94%) CEH
9 10 (1.76%) CISSP
10 9 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.59%) CISA
11 8 (1.41%) CGEIT
11 8 (1.41%) CISM
11 8 (1.41%) FFIEC
11 8 (1.41%) SANS
12 6 (1.06%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.71%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.71%) ISEB
13 4 (0.71%) OSCP
14 3 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (22.93%) QA
2 40 (7.05%) Accessibility
3 28 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (4.76%) GDPR
4 27 (4.76%) NIST
5 11 (1.94%) ISO 22301
5 11 (1.94%) WCAG
6 9 (1.59%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.41%) COBIT
7 8 (1.41%) ISO 9001
8 7 (1.23%) SLA
9 5 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.53%) NCSC
10 3 (0.53%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.35%) GRC
12 1 (0.18%) Section 508
12 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 61 (10.76%) Docker
2 36 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 129 (22.75%) Terraform
2 94 (16.58%) Kubernetes
3 49 (8.64%) Grafana
4 37 (6.53%) Single Sign-On
5 18 (3.17%) Ansible
6 7 (1.23%) Argo
7 4 (0.71%) logstash
8 3 (0.53%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.35%) Control-M
9 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.35%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 63 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 63 (11.11%) Oracle
2 28 (4.94%) Salesforce
3 21 (3.70%) VMware
4 20 (3.53%) Okta
5 19 (3.35%) Databricks
6 16 (2.82%) Commvault
7 14 (2.47%) Ab Initio
8 8 (1.41%) SAP
9 7 (1.23%) Google
10 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.88%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.71%) Hyperion
11 4 (0.71%) Workday
12 3 (0.53%) IBM
12 3 (0.53%) iManage
13 2 (0.35%) Checkmarx
13 2 (0.35%) CheckPoint
13 2 (0.35%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.35%) Samsung