Hybrid/Remote Test Engineer Job Trends

Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 381 408
Rank change year-on-year +56 +27 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 133 39 67
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.53% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.25% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 106 30 43
10th Percentile £46,789 £49,950 £44,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,063 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,000 £60,741
90th Percentile £88,228 £69,250 £65,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -

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 23,365 15,489 20,858
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.21% 96.60%
Number of salaries quoted 16,055 8,753 12,926
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £39,821 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £58,015 £53,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.44% -2.73% -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 11 October 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 11 October 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 70 (52.63%) Test Automation
2 40 (30.08%) CI/CD
2 40 (30.08%) Test Strategy
3 37 (27.82%) Agile
4 31 (23.31%) Mentoring
5 28 (21.05%) Validation
6 27 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (19.55%) Coaching
8 25 (18.80%) QA
8 25 (18.80%) Software Testing
9 24 (18.05%) Python
10 23 (17.29%) Degree
11 22 (16.54%) Java
11 22 (16.54%) Security Cleared
11 22 (16.54%) Software Engineering
12 21 (15.79%) JavaScript
13 19 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
14 18 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (12.78%) Accessibility
15 17 (12.78%) DevOps
15 17 (12.78%) Technical Leadership
16 16 (12.03%) Defect Management
16 16 (12.03%) Playwright
17 14 (10.53%) AWS
17 14 (10.53%) Load Testing
18 13 (9.77%) SC Cleared
18 13 (9.77%) SQL
18 13 (9.77%) Test Scripting
19 11 (8.27%) Data Validation
19 11 (8.27%) End-to-End 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.26%) Apache
2 6 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.51%) Jupyter
3 5 (3.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Simulink
2 1 (0.75%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.53%) AWS
2 10 (7.52%) Azure
3 7 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 6 (4.51%) Amazon EMR
4 6 (4.51%) GitHub
5 5 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.01%) Amazon ECR
7 3 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (2.26%) Serverless
8 2 (1.50%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.50%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.75%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (0.75%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.02%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.26%) 5G
3 1 (0.75%) DNS
3 1 (0.75%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.51%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (4.51%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.26%) Big Data
2 3 (2.26%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.75%) Parquet
3 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) GitLab
2 7 (5.26%) Git
2 7 (5.26%) Selenium
3 6 (4.51%) LabVIEW
4 5 (3.76%) JMeter
5 4 (3.01%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.01%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.26%) Appium
6 3 (2.26%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.26%) JIRA
6 3 (2.26%) Postman
7 2 (1.50%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.50%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.75%) Ranorex
8 1 (0.75%) Snyk
8 1 (0.75%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.75%) TestRail
General
1 26 (19.55%) Public Sector
2 20 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (14.29%) Electronics
4 18 (13.53%) Social Skills
5 14 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (9.77%) Aerospace
7 11 (8.27%) Telecoms
8 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.76%) Finance
10 4 (3.01%) Law
11 3 (2.26%) Automotive
11 3 (2.26%) Legal
11 3 (2.26%) Retail
12 2 (1.50%) Health Technology
12 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.50%) Military
13 1 (0.75%) Aviation
13 1 (0.75%) Back Office
13 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.03%) Playwright
2 8 (6.02%) XML
3 7 (5.26%) Terraform
4 4 (3.01%) pytest
5 3 (2.26%) PySpark
6 2 (1.50%) .NET
6 2 (1.50%) JSON
6 2 (1.50%) Swagger
7 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.75%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.75%) Kafka
7 1 (0.75%) Node.js
7 1 (0.75%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.75%) React
7 1 (0.75%) REST
7 1 (0.75%) RESTful
7 1 (0.75%) Spring
7 1 (0.75%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.75%) Web Services
7 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.26%) Client/Server
1 7 (5.26%) SCADA
2 5 (3.76%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.01%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (3.01%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.50%) Analogue Electronics
4 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.75%) Acoustics
5 1 (0.75%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.75%) Life Science
5 1 (0.75%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.01%) Linux
2 3 (2.26%) Android
2 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.75%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (52.63%) Test Automation
2 40 (30.08%) CI/CD
2 40 (30.08%) Test Strategy
3 37 (27.82%) Agile
4 31 (23.31%) Mentoring
5 28 (21.05%) Validation
6 27 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (19.55%) Coaching
8 25 (18.80%) Software Testing
9 22 (16.54%) Software Engineering
10 19 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
11 18 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (12.78%) DevOps
12 17 (12.78%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (12.03%) Defect Management
14 14 (10.53%) Load Testing
15 13 (9.77%) Test Scripting
16 11 (8.27%) Data Validation
16 11 (8.27%) Manual Testing
16 11 (8.27%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.05%) Python
2 22 (16.54%) Java
3 21 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 13 (9.77%) SQL
5 10 (7.52%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.02%) C#
7 6 (4.51%) Bash
8 3 (2.26%) C++
9 2 (1.50%) C
9 2 (1.50%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.50%) VB
10 1 (0.75%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.75%) Go
10 1 (0.75%) Rust
10 1 (0.75%) Scala
10 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (17.29%) Degree
2 22 (16.54%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.51%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.01%) HND
7 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.26%) HNC
8 2 (1.50%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (1.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.80%) QA
2 17 (12.78%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (4.51%) Docker
2 3 (2.26%) Firmware
3 1 (0.75%) QEMU
Vendors
1 2 (1.50%) Keysight
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (1.50%) Peregrine
1 2 (1.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (0.75%) Conga
2 1 (0.75%) Databricks
2 1 (0.75%) GoCardless
2 1 (0.75%) Thales
2 1 (0.75%) YouTube