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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 71 107
Rank change year-on-year +11 +36 -55
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 745 735 938
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.78% 4.86% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 5.14% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 401 374 713
10th Percentile £45,748 £37,725 £38,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £84,500 £82,751 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,625 £78,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%

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 16,157 14,306 30,602
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.04% 94.59% 89.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,595 8,366 23,757
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

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 12 June 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 10 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.07%) Apache
2 8 (1.07%) Confluence
2 8 (1.07%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.67%) CMS
3 5 (0.67%) Jupyter
4 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.40%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.40%) Mule
6 2 (0.27%) Camunda
6 2 (0.27%) JBoss
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.27%) WordPress
7 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.13%) nginx
7 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
1 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.27%) Towers Watson Igloo
4 1 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 335 (44.97%) AWS
2 221 (29.66%) Azure
3 134 (17.99%) GCP
4 85 (11.41%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (9.93%) Serverless
6 70 (9.40%) GitHub
7 65 (8.72%) SaaS
8 57 (7.65%) Amazon EKS
9 38 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
10 29 (3.89%) Power Platform
11 25 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
12 21 (2.82%) Azure AKS
13 19 (2.55%) Amazon S3
14 18 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (2.42%) Entra ID
15 17 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (2.01%) Azure Event Grid
16 15 (2.01%) PaaS
17 14 (1.88%) Stripe
17 14 (1.88%) TestFlight
Communications & Networking
1 61 (8.19%) Broadband
2 11 (1.48%) CHAP
3 5 (0.67%) DNS
3 5 (0.67%) SMS
4 3 (0.40%) Firewall
4 3 (0.40%) SSL
4 3 (0.40%) VPN
5 2 (0.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.27%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.13%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.13%) HTTP
6 1 (0.13%) MQTT
6 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (11.81%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (8.86%) MongoDB
3 33 (4.43%) NoSQL
4 22 (2.95%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.28%) MySQL
6 15 (2.01%) BigQuery
7 13 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
8 12 (1.61%) Metadata
9 11 (1.48%) DynamoDB
9 11 (1.48%) Oracle Database
9 11 (1.48%) Power BI
10 10 (1.34%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.67%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.67%) Spark SQL
13 4 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.54%) Big Data
14 3 (0.40%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 56 (7.52%) TeamCity
2 51 (6.85%) Selenium
3 50 (6.71%) Git
4 47 (6.31%) Jenkins
5 39 (5.23%) GitLab
6 35 (4.70%) JIRA
7 30 (4.03%) Cypress.io
8 24 (3.22%) Postman
9 21 (2.82%) JMeter
10 16 (2.15%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.88%) Crashlytics
11 14 (1.88%) XCTest
12 13 (1.74%) SpecFlow
13 12 (1.61%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.34%) WebDriver
15 8 (1.07%) Appium
15 8 (1.07%) JUnit
16 7 (0.94%) Claude Code
16 7 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
16 7 (0.94%) XCUITest
General
1 198 (26.58%) Social Skills
2 191 (25.64%) Finance
3 118 (15.84%) Banking
4 107 (14.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 95 (12.75%) Law
6 85 (11.41%) Public Sector
7 84 (11.28%) Retail
8 53 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
9 50 (6.71%) Financial Institution
10 46 (6.17%) Games
11 40 (5.37%) Back Office
12 21 (2.82%) Manufacturing
13 20 (2.68%) Legal
14 19 (2.55%) Marketing
15 13 (1.74%) Electronics
16 11 (1.48%) Investment Banking
17 9 (1.21%) Legal Technology
18 7 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
19 6 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
20 5 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (28.32%) Senior
2 124 (16.64%) Software Engineer
3 122 (16.38%) Lead
4 88 (11.81%) Developer
5 67 (8.99%) Test Engineer
6 49 (6.58%) Java Engineer
6 49 (6.58%) QA Engineer
7 47 (6.31%) Senior Software Engineer
8 39 (5.23%) Senior Developer
9 37 (4.97%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 35 (4.70%) Engineering Manager
10 35 (4.70%) Java Software Engineer
11 34 (4.56%) Software Manager
