QA Automation Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Automation QA Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation QA Engineer salary in Work from Home is £56,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 582 723
Rank change year-on-year +10 +141 -246
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 17 79 119
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.20% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 16 76 105
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £43,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £80,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,404 39,812 66,667
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.96% 95.99% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,887 28,282 41,688
10th Percentile £33,127 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Automation Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Automation Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing QA Automation Engineer.

QA Automation Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA Automation Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

QA Automation Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, QA Automation Engineer 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 permanent jobs with remote work options featuring QA Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) QA
1 17 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (76.47%) Java
3 12 (70.59%) QA Automation
3 12 (70.59%) Agile
4 10 (58.82%) Selenium
4 10 (58.82%) Cucumber
5 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (47.06%) Postman
6 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
6 8 (47.06%) Spring
7 7 (41.18%) Software Testing
7 7 (41.18%) Azure
7 7 (41.18%) API Testing
7 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
8 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (35.29%) BDD
8 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
8 6 (35.29%) Scrum
9 5 (29.41%) JMeter
9 5 (29.41%) SQL
9 5 (29.41%) AWS
10 4 (23.53%) Cypress.io
10 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
10 4 (23.53%) Integration Testing
10 4 (23.53%) Mockito
10 4 (23.53%) JUnit
10 4 (23.53%) Web Services
10 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
10 4 (23.53%) Microservices

QA Automation Engineer 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 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) BrowserStack
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
1 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) Cucumber
1 10 (58.82%) Selenium
2 8 (47.06%) Postman
3 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
4 5 (29.41%) JMeter
5 4 (23.53%) Appium
5 4 (23.53%) Cypress.io
5 4 (23.53%) JUnit
5 4 (23.53%) Mockito
6 2 (11.76%) UI Automator
7 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
7 1 (5.88%) Git
7 1 (5.88%) JIRA
7 1 (5.88%) REST Assured
7 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
7 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
7 1 (5.88%) TestCafe
7 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Health Technology
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Automotive
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (47.06%) Spring
2 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
3 4 (23.53%) Playwright
3 4 (23.53%) Web Services
3 4 (23.53%) WireMock
4 2 (11.76%) React
5 1 (5.88%) .NET
5 1 (5.88%) OpenCV
5 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Client/Server
2 2 (11.76%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Android
1 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Mac OS
1 2 (11.76%) Mac OS X
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (70.59%) Agile
2 12 (70.59%) QA Automation
3 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
5 7 (41.18%) API Testing
5 7 (41.18%) Software Testing
6 6 (35.29%) BDD
6 6 (35.29%) Scrum
7 4 (23.53%) Design Patterns
7 4 (23.53%) Fintech
7 4 (23.53%) Integration Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Microservices
7 4 (23.53%) SDET
7 4 (23.53%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
7 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
8 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
8 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
8 3 (17.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) Python
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform