QA Automation Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 335 444
Rank change year-on-year +46 +109 +109
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 13 14 30
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.091% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.10% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 27
10th Percentile £308 £372 £323
25th Percentile £374 £422 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +6.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £698 £530
90th Percentile £583 £770 £618
UK median daily rate £522 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +4.48% +11.11% -5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

QA Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

QA Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

QA Automation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

QA Automation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing QA Automation over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) BrowserStack
2 2 (15.38%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Selenium
2 4 (30.77%) Postman
3 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
3 3 (23.08%) JUnit
4 2 (15.38%) Appium
4 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
4 2 (15.38%) Git
4 2 (15.38%) JIRA
4 2 (15.38%) JMeter
4 2 (15.38%) TestNG
4 2 (15.38%) Xcode
4 2 (15.38%) XCUITest
5 1 (7.69%) Gatling
5 1 (7.69%) GitLab
5 1 (7.69%) Hamcrest
5 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
5 1 (7.69%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) QA Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Mobile Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
2 1 (7.69%) Playwright
2 1 (7.69%) pytest
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) React Native
2 1 (7.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Educational Technology
1 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 4 (30.77%) E-Commerce
3 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) BDD
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Database Optimisation
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Testing
6 1 (7.69%) Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Risk Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) TDD
6 1 (7.69%) Test Assurance
6 1 (7.69%) Test Strategy
6 1 (7.69%) Time Management
6 1 (7.69%) Unit Testing
6 1 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Swift
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk