QA Automation Jobs with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 516 551
Rank change year-on-year -39 +35 -57
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 34 146 308
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.35% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.37% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 33 134 145
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,174 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

QA Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,857 39,858 66,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.38% 96.10% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,686 41,025
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

QA Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

QA Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing QA Automation.

QA Automation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA Automation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

QA Automation salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation
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 (2.94%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) SaaS
3 5 (14.71%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) BrowserStack
5 2 (5.88%) GCP
5 2 (5.88%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.94%) MySQL
1 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.94%) Power BI
1 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (67.65%) Selenium
2 15 (44.12%) Postman
3 14 (41.18%) Cypress.io
4 12 (35.29%) Cucumber
5 9 (26.47%) Jenkins
6 7 (20.59%) JMeter
6 7 (20.59%) REST Assured
7 5 (14.71%) Git
7 5 (14.71%) JIRA
7 5 (14.71%) SpecFlow
8 4 (11.76%) Appium
8 4 (11.76%) JUnit
8 4 (11.76%) Mockito
9 2 (5.88%) NUnit
9 2 (5.88%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio
10 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
10 1 (2.94%) SoapUI
10 1 (2.94%) TestCafe
10 1 (2.94%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Health Technology
3 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Marketing
4 1 (2.94%) Publishing
4 1 (2.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 24 (70.59%) QA Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) Automation Engineer
2 12 (35.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Lead
3 6 (17.65%) QA Leader
4 3 (8.82%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Test Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Head of Test
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (2.94%) QA Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) QA Tester
6 1 (2.94%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior
6 1 (2.94%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) .NET
1 8 (23.53%) Playwright
2 5 (14.71%) Spring
3 4 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 4 (11.76%) Web Services
3 4 (11.76%) WireMock
4 3 (8.82%) React
4 3 (8.82%) Swagger
5 2 (5.88%) ASP.NET
5 2 (5.88%) REST
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.94%) COM
6 1 (2.94%) CSS
6 1 (2.94%) HTML
6 1 (2.94%) Jest
6 1 (2.94%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.94%) Puppeteer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Driving Licence
1 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
3 16 (47.06%) API Testing
4 13 (38.24%) Agile
4 13 (38.24%) BDD
5 11 (32.35%) DevOps
6 10 (29.41%) Software Testing
7 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (23.53%) Scrum
7 8 (23.53%) Test Scripting
8 7 (20.59%) Coaching
8 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
9 6 (17.65%) Microservices
9 6 (17.65%) SDET
10 5 (14.71%) Design Patterns
10 5 (14.71%) Manual Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Unit Testing
11 4 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (11.76%) Integration Testing
11 4 (11.76%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 15 (44.12%) Java
2 12 (35.29%) SQL
3 11 (32.35%) C#
4 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft