Senior QA Tester Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Quality Assurance Tester
UK > Work from Home

As of 2 May 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Senior Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in Work from Home.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 465 619
Rank change year-on-year +122 +154 -140
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Tester 1 6 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.023% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.025% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £438
25th Percentile - £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +18.06%
75th Percentile - £613 £531
90th Percentile - - £543
UK median daily rate £380 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -27.62% +16.67% +5.39%

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 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Senior QA Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior QA Tester trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior QA Tester
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 Senior QA Tester.

Senior QA Tester daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Senior QA Tester 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 Senior QA Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management

Senior QA Tester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) FitNesse
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle