Software Testing Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 177 137
Rank change year-on-year +10 -40 -11
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 646 826 2,104
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.90% 2.06% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 2.14% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 546 581 1,111
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,375 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% +1.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% +6.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,879 38,524 69,675
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.94% 96.06% 97.07%
Number of salaries quoted 23,365 26,722 41,465
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Software Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Software Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Software Testing.

Software Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Testing over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Software Testing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 22 (3.41%) Confluence
2 9 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.24%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.77%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) JBoss
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 22 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.55%) Simulink
4 7 (1.08%) Stateflow
5 6 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.77%) Trello
7 4 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) ProductWriter
2 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 158 (24.46%) Azure
2 101 (15.63%) AWS
3 52 (8.05%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (6.81%) GitHub
5 37 (5.73%) SaaS
6 30 (4.64%) GCP
7 20 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (2.48%) Serverless
9 13 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.39%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.24%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.93%) IaaS
15 5 (0.77%) ClickUp
16 4 (0.62%) BrowserStack
16 4 (0.62%) Entra ID
16 4 (0.62%) PaaS
17 3 (0.46%) Amazon EC2
17 3 (0.46%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.39%) RS-232
2 8 (1.24%) Ethernet
2 8 (1.24%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.08%) Internet
3 7 (1.08%) Network Security
4 6 (0.93%) Wireless
5 4 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.46%) Modbus
6 3 (0.46%) RS-422
6 3 (0.46%) RS-485
6 3 (0.46%) VPN
7 2 (0.31%) HTTP
7 2 (0.31%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.31%) ZigBee
8 1 (0.15%) 4G
8 1 (0.15%) FlexRay
8 1 (0.15%) MQTT
8 1 (0.15%) Multicast
8 1 (0.15%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.15%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.42%) Relational Database
2 32 (4.95%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.32%) Big Data
4 14 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.01%) DynamoDB
5 13 (2.01%) MySQL
5 13 (2.01%) OLTP
6 10 (1.55%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.93%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.93%) Flink
7 6 (0.93%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.62%) Redis
10 3 (0.46%) MS Access
11 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.31%) SQLite
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.15%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 106 (16.41%) JIRA
2 60 (9.29%) Selenium
3 38 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 38 (5.88%) Postman
4 34 (5.26%) Git
5 29 (4.49%) Cucumber
6 26 (4.02%) JMeter
7 25 (3.87%) Cypress.io
8 21 (3.25%) Visual Studio
9 20 (3.10%) JUnit
9 20 (3.10%) SpecFlow
10 16 (2.48%) GitLab
11 15 (2.32%) Bitbucket
12 13 (2.01%) Appium
13 9 (1.39%) REST Assured
13 9 (1.39%) SoapUI
13 9 (1.39%) WebDriver
14 8 (1.24%) Rational Rhapsody
14 8 (1.24%) Subversion
14 8 (1.24%) TestNG
General
1 135 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 64 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
3 57 (8.82%) Public Sector
4 54 (8.36%) Finance
5 44 (6.81%) Retail
6 41 (6.35%) Legal
7 37 (5.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (4.33%) Electronics
9 22 (3.41%) Automotive
10 16 (2.48%) Banking
10 16 (2.48%) Games
11 15 (2.32%) Police
12 14 (2.17%) Law
12 14 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 14 (2.17%) Military
13 12 (1.86%) Marketing
14 11 (1.70%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (1.55%) French Language
16 8 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (22.14%) Senior
2 142 (21.98%) Developer
3 96 (14.86%) Analyst
4 77 (11.92%) Tester
5 72 (11.15%) Software Engineer
6 58 (8.98%) Senior Developer
7 48 (7.43%) QA Engineer
7 48 (7.43%) Software Developer
8 45 (6.97%) Test Engineer
9 44 (6.81%) Lead
10 42 (6.50%) Software Tester
11 40 (6.19%) .NET Developer
11 40 (6.19%) Business Analyst
12 38 (5.88%) Test Analyst
13 35 (5.42%) Full Stack Developer
