Test Automation Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Automation Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation Test Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2024.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 537 692
Rank change year-on-year -39 +155 -201
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 26 96 210
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.073% 0.26% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.27% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 20 94 152
10th Percentile £37,375 £38,850 £40,000
25th Percentile £38,438 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +10.00%

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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Test Automation Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Test Automation Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Automation Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation Engineer
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 Engineer.

Test Automation Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Test Automation Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, Test Automation Engineer 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 remote work options featuring Test Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 15 (57.69%) Agile
3 14 (53.85%) Selenium
4 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
5 9 (34.62%) Python
6 8 (30.77%) QA
7 7 (26.92%) AWS
7 7 (26.92%) Finance
7 7 (26.92%) SDET
8 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
8 6 (23.08%) DevOps
8 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
8 6 (23.08%) Cucumber
8 6 (23.08%) Test Scripting
9 5 (19.23%) BDD
9 5 (19.23%) Test Strategy
9 5 (19.23%) SpecFlow
9 5 (19.23%) C#
9 5 (19.23%) Java
9 5 (19.23%) Software Testing
9 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
9 5 (19.23%) End-to-End Testing
9 5 (19.23%) Fintech
9 5 (19.23%) Docker
10 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (15.38%) Postman
10 4 (15.38%) Cypress.io
10 4 (15.38%) Manual Testing

Test Automation Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) SaaS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure
3 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) Selenium
2 6 (23.08%) Cucumber
2 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 5 (19.23%) SpecFlow
4 4 (15.38%) Cypress.io
4 4 (15.38%) JIRA
4 4 (15.38%) Postman
5 3 (11.54%) Git
5 3 (11.54%) JBehave
5 3 (11.54%) JUnit
5 3 (11.54%) TeamCity
6 2 (7.69%) Appium
6 2 (7.69%) TestNG
6 2 (7.69%) UI Automator
7 1 (3.85%) JMeter
7 1 (3.85%) Mocha
7 1 (3.85%) PHPUnit
7 1 (3.85%) Protractor
7 1 (3.85%) Travis CI
General
1 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Banking
3 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (11.54%) Retail
4 2 (7.69%) Automotive
4 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Gherkin
1 3 (11.54%) pytest
2 2 (7.69%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 2 (7.69%) Playwright
2 2 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (7.69%) Spring
2 2 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.85%) Behat
3 1 (3.85%) Jest
3 1 (3.85%) Node.js
3 1 (3.85%) Puppeteer
3 1 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.54%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Android
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 2 (7.69%) Mac OS
2 2 (7.69%) Mac OS X
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 15 (57.69%) Agile
3 11 (42.31%) CI/CD
4 7 (26.92%) SDET
5 6 (23.08%) DevOps
5 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (23.08%) Test Scripting
6 5 (19.23%) BDD
6 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
6 5 (19.23%) End-to-End Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Fintech
6 5 (19.23%) Software Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Test Strategy
7 4 (15.38%) Manual Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (11.54%) Data Development
8 3 (11.54%) Data Reconciliation
8 3 (11.54%) ETL
8 3 (11.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
3 5 (19.23%) C#
3 5 (19.23%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft