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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 81 71
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 -31
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 499 680 891
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.27% 3.46% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 3.83% 4.48%
Number of salaries quoted 292 403 723
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,923 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +1.60% +4.17%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £63,984
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.32% +6.64%

All Process and 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 13,869 17,760 19,877
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.80% 90.35% 94.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,747 10,711 16,110
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 29 November 2025.

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 14 (2.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (1.60%) Headless CMS
3 7 (1.40%) Apache Solr
4 5 (1.00%) Confluence
5 4 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.60%) Apache
7 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) nginx
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Blender
1 4 (0.80%) Oracle Smart View
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 37 (7.41%) Oracle ERP
2 12 (2.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (1.60%) Shopify
4 5 (1.00%) Elite 3E
5 4 (0.80%) Hyperion Planning
5 4 (0.80%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (0.80%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.80%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.20%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 224 (44.89%) Azure
2 148 (29.66%) GitHub
3 136 (27.25%) Azure DevOps
4 124 (24.85%) AWS
5 75 (15.03%) SaaS
6 63 (12.63%) GitHub Copilot
7 42 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
8 38 (7.62%) Serverless
9 33 (6.61%) PaaS
10 31 (6.21%) GCP
10 31 (6.21%) OCI
11 30 (6.01%) Entra ID
12 29 (5.81%) Power Platform
13 27 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
14 26 (5.21%) Snowflake
15 21 (4.21%) dbt
16 20 (4.01%) Azure Logic Apps
17 16 (3.21%) Dynamics 365
18 15 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
18 15 (3.01%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.40%) 5G
1 12 (2.40%) SD-WAN
1 12 (2.40%) WAN
2 7 (1.40%) HTTP
3 5 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.80%) VPN
5 3 (0.60%) CHAP
5 3 (0.60%) Firewall
5 3 (0.60%) Internet
6 2 (0.40%) Broadband
6 2 (0.40%) Network Security
6 2 (0.40%) RFID
7 1 (0.20%) DNS
7 1 (0.20%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (8.62%) SQL Server
2 28 (5.61%) NoSQL
3 26 (5.21%) MySQL
4 25 (5.01%) Power BI
5 23 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (3.41%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.21%) Tableau
8 14 (2.81%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (1.60%) MariaDB
11 6 (1.20%) MongoDB
12 5 (1.00%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.80%) Essbase
13 4 (0.80%) Metadata
13 4 (0.80%) QGIS
13 4 (0.80%) Tick Data
14 3 (0.60%) Pinecone
14 3 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 65 (13.03%) Selenium
2 56 (11.22%) JIRA
3 54 (10.82%) Git
3 54 (10.82%) Jenkins
4 45 (9.02%) Cypress.io
5 35 (7.01%) Oracle Forms
6 22 (4.41%) TeamCity
7 18 (3.61%) Postman
8 13 (2.61%) Cucumber
9 12 (2.40%) JUnit
10 10 (2.00%) GitLab
10 10 (2.00%) JMeter
11 9 (1.80%) WebDriver
12 6 (1.20%) Appium
12 6 (1.20%) LoadRunner
12 6 (1.20%) Storybook
13 5 (1.00%) SpecFlow
13 5 (1.00%) TestRail
14 4 (0.80%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 187 (37.47%) Finance
2 164 (32.87%) Social Skills
3 70 (14.03%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (10.82%) Law
5 49 (9.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 32 (6.41%) Back Office
7 29 (5.81%) Banking
7 29 (5.81%) Public Sector
8 23 (4.61%) Retail
9 21 (4.21%) Financial Institution
10 15 (3.01%) Marketing
11 14 (2.81%) Legal
12 13 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.80%) Automotive
13 9 (1.80%) Front Office
14 8 (1.60%) Local Government
15 6 (1.20%) Games
16 5 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.80%) Health Technology
17 4 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 134 (26.85%) Senior
2 107 (21.44%) Developer
3 88 (17.64%) Lead
4 45 (9.02%) Software Engineer
5 38 (7.62%) Applications Engineer
5 38 (7.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 35 (7.01%) Senior Developer
7 30 (6.01%) QA Engineer
8 26 (5.21%) Lead Developer
8 26 (5.21%) Test Engineer
9 23 (4.61%) Analyst
10 22 (4.41%) Senior Software Engineer
10 22 (4.41%) Test Automation Engineer
11 21 (4.21%) QA Automation Engineer
11 21 (4.21%) SaaS Developer
12 19 (3.81%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 19 (3.81%) Software Developer
