QA Automation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 439 554
Rank change year-on-year +117 +115 -114
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 15 28 71
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.099% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 57
10th Percentile £378 £320 £404
25th Percentile £431 £414 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £700 £535 £575
90th Percentile £770 £645 £612
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £68.17
% change year-on-year - - +81.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

QA Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,316 22,957 40,627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,913 16,228 29,490
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 528 539
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.93 £13.70
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

QA Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

QA Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation
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.

QA Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA Automation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

QA Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation
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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint 2013
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) Route 53
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) Firebase
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Postman
1 6 (40.00%) Selenium
2 5 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (20.00%) Git
3 3 (20.00%) GitLab
3 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) SoapUI
4 2 (13.33%) Appium
4 2 (13.33%) Fiddler
4 2 (13.33%) JIRA
4 2 (13.33%) JMeter
4 2 (13.33%) webpack
5 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (6.67%) Log4Net
5 1 (6.67%) NUnit
5 1 (6.67%) SpecFlow
5 1 (6.67%) Subversion
5 1 (6.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Front Office
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Automation Consultant
1 4 (26.67%) Consultant
1 4 (26.67%) QA Consultant
1 4 (26.67%) Tester
2 3 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Automation Test Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Java Automation Tester
3 2 (13.33%) QA Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) QA Automation Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) QA Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) QA Test Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) QA Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) Express.js
1 2 (13.33%) Node.js
1 2 (13.33%) Playwright
1 2 (13.33%) React
1 2 (13.33%) Redux
1 2 (13.33%) REST
1 2 (13.33%) Web Services
1 2 (13.33%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (6.67%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) Derivative
3 1 (6.67%) Fat Client
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (40.00%) BDD
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Fintech
4 4 (26.67%) SDET
4 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Agile
5 3 (20.00%) API Testing
5 3 (20.00%) ETL
5 3 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
5 3 (20.00%) TDD
5 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (13.33%) API Development
6 2 (13.33%) Front End Development
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 4 (26.67%) C#
4 3 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) SAP
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow