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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 69 90
Rank change year-on-year +14 +21 -41
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 680 565 1,018
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.91% 4.33% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.69% 4.56% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 378 451 773
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,716 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,538 £48,750 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% +6.09% -11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,751 £71,991
90th Percentile £101,250 £98,474 £87,500
UK median annual salary £63,500 £60,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +5.83% +3.51% -10.82%

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 14,491 12,382 29,008
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.28% 94.81% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 10,130 8,894 23,509
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,800
25th Percentile £44,972 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,250 £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 12 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 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (0.88%) Confluence
2 6 (0.88%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.74%) CMS
4 4 (0.59%) Apache
5 3 (0.44%) nginx
6 2 (0.29%) JBoss
6 2 (0.29%) WordPress
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.15%) Camunda
7 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 2 (0.29%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (2.35%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.59%) Dynamics AX
3 4 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 266 (39.12%) Azure
2 258 (37.94%) AWS
3 132 (19.41%) GitHub
4 121 (17.79%) Azure DevOps
5 120 (17.65%) GCP
6 73 (10.74%) SaaS
7 67 (9.85%) Serverless
8 58 (8.53%) Amazon EKS
9 54 (7.94%) GitHub Copilot
10 47 (6.91%) GitHub Actions
11 32 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 30 (4.41%) Entra ID
13 29 (4.26%) Power Platform
14 24 (3.53%) Azure Event Grid
15 21 (3.09%) PaaS
16 20 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (2.94%) Nutanix
17 18 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (2.65%) Snowflake
18 16 (2.35%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.65%) Broadband
2 12 (1.76%) CHAP
3 3 (0.44%) DNS
3 3 (0.44%) Firewall
3 3 (0.44%) VPN
4 2 (0.29%) Internet
4 2 (0.29%) Network Security
4 2 (0.29%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.15%) 5G
5 1 (0.15%) HTTP
5 1 (0.15%) Multicast
5 1 (0.15%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (5.29%) NoSQL
3 33 (4.85%) SQL Server
4 32 (4.71%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.79%) MySQL
6 18 (2.65%) Power BI
7 14 (2.06%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (1.62%) Metadata
10 8 (1.18%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.18%) Tableau
11 7 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (0.88%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.88%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.59%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.59%) Redis
13 4 (0.59%) Spark SQL
14 3 (0.44%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 66 (9.71%) Selenium
2 56 (8.24%) TeamCity
3 53 (7.79%) JIRA
4 52 (7.65%) Git
5 45 (6.62%) Jenkins
6 37 (5.44%) Cypress.io
7 21 (3.09%) JMeter
7 21 (3.09%) Postman
8 20 (2.94%) GitLab
9 17 (2.50%) Cucumber
10 16 (2.35%) Oracle Forms
11 15 (2.21%) SpecFlow
12 12 (1.76%) WebDriver
13 10 (1.47%) Crashlytics
13 10 (1.47%) REST Assured
13 10 (1.47%) XCTest
14 8 (1.18%) JUnit
14 8 (1.18%) Storybook
14 8 (1.18%) TestRail
15 7 (1.03%) CircleCI
General
1 246 (36.18%) Finance
2 193 (28.38%) Social Skills
3 107 (15.74%) Law
4 103 (15.15%) Banking
5 90 (13.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 76 (11.18%) Retail
7 63 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
8 56 (8.24%) Financial Institution
8 56 (8.24%) Public Sector
9 42 (6.18%) Back Office
10 23 (3.38%) Marketing
11 22 (3.24%) Games
12 18 (2.65%) Legal
13 13 (1.91%) Electronics
13 13 (1.91%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.74%) Front Office
16 5 (0.74%) Investment Banking
17 4 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 189 (27.79%) Senior
2 123 (18.09%) Software Engineer
3 97 (14.26%) Lead
4 77 (11.32%) Developer
5 58 (8.53%) QA Engineer
6 53 (7.79%) Test Engineer
7 51 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 46 (6.76%) Java Engineer
9 39 (5.74%) Java Software Engineer
10 32 (4.71%) Automation Engineer
10 32 (4.71%) QA Automation Engineer
10 32 (4.71%) Senior Developer
11 30 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 28 (4.12%) Test Automation Engineer
