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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 74 85
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 -37
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 607 656 965
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.74% 4.19% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 4.42% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 353 409 751
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +5.83% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £81,750 £75,781
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.34% +6.67% -4.00%

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 14,007 14,853 25,767
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.29% 94.77% 92.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,090 8,864 21,313
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,808
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +7.82% -7.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 14 February 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 (2.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (1.15%) Apache Solr
2 7 (1.15%) Confluence
3 5 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.66%) Apache
4 4 (0.66%) CMS
4 4 (0.66%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.49%) nginx
5 3 (0.49%) WordPress
6 2 (0.33%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.16%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Oracle Smart View
2 2 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 40 (6.59%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.49%) Hyperion Planning
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.16%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 260 (42.83%) Azure
2 187 (30.81%) AWS
3 156 (25.70%) GitHub
4 136 (22.41%) Azure DevOps
5 88 (14.50%) GCP
6 78 (12.85%) SaaS
7 73 (12.03%) GitHub Copilot
8 51 (8.40%) Amazon EKS
9 49 (8.07%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (7.08%) Serverless
11 36 (5.93%) Entra ID
12 35 (5.77%) OCI
12 35 (5.77%) Power Platform
13 34 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
14 27 (4.45%) PaaS
14 27 (4.45%) Snowflake
15 22 (3.62%) Azure Event Grid
16 20 (3.29%) dbt
17 17 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
18 16 (2.64%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.32%) CHAP
2 4 (0.66%) 5G
2 4 (0.66%) SD-WAN
2 4 (0.66%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.66%) WAN
3 3 (0.49%) HTTP
3 3 (0.49%) VPN
4 2 (0.33%) Internet
4 2 (0.33%) Network Security
4 2 (0.33%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.16%) Broadband
5 1 (0.16%) DNS
5 1 (0.16%) Firewall
5 1 (0.16%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (6.10%) MySQL
3 36 (5.93%) SQL Server
4 34 (5.60%) NoSQL
5 28 (4.61%) Power BI
6 20 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (3.29%) MongoDB
7 18 (2.97%) Tableau
8 13 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
9 12 (1.98%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.48%) MariaDB
11 9 (1.48%) Metadata
12 8 (1.32%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.15%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
15 3 (0.49%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.49%) Essbase
15 3 (0.49%) Redis
16 2 (0.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 67 (11.04%) Selenium
2 63 (10.38%) JIRA
3 56 (9.23%) Jenkins
4 55 (9.06%) Git
5 52 (8.57%) TeamCity
6 38 (6.26%) Oracle Forms
7 36 (5.93%) Cypress.io
8 20 (3.29%) Postman
9 16 (2.64%) JMeter
10 15 (2.47%) Cucumber
10 15 (2.47%) WebDriver
11 12 (1.98%) GitLab
11 12 (1.98%) JUnit
11 12 (1.98%) SpecFlow
12 8 (1.32%) Storybook
13 7 (1.15%) CircleCI
13 7 (1.15%) MLflow
14 6 (0.99%) REST Assured
14 6 (0.99%) Subversion
15 5 (0.82%) LoadRunner
General
1 253 (41.68%) Finance
2 176 (29.00%) Social Skills
3 90 (14.83%) Law
4 78 (12.85%) Banking
5 77 (12.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 72 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
7 65 (10.71%) Retail
8 48 (7.91%) Financial Institution
9 45 (7.41%) Public Sector
10 36 (5.93%) Back Office
11 21 (3.46%) Marketing
12 13 (2.14%) Games
13 9 (1.48%) Legal
14 8 (1.32%) Automotive
15 7 (1.15%) Front Office
16 6 (0.99%) Electronics
17 5 (0.82%) Billing
17 5 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
17 5 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 181 (29.82%) Senior
2 94 (15.49%) Software Engineer
3 82 (13.51%) Developer
4 80 (13.18%) Lead
5 54 (8.90%) QA Engineer
6 44 (7.25%) Test Engineer
7 42 (6.92%) Applications Engineer
8 39 (6.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 39 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
9 38 (6.26%) Java Engineer
10 35 (5.77%) Java Software Engineer
11 32 (5.27%) QA Automation Engineer
12 31 (5.11%) Test Automation Engineer
13 29 (4.78%) Automation Engineer