14 27 (4.18%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
15 24 (3.72%) Senior Software Engineer
16 22 (3.41%) Embedded Engineer
16 22 (3.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
17 18 (2.79%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (15.94%) .NET
2 64 (9.91%) HTML
3 58 (8.98%) Web Services
4 45 (6.97%) Node.js
5 44 (6.81%) RESTful
6 43 (6.66%) CSS
7 32 (4.95%) .NET Framework
8 27 (4.18%) Playwright
9 26 (4.02%) ASP.NET
10 22 (3.41%) SOAP
11 21 (3.25%) React
11 21 (3.25%) XML
12 19 (2.94%) GraphQL
12 19 (2.94%) REST
13 17 (2.63%) Kafka
14 16 (2.48%) ASP.NET Core
14 16 (2.48%) Spring
15 15 (2.32%) Spring Boot
16 14 (2.17%) .NET Core
17 12 (1.86%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.19%) Product Ownership
2 29 (4.49%) Onboarding
3 26 (4.02%) Greenfield Project
4 20 (3.10%) Video\Live Streaming
5 19 (2.94%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.01%) Cloud Native
7 11 (1.70%) Embedded Systems
7 11 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.70%) Mobile App
7 11 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.55%) Client/Server
8 10 (1.55%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.39%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.08%) Life Science
11 6 (0.93%) Driving Licence
11 6 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (0.93%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.77%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 63 (9.75%) Linux
2 39 (6.04%) Windows
3 12 (1.86%) Android
4 9 (1.39%) Unix
5 7 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.93%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.77%) Debian
7 5 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.77%) Windows Mobile
8 4 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (40.40%) Agile
2 231 (35.76%) Test Automation
3 149 (23.07%) DevOps
4 147 (22.76%) Software Engineering
5 145 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
6 124 (19.20%) CI/CD
7 81 (12.54%) Coaching
8 79 (12.23%) Code Quality
8 79 (12.23%) TDD
9 75 (11.61%) Mentoring
10 73 (11.30%) SDLC
11 70 (10.84%) Regression Testing
12 65 (10.06%) Scrum
13 64 (9.91%) Computer Science
13 64 (9.91%) Functional Testing
14 62 (9.60%) BDD
15 53 (8.20%) User Acceptance Testing
16 50 (7.74%) Continuous Integration
16 50 (7.74%) Process Improvement
16 50 (7.74%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 169 (26.16%) C#
2 129 (19.97%) Python
3 121 (18.73%) JavaScript
4 114 (17.65%) Java
5 92 (14.24%) SQL
6 57 (8.82%) C
7 41 (6.35%) TypeScript
8 25 (3.87%) Go
9 22 (3.41%) C++
10 20 (3.10%) Groovy
11 18 (2.79%) VB.NET
12 17 (2.63%) Embedded C
13 14 (2.17%) PL/SQL
14 13 (2.01%) MATLAB
14 13 (2.01%) PowerShell
15 11 (1.70%) Ruby
16 9 (1.39%) Bash
16 9 (1.39%) Scala
17 8 (1.24%) Ada
17 8 (1.24%) PHP
Qualifications
1 131 (20.28%) Degree
2 90 (13.93%) Security Cleared
3 57 (8.82%) SC Cleared
4 48 (7.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 47 (7.28%) ISTQB
6 30 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (3.10%) AWS Certification
8 17 (2.63%) ISEB
9 10 (1.55%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.24%) IIBA
11 7 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.93%) CSPO
13 5 (0.77%) DV Cleared
14 4 (0.62%) CIPD
14 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.62%) Master's Degree
15 3 (0.46%) PhD
16 2 (0.31%) CBAP
16 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (30.80%) QA
2 52 (8.05%) Accessibility
3 27 (4.18%) WCAG
4 13 (2.01%) ISO 9001
5 11 (1.70%) MISRA
6 7 (1.08%) DO-254
6 7 (1.08%) SLA
7 4 (0.62%) GDPR
7 4 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
8 3 (0.46%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.31%) EMIR
9 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.31%) MiFID
9 2 (0.31%) PMO
10 1 (0.15%) AQAP
10 1 (0.15%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.15%) JTAG
10 1 (0.15%) TickIT
System Software
1 53 (8.20%) Docker
2 29 (4.49%) Firmware
3 11 (1.70%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (1.39%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.62%) VMware Server
7 3 (0.46%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.15%) NFS
8 1 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 44 (6.81%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.64%) Terraform
3 9 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (1.08%) Ansible
4 7 (1.08%) Progress Chef
4 7 (1.08%) Puppet
4 7 (1.08%) Salt
5 6 (0.93%) Grafana
5 6 (0.93%) HP Quality Center
6 5 (0.77%) Kibana
7 3 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 80 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.33%) Oracle
3 16 (2.48%) IBM
4 14 (2.17%) Google
5 10 (1.55%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.39%) Salesforce
7 7 (1.08%) Lauterbach
8 6 (0.93%) HP
8 6 (0.93%) MuleSoft
8 6 (0.93%) OutSystems
8 6 (0.93%) Teradata
9 5 (0.77%) BT
9 5 (0.77%) Splunk
9 5 (0.77%) Xamarin
10 4 (0.62%) Adobe
10 4 (0.62%) Peregrine
10 4 (0.62%) VMware
11 3 (0.46%) Citrix
11 3 (0.46%) Databricks
11 3 (0.46%) SAP