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 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 363 411
Rank change year-on-year +6 +48 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 102 49 89
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.44% 0.31% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.33% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 78 37 55
10th Percentile £46,789 £46,486 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £60,741
90th Percentile - £68,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -9.52%

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 21,988 14,847 22,816
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 92.53% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 15,627 8,962 15,506
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £58,077
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -0.99% -7.08%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 4 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 4 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 62 (60.78%) Test Automation
2 34 (33.33%) Agile
3 33 (32.35%) CI/CD
4 30 (29.41%) Test Strategy
5 24 (23.53%) Mentoring
6 23 (22.55%) Validation
7 22 (21.57%) Software Testing
8 21 (20.59%) Coaching
8 21 (20.59%) Java
8 21 (20.59%) QA
9 20 (19.61%) Degree
10 18 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (17.65%) Security Cleared
11 17 (16.67%) Accessibility
11 17 (16.67%) JavaScript
11 17 (16.67%) Python
12 16 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (15.69%) Software Engineering
13 14 (13.73%) Playwright
13 14 (13.73%) Test Scripting
14 13 (12.75%) DevOps
15 12 (11.76%) Design for Test
15 12 (11.76%) GitLab
15 12 (11.76%) Regression Testing
16 11 (10.78%) AWS
16 11 (10.78%) Non-Functional Testing
16 11 (10.78%) Technical Leadership
17 10 (9.80%) Load Testing
17 10 (9.80%) SC Cleared
17 10 (9.80%) SQL

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 (5.88%) Apache
1 6 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (5.88%) Jupyter
2 4 (3.92%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Simulink
2 1 (0.98%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.98%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.78%) AWS
2 6 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
2 6 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 5 (4.90%) Azure
4 4 (3.92%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.92%) GitHub
5 2 (1.96%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.96%) BrowserStack
5 2 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (1.96%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (1.96%) SaaS
5 2 (1.96%) Serverless
6 1 (0.98%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.98%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.84%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.98%) 5G
2 1 (0.98%) Broadband
2 1 (0.98%) DNS
2 1 (0.98%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (5.88%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.94%) Big Data
2 3 (2.94%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (11.76%) GitLab
2 8 (7.84%) Selenium
3 7 (6.86%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.86%) JMeter
4 6 (5.88%) LabVIEW
5 5 (4.90%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.90%) Git
5 5 (4.90%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.94%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.94%) Gatling
6 3 (2.94%) JIRA
7 2 (1.96%) Appium
7 2 (1.96%) Postman
8 1 (0.98%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.98%) Ranorex
8 1 (0.98%) Snyk
8 1 (0.98%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.98%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.98%) TestRail
8 1 (0.98%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (19.61%) Public Sector
2 18 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (16.67%) Electronics
4 14 (13.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (13.73%) Social Skills
5 11 (10.78%) Aerospace
6 10 (9.80%) Telecoms
7 6 (5.88%) Finance
8 5 (4.90%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.92%) Law
10 3 (2.94%) Health Technology
10 3 (2.94%) Legal
11 2 (1.96%) Automotive
11 2 (1.96%) Back Office
11 2 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.96%) Military
11 2 (1.96%) Retail
12 1 (0.98%) Aviation
12 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.73%) Playwright
2 8 (7.84%) XML
3 7 (6.86%) Terraform
4 3 (2.94%) PySpark
5 2 (1.96%) .NET
5 2 (1.96%) JSON
5 2 (1.96%) React
6 1 (0.98%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.98%) Django
6 1 (0.98%) Jest
6 1 (0.98%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (0.98%) REST
6 1 (0.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.86%) Client/Server
1 7 (6.86%) SCADA
2 5 (4.90%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.90%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.98%) Analogue Electronics
4 1 (0.98%) Life Science
4 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.92%) Linux
2 2 (1.96%) Android
2 2 (1.96%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.98%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.98%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (60.78%) Test Automation
2 34 (33.33%) Agile
3 33 (32.35%) CI/CD
4 30 (29.41%) Test Strategy
5 24 (23.53%) Mentoring
6 23 (22.55%) Validation
7 22 (21.57%) Software Testing
8 21 (20.59%) Coaching
9 18 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (15.69%) Software Engineering
11 14 (13.73%) Test Scripting
12 13 (12.75%) DevOps
13 12 (11.76%) Design for Test
13 12 (11.76%) Regression Testing
14 11 (10.78%) Non-Functional Testing
14 11 (10.78%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (9.80%) Load Testing
16 9 (8.82%) Continuous Integration
16 9 (8.82%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (20.59%) Java
2 17 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 17 (16.67%) Python
3 10 (9.80%) SQL
4 8 (7.84%) C#
5 7 (6.86%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.88%) Bash
7 3 (2.94%) C++
8 2 (1.96%) C
8 2 (1.96%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.96%) VB
9 1 (0.98%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.98%) Go
9 1 (0.98%) Rust
9 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (19.61%) Degree
2 18 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 10 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (5.88%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.92%) HND
7 2 (1.96%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.96%) HNC
8 1 (0.98%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.98%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.59%) QA
2 17 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (5.88%) Docker
2 3 (2.94%) Firmware
3 1 (0.98%) QEMU
3 1 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (1.96%) Keysight
1 2 (1.96%) Peregrine
1 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
2 1 (0.98%) Conga
2 1 (0.98%) GoCardless
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.98%) YouTube