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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 83 108
Rank change year-on-year +20 +25 -52
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 879 710 690
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.85% 4.29% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 4.61% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 407 336 520
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,875 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,500 £95,625 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 18,830 15,402 21,672
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.54% 92.96% 87.66%
Number of salaries quoted 13,568 8,927 15,410
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,584 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 15 August 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 16 (1.82%) Confluence
2 13 (1.48%) Anypoint
2 13 (1.48%) Mule
3 12 (1.37%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.91%) Apache
6 6 (0.68%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.68%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.57%) CMS
8 4 (0.46%) Camunda
8 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.46%) Lightworks
2 4 (0.46%) Moqups
2 4 (0.46%) Simulink
3 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (3.07%) Dynamics GP
3 3 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.23%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.11%) Magento
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 415 (47.21%) AWS
2 276 (31.40%) Azure
3 173 (19.68%) SaaS
4 129 (14.68%) GCP
5 77 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
6 70 (7.96%) Serverless
7 69 (7.85%) GitHub
8 44 (5.01%) Amazon EKS
9 40 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (3.19%) Power Platform
11 24 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.28%) Azure AKS
13 18 (2.05%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (1.71%) TestFlight
16 14 (1.59%) Datadog
17 13 (1.48%) Amazon S3
17 13 (1.48%) Figma
17 13 (1.48%) Firebase
17 13 (1.48%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 72 (8.19%) Broadband
2 13 (1.48%) SSL
3 9 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 8 (0.91%) DNS
5 6 (0.68%) CHAP
5 6 (0.68%) Firewall
6 5 (0.57%) SMS
7 4 (0.46%) DHCP
7 4 (0.46%) LAN
7 4 (0.46%) MQTT
7 4 (0.46%) Network Security
7 4 (0.46%) WAN
7 4 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.34%) Wireless
9 2 (0.23%) HTTP
9 2 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (10.01%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (6.60%) MongoDB
3 36 (4.10%) SQL Server
4 26 (2.96%) NoSQL
5 21 (2.39%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.05%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.71%) Semantic Layer
8 12 (1.37%) Metadata
8 12 (1.37%) MySQL
9 11 (1.25%) Power BI
10 10 (1.14%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.14%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.91%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.80%) Big Data
14 6 (0.68%) Redis
15 5 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 79 (8.99%) Git
2 55 (6.26%) Selenium
3 54 (6.14%) Jenkins
4 52 (5.92%) GitLab
5 48 (5.46%) TeamCity
6 38 (4.32%) Cypress.io
7 34 (3.87%) JIRA
8 28 (3.19%) Postman
9 17 (1.93%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.93%) JMeter
10 13 (1.48%) Crashlytics
10 13 (1.48%) JUnit
10 13 (1.48%) XCTest
11 10 (1.14%) Bitbucket
11 10 (1.14%) SpecFlow
12 9 (1.02%) Gatling
13 8 (0.91%) Appium
14 7 (0.80%) NUnit
14 7 (0.80%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.80%) TestRail
General
1 287 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 177 (20.14%) Finance
3 139 (15.81%) Law
4 108 (12.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 99 (11.26%) Banking
6 95 (10.81%) Public Sector
7 92 (10.47%) Legal
8 88 (10.01%) Analytical Skills
9 70 (7.96%) Retail
10 44 (5.01%) Marketing
11 43 (4.89%) Financial Institution
11 43 (4.89%) Games
12 39 (4.44%) Back Office
13 25 (2.84%) Manufacturing
14 20 (2.28%) Electronics
15 17 (1.93%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.48%) Telecoms
17 12 (1.37%) Investment Banking
18 9 (1.02%) Legal Technology
19 8 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 255 (29.01%) Senior
2 150 (17.06%) Lead
3 125 (14.22%) Software Engineer
4 110 (12.51%) Developer
5 57 (6.48%) Test Engineer
6 51 (5.80%) Senior Manager
7 49 (5.57%) Testing Manager
8 48 (5.46%) IT Manager
8 48 (5.46%) IT Services Manager
8 48 (5.46%) Resilience Manager
8 48 (5.46%) Service Manager
9 42 (4.78%) DevOps Engineer
10 41 (4.66%) Engineering Manager
10 41 (4.66%) Senior Developer
10 41 (4.66%) Software Manager
11 36 (4.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 36 (4.10%) Software Engineering Manager
12 35 (3.98%) QA Engineer
