Hybrid/Remote Test Engineer Job Trends

Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £53,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 380 418
Rank change year-on-year +16 +38 -53
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 95 50 89
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 0.31% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.33% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 72 38 53
10th Percentile £46,789 £47,196 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,000 £60,741
90th Percentile £77,250 £67,875 £64,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 22,608 15,056 22,468
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 92.68% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 15,918 8,997 14,462
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 16 September 2026.

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 16 September 2026, 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 54 (56.84%) Test Automation
2 31 (32.63%) CI/CD
3 29 (30.53%) Agile
4 27 (28.42%) Test Strategy
5 24 (25.26%) Validation
6 22 (23.16%) Mentoring
7 21 (22.11%) Degree
8 20 (21.05%) QA
8 20 (21.05%) Security Cleared
8 20 (21.05%) Software Testing
9 19 (20.00%) Coaching
9 19 (20.00%) Java
9 19 (20.00%) JavaScript
10 18 (18.95%) Python
11 17 (17.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (17.89%) Software Engineering
12 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (14.74%) DevOps
14 13 (13.68%) Accessibility
15 12 (12.63%) AWS
15 12 (12.63%) Non-Functional Testing
15 12 (12.63%) Playwright
15 12 (12.63%) Test Scripting
16 11 (11.58%) Defect Management
16 11 (11.58%) Regression Testing
16 11 (11.58%) SC Cleared
16 11 (11.58%) SQL
17 10 (10.53%) GitLab
17 10 (10.53%) Load Testing
18 9 (9.47%) Continuous Integration

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 6 (6.32%) Apache
1 6 (6.32%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (6.32%) Jupyter
2 4 (4.21%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Simulink
2 1 (1.05%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.05%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.63%) AWS
2 7 (7.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (7.37%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (7.37%) Amazon S3
3 6 (6.32%) Amazon EMR
3 6 (6.32%) Azure
4 5 (5.26%) GitHub
5 4 (4.21%) Amazon ECR
5 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.16%) Serverless
7 2 (2.11%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.11%) BrowserStack
7 2 (2.11%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.05%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (1.05%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.42%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.16%) 5G
3 1 (1.05%) DNS
3 1 (1.05%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.32%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (6.32%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.16%) Big Data
2 3 (3.16%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (10.53%) GitLab
2 6 (6.32%) LabVIEW
3 5 (5.26%) Git
3 5 (5.26%) Selenium
4 4 (4.21%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.21%) JMeter
5 3 (3.16%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.16%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.16%) JIRA
6 2 (2.11%) Appium
6 2 (2.11%) Postman
6 2 (2.11%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.05%) Claude Code
7 1 (1.05%) Ranorex
7 1 (1.05%) Snyk
7 1 (1.05%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.05%) TestRail
7 1 (1.05%) WebDriver
General
1 19 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (18.95%) Public Sector
3 17 (17.89%) Electronics
4 14 (14.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 13 (13.68%) Social Skills
6 12 (12.63%) Aerospace
7 10 (10.53%) Telecoms
8 6 (6.32%) Finance
9 5 (5.26%) Manufacturing
10 4 (4.21%) Law
11 3 (3.16%) Legal
11 3 (3.16%) Retail
12 2 (2.11%) Automotive
12 2 (2.11%) Health Technology
12 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (2.11%) Military
13 1 (1.05%) Aviation
13 1 (1.05%) Back Office
13 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) Playwright
2 8 (8.42%) XML
3 7 (7.37%) Terraform
4 3 (3.16%) PySpark
5 2 (2.11%) .NET
5 2 (2.11%) JSON
6 1 (1.05%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.05%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.05%) Jest
6 1 (1.05%) pytest
6 1 (1.05%) React
6 1 (1.05%) REST
6 1 (1.05%) RESTful
6 1 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.37%) Client/Server
1 7 (7.37%) SCADA
2 5 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.21%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.11%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.05%) Acoustics
5 1 (1.05%) Analogue Electronics
5 1 (1.05%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.05%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Linux
2 2 (2.11%) Android
2 2 (2.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.05%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (56.84%) Test Automation
2 31 (32.63%) CI/CD
3 29 (30.53%) Agile
4 27 (28.42%) Test Strategy
5 24 (25.26%) Validation
6 22 (23.16%) Mentoring
7 20 (21.05%) Software Testing
8 19 (20.00%) Coaching
9 17 (17.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (17.89%) Software Engineering
10 16 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (14.74%) DevOps
12 12 (12.63%) Non-Functional Testing
12 12 (12.63%) Test Scripting
13 11 (11.58%) Defect Management
13 11 (11.58%) Regression Testing
14 10 (10.53%) Load Testing
15 9 (9.47%) Continuous Integration
15 9 (9.47%) Process Improvement
15 9 (9.47%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.00%) Java
1 19 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 18 (18.95%) Python
3 11 (11.58%) SQL
4 9 (9.47%) TypeScript
5 8 (8.42%) C#
6 6 (6.32%) Bash
7 3 (3.16%) C++
8 2 (2.11%) C
8 2 (2.11%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.11%) VB
9 1 (1.05%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.05%) Go
9 1 (1.05%) Rust
9 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (22.11%) Degree
2 20 (21.05%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.58%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (7.37%) ISTQB
5 4 (4.21%) HND
6 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.11%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.11%) HNC
7 2 (2.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.05%) QA
2 13 (13.68%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (6.32%) Docker
2 3 (3.16%) Firmware
3 1 (1.05%) QEMU
Vendors
1 2 (2.11%) Keysight
1 2 (2.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (2.11%) Peregrine
1 2 (2.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (1.05%) Conga
2 1 (1.05%) GoCardless
2 1 (1.05%) Thales
2 1 (1.05%) YouTube