Tester Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Tester salary for remote or hybrid work is £44,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 385 369
Rank change year-on-year +34 -16 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 62 214 345
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.41% 0.63% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.66% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 44 157 251
10th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £58,438 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £67,125 £70,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +15.79%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid 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 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Tester trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Tester
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Tester.

Tester salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Tester
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Tester over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Tester salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Tester in the job title.

1 32 (51.61%) QA
2 29 (46.77%) Test Automation
3 28 (45.16%) Software Testing
4 21 (33.87%) Agile
5 17 (27.42%) JavaScript
5 17 (27.42%) Test Scripting
6 16 (25.81%) C#
7 15 (24.19%) Java
8 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
8 14 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (22.58%) API Testing
8 14 (22.58%) Python
9 13 (20.97%) Azure
9 13 (20.97%) Selenium
10 12 (19.35%) Manual Testing
10 12 (19.35%) SDLC
10 12 (19.35%) Playwright
11 11 (17.74%) Telecoms
11 11 (17.74%) SQL
11 11 (17.74%) Test Strategy
12 10 (16.13%) .NET
13 9 (14.52%) 3GPP
13 9 (14.52%) Finance
13 9 (14.52%) Penetration Testing
13 9 (14.52%) Test Management
13 9 (14.52%) Vulnerability Research
13 9 (14.52%) 5G
13 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (14.52%) NCSC
13 9 (14.52%) DevOps

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.97%) Azure
2 8 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (12.90%) SaaS
3 2 (3.23%) AWS
4 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.61%) BrowserStack
4 1 (1.61%) GCP
4 1 (1.61%) GitHub
4 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.61%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.61%) Serverless
4 1 (1.61%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.52%) 3GPP
1 9 (14.52%) 5G
2 4 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.61%) MySQL
2 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.61%) Power BI
2 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (20.97%) Selenium
2 8 (12.90%) Cypress.io
3 5 (8.06%) JIRA
3 5 (8.06%) Postman
3 5 (8.06%) SoapUI
3 5 (8.06%) WebDriver
4 4 (6.45%) Appium
5 3 (4.84%) Git
5 3 (4.84%) Mocha
5 3 (4.84%) Protractor
6 2 (3.23%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.61%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.61%) Gatling
7 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.61%) JMeter
7 1 (1.61%) JUnit
7 1 (1.61%) Locust
7 1 (1.61%) Maven
7 1 (1.61%) TestComplete
7 1 (1.61%) TestNG
General
1 14 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.74%) Telecoms
3 9 (14.52%) Finance
4 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.29%) Law
5 4 (6.45%) Marketing
5 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.23%) Electronics
6 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.61%) Games
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.35%) Playwright
2 10 (16.13%) .NET
3 4 (6.45%) JSON
4 3 (4.84%) CSS
4 3 (4.84%) HTML
4 3 (4.84%) pytest
4 3 (4.84%) Web Services
5 2 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.23%) SOAP
5 2 (3.23%) Swagger
5 2 (3.23%) XML
6 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.61%) Node.js
6 1 (1.61%) RESTful
6 1 (1.61%) WebGL
6 1 (1.61%) WebGPU
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.90%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.23%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.23%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.61%) NHS
4 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.84%) Android
1 3 (4.84%) Apple iOS
1 3 (4.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.77%) Test Automation
2 28 (45.16%) Software Testing
3 21 (33.87%) Agile
4 17 (27.42%) Test Scripting
5 14 (22.58%) API Testing
5 14 (22.58%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (19.35%) Manual Testing
6 12 (19.35%) SDLC
7 11 (17.74%) Test Strategy
8 9 (14.52%) DevOps
8 9 (14.52%) Penetration Testing
8 9 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (14.52%) Test Management
8 9 (14.52%) Vulnerability Research
9 8 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.90%) Security Testing
10 6 (9.68%) Exploratory Testing
10 6 (9.68%) Functional Testing
10 6 (9.68%) Non-Functional Testing
10 6 (9.68%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.42%) JavaScript
2 16 (25.81%) C#
3 15 (24.19%) Java
4 14 (22.58%) Python
5 11 (17.74%) SQL
6 4 (6.45%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.23%) C++
8 1 (1.61%) Go
8 1 (1.61%) PHP
8 1 (1.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) ISTQB
2 7 (11.29%) SC Cleared
2 7 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) CHECK Team Leader
4 5 (8.06%) CHECK Team Member
4 5 (8.06%) CREST Certified
5 4 (6.45%) OSCP
6 3 (4.84%) Cyber Scheme
7 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.61%) CEH
8 1 (1.61%) Degree
8 1 (1.61%) OSCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (51.61%) QA
2 9 (14.52%) NCSC
3 2 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (3.23%) GRC
3 2 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.23%) NIST
3 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.61%) GDPR
4 1 (1.61%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
1 2 (3.23%) SAP
2 1 (1.61%) Google
2 1 (1.61%) Splunk
2 1 (1.61%) UiPath