Hybrid/Remote Test Engineer Job Trends

Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 409 364
Rank change year-on-year +43 -45 +62
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 50 88 152
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.38% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.39% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 38 52 120
10th Percentile £47,196 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £62,000 £60,741 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,875 £64,750 £70,200
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
% 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 WFH or hybrid 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 14,991 22,313 24,306
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 96.25% 96.51%
Number of salaries quoted 8,935 14,520 20,171
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,738 £47,447
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Test Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Test Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for remote Test Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Test Engineer job vacancies

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Test Engineer over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Test Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, Test Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (72.00%) Test Automation
2 26 (52.00%) Agile
3 24 (48.00%) Python
4 22 (44.00%) Selenium
5 21 (42.00%) QA
5 21 (42.00%) CI/CD
6 19 (38.00%) Azure
7 13 (26.00%) Test Scripting
7 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
7 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
7 13 (26.00%) DevOps
8 12 (24.00%) Appium
8 12 (24.00%) Security Testing
8 12 (24.00%) JIRA
9 11 (22.00%) ISTQB
9 11 (22.00%) SQL
10 10 (20.00%) Java
10 10 (20.00%) SC Cleared
11 9 (18.00%) Test Management
11 9 (18.00%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (18.00%) Cypress.io
11 9 (18.00%) Validation
11 9 (18.00%) Software Testing
11 9 (18.00%) JavaScript
11 9 (18.00%) TypeScript
12 8 (16.00%) Playwright
12 8 (16.00%) AWS
12 8 (16.00%) Data Quality
12 8 (16.00%) Performance Testing
12 8 (16.00%) Manual Testing

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.00%) MTS
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (8.00%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) AWS
3 7 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (8.00%) GCP
5 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.00%) GitHub
7 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.00%) Metadata
3 1 (2.00%) Big Data
3 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (44.00%) Selenium
2 12 (24.00%) Appium
2 12 (24.00%) JIRA
3 9 (18.00%) Cypress.io
4 6 (12.00%) LabVIEW
5 4 (8.00%) JMeter
6 3 (6.00%) Git
6 3 (6.00%) Postman
7 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
7 2 (4.00%) JUnit
7 2 (4.00%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (4.00%) Locust
7 2 (4.00%) Robot Framework
7 2 (4.00%) SpecFlow
8 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
8 1 (2.00%) LoadRunner
8 1 (2.00%) NUnit
8 1 (2.00%) TestComplete
8 1 (2.00%) TestNG
8 1 (2.00%) Xcode
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (10.00%) Banking
3 5 (10.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Health Technology
3 5 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (8.00%) Cantonese Language
4 4 (8.00%) Electronics
4 4 (8.00%) Mandarin Language
4 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Law
5 2 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Marketing
6 1 (2.00%) Tech for Good
6 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) Playwright
2 4 (8.00%) ADO
2 4 (8.00%) JSON
2 4 (8.00%) XML
3 3 (6.00%) pytest
3 3 (6.00%) YAML
4 2 (4.00%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.00%) MERN Stack
5 1 (2.00%) React
5 1 (2.00%) React Native
5 1 (2.00%) RESTful
5 1 (2.00%) Vue
5 1 (2.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Analogue Electronics
1 6 (12.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (8.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (8.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Android
2 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (72.00%) Test Automation
2 26 (52.00%) Agile
3 21 (42.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (26.00%) DevOps
4 13 (26.00%) Test Scripting
5 12 (24.00%) Security Testing
6 9 (18.00%) Software Testing
6 9 (18.00%) Test Management
6 9 (18.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 9 (18.00%) Validation
7 8 (16.00%) Manual Testing
7 8 (16.00%) Performance Testing
7 8 (16.00%) System Testing
8 7 (14.00%) ETL
8 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (14.00%) SDLC
8 7 (14.00%) Test Strategy
9 6 (12.00%) Continuous Deployment
9 6 (12.00%) Fintech
9 6 (12.00%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 24 (48.00%) Python
2 11 (22.00%) SQL
3 10 (20.00%) Java
4 9 (18.00%) JavaScript
4 9 (18.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.00%) C
5 4 (8.00%) C#
5 4 (8.00%) Embedded C
6 2 (4.00%) Groovy
7 1 (2.00%) Bash
7 1 (2.00%) C++
7 1 (2.00%) Go
7 1 (2.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.00%) ISTQB
3 10 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) CCA
4 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (42.00%) QA
2 8 (16.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.00%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) Databricks
2 2 (4.00%) Mentor Graphics
3 1 (2.00%) Pega
3 1 (2.00%) Reuters
3 1 (2.00%) SAP