12 31 (4.16%) Software Engineering Manager
12 31 (4.16%) Test Automation Engineer
13 28 (3.76%) Tester
14 27 (3.62%) Architect
14 27 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
15 26 (3.49%) Test Leader
16 25 (3.36%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (12.75%) React
2 64 (8.59%) RESTful
3 61 (8.19%) REST
4 60 (8.05%) .NET
4 60 (8.05%) Spring
5 59 (7.92%) Node.js
5 59 (7.92%) Playwright
6 29 (3.89%) Spring Boot
7 22 (2.95%) AngularJS
8 21 (2.82%) AWS CDK
9 19 (2.55%) Next.js
10 18 (2.42%) React Native
11 17 (2.28%) JSON
12 16 (2.15%) CSS
12 16 (2.15%) HTML
13 15 (2.01%) Kafka
13 15 (2.01%) SwiftUI
14 14 (1.88%) UIKit
15 13 (1.74%) Web Services
15 13 (1.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 182 (24.43%) Cloud Native
2 102 (13.69%) Product Ownership
3 42 (5.64%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (5.50%) Mobile App
5 36 (4.83%) Low-Code
6 32 (4.30%) Video\Live Streaming
7 30 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
8 25 (3.36%) Public Cloud
9 23 (3.09%) Management Information System
10 20 (2.68%) Blog
11 19 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (2.15%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (1.34%) AI Agents
15 10 (1.34%) Algorithms
15 10 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
16 9 (1.21%) Podcast
16 9 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (6.71%) Linux
2 48 (6.44%) Apple iOS
3 37 (4.97%) Android
4 23 (3.09%) Unix
5 20 (2.68%) Windows
6 3 (0.40%) CentOS
7 2 (0.27%) Debian
7 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 429 (57.58%) CI/CD
2 330 (44.30%) Agile
3 242 (32.48%) Software Engineering
4 237 (31.81%) Mentoring
5 223 (29.93%) DevOps
6 203 (27.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 157 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
8 150 (20.13%) AI
8 150 (20.13%) Microservices
9 145 (19.46%) Coaching
10 136 (18.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 129 (17.32%) Clean Code
12 127 (17.05%) Observability
13 123 (16.51%) Full-Stack Development
14 100 (13.42%) Technical Leadership
15 98 (13.15%) Deployment Automation
16 95 (12.75%) Test Strategy
16 95 (12.75%) Validation
17 93 (12.48%) Roadmaps
17 93 (12.48%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 234 (31.41%) Java
2 193 (25.91%) Python
3 107 (14.36%) SQL
4 96 (12.89%) JavaScript
5 95 (12.75%) TypeScript
6 68 (9.13%) C#
7 48 (6.44%) Go
8 25 (3.36%) Bash
9 24 (3.22%) PowerShell
10 18 (2.42%) Kotlin
11 15 (2.01%) Swift
12 10 (1.34%) Apex Code
13 8 (1.07%) Clojure
13 8 (1.07%) PHP
14 7 (0.94%) C++
14 7 (0.94%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.94%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.81%) Bicep
15 6 (0.81%) C
15 6 (0.81%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (8.86%) Security Cleared
2 63 (8.46%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.31%) Degree
4 28 (3.76%) ISTQB
5 17 (2.28%) CISSP
6 12 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.48%) CGEIT
7 11 (1.48%) CISA
7 11 (1.48%) CISM
7 11 (1.48%) FFIEC
7 11 (1.48%) SANS
8 8 (1.07%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.07%) CEH
8 8 (1.07%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
8 8 (1.07%) OSCP
9 6 (0.81%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.81%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (24.16%) QA
2 69 (9.26%) Accessibility
3 29 (3.89%) Data Quality
4 28 (3.76%) GDPR
5 22 (2.95%) NIST
6 14 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.48%) COBIT
7 11 (1.48%) GRC
8 10 (1.34%) WCAG
9 8 (1.07%) ISO 22301
9 8 (1.07%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.94%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.40%) PERC
12 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.13%) ECSS
13 1 (0.13%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 74 (9.93%) Docker
2 11 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.81%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.27%) Firmware
5 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 139 (18.66%) Terraform
2 127 (17.05%) Kubernetes
3 67 (8.99%) Grafana
4 18 (2.42%) Argo
5 17 (2.28%) Ansible
6 5 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.40%) CloudHub
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.27%) MIIS
9 1 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.13%) logstash
9 1 (0.13%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 65 (8.72%) Microsoft
2 31 (4.16%) Oracle
3 21 (2.82%) Databricks
4 20 (2.68%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.15%) Braze
6 15 (2.01%) ServiceNow
7 14 (1.88%) Amplitude
7 14 (1.88%) VMware
8 11 (1.48%) Commvault
9 10 (1.34%) Google
10 9 (1.21%) SAP
11 8 (1.07%) IFS
12 7 (0.94%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.67%) dotdigital
14 4 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (0.54%) HubSpot
14 4 (0.54%) MuleSoft
15 3 (0.40%) Foundry
15 3 (0.40%) Informatica
15 3 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud