QA Automation Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Automation QA Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation QA Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 457 587
Rank change year-on-year +123 +130 -121
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 3 10 38
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.039% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.041% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 32
10th Percentile £420 £379 £382
25th Percentile £431 £535 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £463
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +40.54% +12.12%
75th Percentile £473 - £560
90th Percentile £486 £658 £575
UK median daily rate £495 £600 £488
% change year-on-year -17.50% +23.08% +8.33%

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 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +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 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

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
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 Automation Engineer.

QA Automation Engineer daily rate 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 4 May 2024, QA Automation Engineer 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 Automation Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2013
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft