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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 171 137
Rank change year-on-year +2 -34 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 666 797 2,213
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.91% 2.07% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 2.15% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 538 565 1,142
10th Percentile £36,425 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,375 £89,156 £82,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £56,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year -10.71% +6.16% +5.50%

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 31,355 37,000 72,372
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.11% 96.01% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,586 26,257 41,808
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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 2 June 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 (3.30%) Confluence
2 9 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.20%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.90%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.75%) Apache
6 1 (0.15%) IIS
6 1 (0.15%) JBoss
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 21 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.50%) Simulink
4 7 (1.05%) Stateflow
5 6 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.75%) Trello
7 4 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) ProductWriter
2 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 160 (24.02%) Azure
2 95 (14.26%) AWS
3 52 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (6.61%) GitHub
5 40 (6.01%) SaaS
6 29 (4.35%) GCP
7 20 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (2.40%) Serverless
9 13 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.35%) Power Platform
12 8 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
14 6 (0.90%) IaaS
15 5 (0.75%) BrowserStack
15 5 (0.75%) ClickUp
16 4 (0.60%) Entra ID
16 4 (0.60%) PaaS
17 3 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
17 3 (0.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.35%) RS-232
2 8 (1.20%) Ethernet
2 8 (1.20%) TCP/IP
3 7 (1.05%) Internet
4 6 (0.90%) Wireless
5 4 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.45%) Modbus
6 3 (0.45%) Network Security
6 3 (0.45%) RS-422
6 3 (0.45%) RS-485
6 3 (0.45%) VPN
7 2 (0.30%) HTTP
7 2 (0.30%) Wireshark
7 2 (0.30%) ZigBee
8 1 (0.15%) Firewall
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%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 34 (5.11%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.25%) Big Data
4 14 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.95%) DynamoDB
5 13 (1.95%) MySQL
5 13 (1.95%) OLTP
6 10 (1.50%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.90%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.90%) Data Lake
7 6 (0.90%) Flink
7 6 (0.90%) Hadoop
8 5 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.60%) Redis
10 3 (0.45%) MS Access
11 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.30%) SQLite
12 1 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.15%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 108 (16.22%) JIRA
2 65 (9.76%) Selenium
3 39 (5.86%) Postman
4 37 (5.56%) Jenkins
5 34 (5.11%) Git
6 28 (4.20%) Cucumber
6 28 (4.20%) Cypress.io
7 27 (4.05%) JMeter
8 22 (3.30%) Visual Studio
9 21 (3.15%) JUnit
10 20 (3.00%) SpecFlow
11 16 (2.40%) GitLab
12 15 (2.25%) Bitbucket
13 13 (1.95%) Appium
14 10 (1.50%) SoapUI
15 9 (1.35%) REST Assured
15 9 (1.35%) WebDriver
16 8 (1.20%) Bugzilla
16 8 (1.20%) Rational Rhapsody
16 8 (1.20%) Zephyr
General
1 139 (20.87%) Social Skills
2 69 (10.36%) Retail
3 63 (9.46%) Legal
4 61 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (8.71%) Public Sector
6 54 (8.11%) Finance
7 33 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 28 (4.20%) Electronics
9 20 (3.00%) Automotive
10 17 (2.55%) Banking
11 16 (2.40%) Games
12 15 (2.25%) Police
13 14 (2.10%) Law
13 14 (2.10%) Manufacturing
14 12 (1.80%) Marketing
15 11 (1.65%) Military
16 10 (1.50%) French Language
17 8 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
17 8 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 143 (21.47%) Developer
2 141 (21.17%) Senior
3 119 (17.87%) Analyst
4 76 (11.41%) Tester
5 73 (10.96%) Software Engineer
6 62 (9.31%) Business Analyst
7 60 (9.01%) Lead
8 58 (8.71%) Senior Developer
9 49 (7.36%) Software Developer
10 46 (6.91%) QA Engineer
10 46 (6.91%) Test Engineer
11 42 (6.31%) .NET Developer
12 41 (6.16%) Software Tester
13 39 (5.86%) Test Analyst
14 35 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
15 29 (4.35%) Team Leader
16 27 (4.05%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
17 24 (3.60%) Lead Business Analyst
18 22 (3.30%) Business Analyst Team Leader
18 22 (3.30%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (15.77%) .NET
2 66 (9.91%) HTML
3 59 (8.86%) Web Services
4 45 (6.76%) RESTful
5 44 (6.61%) CSS
5 44 (6.61%) Node.js
6 33 (4.95%) .NET Framework
7 28 (4.20%) ASP.NET
7 28 (4.20%) Playwright
8 22 (3.30%) React
8 22 (3.30%) SOAP
9 21 (3.15%) XML
10 19 (2.85%) GraphQL
10 19 (2.85%) REST
11 17 (2.55%) ASP.NET Core
11 17 (2.55%) Kafka
12 15 (2.25%) Spring
13 14 (2.10%) .NET Core
13 14 (2.10%) Spring Boot
13 14 (2.10%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 36 (5.41%) Product Ownership
2 29 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 24 (3.60%) Greenfield Project
4 19 (2.85%) Algorithms
4 19 (2.85%) Video\Live Streaming
5 14 (2.10%) Cloud Native
6 13 (1.95%) Embedded Systems
7 12 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.65%) Low-Code
8 11 (1.65%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.50%) Client/Server
10 9 (1.35%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.05%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.05%) Life Science
11 7 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.90%) NHS
12 6 (0.90%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 60 (9.01%) Linux
2 41 (6.16%) Windows
3 12 (1.80%) Android
4 9 (1.35%) Unix
5 6 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.75%) Debian
6 5 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.75%) Windows Mobile
7 4 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
8 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (38.89%) Agile
2 233 (34.98%) Test Automation
3 149 (22.37%) Software Engineering
4 148 (22.22%) DevOps
5 145 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
6 122 (18.32%) CI/CD
7 103 (15.47%) Coaching
8 99 (14.86%) SDLC
9 82 (12.31%) Code Quality
10 78 (11.71%) TDD
11 75 (11.26%) Mentoring
12 72 (10.81%) Process Improvement
13 71 (10.66%) Regression Testing
14 66 (9.91%) ITIL
14 66 (9.91%) Scrum
15 65 (9.76%) Functional Testing
16 63 (9.46%) Logistics
17 62 (9.31%) BDD
18 61 (9.16%) Computer Science
19 58 (8.71%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 169 (25.38%) C#
2 130 (19.52%) Python
3 125 (18.77%) JavaScript
4 113 (16.97%) Java
5 97 (14.56%) SQL
6 56 (8.41%) C
7 42 (6.31%) TypeScript
8 25 (3.75%) Go
9 23 (3.45%) C++
10 19 (2.85%) VB.NET
11 18 (2.70%) Groovy
12 17 (2.55%) Embedded C
13 14 (2.10%) PL/SQL
13 14 (2.10%) PowerShell
14 13 (1.95%) MATLAB
15 10 (1.50%) Ruby
16 9 (1.35%) Bash
16 9 (1.35%) Scala
17 8 (1.20%) Ada
17 8 (1.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 156 (23.42%) Degree
2 92 (13.81%) Security Cleared
3 58 (8.71%) SC Cleared
4 48 (7.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 48 (7.21%) ISTQB
5 31 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (3.00%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.25%) ISEB
8 10 (1.50%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.20%) IIBA
10 7 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.90%) CSPO
12 5 (0.75%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.60%) CIPD
13 4 (0.60%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.60%) PhD
14 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (33.33%) QA
2 53 (7.96%) Accessibility
3 27 (4.05%) WCAG
4 13 (1.95%) ISO 9001
5 11 (1.65%) MISRA
6 8 (1.20%) SLA
7 4 (0.60%) GDPR
7 4 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
8 3 (0.45%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.45%) DO-254
8 3 (0.45%) EMIR
8 3 (0.45%) MiFID
9 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.30%) 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 49 (7.36%) Docker
2 28 (4.20%) Firmware
3 11 (1.65%) Embedded Firmware
4 9 (1.35%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.60%) VMware Server
7 3 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.15%) NFS
8 1 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 40 (6.01%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.90%) Terraform
3 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (0.90%) Grafana
4 6 (0.90%) HP Quality Center
5 5 (0.75%) Ansible
5 5 (0.75%) Kibana
5 5 (0.75%) Progress Chef
5 5 (0.75%) Puppet
5 5 (0.75%) Salt
6 3 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 82 (12.31%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.20%) Oracle
3 16 (2.40%) IBM
4 14 (2.10%) Google
5 10 (1.50%) ServiceNow
6 9 (1.35%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.20%) BT
8 7 (1.05%) Lauterbach
9 6 (0.90%) HP
9 6 (0.90%) MuleSoft
9 6 (0.90%) OutSystems
9 6 (0.90%) Teradata
10 5 (0.75%) Splunk
10 5 (0.75%) Xamarin
11 4 (0.60%) Adobe
11 4 (0.60%) Peregrine
11 4 (0.60%) VMware
12 3 (0.45%) Citrix
12 3 (0.45%) Databricks
12 3 (0.45%) SAP