Hybrid/Remote QA Analyst Contract Job Trends

Quality Assurance Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Analyst daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 307 335
Rank change year-on-year -19 +28 +106
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 4 2 11
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.033% 0.020% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.021% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 10
10th Percentile £369 £292 £352
25th Percentile £397 £308 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £341 £496
Median % change year-on-year +24.54% -31.23% +17.59%
75th Percentile £453 £375 £515
90th Percentile £481 £392 £535
UK median daily rate £425 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -20.83%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 11,189 9,412 14,463
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.78% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,186 6,428 9,667
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 227 561
10th Percentile £17.23 £14.00 £14.27
25th Percentile £27.74 £18.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £39.04 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.28% -9.21% -21.82%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £29.07 £35.50
% change year-on-year +46.84% -18.11% -21.11%

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'QA Analyst' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

QA Analyst job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

QA Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid QA Analyst job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid QA Analyst job vacancies

QA Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing QA Analyst over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

QA Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

QA Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 25 April 2026, QA Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring QA Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) JUnit
3 2 (50.00%) Kafka
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) System Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Apache Avro
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Confluence
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions

QA Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Avro
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (50.00%) System Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle