QA Leader Contracts with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Lead daily rate in Work from Home is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 457 580
Rank change year-on-year +127 +123 -104
Contract jobs requiring a QA Leader 14 14 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.092% 0.055% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.057% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 29
10th Percentile £418 £406 £400
25th Percentile £488 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £800 £538 £575
90th Percentile - £550 £638
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -8.33% +26.32% +11.76%

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 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £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 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

QA Leader
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Leader trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Leader
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 Leader.

QA Leader daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

QA Leader
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA Leader over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

QA Leader daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, QA Leader 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 Leader in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 5 (35.71%) Hedge funds
3 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
3 5 (35.71%) Equities
4 3 (21.43%) Manual Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Banking
5 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 2 (14.29%) Workflow
5 2 (14.29%) Finance
5 2 (14.29%) Python
5 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 2 (14.29%) R
5 2 (14.29%) Test Planning
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
6 1 (7.14%) Test Assurance
6 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
6 1 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Code Quality
6 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
6 1 (7.14%) Coaching
6 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) QA Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Re-Platforming

QA Leader 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (7.14%) Miro
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Katalon Studio
General
1 2 (14.29%) Banking
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Investment Banking
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Local Government
2 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
1 1 (7.14%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Equities
1 5 (35.71%) Hedge funds
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Manual Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 2 (14.29%) Test Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Workflow
5 1 (7.14%) Agile Testing
5 1 (7.14%) BDD
5 1 (7.14%) Coaching
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.14%) Due Diligence
5 1 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning
5 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Identification
5 1 (7.14%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Python
1 2 (14.29%) R
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) ISEB
1 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft