QA Automation Analyst Contracts with Work from Home Options

Automation QA Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation QA Analyst daily rate in Work from Home is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 456 617
Rank change year-on-year +114 +161 -127
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Analyst 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.012% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.013% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £375 - £330
25th Percentile £406 - £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £700 £404
Median % change year-on-year -33.93% +73.37% -
75th Percentile £509 - £454
90th Percentile £534 - £462
UK median daily rate £463 £675 £448
% change year-on-year -31.48% +50.84% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,777 23,614 42,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.28% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,296 16,695 30,580
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 541 589
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.35
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.19 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

QA Automation Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Automation Analyst trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing QA Automation Analyst.

QA Automation Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA Automation Analyst over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

QA Automation Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, QA Automation Analyst contract 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 contract jobs with a WFH option featuring QA Automation Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) Appium
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Firebase
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) Ariba
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing

QA Automation Analyst 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) Firebase
1 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Appium
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Ariba
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow