Hybrid/Remote Test Engineer Job Trends

Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 370 376
Rank change year-on-year +55 +6 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 60 64 88
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 0.37% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.38% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 45 46 66
10th Percentile £45,500 £43,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,125 £41,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,060 £57,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £66,548 £61,875
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 14,309 16,657 18,861
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 96.23% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 9,275 10,333 15,330
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,408 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +0.68% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,375 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 32 (53.33%) Test Automation
2 23 (38.33%) Agile
3 18 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 16 (26.67%) Security Cleared
5 15 (25.00%) Azure
5 15 (25.00%) JIRA
5 15 (25.00%) Selenium
6 14 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (21.67%) DevOps
7 13 (21.67%) Python
7 13 (21.67%) Software Testing
8 12 (20.00%) JavaScript
8 12 (20.00%) Performance Testing
8 12 (20.00%) Playwright
8 12 (20.00%) QA
9 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (15.00%) Non-Functional Testing
10 9 (15.00%) Test Management
11 8 (13.33%) Data Quality
11 8 (13.33%) Mentoring
11 8 (13.33%) System Testing
11 8 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (11.67%) Cypress.io
12 7 (11.67%) Test Scripting
12 7 (11.67%) Test Strategy
12 7 (11.67%) Validation
13 6 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
13 6 (10.00%) Data Transformation
13 6 (10.00%) Java
13 6 (10.00%) Manual Testing

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.67%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (8.33%) AWS
2 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (3.33%) GitHub
4 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (6.67%) Metadata
1 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.33%) Tableau
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) JIRA
1 15 (25.00%) Selenium
2 7 (11.67%) Cypress.io
3 5 (8.33%) Appium
3 5 (8.33%) JMeter
3 5 (8.33%) Subversion
4 4 (6.67%) LoadRunner
4 4 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.33%) Postman
5 2 (3.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.67%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.67%) Gatling
6 1 (1.67%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (1.67%) Locust
6 1 (1.67%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (1.67%) TestRail
6 1 (1.67%) Xcode
General
1 18 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 6 (10.00%) Electronics
4 5 (8.33%) Banking
4 5 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Finance
4 5 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.67%) Military
6 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.33%) Automotive
7 2 (3.33%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Marketing
8 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.00%) Playwright
2 4 (6.67%) ADO
2 4 (6.67%) JSON
2 4 (6.67%) XML
3 3 (5.00%) Kafka
3 3 (5.00%) Middleware
4 2 (3.33%) pytest
4 2 (3.33%) YAML
5 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.67%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.67%) React Native
5 1 (1.67%) RESTful
5 1 (1.67%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.33%) Embedded Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.67%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.67%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Android
1 3 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) Test Automation
2 23 (38.33%) Agile
3 18 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 14 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (21.67%) DevOps
5 13 (21.67%) Software Testing
6 12 (20.00%) Performance Testing
7 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (15.00%) Non-Functional Testing
8 9 (15.00%) Test Management
9 8 (13.33%) Mentoring
9 8 (13.33%) System Testing
9 8 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (11.67%) Test Scripting
10 7 (11.67%) Test Strategy
10 7 (11.67%) Validation
11 6 (10.00%) Data Transformation
11 6 (10.00%) Manual Testing
11 6 (10.00%) Migration
11 6 (10.00%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (21.67%) Python
2 12 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.00%) Java
3 6 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (6.67%) SQL
5 3 (5.00%) C#
6 1 (1.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Degree
3 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) QA
2 8 (13.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) HP Fortify
2 2 (3.33%) Control-M
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.67%) Argo
3 1 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (5.00%) IBM
2 2 (3.33%) EMC
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle
2 2 (3.33%) Samsung
3 1 (1.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.67%) Pega
3 1 (1.67%) SAP