QA Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Consultant daily rate in Work from Home is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 473 618
Rank change year-on-year +133 +145 -127
Contract jobs requiring a QA Consultant 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.004% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.004% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £700 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £604 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.27% - -
75th Percentile £800 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £750 £603 -
% change year-on-year +24.38% - -

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 14,235 24,337 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 95.31% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,550 17,175 30,867
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 560 606
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.70 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.25 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.10% +55.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

QA Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Consultant
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 Consultant.

QA Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

QA Consultant Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, QA Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 4 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) SDET
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 2 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Fiddler
2 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing

QA Consultant 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Fiddler
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
1 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Fintech
1 4 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (50.00%) SDET
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA