Software QA Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Software Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Work from Home is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 655 803
Rank change year-on-year +73 +148 -236
Permanent jobs requiring a Software QA Engineer 3 4 31
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.009% 0.009% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.010% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 31
10th Percentile £45,000 - £33,750
25th Percentile £48,750 - £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 - £58,750
90th Percentile - - £63,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% +11.11%

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 32,433 40,693 66,264
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,885 28,909 42,146
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,626 £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 £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Software QA Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software QA Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software QA 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 Software QA Engineer.

Software QA Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software QA Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software QA Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Software QA Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Software QA 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 Software QA Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Games
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Confluence
2 2 (66.67%) Hedge funds
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (66.67%) Swagger
2 2 (66.67%) Fintech
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) AWS

Software QA 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (66.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Cloud
1 2 (66.67%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Fintech
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA