QA Test Analyst Contracts with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance Test Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Test Analyst daily rate in Work from Home is £509 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 335 450 605
Rank change year-on-year +115 +155 -138
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Analyst 9 21 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.082% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.063% 0.086% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 14
10th Percentile £436 £263 £290
25th Percentile £467 £269 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £420 £419
Median % change year-on-year +21.19% +0.30% +16.32%
75th Percentile £517 £432 £447
90th Percentile £554 £499 £471
UK median daily rate £500 £628 £405
% change year-on-year -20.32% +54.94% +12.50%

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 Test Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Test Analyst trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Test Analyst
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 Test Analyst.

QA Test Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

QA Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Test Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 9 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) JIRA
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
3 4 (44.44%) Functional Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Postman
4 3 (33.33%) IT Audit
4 3 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 3 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Test Planning
4 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 3 (33.33%) Selenium
4 3 (33.33%) Cypress.io
4 3 (33.33%) Azure
5 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 2 (22.22%) Oracle
5 2 (22.22%) E-business
5 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (22.22%) QA Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing

QA Test Analyst 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 (11.11%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) Firebase
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
1 4 (44.44%) Postman
2 3 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 3 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (11.11%) Appium
3 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (11.11%) JMeter
3 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) WebdriverIO
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) DTCC
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) Functional Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) IT Audit
3 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Test Planning
4 2 (22.22%) E-business
4 2 (22.22%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) QA Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISEB
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) PagerDuty
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk
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