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 19 October 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 396 387
Rank change year-on-year +21 -9 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 33 70 124
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.20% 0.35% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.36% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 24 46 92
10th Percentile - £43,750 £32,603
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,188
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 £60,741 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,250 £65,000 £66,863
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 15,240 19,589 22,391
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 96.58% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,641 12,406 18,278
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £39,625 £45,000 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,888 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.19% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 24 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 17 (51.52%) CI/CD
3 15 (45.45%) Agile
4 14 (42.42%) Python
4 14 (42.42%) Selenium
5 12 (36.36%) Azure
5 12 (36.36%) QA
6 11 (33.33%) DevOps
7 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (27.27%) JIRA
8 8 (24.24%) Data Quality
8 8 (24.24%) JavaScript
8 8 (24.24%) System Testing
8 8 (24.24%) Test Management
8 8 (24.24%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (21.21%) Appium
9 7 (21.21%) Non-Functional Testing
9 7 (21.21%) Playwright
9 7 (21.21%) TypeScript
10 6 (18.18%) Cypress.io
10 6 (18.18%) ISTQB
10 6 (18.18%) Java
10 6 (18.18%) Performance Testing
10 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
10 6 (18.18%) Security Testing
11 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (15.15%) Validation
12 4 (12.12%) ADO
12 4 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory

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 (6.06%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (3.03%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (9.09%) AWS
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.03%) GCP
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (12.12%) Metadata
1 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) Selenium
2 9 (27.27%) JIRA
3 7 (21.21%) Appium
4 6 (18.18%) Cypress.io
5 3 (9.09%) JMeter
5 3 (9.09%) LoadRunner
6 2 (6.06%) Postman
6 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.03%) Android Studio
7 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.03%) Gatling
7 1 (3.03%) Git
7 1 (3.03%) git-flow
7 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
7 1 (3.03%) JUnit
7 1 (3.03%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (3.03%) LabVIEW
7 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.03%) SpecFlow
7 1 (3.03%) Xcode
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Banking
3 5 (15.15%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (9.09%) Health Technology
5 2 (6.06%) Electronics
5 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.03%) Cantonese Language
6 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (3.03%) Marketing
6 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Playwright
2 4 (12.12%) ADO
2 4 (12.12%) JSON
2 4 (12.12%) XML
3 2 (6.06%) Gherkin
3 2 (6.06%) Kafka
3 2 (6.06%) Middleware
3 2 (6.06%) YAML
4 1 (3.03%) pytest
4 1 (3.03%) React Native
4 1 (3.03%) RESTful
4 1 (3.03%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Algorithms
1 4 (12.12%) Mobile App
1 4 (12.12%) Reference Data
2 1 (3.03%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.03%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.03%) Hackathon
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.03%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Android
1 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 17 (51.52%) CI/CD
3 15 (45.45%) Agile
4 11 (33.33%) DevOps
5 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (24.24%) System Testing
6 8 (24.24%) Test Management
6 8 (24.24%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (21.21%) Non-Functional Testing
8 6 (18.18%) Performance Testing
8 6 (18.18%) Security Testing
9 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (15.15%) Validation
10 4 (12.12%) Data Modelling
10 4 (12.12%) ETL
10 4 (12.12%) Migration
10 4 (12.12%) Software Testing
10 4 (12.12%) TDD
10 4 (12.12%) Test Scripting
10 4 (12.12%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
2 8 (24.24%) JavaScript
3 7 (21.21%) TypeScript
4 6 (18.18%) Java
5 4 (12.12%) SQL
6 2 (6.06%) C#
7 1 (3.03%) C
7 1 (3.03%) Embedded C
7 1 (3.03%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) ISTQB
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (36.36%) QA
2 8 (24.24%) Data Quality
3 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.03%) ISO 14001
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Control-M
1 2 (6.06%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) IBM
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle
2 1 (3.03%) Pega
2 1 (3.03%) SAP