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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 52 37
Rank change year-on-year -44 -15 +8
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 985 2,240 6,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.91% 5.52% 8.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 5.75% 9.05%
Number of salaries quoted 750 1,600 3,073
10th Percentile £38,225 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,659 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.37% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,113 £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 30,838 38,971 69,157
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.04% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,338 27,094 41,652
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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 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 (2.94%) Confluence
2 21 (2.13%) IIS
3 16 (1.62%) 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 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.30%) 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 (2.03%) 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 (0.91%) 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
1 323 (32.79%) Azure
2 270 (27.41%) AWS
3 150 (15.23%) SaaS
4 125 (12.69%) Azure DevOps
5 82 (8.32%) GitHub
6 66 (6.70%) GCP
7 33 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (3.25%) Serverless
9 30 (3.05%) PaaS
10 29 (2.94%) Power Platform
11 20 (2.03%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (1.73%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.73%) BrowserStack
12 17 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
12 17 (1.73%) IaaS
13 16 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.52%) Azure Cognitive Services
15 14 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (1.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.83%) DNS
1 18 (1.83%) Internet
2 15 (1.52%) Firewall
2 15 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 9 (0.91%) 5G
3 9 (0.91%) SD-WAN
3 9 (0.91%) SNMP
3 9 (0.91%) tcpdump
3 9 (0.91%) WAN
4 7 (0.71%) Network Security
5 5 (0.51%) MQTT
5 5 (0.51%) VPN
6 4 (0.41%) HTTP
6 4 (0.41%) RS-232
6 4 (0.41%) Wireless
7 3 (0.30%) Broadband
7 3 (0.30%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.20%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.20%) Wireshark
9 1 (0.10%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.11%) SQL Server
2 63 (6.40%) MySQL
3 51 (5.18%) MongoDB
4 50 (5.08%) NoSQL
5 43 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (2.13%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.73%) DynamoDB
8 16 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.32%) Big Data
11 9 (0.91%) 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 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (0.30%) InterSystems Cache
15 3 (0.30%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 179 (18.17%) Selenium
2 150 (15.23%) Git
3 102 (10.36%) JIRA
4 101 (10.25%) Jenkins
5 78 (7.92%) Postman
6 62 (6.29%) Cucumber
7 55 (5.58%) JMeter
8 48 (4.87%) TeamCity
9 47 (4.77%) Cypress.io
10 46 (4.67%) Visual Studio
11 45 (4.57%) SpecFlow
12 37 (3.76%) Team Foundation Server
13 29 (2.94%) JUnit
14 28 (2.84%) Bitbucket
15 26 (2.64%) Appium
16 25 (2.54%) REST Assured
17 24 (2.44%) SoapUI
18 19 (1.93%) Maven
18 19 (1.93%) SonarQube
19 18 (1.83%) GitLab
General
1 220 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 162 (16.45%) Finance
3 76 (7.72%) Public Sector
4 74 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (7.41%) Retail
6 53 (5.38%) Law
7 52 (5.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (4.57%) Banking
9 38 (3.86%) Aerospace
10 32 (3.25%) Electronics
11 30 (3.05%) Automotive
12 24 (2.44%) Legal
12 24 (2.44%) Marketing
13 19 (1.93%) Games
13 19 (1.93%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.93%) Police
13 19 (1.93%) Telecoms
14 18 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
15 17 (1.73%) Back Office
16 10 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 230 (23.35%) Developer
2 197 (20.00%) Senior
3 173 (17.56%) Software Engineer
4 105 (10.66%) Tester
5 99 (10.05%) Lead
6 81 (8.22%) QA Engineer
7 77 (7.82%) Test Engineer
8 69 (7.01%) Software Developer
9 63 (6.40%) Java Engineer
9 63 (6.40%) Senior Software Engineer
10 58 (5.89%) Senior Developer
11 51 (5.18%) Java Software Engineer
12 50 (5.08%) Automation Tester
13 43 (4.37%) Analyst
13 43 (4.37%) Full Stack Developer
14 39 (3.96%) QA Leader