13 18 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
13 18 (3.61%) Tester
14 16 (3.21%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (15.43%) RESTful
2 67 (13.43%) React
3 54 (10.82%) .NET
4 50 (10.02%) JSON
5 41 (8.22%) Playwright
5 41 (8.22%) REST
6 40 (8.02%) SOAP
7 38 (7.62%) XML
8 33 (6.61%) Node.js
9 31 (6.21%) OAuth
10 29 (5.81%) OAuth2
11 28 (5.61%) CSS
12 26 (5.21%) HTML
13 25 (5.01%) Next.js
14 17 (3.41%) .NET Framework
14 17 (3.41%) Lightning Web Components
15 16 (3.21%) GraphQL
15 16 (3.21%) Spring
16 15 (3.01%) Entity Framework
16 15 (3.01%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 123 (24.65%) Cloud Native
2 42 (8.42%) Product Ownership
3 33 (6.61%) Enterprise Software
4 27 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (4.01%) Mobile App
6 18 (3.61%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.40%) GNSS
7 12 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.40%) NHS
7 12 (2.40%) Self-Driving Car
8 11 (2.20%) Virtual Team
9 9 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (1.80%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.60%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.40%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 6 (1.20%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.20%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.00%) Data Structures
13 5 (1.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.61%) Linux
2 15 (3.01%) Windows
3 11 (2.20%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.80%) Android
4 9 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.80%) Unix
6 2 (0.40%) CentOS
6 2 (0.40%) Solaris
6 2 (0.40%) VMS
7 1 (0.20%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (56.71%) CI/CD
2 262 (52.51%) Agile
3 226 (45.29%) DevOps
4 159 (31.86%) Mentoring
5 138 (27.66%) Coaching
6 136 (27.25%) Problem-Solving
7 109 (21.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 104 (20.84%) AI
9 102 (20.44%) Asset Management
10 93 (18.64%) Clean Code
10 93 (18.64%) Software Engineering
11 87 (17.43%) Analytics
12 86 (17.23%) Microservices
13 78 (15.63%) Observability
14 69 (13.83%) Sprint Planning
15 63 (12.63%) Sprint Retrospective
16 56 (11.22%) ERP
17 53 (10.62%) Data Modelling
18 51 (10.22%) SDLC
19 50 (10.02%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 158 (31.66%) Python
2 140 (28.06%) SQL
3 114 (22.85%) Java
4 82 (16.43%) C#
5 76 (15.23%) JavaScript
6 61 (12.22%) TypeScript
7 34 (6.81%) Shell Script
8 31 (6.21%) PL/SQL
8 31 (6.21%) PowerShell
9 24 (4.81%) PHP
10 16 (3.21%) Apex Code
10 16 (3.21%) Bicep
11 15 (3.01%) C
11 15 (3.01%) C++
12 11 (2.20%) Bash
13 9 (1.80%) Go
14 8 (1.60%) MATLAB
15 6 (1.20%) Delphi
15 6 (1.20%) T-SQL
16 5 (1.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 63 (12.63%) Degree
2 41 (8.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (7.01%) Security Cleared
4 27 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 21 (4.21%) ISTQB
6 14 (2.81%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 9 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.20%) CEH
9 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.80%) CISA
10 4 (0.80%) ISEB
11 3 (0.60%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.60%) CGEIT
11 3 (0.60%) CISM
11 3 (0.60%) CISSP
11 3 (0.60%) FFIEC
11 3 (0.60%) SANS
12 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (20.44%) QA
2 43 (8.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (7.41%) Accessibility
4 23 (4.61%) NIST
5 18 (3.61%) GDPR
6 16 (3.21%) ISO 9001
7 12 (2.40%) WCAG
8 11 (2.20%) Data Quality
9 10 (2.00%) NCSC
10 7 (1.40%) SLA
11 6 (1.20%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.60%) COBIT
12 3 (0.60%) GRC
13 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.20%) ISO 14001
13 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.20%) Section 508
13 1 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 46 (9.22%) Docker
2 30 (6.01%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (1.20%) vSphere
4 2 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 86 (17.23%) Terraform
2 49 (9.82%) Kubernetes
3 31 (6.21%) Single Sign-On
4 28 (5.61%) Grafana
5 15 (3.01%) Ansible
6 3 (0.60%) Argo
6 3 (0.60%) HP Fortify
6 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.40%) Control-M
7 2 (0.40%) logstash
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.20%) Nessus
8 1 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 80 (16.03%) Microsoft
2 49 (9.82%) Oracle
3 22 (4.41%) Salesforce
4 17 (3.41%) Apple
4 17 (3.41%) Okta
4 17 (3.41%) VMware
5 13 (2.61%) Databricks
5 13 (2.61%) Google
6 11 (2.20%) Ab Initio
7 9 (1.80%) Commvault
8 5 (1.00%) IBM
8 5 (1.00%) iManage
8 5 (1.00%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.80%) Hyperion
10 3 (0.60%) Checkmarx
10 3 (0.60%) Foundry
10 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.60%) Qualys
11 2 (0.40%) Intapp
11 2 (0.40%) Samsung