12 35 (3.98%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (3.75%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (13.08%) React
2 74 (8.42%) REST
3 71 (8.08%) Node.js
4 67 (7.62%) Spring
5 65 (7.39%) .NET
6 64 (7.28%) Playwright
7 52 (5.92%) RESTful
8 50 (5.69%) Middleware
9 32 (3.64%) Spring Boot
10 29 (3.30%) AngularJS
11 25 (2.84%) Next.js
12 23 (2.62%) CSS
13 22 (2.50%) AWS CDK
14 21 (2.39%) Django
15 20 (2.28%) React Native
16 18 (2.05%) HTML
17 17 (1.93%) OAuth
18 16 (1.82%) OAuth2
19 15 (1.71%) GraphQL
19 15 (1.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 168 (19.11%) Cloud Native
2 123 (13.99%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.71%) Cyber Threat
4 57 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
4 57 (6.48%) Virtual Team
5 44 (5.01%) Mobile App
6 37 (4.21%) Blog
6 37 (4.21%) Low-Code
7 32 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
7 32 (3.64%) Video\Live Streaming
8 29 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
8 29 (3.30%) Public Cloud
9 27 (3.07%) Marketing Technology
10 19 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.59%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.37%) Management Information System
14 11 (1.25%) Cyberattack
14 11 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 64 (7.28%) Linux
2 40 (4.55%) Windows
3 33 (3.75%) Apple iOS
4 32 (3.64%) Unix
5 26 (2.96%) Android
6 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.34%) VxWorks
8 1 (0.11%) CentOS
8 1 (0.11%) Debian
8 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (57.11%) CI/CD
2 404 (45.96%) Agile
3 342 (38.91%) DevOps
4 332 (37.77%) Software Engineering
5 324 (36.86%) Mentoring
6 301 (34.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 204 (23.21%) AI
8 189 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
9 147 (16.72%) Software Testing
10 141 (16.04%) Coaching
11 138 (15.70%) Test Strategy
12 137 (15.59%) Infrastructure as Code
12 137 (15.59%) Microservices
13 134 (15.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 131 (14.90%) Full-Stack Development
15 128 (14.56%) Technical Leadership
16 125 (14.22%) Observability
17 114 (12.97%) Clean Code
18 113 (12.86%) Decision-Making
19 108 (12.29%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 263 (29.92%) Python
2 221 (25.14%) Java
3 171 (19.45%) JavaScript
4 150 (17.06%) TypeScript
5 133 (15.13%) C#
6 107 (12.17%) SQL
7 65 (7.39%) PowerShell
8 47 (5.35%) Go
9 23 (2.62%) Kotlin
10 21 (2.39%) Bash
11 16 (1.82%) Swift
12 15 (1.71%) C++
13 13 (1.48%) DataWeave
14 12 (1.37%) PHP
15 9 (1.02%) C
16 8 (0.91%) Clojure
16 8 (0.91%) Rust
17 5 (0.57%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.57%) Ruby
17 5 (0.57%) Scala
Qualifications
1 87 (9.90%) Security Cleared
2 74 (8.42%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.83%) ITIL Certification
4 57 (6.48%) Degree
5 56 (6.37%) CISSP
6 54 (6.14%) CISM
7 25 (2.84%) ISTQB
8 15 (1.71%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.80%) CISA
10 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.68%) CGEIT
11 6 (0.68%) FFIEC
11 6 (0.68%) SANS
12 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.46%) CEH
12 4 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.34%) ICAEW
13 3 (0.34%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (25.48%) QA
2 79 (8.99%) Accessibility
3 61 (6.94%) NIST
4 52 (5.92%) ISO 22301
5 36 (4.10%) Data Quality
6 20 (2.28%) GDPR
7 16 (1.82%) WCAG
8 12 (1.37%) GRC
8 12 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.68%) COBIT
10 4 (0.46%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.46%) SLA
10 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.34%) ECSS
11 3 (0.34%) PERC
12 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.11%) ISAE 3402
13 1 (0.11%) ITGC
System Software
1 101 (11.49%) Docker
2 10 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.68%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.46%) Firmware
5 1 (0.11%) KVM
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 127 (14.45%) Kubernetes
2 118 (13.42%) Terraform
3 60 (6.83%) Grafana
4 18 (2.05%) Ansible
5 16 (1.82%) Argo
6 13 (1.48%) CloudHub
7 8 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.91%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.23%) MIIS
9 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.11%) Podman
9 1 (0.11%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 75 (8.53%) Microsoft
2 27 (3.07%) ServiceNow
3 25 (2.84%) Salesforce
4 23 (2.62%) Oracle
5 20 (2.28%) Databricks
6 15 (1.71%) Braze
6 15 (1.71%) SAP
7 14 (1.59%) MuleSoft
8 13 (1.48%) Amplitude
9 12 (1.37%) Pega
9 12 (1.37%) VMware
10 11 (1.25%) Google
11 8 (0.91%) IFS
12 5 (0.57%) Commvault
12 5 (0.57%) dotdigital
13 4 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
13 4 (0.46%) Zscaler
14 3 (0.34%) Informatica
14 3 (0.34%) Perforce
14 3 (0.34%) Red Hat