15 36 (3.65%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (3.65%) Software Tester
16 33 (3.35%) Senior Java Engineer
17 32 (3.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (18.17%) .NET
2 97 (9.85%) React
3 96 (9.75%) HTML
4 89 (9.04%) CSS
5 87 (8.83%) RESTful
6 85 (8.63%) REST
7 64 (6.50%) AngularJS
8 54 (5.48%) Node.js
9 51 (5.18%) Web Services
10 46 (4.67%) JSON
11 45 (4.57%) .NET Core
12 44 (4.47%) Spring
13 42 (4.26%) Spring Boot
14 40 (4.06%) ASP.NET
15 38 (3.86%) Playwright
16 32 (3.25%) .NET Framework
16 32 (3.25%) Vue
17 27 (2.74%) XML
18 25 (2.54%) Laravel
19 23 (2.34%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 58 (5.89%) Product Ownership
2 35 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
3 33 (3.35%) Cloud Native
4 30 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 28 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.74%) Data Structures
7 24 (2.44%) Mobile App
8 22 (2.23%) Low-Code
9 21 (2.13%) Satnav
10 20 (2.03%) IoT
11 19 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
11 19 (1.93%) Virtual Team
12 17 (1.73%) Public Cloud
13 15 (1.52%) Blog
14 13 (1.32%) Algorithms
15 11 (1.12%) Client/Server
15 11 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
15 11 (1.12%) Private Cloud
16 10 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
17 9 (0.91%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 83 (8.43%) Linux
2 64 (6.50%) Windows
3 26 (2.64%) Apple iOS
4 14 (1.42%) Android
5 11 (1.12%) FreeRTOS
5 11 (1.12%) Mac OS
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 3 (0.30%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.20%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.10%) CentOS
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (53.60%) Agile
2 335 (34.01%) DevOps
3 290 (29.44%) Software Engineering
4 277 (28.12%) CI/CD
5 230 (23.35%) Software Testing
6 193 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
7 178 (18.07%) Mentoring
8 165 (16.75%) TDD
9 158 (16.04%) Microservices
10 152 (15.43%) Scrum
11 132 (13.40%) BDD
12 131 (13.30%) Coaching
13 130 (13.20%) Continuous Integration
14 112 (11.37%) Code Quality
15 108 (10.96%) Test Scripting
16 103 (10.46%) Full Stack Development
17 101 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
18 89 (9.04%) SDLC
19 83 (8.43%) Unit Testing
20 80 (8.12%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 243 (24.67%) C#
2 242 (24.57%) JavaScript
3 226 (22.94%) Java
4 215 (21.83%) SQL
5 179 (18.17%) Python
6 95 (9.64%) TypeScript
7 65 (6.60%) C
8 49 (4.97%) C++
9 40 (4.06%) PHP
10 34 (3.45%) PowerShell
11 32 (3.25%) Bash
12 18 (1.83%) Perl
13 15 (1.52%) 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%) Rust
Qualifications
1 143 (14.52%) Degree
2 124 (12.59%) Security Cleared
3 60 (6.09%) SC Cleared
4 50 (5.08%) ISTQB
5 42 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (3.15%) DV Cleared
7 29 (2.94%) DBS Check
8 20 (2.03%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.73%) ISEB
10 9 (0.91%) Azure Certification
11 8 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
12 7 (0.71%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (0.71%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.41%) CIPD
14 4 (0.41%) GIAC
15 3 (0.30%) PMI Certification
15 3 (0.30%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 304 (30.86%) QA
2 28 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.23%) Software Quality Assurance
4 17 (1.73%) ISO 9001
5 13 (1.32%) NCSC
6 8 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.61%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.51%) WCAG
9 3 (0.30%) PMO
9 3 (0.30%) SLA
10 2 (0.20%) GDPR
10 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 1 (0.10%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 125 (12.69%) Docker
2 12 (1.22%) Firmware
3 9 (0.91%) 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 97 (9.85%) Kubernetes
2 88 (8.93%) Terraform
3 56 (5.69%) Ansible
4 35 (3.55%) Grafana
5 28 (2.84%) Progress Chef
6 22 (2.23%) Puppet
7 15 (1.52%) Kibana
8 9 (0.91%) Graphite
8 9 (0.91%) HAProxy
8 9 (0.91%) Nagios
8 9 (0.91%) 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
1 124 (12.59%) Microsoft
2 33 (3.35%) Google
3 21 (2.13%) 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 (0.91%) MuleSoft
8 9 (0.91%) ServiceNow
8 9 (0.91%) Splunk
9 7 (0.71%) IBM
10 6 (0.61%) OutSystems
11 5 (0.51%) Adobe
11 5 (0.51%) BT
11 5 (0.51%) Dell
11 5 (0.51%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.51%) iManage
11 5 (0.51%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.41%) VMware