Test Automation Jobs with Work from Home Options

Automated 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 Test Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Automation over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 51 38
Rank change year-on-year -49 -13 +8
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 982 2,234 6,111
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.90% 5.52% 8.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 5.75% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 745 1,590 3,021
10th Percentile £37,700 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,200 £92,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Test Automation 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 30,859 38,849 68,120
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.22% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,373 27,016 41,283
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
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%

Test Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Automation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Automation over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Test Automation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation
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 29 (2.95%) Confluence
2 21 (2.14%) IIS
3 16 (1.63%) Apache
4 11 (1.12%) CMS
5 8 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.81%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.81%) Umbraco
6 5 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.31%) WordPress
8 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.20%) Moodle
9 1 (0.10%) Drupal
9 1 (0.10%) JBoss
9 1 (0.10%) Mule
9 1 (0.10%) nginx
Applications
1 20 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Mathematica
4 1 (0.10%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.20%) Endur
2 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.20%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.10%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 322 (32.79%) Azure
2 265 (26.99%) AWS
3 152 (15.48%) SaaS
4 124 (12.63%) Azure DevOps
5 81 (8.25%) GitHub
6 66 (6.72%) GCP
7 32 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (3.26%) Serverless
8 29 (2.95%) PaaS
8 29 (2.95%) Power Platform
9 20 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (1.73%) Amazon S3
10 17 (1.73%) BrowserStack
10 17 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
11 16 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (1.63%) IaaS
12 15 (1.53%) Azure Cognitive Services
13 14 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (1.22%) Power Automate
15 11 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.83%) DNS
1 18 (1.83%) Internet
2 15 (1.53%) TCP/IP
3 14 (1.43%) Firewall
4 9 (0.92%) SNMP
4 9 (0.92%) tcpdump
5 8 (0.81%) 5G
5 8 (0.81%) SD-WAN
5 8 (0.81%) WAN
6 7 (0.71%) Network Security
7 5 (0.51%) MQTT
8 4 (0.41%) HTTP
8 4 (0.41%) RS-232
8 4 (0.41%) VPN
8 4 (0.41%) Wireless
9 3 (0.31%) Broadband
9 3 (0.31%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.20%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.20%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.10%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.13%) SQL Server
2 63 (6.42%) MySQL
3 51 (5.19%) MongoDB
4 50 (5.09%) NoSQL
5 43 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (2.14%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.73%) DynamoDB
8 16 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.32%) Big Data
11 9 (0.92%) Redis
12 7 (0.71%) Power BI
13 6 (0.61%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.61%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.41%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.41%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.31%) GIS
15 3 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 178 (18.13%) Selenium
2 150 (15.27%) Git
3 102 (10.39%) Jenkins
3 102 (10.39%) JIRA
4 78 (7.94%) Postman
5 63 (6.42%) Cucumber
6 55 (5.60%) JMeter
7 48 (4.89%) TeamCity
8 47 (4.79%) Cypress.io
9 46 (4.68%) Visual Studio
10 44 (4.48%) SpecFlow
11 37 (3.77%) Team Foundation Server
12 29 (2.95%) JUnit
13 28 (2.85%) Bitbucket
14 26 (2.65%) Appium
15 25 (2.55%) REST Assured
16 24 (2.44%) SoapUI
17 19 (1.93%) Maven
18 18 (1.83%) GitLab
18 18 (1.83%) SonarQube
General
1 216 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 163 (16.60%) Finance
3 74 (7.54%) Public Sector
4 73 (7.43%) Retail
5 72 (7.33%) Analytical Skills
6 53 (5.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (5.40%) Law
7 45 (4.58%) Banking
8 38 (3.87%) Aerospace
9 32 (3.26%) Electronics
10 30 (3.05%) Automotive
11 24 (2.44%) Legal
11 24 (2.44%) Marketing
12 19 (1.93%) Games
12 19 (1.93%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.93%) Police
12 19 (1.93%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (1.73%) Back Office
15 10 (1.02%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 230 (23.42%) Developer
2 199 (20.26%) Senior
3 176 (17.92%) Software Engineer
4 105 (10.69%) Tester
5 100 (10.18%) Lead
6 82 (8.35%) QA Engineer
7 75 (7.64%) Test Engineer
8 69 (7.03%) Software Developer
9 66 (6.72%) Senior Software Engineer
10 63 (6.42%) Java Engineer
11 58 (5.91%) Senior Developer
12 51 (5.19%) Java Software Engineer
13 50 (5.09%) Automation Tester
14 43 (4.38%) Analyst
14 43 (4.38%) Full Stack Developer
15 39 (3.97%) QA Leader
16 36 (3.67%) Software Tester
17 35 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
18 33 (3.36%) Senior Java Engineer
19 32 (3.26%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (18.13%) .NET
2 97 (9.88%) React
3 96 (9.78%) HTML
4 89 (9.06%) CSS
5 87 (8.86%) RESTful
6 85 (8.66%) REST
7 64 (6.52%) AngularJS
8 54 (5.50%) Node.js
9 51 (5.19%) Web Services
10 47 (4.79%) JSON
11 45 (4.58%) .NET Core
11 45 (4.58%) Spring
12 43 (4.38%) Spring Boot
13 40 (4.07%) ASP.NET
14 39 (3.97%) Playwright
15 32 (3.26%) Vue
16 31 (3.16%) .NET Framework
17 27 (2.75%) XML
18 25 (2.55%) Laravel
19 23 (2.34%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.01%) Product Ownership
2 36 (3.67%) Cloud Native
3 35 (3.56%) Greenfield Project
4 29 (2.95%) Management Information System
5 27 (2.75%) Data Structures
5 27 (2.75%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.44%) Mobile App
7 22 (2.24%) Low-Code
8 21 (2.14%) Satnav
8 21 (2.14%) Virtual Team
9 20 (2.04%) IoT
10 19 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 15 (1.53%) Blog
13 13 (1.32%) Algorithms
14 11 (1.12%) Client/Server
14 11 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
14 11 (1.12%) Private Cloud
15 10 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
16 9 (0.92%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 85 (8.66%) Linux
2 66 (6.72%) Windows
3 26 (2.65%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.43%) Android
4 14 (1.43%) Mac OS
5 11 (1.12%) FreeRTOS
5 11 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.12%) Unix
6 7 (0.71%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (0.41%) VMS
9 2 (0.20%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.10%) CentOS
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (53.77%) Agile
2 332 (33.81%) DevOps
3 292 (29.74%) Software Engineering
4 275 (28.00%) CI/CD
5 229 (23.32%) Software Testing
6 189 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
7 175 (17.82%) Mentoring
8 169 (17.21%) TDD
9 157 (15.99%) Microservices
10 153 (15.58%) Scrum
11 133 (13.54%) BDD
12 131 (13.34%) Coaching
13 130 (13.24%) Continuous Integration
14 112 (11.41%) Code Quality
15 108 (11.00%) Test Scripting
16 104 (10.59%) Full Stack Development
17 99 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
18 89 (9.06%) SDLC
19 83 (8.45%) Unit Testing
20 80 (8.15%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 243 (24.75%) JavaScript
2 242 (24.64%) C#
3 227 (23.12%) Java
4 215 (21.89%) SQL
5 178 (18.13%) Python
6 95 (9.67%) TypeScript
7 65 (6.62%) C
8 49 (4.99%) C++
9 41 (4.18%) PHP
10 33 (3.36%) PowerShell
11 31 (3.16%) Bash
12 18 (1.83%) Perl
13 15 (1.53%) Go
14 13 (1.32%) T-SQL
15 11 (1.12%) Ruby
16 10 (1.02%) PL/SQL
17 7 (0.71%) Bicep
17 7 (0.71%) VB.NET
18 6 (0.61%) MATLAB
19 5 (0.51%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 142 (14.46%) Degree
2 120 (12.22%) Security Cleared
3 57 (5.80%) SC Cleared
4 47 (4.79%) ISTQB
5 42 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.16%) DV Cleared
7 30 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.95%) DBS Check
9 20 (2.04%) Master's Degree
10 17 (1.73%) ISEB
11 9 (0.92%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
13 7 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 7 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.41%) AWS Certification
15 4 (0.41%) CIPD
15 4 (0.41%) GIAC
16 3 (0.31%) PMI Certification
16 3 (0.31%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (30.75%) QA
2 27 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.24%) Software Quality Assurance
4 17 (1.73%) ISO 9001
5 12 (1.22%) NCSC
6 7 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.61%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.51%) WCAG
9 3 (0.31%) PMO
9 3 (0.31%) SLA
10 2 (0.20%) GDPR
10 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.10%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 120 (12.22%) Docker
2 12 (1.22%) Firmware
3 9 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (0.81%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.41%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 95 (9.67%) Kubernetes
2 86 (8.76%) Terraform
3 54 (5.50%) Ansible
4 35 (3.56%) Grafana
5 28 (2.85%) Progress Chef
6 22 (2.24%) Puppet
7 15 (1.53%) Kibana
8 9 (0.92%) Graphite
8 9 (0.92%) HAProxy
8 9 (0.92%) Nagios
8 9 (0.92%) vCenter Server
9 8 (0.81%) Salt
10 7 (0.71%) MIIS
11 5 (0.51%) Argo
12 1 (0.10%) cPanel
12 1 (0.10%) Packer
12 1 (0.10%) Podman
Vendors
1 123 (12.53%) Microsoft
2 33 (3.36%) Google
3 21 (2.14%) Oracle
4 18 (1.83%) Automation Anywhere
5 13 (1.32%) Blue Prism
5 13 (1.32%) UiPath
6 12 (1.22%) Xamarin
7 10 (1.02%) Databricks
8 9 (0.92%) MuleSoft
8 9 (0.92%) ServiceNow
8 9 (0.92%) Splunk
9 8 (0.81%) Dell
10 7 (0.71%) IBM
11 6 (0.61%) OutSystems
12 5 (0.51%) Adobe
12 5 (0.51%) BT
12 5 (0.51%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.51%) iManage
12 5 (0.51%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.41%) VMware