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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 83 110
Rank change year-on-year +18 +27 -50
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 870 710 697
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.79% 4.28% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 4.60% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 398 335 517
10th Percentile £45,000 £37,900 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,563 £47,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £81,000 £81,000 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £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 18,916 15,419 21,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.38% 93.04% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,655 8,896 15,104
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
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 21 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 (1.84%) Confluence
2 13 (1.49%) Anypoint
2 13 (1.49%) Mule
3 11 (1.26%) SharePoint
4 9 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.92%) Apache
6 6 (0.69%) Apache Spark
6 6 (0.69%) 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 5 (0.57%) Moqups
3 4 (0.46%) Lightworks
3 4 (0.46%) Simulink
4 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 33 (3.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (3.10%) 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
1 414 (47.59%) AWS
2 268 (30.80%) Azure
3 179 (20.57%) SaaS
4 131 (15.06%) GCP
5 74 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (7.47%) Serverless
7 64 (7.36%) GitHub
8 48 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
9 38 (4.37%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (3.45%) Power Platform
11 24 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.30%) Azure AKS
13 18 (2.07%) Entra ID
14 14 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (1.61%) Datadog
15 13 (1.49%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.49%) Figma
15 13 (1.49%) TestFlight
16 12 (1.38%) Azure Key Vault
16 12 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (8.28%) Broadband
2 13 (1.49%) SSL
3 11 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.15%) DNS
5 6 (0.69%) CHAP
5 6 (0.69%) Firewall
6 5 (0.57%) DHCP
6 5 (0.57%) SMS
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%) VPN
8 3 (0.34%) Wireless
8 3 (0.34%) X.509
9 2 (0.23%) HTTP
10 1 (0.11%) 5G
10 1 (0.11%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 35 (4.02%) SQL Server
4 26 (2.99%) NoSQL
5 21 (2.41%) Relational Database
6 18 (2.07%) BigQuery
7 15 (1.72%) Semantic Layer
8 13 (1.49%) Power BI
9 12 (1.38%) Metadata
9 12 (1.38%) MySQL
10 10 (1.15%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.15%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.92%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.80%) Big Data
14 6 (0.69%) Redis
15 5 (0.57%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 78 (8.97%) Git
2 53 (6.09%) Jenkins
2 53 (6.09%) Selenium
3 52 (5.98%) TeamCity
4 51 (5.86%) GitLab
5 37 (4.25%) Cypress.io
6 32 (3.68%) JIRA
7 27 (3.10%) Postman
8 17 (1.95%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.84%) JMeter
10 14 (1.61%) JUnit
11 11 (1.26%) Crashlytics
11 11 (1.26%) XCTest
12 10 (1.15%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.03%) Gatling
13 9 (1.03%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.80%) Appium
14 7 (0.80%) NUnit
14 7 (0.80%) REST Assured
15 6 (0.69%) SonarQube
General
1 280 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 177 (20.34%) Finance
3 143 (16.44%) Law
4 113 (12.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (12.07%) Banking
6 95 (10.92%) Public Sector
7 90 (10.34%) Legal
8 88 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
9 75 (8.62%) Retail
10 47 (5.40%) Financial Institution
11 44 (5.06%) Marketing
12 43 (4.94%) Back Office
12 43 (4.94%) Games
13 25 (2.87%) Manufacturing
14 20 (2.30%) Electronics
15 17 (1.95%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.49%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.26%) Investment Banking
18 9 (1.03%) Legal Technology
19 8 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 253 (29.08%) Senior
2 150 (17.24%) Lead
3 127 (14.60%) Software Engineer
4 111 (12.76%) Developer
5 56 (6.44%) Test Engineer
6 50 (5.75%) Senior Manager
7 49 (5.63%) Testing Manager
8 48 (5.52%) IT Manager
8 48 (5.52%) IT Services Manager
8 48 (5.52%) Resilience Manager
8 48 (5.52%) Service Manager
9 42 (4.83%) DevOps Engineer
9 42 (4.83%) Engineering Manager
9 42 (4.83%) Software Manager
10 40 (4.60%) Senior Developer
11 37 (4.25%) Software Engineering Manager
12 35 (4.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 35 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
13 34 (3.91%) Java Engineer
14 33 (3.79%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (14.37%) Terraform
2 111 (12.76%) React
3 75 (8.62%) REST
4 71 (8.16%) Node.js
5 68 (7.82%) Spring
6 63 (7.24%) Playwright
7 60 (6.90%) .NET
8 53 (6.09%) RESTful
9 50 (5.75%) Middleware
10 32 (3.68%) Spring Boot
11 29 (3.33%) AngularJS
12 24 (2.76%) CSS
13 23 (2.64%) Next.js
14 20 (2.30%) AWS CDK
14 20 (2.30%) Django
15 19 (2.18%) React Native
16 18 (2.07%) HTML
17 17 (1.95%) OAuth
18 16 (1.84%) JWT
18 16 (1.84%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 173 (19.89%) Cloud Native
2 128 (14.71%) Product Ownership
3 60 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 59 (6.78%) Cyber Threat
5 57 (6.55%) Virtual Team
6 42 (4.83%) Mobile App
7 39 (4.48%) Low-Code
8 37 (4.25%) Blog
9 32 (3.68%) Video\Live Streaming
10 30 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
10 30 (3.45%) Public Cloud
11 27 (3.10%) Marketing Technology
12 24 (2.76%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.61%) Algorithms
15 13 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
16 12 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
17 11 (1.26%) Cyberattack
17 11 (1.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 64 (7.36%) Linux
2 40 (4.60%) Windows
3 31 (3.56%) Unix
4 30 (3.45%) Apple iOS
5 26 (2.99%) Android
6 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.34%) VxWorks
8 2 (0.23%) OpenWrt
9 1 (0.11%) CentOS
9 1 (0.11%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (57.59%) CI/CD
2 394 (45.29%) Agile
3 337 (38.74%) DevOps
4 336 (38.62%) Software Engineering
5 321 (36.90%) Mentoring
6 296 (34.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 208 (23.91%) AI
8 193 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
9 144 (16.55%) Software Testing
10 143 (16.44%) Coaching
11 141 (16.21%) Microservices
12 136 (15.63%) Test Strategy
13 134 (15.40%) Infrastructure as Code
14 133 (15.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 129 (14.83%) Full-Stack Development
16 128 (14.71%) Technical Leadership
17 123 (14.14%) Observability
18 112 (12.87%) Clean Code
19 110 (12.64%) Decision-Making
20 108 (12.41%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 260 (29.89%) Python
2 227 (26.09%) Java
3 171 (19.66%) JavaScript
4 147 (16.90%) TypeScript
5 133 (15.29%) C#
6 105 (12.07%) SQL
7 64 (7.36%) PowerShell
8 50 (5.75%) Go
9 22 (2.53%) Kotlin
10 21 (2.41%) Bash
11 15 (1.72%) C++
12 14 (1.61%) Swift
13 13 (1.49%) DataWeave
14 12 (1.38%) PHP
15 10 (1.15%) C
16 9 (1.03%) Rust
17 8 (0.92%) Clojure
18 5 (0.57%) Scala
18 5 (0.57%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.46%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 87 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 70 (8.05%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.90%) ITIL Certification
4 56 (6.44%) Degree
5 54 (6.21%) CISM
5 54 (6.21%) CISSP
6 25 (2.87%) ISTQB
7 15 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.80%) CISA
9 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.69%) CGEIT
10 6 (0.69%) FFIEC
10 6 (0.69%) SANS
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.46%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.46%) OSCP
12 3 (0.34%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (25.06%) QA
2 77 (8.85%) Accessibility
3 60 (6.90%) NIST
4 51 (5.86%) ISO 22301
5 36 (4.14%) Data Quality
6 18 (2.07%) GDPR
7 16 (1.84%) WCAG
8 12 (1.38%) GRC
9 11 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.69%) COBIT
11 4 (0.46%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.46%) SLA
11 4 (0.46%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.34%) ECSS
12 3 (0.34%) PERC
13 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.11%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.11%) ISAE 3402
13 1 (0.11%) ITGC
13 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 102 (11.72%) Docker
2 9 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.69%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.57%) Firmware
5 1 (0.11%) KVM
5 1 (0.11%) QEMU
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 132 (15.17%) Kubernetes
2 64 (7.36%) Grafana
3 19 (2.18%) Ansible
4 16 (1.84%) Argo
5 13 (1.49%) CloudHub
6 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.92%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.23%) MIIS
8 1 (0.11%) Consul
8 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.11%) Podman
8 1 (0.11%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 76 (8.74%) Microsoft
2 26 (2.99%) ServiceNow
3 24 (2.76%) Salesforce
4 22 (2.53%) Oracle
5 20 (2.30%) Databricks
6 15 (1.72%) SAP
7 14 (1.61%) MuleSoft
8 13 (1.49%) Braze
9 12 (1.38%) Pega
10 11 (1.26%) Amplitude
10 11 (1.26%) VMware
11 9 (1.03%) Google
12 8 (0.92%) IFS
13 5 (0.57%) dotdigital
14 4 (0.46%) Commvault
14 4 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (0.46%) Zscaler
15 3 (0.34%) HP
15 3 (0.34%) Informatica
15 3 (0.34%) Red Hat