Quality Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Quality Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 335 442
Rank change year-on-year +30 +107 +173
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 3 8 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.031% 0.054% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.033% 0.058% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 13
10th Percentile - £171 £379
25th Percentile £531 £203 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £255 £500
Median % change year-on-year +120.59% -49.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £308 £550
90th Percentile - £339 £570
UK median daily rate £425 £308 £500
% change year-on-year +38.07% -38.44% -9.09%
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 9,183 13,830 22,631
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 93.65% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,178 9,309 16,051
10th Percentile £325 £325 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £635 £631 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 569 533
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.13 £22.50 £24.75
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.80
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £37.50 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.07% -14.77% +76.00%

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 22 June 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 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka

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 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Local Government
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Fintech
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana