Test Assurance Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Test Assurance
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Test Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 339 466
Rank change year-on-year +45 +127 +145
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 10 6 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.039% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.045% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 8
10th Percentile - - £418
25th Percentile £413 £281 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £288 £481
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -40.26% +6.94%
75th Percentile £472 £370 £547
90th Percentile £480 £415 £579
UK median daily rate £450 £435 £550
% change year-on-year +3.45% -20.91% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £83.50 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +51.82% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Test Assurance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Test Assurance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Assurance trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Assurance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Assurance
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Assurance.

Test Assurance hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Assurance
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 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Converged Networks
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) Gatling
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Hamcrest
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
1 4 (40.00%) Test Leader
2 3 (30.00%) Test Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (20.00%) SCADA
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Test Strategy
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (40.00%) Logistics
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) Defect Management
5 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 3 (30.00%) Test Management
5 3 (30.00%) User Stories
6 2 (20.00%) Demand Management
6 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Systems Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
7 1 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) MuleSoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk