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 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 369 409
Rank change year-on-year +14 +40 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 103 47 77
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.31% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 78 36 50
10th Percentile £46,789 £47,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,500 £60,741
90th Percentile £75,750 £66,875 £65,000
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 22,963 14,956 21,934
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.79% 92.66% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,069 8,877 14,057
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £44,750
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 £78,750
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 22 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 22 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 60 (58.25%) Test Automation
2 36 (34.95%) CI/CD
3 34 (33.01%) Agile
4 31 (30.10%) Test Strategy
5 27 (26.21%) Validation
6 26 (25.24%) Mentoring
7 23 (22.33%) Coaching
7 23 (22.33%) Python
8 22 (21.36%) Software Testing
9 21 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (20.39%) Degree
9 21 (20.39%) QA
9 21 (20.39%) Security Cleared
10 20 (19.42%) Software Engineering
11 19 (18.45%) Java
11 19 (18.45%) JavaScript
12 18 (17.48%) DevOps
13 17 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (14.56%) Non-Functional Testing
15 14 (13.59%) Defect Management
16 13 (12.62%) Accessibility
16 13 (12.62%) Playwright
17 12 (11.65%) AWS
17 12 (11.65%) SC Cleared
17 12 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
17 12 (11.65%) Test Scripting
18 11 (10.68%) Load Testing
18 11 (10.68%) Regression Testing
18 11 (10.68%) SQL
19 10 (9.71%) Data Validation

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 (6.80%) Apache
2 6 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.83%) Jupyter
3 5 (4.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Simulink
2 1 (0.97%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.97%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.65%) AWS
2 7 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (6.80%) Amazon S3
2 7 (6.80%) Azure
3 6 (5.83%) Amazon EMR
4 5 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.85%) GitHub
5 4 (3.88%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.91%) Serverless
7 2 (1.94%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.94%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.94%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.97%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.97%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.77%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.91%) 5G
3 1 (0.97%) DNS
3 1 (0.97%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.83%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (5.83%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.91%) Big Data
2 3 (2.91%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.97%) Parquet
3 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (9.71%) GitLab
2 6 (5.83%) Git
2 6 (5.83%) LabVIEW
3 5 (4.85%) Selenium
4 4 (3.88%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.88%) JMeter
5 3 (2.91%) Appium
5 3 (2.91%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.91%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.91%) JIRA
6 2 (1.94%) Postman
6 2 (1.94%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.97%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.97%) Ranorex
7 1 (0.97%) Snyk
7 1 (0.97%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.97%) TestRail
7 1 (0.97%) WebDriver
General
1 21 (20.39%) Public Sector
2 20 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (17.48%) Electronics
4 15 (14.56%) Social Skills
5 14 (13.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (11.65%) Aerospace
7 10 (9.71%) Telecoms
8 6 (5.83%) Finance
8 6 (5.83%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.88%) Law
10 3 (2.91%) Legal
10 3 (2.91%) Retail
11 2 (1.94%) Automotive
11 2 (1.94%) Health Technology
11 2 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.94%) Military
12 1 (0.97%) Aviation
12 1 (0.97%) Back Office
12 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.62%) Playwright
2 8 (7.77%) XML
3 7 (6.80%) Terraform
4 4 (3.88%) pytest
5 3 (2.91%) PySpark
6 2 (1.94%) .NET
6 2 (1.94%) JSON
7 1 (0.97%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.97%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.97%) Jest
7 1 (0.97%) React
7 1 (0.97%) REST
7 1 (0.97%) RESTful
7 1 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.80%) Client/Server
1 7 (6.80%) SCADA
2 5 (4.85%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.85%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.94%) Analogue Electronics
5 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.94%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.97%) Acoustics
6 1 (0.97%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.97%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.91%) Android
1 3 (2.91%) Apple iOS
1 3 (2.91%) Linux
2 1 (0.97%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (0.97%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (58.25%) Test Automation
2 36 (34.95%) CI/CD
3 34 (33.01%) Agile
4 31 (30.10%) Test Strategy
5 27 (26.21%) Validation
6 26 (25.24%) Mentoring
7 23 (22.33%) Coaching
8 22 (21.36%) Software Testing
9 21 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (19.42%) Software Engineering
11 18 (17.48%) DevOps
12 17 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (14.56%) Non-Functional Testing
14 14 (13.59%) Defect Management
15 12 (11.65%) Technical Leadership
15 12 (11.65%) Test Scripting
16 11 (10.68%) Load Testing
16 11 (10.68%) Regression Testing
17 10 (9.71%) Data Validation
18 9 (8.74%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 23 (22.33%) Python
2 19 (18.45%) Java
2 19 (18.45%) JavaScript
3 11 (10.68%) SQL
4 9 (8.74%) TypeScript
5 8 (7.77%) C#
6 6 (5.83%) Bash
7 3 (2.91%) C++
8 2 (1.94%) C
8 2 (1.94%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.94%) VB
9 1 (0.97%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.97%) Go
9 1 (0.97%) Rust
9 1 (0.97%) Scala
9 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (20.39%) Degree
1 21 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.65%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (6.80%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.88%) HND
5 3 (2.91%) HNC
6 2 (1.94%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (0.97%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.39%) QA
2 13 (12.62%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (5.83%) Docker
2 3 (2.91%) Firmware
3 1 (0.97%) QEMU
Vendors
1 2 (1.94%) Keysight
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft
1 2 (1.94%) Peregrine
1 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
2 1 (0.97%) Conga
2 1 (0.97%) Databricks
2 1 (0.97%) GoCardless
2 1 (0.97%) Thales
2 1 (0.97%) YouTube