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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 55 37
Rank change year-on-year -48 -18 +8
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 966 2,066 6,662
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.78% 5.37% 8.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 5.60% 9.23%
Number of salaries quoted 732 1,504 3,135
10th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,621
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,901 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £79,875 £93,375 £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 31,322 36,922 72,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 96.00% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,561 26,118 41,820
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 (3.00%) Confluence
2 24 (2.48%) IIS
3 15 (1.55%) Apache
4 12 (1.24%) CMS
5 8 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.83%) Umbraco
6 7 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.21%) Moodle
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.10%) Drupal
10 1 (0.10%) JBoss
10 1 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 18 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Mathematica
4 1 (0.10%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.21%) Endur
2 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.21%) SystmOne
3 1 (0.10%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 316 (32.71%) Azure
2 260 (26.92%) AWS
3 142 (14.70%) SaaS
4 127 (13.15%) Azure DevOps
5 78 (8.07%) GitHub
6 57 (5.90%) GCP
7 32 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (3.21%) PaaS
8 31 (3.21%) Serverless
9 29 (3.00%) Power Platform
10 19 (1.97%) Amazon EKS
11 18 (1.86%) BrowserStack
11 18 (1.86%) IaaS
12 17 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
13 16 (1.66%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.55%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 14 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.24%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (1.24%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.86%) Internet
2 17 (1.76%) DNS
3 14 (1.45%) Firewall
4 13 (1.35%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.83%) 5G
5 8 (0.83%) SD-WAN
5 8 (0.83%) SNMP
5 8 (0.83%) tcpdump
5 8 (0.83%) WAN
6 7 (0.72%) Network Security
7 5 (0.52%) MQTT
7 5 (0.52%) VPN
8 4 (0.41%) Broadband
8 4 (0.41%) HTTP
8 4 (0.41%) RS-232
8 4 (0.41%) Wireless
9 3 (0.31%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.21%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.21%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.10%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 62 (6.42%) MySQL
3 50 (5.18%) MongoDB
4 45 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
5 44 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 21 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.76%) DynamoDB
8 15 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.14%) Big Data
11 9 (0.93%) Redis
12 7 (0.72%) Power BI
13 6 (0.62%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.62%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.52%) GIS
15 4 (0.41%) InfluxDB
15 4 (0.41%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 3 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.31%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 178 (18.43%) Selenium
2 149 (15.42%) Git
3 102 (10.56%) JIRA
4 94 (9.73%) Jenkins
5 80 (8.28%) Postman
6 60 (6.21%) Cucumber
7 56 (5.80%) JMeter
8 49 (5.07%) TeamCity
8 49 (5.07%) Visual Studio
9 47 (4.87%) Cypress.io
9 47 (4.87%) SpecFlow
10 38 (3.93%) Team Foundation Server
11 31 (3.21%) JUnit
12 27 (2.80%) Bitbucket
13 26 (2.69%) Appium
14 25 (2.59%) REST Assured
14 25 (2.59%) SoapUI
15 19 (1.97%) SonarQube
16 17 (1.76%) TestNG
17 16 (1.66%) GitLab
General
1 219 (22.67%) Social Skills
2 152 (15.73%) Finance
3 80 (8.28%) Public Sector
4 75 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (7.56%) Retail
6 54 (5.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 53 (5.49%) Law
8 39 (4.04%) Banking
9 37 (3.83%) Aerospace
10 30 (3.11%) Automotive
10 30 (3.11%) Electronics
11 24 (2.48%) Legal
12 22 (2.28%) Marketing
13 19 (1.97%) Games
13 19 (1.97%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.97%) Police
14 18 (1.86%) Back Office
14 18 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
14 18 (1.86%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.14%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 225 (23.29%) Developer
2 187 (19.36%) Senior
3 163 (16.87%) Software Engineer
4 104 (10.77%) Tester
5 93 (9.63%) Lead
6 79 (8.18%) Test Engineer
7 77 (7.97%) QA Engineer
8 67 (6.94%) Software Developer
9 63 (6.52%) Java Engineer
10 56 (5.80%) Senior Developer
10 56 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
11 51 (5.28%) Automation Tester
12 49 (5.07%) Java Software Engineer
13 45 (4.66%) Analyst
14 43 (4.45%) Full Stack Developer
15 35 (3.62%) QA Leader
15 35 (3.62%) Software Tester
16 34 (3.52%) DevOps Engineer
17 33 (3.42%) Senior Java Engineer
18 32 (3.31%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (18.94%) .NET
2 95 (9.83%) HTML
3 92 (9.52%) React
4 88 (9.11%) CSS
5 85 (8.80%) RESTful
6 82 (8.49%) REST
7 65 (6.73%) AngularJS
8 54 (5.59%) Web Services
9 49 (5.07%) Node.js
10 47 (4.87%) .NET Core
11 43 (4.45%) JSON
12 42 (4.35%) ASP.NET
12 42 (4.35%) Spring
13 40 (4.14%) Spring Boot
14 38 (3.93%) Playwright
15 33 (3.42%) .NET Framework
15 33 (3.42%) Vue
16 25 (2.59%) Laravel
17 24 (2.48%) Gherkin
17 24 (2.48%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (5.38%) Product Ownership
2 31 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
2 31 (3.21%) Management Information System
3 29 (3.00%) Onboarding
4 28 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 26 (2.69%) Data Structures
6 23 (2.38%) Low-Code
7 22 (2.28%) Mobile App
8 20 (2.07%) IoT
9 19 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.86%) Satnav
11 15 (1.55%) Blog
12 13 (1.35%) Algorithms
12 13 (1.35%) Public Cloud
12 13 (1.35%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.14%) Client/Server
13 11 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
14 9 (0.93%) Life Science
15 8 (0.83%) Clustering
15 8 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 71 (7.35%) Linux
2 57 (5.90%) Windows
3 23 (2.38%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.14%) Android
4 11 (1.14%) FreeRTOS
5 10 (1.04%) Unix
6 8 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.72%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.41%) VMS
11 3 (0.31%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.21%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.10%) CentOS
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (52.80%) Agile
2 335 (34.68%) DevOps
3 281 (29.09%) Software Engineering
4 272 (28.16%) CI/CD
5 233 (24.12%) Software Testing
6 184 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
7 176 (18.22%) Mentoring
8 154 (15.94%) Scrum
9 150 (15.53%) Microservices
9 150 (15.53%) TDD
10 129 (13.35%) BDD
10 129 (13.35%) Coaching
11 128 (13.25%) Continuous Integration
12 113 (11.70%) Code Quality
13 107 (11.08%) Test Scripting
14 101 (10.46%) Full Stack Development
15 100 (10.35%) Continuous Improvement
16 86 (8.90%) SDLC
17 83 (8.59%) Unit Testing
18 76 (7.87%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 244 (25.26%) C#
2 241 (24.95%) JavaScript
3 213 (22.05%) Java
4 211 (21.84%) SQL
5 171 (17.70%) Python
6 90 (9.32%) TypeScript
7 61 (6.31%) C
8 46 (4.76%) C++
9 38 (3.93%) PHP
10 34 (3.52%) PowerShell
11 27 (2.80%) Bash
12 14 (1.45%) T-SQL
13 13 (1.35%) Go
13 13 (1.35%) Perl
14 11 (1.14%) Ruby
15 10 (1.04%) PL/SQL
16 8 (0.83%) VB.NET
17 7 (0.72%) Bicep
18 6 (0.62%) MATLAB
19 5 (0.52%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 145 (15.01%) Degree
2 126 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 59 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 54 (5.59%) ISTQB
5 45 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (3.21%) DV Cleared
8 29 (3.00%) DBS Check
9 21 (2.17%) Master's Degree
10 15 (1.55%) ISEB
11 9 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
12 8 (0.83%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 7 (0.72%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.52%) Microsoft 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 (31.26%) QA
2 33 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.97%) Software Quality Assurance
4 17 (1.76%) ISO 9001
5 14 (1.45%) NCSC
6 8 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.52%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.52%) WCAG
8 3 (0.31%) SLA
9 2 (0.21%) GDPR
9 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 2 (0.21%) PMO
10 1 (0.10%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 118 (12.22%) Docker
2 12 (1.24%) Firmware
3 8 (0.83%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.41%) VMware Server
5 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 88 (9.11%) Kubernetes
2 84 (8.70%) Terraform
3 52 (5.38%) Ansible
4 34 (3.52%) Grafana
5 23 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 16 (1.66%) Puppet
7 15 (1.55%) Kibana
8 8 (0.83%) Graphite
8 8 (0.83%) HAProxy
8 8 (0.83%) Nagios
8 8 (0.83%) vCenter Server
9 7 (0.72%) MIIS
10 5 (0.52%) Salt
11 3 (0.31%) Argo
12 2 (0.21%) Packer
13 1 (0.10%) cPanel
13 1 (0.10%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.10%) Podman
Vendors
1 127 (13.15%) Microsoft
2 30 (3.11%) Google
3 22 (2.28%) Oracle
4 18 (1.86%) Automation Anywhere
5 13 (1.35%) Blue Prism
5 13 (1.35%) UiPath
6 12 (1.24%) Xamarin
7 9 (0.93%) Databricks
7 9 (0.93%) MuleSoft
7 9 (0.93%) ServiceNow
8 8 (0.83%) BT
9 7 (0.72%) Splunk
10 6 (0.62%) Dynatrace
10 6 (0.62%) OutSystems
11 5 (0.52%) IBM
11 5 (0.52%) iManage
11 5 (0.52%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.41%) Coverity
12 4 (0.41%) Facebook
12 4 (0.41%) VMware