13 27 (3.97%) Tester
14 23 (3.38%) Applications Engineer
15 21 (3.09%) Lead Developer
16 20 (2.94%) Senior Test Engineer
17 19 (2.79%) Cloud Engineer
18 18 (2.65%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (16.62%) React
2 67 (9.85%) .NET
3 66 (9.71%) REST
4 65 (9.56%) RESTful
5 59 (8.68%) Playwright
6 39 (5.74%) Spring
7 38 (5.59%) JSON
8 37 (5.44%) Node.js
9 30 (4.41%) SOAP
10 25 (3.68%) Spring Boot
11 23 (3.38%) Lightning Web Components
11 23 (3.38%) OAuth
12 22 (3.24%) Next.js
12 22 (3.24%) OAuth2
12 22 (3.24%) React Native
12 22 (3.24%) XML
13 19 (2.79%) CSS
13 19 (2.79%) Django
13 19 (2.79%) HTML
14 17 (2.50%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 158 (23.24%) Cloud Native
2 84 (12.35%) Product Ownership
3 37 (5.44%) Mobile App
4 26 (3.82%) Management Information System
5 22 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.65%) Blog
8 18 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (2.50%) Low-Code
10 15 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (2.06%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
13 10 (1.47%) GNSS
14 9 (1.32%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.32%) Podcast
14 9 (1.32%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.32%) Satnav
15 8 (1.18%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 47 (6.91%) Apple iOS
2 40 (5.88%) Linux
3 39 (5.74%) Android
4 14 (2.06%) Unix
5 6 (0.88%) Windows
6 4 (0.59%) CentOS
7 2 (0.29%) Debian
7 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (54.41%) CI/CD
2 314 (46.18%) Agile
3 243 (35.74%) DevOps
4 203 (29.85%) Software Engineering
5 195 (28.68%) Mentoring
6 181 (26.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 174 (25.59%) Coaching
8 156 (22.94%) Microservices
9 143 (21.03%) Clean Code
10 138 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
11 135 (19.85%) AI
12 111 (16.32%) Observability
13 106 (15.59%) Full-Stack Development
14 101 (14.85%) Deployment Automation
15 96 (14.12%) Infrastructure as Code
16 90 (13.24%) Test Strategy
17 82 (12.06%) Analytics
18 79 (11.62%) Asset Management
19 76 (11.18%) Fintech
20 74 (10.88%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 195 (28.68%) Java
2 173 (25.44%) Python
3 125 (18.38%) SQL
4 102 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 94 (13.82%) JavaScript
6 60 (8.82%) C#
7 34 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 23 (3.38%) Go
9 22 (3.24%) Apex Code
10 18 (2.65%) Bash
10 18 (2.65%) Shell Script
11 17 (2.50%) Bicep
12 16 (2.35%) PL/SQL
13 14 (2.06%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.76%) Swift
15 10 (1.47%) T-SQL
16 8 (1.18%) PHP
17 6 (0.88%) Delphi
18 5 (0.74%) Ruby
19 4 (0.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 49 (7.21%) Degree
2 46 (6.76%) Security Cleared
3 42 (6.18%) SC Cleared
4 23 (3.38%) ISTQB
5 18 (2.65%) CISSP
6 17 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 14 (2.06%) CEH
9 13 (1.91%) CISA
9 13 (1.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 12 (1.76%) CGEIT
10 12 (1.76%) CISM
10 12 (1.76%) FFIEC
10 12 (1.76%) SANS
11 10 (1.47%) Azure Certification
12 8 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (1.03%) CREST Certified
13 7 (1.03%) OSCP
14 5 (0.74%) DV Cleared
15 4 (0.59%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (24.85%) QA
2 55 (8.09%) Accessibility
3 34 (5.00%) NIST
4 32 (4.71%) GDPR
5 25 (3.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 16 (2.35%) Data Quality
7 14 (2.06%) ISO 22301
7 14 (2.06%) WCAG
8 12 (1.76%) COBIT
9 9 (1.32%) ISO 9001
10 7 (1.03%) GRC
11 6 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
12 5 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.29%) NCSC
14 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.15%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 75 (11.03%) Docker
2 19 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.15%) Firmware
4 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 139 (20.44%) Terraform
2 130 (19.12%) Kubernetes
3 75 (11.03%) Grafana
4 17 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (2.35%) Ansible
6 10 (1.47%) Argo
7 4 (0.59%) logstash
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.29%) MIIS
9 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.15%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 58 (8.53%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.32%) Oracle
3 25 (3.68%) Salesforce
4 24 (3.53%) Databricks
5 22 (3.24%) VMware
6 20 (2.94%) Commvault
7 11 (1.62%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.47%) Ab Initio
8 10 (1.47%) Amplitude
8 10 (1.47%) Braze
9 8 (1.18%) Okta
9 8 (1.18%) SAP
10 7 (1.03%) Google
11 6 (0.88%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.59%) Workday
13 3 (0.44%) Foundry
14 2 (0.29%) Adobe
14 2 (0.29%) CheckPoint
14 2 (0.29%) Facebook
14 2 (0.29%) Splunk