Hybrid/Remote Test Engineer Job Trends

Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 399 386
Rank change year-on-year +34 -13 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 36 68 111
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.23% 0.34% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.35% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 25 44 79
10th Percentile £47,550 £44,112 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,181 £58,750
90th Percentile £71,350 £65,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 15,030 19,200 21,229
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 96.66% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,036 11,975 17,333
10th Percentile £29,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,265 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -4.00% +1.08%
75th Percentile £77,063 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Test Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Test Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Test Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Test Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Test Engineer job vacancies

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Test Engineer over the 6 months to 8 November 2025.

Test Engineer salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 8 November 2025, Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (61.11%) Test Automation
2 16 (44.44%) Agile
2 16 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 13 (36.11%) Azure
4 12 (33.33%) Python
5 11 (30.56%) DevOps
5 11 (30.56%) Selenium
6 10 (27.78%) QA
7 9 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (25.00%) JIRA
7 9 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
8 8 (22.22%) Data Quality
8 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
8 8 (22.22%) Playwright
8 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
8 8 (22.22%) System Testing
8 8 (22.22%) Test Management
8 8 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (19.44%) Cypress.io
10 6 (16.67%) Appium
10 6 (16.67%) Performance Testing
10 6 (16.67%) Test Strategy
10 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
11 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (13.89%) Coaching
11 5 (13.89%) Java
11 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (13.89%) Security Testing
11 5 (13.89%) Validation
12 4 (11.11%) ADO

Test Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (5.56%) MTS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.78%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 13 (36.11%) Azure
2 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (11.11%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub
4 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (11.11%) Metadata
1 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (30.56%) Selenium
2 9 (25.00%) JIRA
3 7 (19.44%) Cypress.io
4 6 (16.67%) Appium
5 3 (8.33%) JMeter
5 3 (8.33%) LoadRunner
6 2 (5.56%) Postman
6 2 (5.56%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.78%) Android Studio
7 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
7 1 (2.78%) Gatling
7 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.78%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (2.78%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.78%) Xcode
General
1 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Banking
3 5 (13.89%) Finance
3 5 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.33%) Health Technology
4 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.56%) Automotive
5 2 (5.56%) Electronics
5 2 (5.56%) Military
5 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Marketing
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Playwright
2 4 (11.11%) ADO
2 4 (11.11%) JSON
2 4 (11.11%) XML
3 2 (5.56%) Kafka
3 2 (5.56%) Middleware
3 2 (5.56%) YAML
4 1 (2.78%) Gherkin
4 1 (2.78%) pytest
4 1 (2.78%) React Native
4 1 (2.78%) RESTful
4 1 (2.78%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 4 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 4 (11.11%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.78%) Hackathon
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Android
1 3 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Test Automation
2 16 (44.44%) Agile
2 16 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 11 (30.56%) DevOps
4 9 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 8 (22.22%) System Testing
5 8 (22.22%) Test Management
5 8 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (16.67%) Performance Testing
6 6 (16.67%) Test Strategy
7 5 (13.89%) Coaching
7 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.89%) Security Testing
7 5 (13.89%) Validation
8 4 (11.11%) Data Modelling
8 4 (11.11%) ETL
8 4 (11.11%) Manual Testing
8 4 (11.11%) Migration
8 4 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 5 (13.89%) Java
5 4 (11.11%) SQL
6 1 (2.78%) C#
6 1 (2.78%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) ISTQB
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.78%) QA
2 8 (22.22%) Data Quality
3 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.78%) ISO 14001
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Control-M
1 2 (5.56%) HP Fortify
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) IBM
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle
1 2 (5.56%) Samsung
2 1 (2.78%) Pega
2 1 (2.78%) SAP
96 hybrid/remote Test Engineer jobs