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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 75 110
Rank change year-on-year +18 +35 -52
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 893 730 723
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.05% 4.43% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 4.77% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 417 358 559
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,200 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,917 £80,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,965
% change year-on-year +4.00% +7.82% -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 18,280 15,315 23,472
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.99% 93.04% 88.02%
Number of salaries quoted 13,282 9,035 17,224
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £41,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 30 July 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 13 (1.46%) Confluence
2 12 (1.34%) Anypoint
2 12 (1.34%) Mule
3 11 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 10 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.90%) Apache
6 6 (0.67%) CMS
7 5 (0.56%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.56%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.45%) WordPress
9 3 (0.34%) Camunda
9 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.22%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 7 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.45%) Lightworks
3 4 (0.45%) Simulink
4 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.22%) Moqups
6 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 33 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (3.02%) Dynamics GP
3 4 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.22%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 1 (0.11%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 426 (47.70%) AWS
2 279 (31.24%) Azure
3 167 (18.70%) SaaS
4 137 (15.34%) GCP
5 78 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (8.17%) Serverless
7 72 (8.06%) GitHub
8 50 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
9 42 (4.70%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (3.14%) Power Platform
11 24 (2.69%) Azure Service Bus
12 20 (2.24%) Azure AKS
13 18 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (2.02%) Entra ID
14 15 (1.68%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (1.68%) TestFlight
15 14 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
15 14 (1.57%) Firebase
15 14 (1.57%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 70 (7.84%) Broadband
2 12 (1.34%) SSL
3 8 (0.90%) DNS
4 7 (0.78%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.67%) CHAP
5 6 (0.67%) Firewall
6 5 (0.56%) SMS
7 4 (0.45%) MQTT
7 4 (0.45%) Network Security
8 3 (0.34%) DHCP
8 3 (0.34%) Ethernet
8 3 (0.34%) LAN
8 3 (0.34%) VPN
8 3 (0.34%) WAN
8 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.34%) Wireless
9 2 (0.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
2 68 (7.61%) MongoDB
3 35 (3.92%) NoSQL
4 31 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 19 (2.13%) MySQL
6 18 (2.02%) BigQuery
7 16 (1.79%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.68%) Semantic Layer
9 13 (1.46%) Metadata
10 11 (1.23%) Oracle Database
10 11 (1.23%) Power BI
11 10 (1.12%) DynamoDB
12 9 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.78%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.56%) Big Data
15 5 (0.56%) Spark SQL
16 4 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
16 4 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 67 (7.50%) Git
2 56 (6.27%) Selenium
3 52 (5.82%) TeamCity
4 51 (5.71%) Jenkins
5 45 (5.04%) GitLab
6 36 (4.03%) Cypress.io
7 30 (3.36%) JIRA
8 26 (2.91%) Postman
9 19 (2.13%) JMeter
10 16 (1.79%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.57%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.57%) XCTest
12 13 (1.46%) SpecFlow
13 11 (1.23%) JUnit
14 8 (0.90%) Appium
14 8 (0.90%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.90%) Gatling
14 8 (0.90%) REST Assured
15 7 (0.78%) TestRail
15 7 (0.78%) WebDriver
General
1 274 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 181 (20.27%) Finance
3 142 (15.90%) Law
4 110 (12.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 105 (11.76%) Banking
6 103 (11.53%) Public Sector
7 94 (10.53%) Legal
8 84 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
9 76 (8.51%) Retail
10 46 (5.15%) Marketing
11 45 (5.04%) Financial Institution
11 45 (5.04%) Games
12 41 (4.59%) Back Office
13 24 (2.69%) Manufacturing
14 16 (1.79%) Electronics
15 11 (1.23%) Investment Banking
16 9 (1.01%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.01%) Legal Technology
17 8 (0.90%) Telecoms
18 7 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 262 (29.34%) Senior
2 147 (16.46%) Lead
3 134 (15.01%) Software Engineer
4 106 (11.87%) Developer
5 54 (6.05%) Test Engineer
6 52 (5.82%) Senior Manager
7 49 (5.49%) Testing Manager
8 48 (5.38%) IT Manager
8 48 (5.38%) IT Services Manager
8 48 (5.38%) Resilience Manager
8 48 (5.38%) Service Manager
9 44 (4.93%) Java Engineer
10 42 (4.70%) DevOps Engineer
11 41 (4.59%) Senior Developer
12 40 (4.48%) Engineering Manager
12 40 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
13 39 (4.37%) QA Engineer
14 38 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 37 (4.14%) Software Manager
16 35 (3.92%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (12.09%) React
2 68 (7.61%) Playwright
3 67 (7.50%) Node.js
4 66 (7.39%) REST
5 63 (7.05%) .NET
5 63 (7.05%) Spring
6 61 (6.83%) RESTful
7 51 (5.71%) Middleware
8 31 (3.47%) Spring Boot
9 28 (3.14%) AngularJS
10 24 (2.69%) AWS CDK
10 24 (2.69%) Next.js
11 20 (2.24%) Django
12 19 (2.13%) React Native
13 18 (2.02%) CSS
14 16 (1.79%) OAuth
15 15 (1.68%) HTML
15 15 (1.68%) OAuth2
16 14 (1.57%) Kafka
16 14 (1.57%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 181 (20.27%) Cloud Native
2 117 (13.10%) Product Ownership
3 59 (6.61%) Cyber Threat
4 57 (6.38%) Virtual Team
5 52 (5.82%) Distributed Systems
6 46 (5.15%) Mobile App
7 42 (4.70%) Blog
8 37 (4.14%) Low-Code
9 33 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
10 32 (3.58%) Video\Live Streaming
11 30 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
12 28 (3.14%) Public Cloud
13 27 (3.02%) Marketing Technology
14 15 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.57%) Management Information System
16 13 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
17 12 (1.34%) Onboarding
18 11 (1.23%) Algorithms
18 11 (1.23%) Cyberattack
18 11 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.94%) Linux
2 39 (4.37%) Windows
3 38 (4.26%) Apple iOS
4 32 (3.58%) Unix
5 30 (3.36%) Android
6 3 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) CentOS
7 1 (0.11%) Debian
7 1 (0.11%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.11%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (55.77%) CI/CD
2 410 (45.91%) Agile
3 337 (37.74%) DevOps
3 337 (37.74%) Mentoring
4 325 (36.39%) Software Engineering
5 294 (32.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 200 (22.40%) AI
7 178 (19.93%) Problem-Solving
8 156 (17.47%) Coaching
9 153 (17.13%) Microservices
10 151 (16.91%) Software Testing
11 140 (15.68%) Infrastructure as Code
12 134 (15.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 134 (15.01%) Test Strategy
13 133 (14.89%) Full-Stack Development
14 128 (14.33%) Observability
15 122 (13.66%) Technical Leadership
16 118 (13.21%) Clean Code
17 112 (12.54%) Decision-Making
18 110 (12.32%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 258 (28.89%) Python
2 234 (26.20%) Java
3 162 (18.14%) JavaScript
4 147 (16.46%) TypeScript
5 126 (14.11%) C#
6 114 (12.77%) SQL
7 66 (7.39%) PowerShell
8 46 (5.15%) Go
9 23 (2.58%) Bash
9 23 (2.58%) Kotlin
10 16 (1.79%) Swift
11 12 (1.34%) DataWeave
12 11 (1.23%) C++
12 11 (1.23%) PHP
13 9 (1.01%) C
14 8 (0.90%) Clojure
15 7 (0.78%) Rust
16 6 (0.67%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.56%) Ruby
17 5 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (8.40%) Security Cleared
2 69 (7.73%) SC Cleared
3 60 (6.72%) ITIL Certification
4 58 (6.49%) CISSP
5 55 (6.16%) Degree
6 54 (6.05%) CISM
7 25 (2.80%) ISTQB
8 9 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 7 (0.78%) CISA
9 7 (0.78%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.67%) CGEIT
10 6 (0.67%) FFIEC
10 6 (0.67%) SANS
11 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.45%) CEH
11 4 (0.45%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (25.08%) QA
2 75 (8.40%) Accessibility
3 60 (6.72%) NIST
4 52 (5.82%) ISO 22301
5 37 (4.14%) Data Quality
6 21 (2.35%) GDPR
7 14 (1.57%) WCAG
8 11 (1.23%) GRC
9 9 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.67%) COBIT
11 4 (0.45%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.34%) ECSS
12 3 (0.34%) PERC
12 3 (0.34%) SLA
13 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.11%) ISAE 3402
14 1 (0.11%) ITGC
14 1 (0.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 88 (9.85%) Docker
2 10 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (0.56%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
5 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) KVM
6 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 127 (14.22%) Kubernetes
2 124 (13.89%) Terraform
3 65 (7.28%) Grafana
4 17 (1.90%) Ansible
5 16 (1.79%) Argo
6 12 (1.34%) CloudHub
7 7 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.22%) MIIS
10 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.11%) Podman
10 1 (0.11%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (7.84%) Microsoft
2 28 (3.14%) ServiceNow
3 24 (2.69%) Oracle
3 24 (2.69%) Salesforce
4 21 (2.35%) Databricks
5 16 (1.79%) Braze
6 14 (1.57%) Amplitude
6 14 (1.57%) SAP
7 13 (1.46%) MuleSoft
8 12 (1.34%) Pega
8 12 (1.34%) VMware
9 11 (1.23%) Google
10 8 (0.90%) IFS
11 5 (0.56%) Commvault
11 5 (0.56%) dotdigital
12 4 (0.45%) CrowdStrike
12 4 (0.45%) HubSpot
13 3 (0.34%) Informatica
13 3 (0.34%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.34%) Zscaler