14 27 (4.45%) Senior Developer
15 24 (3.95%) Tester
16 23 (3.79%) Lead Developer
17 21 (3.46%) Analyst
18 19 (3.13%) Senior Cloud Engineer
19 18 (2.97%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (14.99%) RESTful
2 75 (12.36%) React
3 57 (9.39%) .NET
4 52 (8.57%) JSON
5 50 (8.24%) REST
6 48 (7.91%) SOAP
7 47 (7.74%) Playwright
8 35 (5.77%) OAuth
9 34 (5.60%) OAuth2
10 33 (5.44%) Node.js
11 30 (4.94%) XML
12 25 (4.12%) Spring
13 24 (3.95%) Lightning Web Components
14 19 (3.13%) .NET Framework
14 19 (3.13%) Next.js
15 18 (2.97%) CSS
16 17 (2.80%) SAML
17 16 (2.64%) Entity Framework
17 16 (2.64%) HTML
17 16 (2.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 169 (27.84%) Cloud Native
2 63 (10.38%) Product Ownership
3 38 (6.26%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.80%) Blog
7 16 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.64%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.98%) GNSS
10 11 (1.81%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.65%) Low-Code
12 9 (1.48%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.48%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.32%) Satnav
13 8 (1.32%) Security Posture
14 7 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
14 7 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 31 (5.11%) Linux
2 30 (4.94%) Android
2 30 (4.94%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.98%) Unix
3 12 (1.98%) Windows
4 9 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.66%) CentOS
6 2 (0.33%) Debian
6 2 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.33%) Solaris
6 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (56.01%) CI/CD
2 290 (47.78%) Agile
3 237 (39.04%) DevOps
4 187 (30.81%) Coaching
4 187 (30.81%) Mentoring
5 157 (25.86%) Software Engineering
6 147 (24.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 134 (22.08%) Clean Code
7 134 (22.08%) Microservices
8 130 (21.42%) AI
9 124 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
10 112 (18.45%) Asset Management
11 96 (15.82%) Observability
12 92 (15.16%) Analytics
13 85 (14.00%) Deployment Automation
14 67 (11.04%) Fintech
14 67 (11.04%) Sprint Planning
15 65 (10.71%) Full-Stack Development
16 64 (10.54%) Continuous Deployment
17 63 (10.38%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 180 (29.65%) Java
2 169 (27.84%) Python
3 145 (23.89%) SQL
4 82 (13.51%) TypeScript
5 77 (12.69%) JavaScript
6 56 (9.23%) C#
7 38 (6.26%) Shell Script
8 35 (5.77%) PL/SQL
9 33 (5.44%) PowerShell
10 24 (3.95%) PHP
11 23 (3.79%) Apex Code
12 18 (2.97%) Bicep
13 17 (2.80%) Bash
14 16 (2.64%) Go
15 9 (1.48%) T-SQL
16 6 (0.99%) Delphi
17 4 (0.66%) Groovy
17 4 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.66%) Perl
18 3 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 53 (8.73%) Degree
2 42 (6.92%) Security Cleared
3 37 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.29%) Master's Degree
6 19 (3.13%) ISTQB
7 12 (1.98%) CISSP
7 12 (1.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 11 (1.81%) CEH
9 10 (1.65%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.48%) CISA
11 8 (1.32%) CGEIT
11 8 (1.32%) CISM
11 8 (1.32%) FFIEC
11 8 (1.32%) SANS
12 6 (0.99%) CREST Certified
12 6 (0.99%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.99%) OSCP
13 4 (0.66%) ISEB
14 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (23.39%) QA
2 40 (6.59%) Accessibility
3 29 (4.78%) GDPR
4 27 (4.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 27 (4.45%) NIST
5 11 (1.81%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.81%) ISO 22301
6 10 (1.65%) WCAG
7 8 (1.32%) COBIT
7 8 (1.32%) ISO 9001
8 7 (1.15%) SLA
9 5 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.82%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.49%) NCSC
11 2 (0.33%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) Section 508
12 1 (0.16%) SEPA
System Software
1 60 (9.88%) Docker
2 35 (5.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.49%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 140 (23.06%) Terraform
2 106 (17.46%) Kubernetes
3 62 (10.21%) Grafana
4 36 (5.93%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (3.29%) Ansible
6 7 (1.15%) Argo
7 4 (0.66%) logstash
8 3 (0.49%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.33%) Control-M
9 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.16%) Packer
10 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 62 (10.21%) Oracle
2 61 (10.05%) Microsoft
3 29 (4.78%) Salesforce
4 22 (3.62%) VMware
5 21 (3.46%) Databricks
6 19 (3.13%) Okta
7 16 (2.64%) Commvault
8 14 (2.31%) Ab Initio
9 8 (1.32%) SAP
10 7 (1.15%) Google
11 6 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.82%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.66%) Workday
14 3 (0.49%) Foundry
14 3 (0.49%) Hyperion
14 3 (0.49%) IBM
15 2 (0.33%) Facebook
15 2 (0.33%) Qualys
15 2 (0.33%) Red Hat
15 2 (0.33%) Splunk