Quality Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Quality Engineer
UK > Work from Home

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Quality Engineer daily rate in Work from Home.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 338 463
Rank change year-on-year +36 +125 +153
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 2 7 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.046% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.049% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 10
10th Percentile - £213 £368
25th Percentile - £308 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £380 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -27.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile - £413 £550
90th Percentile - £435 £578
UK median daily rate £425 £380 £525
% change year-on-year +11.84% -27.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £18.22 £36.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -50.08% - -
UK median hourly rate £18.22 £28.48 -
% change year-on-year -36.03% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Quality Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Quality Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Quality Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Quality Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Quality Engineer.

Quality Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Quality Engineer 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 Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Local Government
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Kibana
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Case Management
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing

Quality Engineer 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Local Government
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana