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 4 May 2026.

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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 355 463
Rank change year-on-year +65 +108 -108
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 121 51 113
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.67% 0.37% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.40% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 104 42 64
10th Percentile £42,562 £44,960 £32,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,625 £37,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £45,996
Median % change year-on-year - +19.58% -16.37%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,063 £60,741
90th Percentile £90,000 £67,500 £65,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -18.18%

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 17,026 12,788 31,124
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 91.97% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 12,370 9,045 24,881
10th Percentile £32,875 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -10.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,399 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £52,900
% change year-on-year -6.78% +11.53% -11.83%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 58 (47.93%) Test Automation
2 31 (25.62%) Agile
3 30 (24.79%) QA
4 29 (23.97%) Software Testing
5 22 (18.18%) Security Cleared
6 19 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (15.70%) Playwright
7 18 (14.88%) CI/CD
7 18 (14.88%) Selenium
8 16 (13.22%) Python
8 16 (13.22%) Test Strategy
9 13 (10.74%) Accessibility
9 13 (10.74%) Java
9 13 (10.74%) Test Scripting
10 12 (9.92%) API Testing
10 12 (9.92%) C#
10 12 (9.92%) DevOps
10 12 (9.92%) Mentoring
10 12 (9.92%) Performance Testing
11 11 (9.09%) TypeScript
12 10 (8.26%) Azure
12 10 (8.26%) JavaScript
12 10 (8.26%) JMeter
12 10 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (8.26%) Scrum
12 10 (8.26%) Validation
13 9 (7.44%) JIRA
13 9 (7.44%) Postman
14 8 (6.61%) GitLab
14 8 (6.61%) ISTQB

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 (1.65%) Apache
1 2 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.65%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 10 (8.26%) Azure
2 6 (4.96%) AWS
2 6 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (3.31%) GitHub
3 4 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (2.48%) Amazon S3
4 3 (2.48%) BrowserStack
5 2 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.65%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (1.65%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (1.65%) GCP
6 1 (0.83%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.83%) SaaS
6 1 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
1 2 (1.65%) DynamoDB
1 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (14.88%) Selenium
2 10 (8.26%) JMeter
3 9 (7.44%) JIRA
3 9 (7.44%) Postman
4 8 (6.61%) GitLab
4 8 (6.61%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.61%) REST Assured
5 7 (5.79%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.13%) SoapUI
6 5 (4.13%) Subversion
6 5 (4.13%) WebDriver
7 3 (2.48%) Gatling
7 3 (2.48%) Git
7 3 (2.48%) Serenity BDD
8 2 (1.65%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.65%) NUnit
8 2 (1.65%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.65%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (10.74%) Manufacturing
2 10 (8.26%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (4.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.13%) Electronics
6 4 (3.31%) Games
7 2 (1.65%) Finance
7 2 (1.65%) Legal
7 2 (1.65%) Military
8 1 (0.83%) Automotive
8 1 (0.83%) Back Office
8 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.70%) Playwright
2 4 (3.31%) SOAP
3 3 (2.48%) .NET
3 3 (2.48%) Web Services
4 2 (1.65%) HTML
4 2 (1.65%) Nightwatchjs
4 2 (1.65%) pytest
4 2 (1.65%) REST
4 2 (1.65%) RESTful
4 2 (1.65%) XML
5 1 (0.83%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.83%) Blazor
5 1 (0.83%) Django
5 1 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.83%) Kafka
5 1 (0.83%) Middleware
5 1 (0.83%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.83%) React
5 1 (0.83%) WebAssembly
5 1 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.61%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (1.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
3 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.65%) Linux
1 2 (1.65%) Unix
2 1 (0.83%) Android
2 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (47.93%) Test Automation
2 31 (25.62%) Agile
3 29 (23.97%) Software Testing
4 19 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (14.88%) CI/CD
6 16 (13.22%) Test Strategy
7 13 (10.74%) Test Scripting
8 12 (9.92%) API Testing
8 12 (9.92%) DevOps
8 12 (9.92%) Mentoring
8 12 (9.92%) Performance Testing
9 10 (8.26%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (8.26%) Scrum
9 10 (8.26%) Validation
10 7 (5.79%) Code Quality
10 7 (5.79%) End-to-End Testing
10 7 (5.79%) Fintech
10 7 (5.79%) Non-Functional Testing
10 7 (5.79%) Regression Testing
10 7 (5.79%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.22%) Python
2 13 (10.74%) Java
3 12 (9.92%) C#
4 11 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 10 (8.26%) JavaScript
6 6 (4.96%) SQL
7 2 (1.65%) Bash
8 1 (0.83%) C
8 1 (0.83%) C++
Qualifications
1 22 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.61%) ISTQB
2 8 (6.61%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) Degree
4 4 (3.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 4 (3.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (2.48%) CCA
6 2 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (24.79%) QA
2 13 (10.74%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 2 (1.65%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (4.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.48%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.48%) Terraform
2 1 (0.83%) Argo
2 1 (0.83%) Grafana
2 1 (0.83%) HP Fortify
2 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (3.31%) EMC
2 2 (1.65%) Guidewire
2 2 (1.65%) Oracle
3 1 (0.83%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.83%) IBM
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow