QA Test Analyst Contracts with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance Test Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Test Analyst daily rate in Work from Home is £509 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 450 611
Rank change year-on-year +118 +161 -135
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Analyst 11 16 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.074% 0.065% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.068% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 14
10th Percentile £456 - £290
25th Percentile £471 £263 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £356 £419
Median % change year-on-year +42.98% -14.99% +16.32%
75th Percentile £534 £432 £447
90th Percentile £550 £464 £471
UK median daily rate £500 £628 £405
% change year-on-year -20.32% +54.94% +12.50%

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 13,835 23,454 42,149
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,295 16,589 30,493
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £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 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 534 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.00
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 £79.76 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

QA Test Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Test Analyst trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Test 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 Test Analyst.

QA Test Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA Test Analyst over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, QA Test 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 Test Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) QA
2 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
3 5 (45.45%) Finance
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) Agile
4 4 (36.36%) JIRA
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (36.36%) Functional Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Postman
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Test Planning
5 3 (27.27%) IT Audit
5 3 (27.27%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
5 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
5 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
5 3 (27.27%) Azure
5 3 (27.27%) Selenium
5 3 (27.27%) Scrum
5 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
5 3 (27.27%) Java
6 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
6 2 (18.18%) Ariba
6 2 (18.18%) Project Management
6 2 (18.18%) Oracle
6 2 (18.18%) SAP
6 2 (18.18%) E-business
6 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting

QA Test 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (9.09%) Firebase
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
1 4 (36.36%) Postman
2 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
2 3 (27.27%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) Appium
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) JMeter
3 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) WebdriverIO
1 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) DTCC
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (36.36%) Functional Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
3 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 3 (27.27%) Defect Tracking
3 3 (27.27%) DevOps
3 3 (27.27%) IT Audit
3 3 (27.27%) Process Improvement
3 3 (27.27%) Scrum
3 3 (27.27%) Test Planning
4 2 (18.18%) E-business
4 2 (18.18%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) QA Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Perl
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Ruby
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) ISEB
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Ariba
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 1 (9.09%) PagerDuty
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk