QA Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 484 467
Rank change year-on-year +129 -17 -123
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 42 108 211
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.32% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.33% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 40 97 197
10th Percentile £47,375 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £69,875 £70,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

QA Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

QA Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing QA Engineer.

QA Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing QA Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

QA Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, QA Engineer 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 permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) QA
1 42 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 28 (66.67%) Selenium
2 28 (66.67%) Agile
3 20 (47.62%) Manual Testing
4 16 (38.10%) Test Scripting
5 15 (35.71%) C#
6 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 12 (28.57%) Postman
7 12 (28.57%) Software Testing
8 11 (26.19%) Appium
8 11 (26.19%) ISTQB
9 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
9 10 (23.81%) Test Strategy
10 9 (21.43%) SaaS
10 9 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (21.43%) QA Automation
10 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
10 9 (21.43%) SQL
10 9 (21.43%) Python
11 8 (19.05%) Java
11 8 (19.05%) Azure
12 7 (16.67%) AWS
12 7 (16.67%) API Testing
12 7 (16.67%) DevOps
12 7 (16.67%) Security Testing
12 7 (16.67%) Product Ownership
12 7 (16.67%) Playwright

QA 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 9 (21.43%) SaaS
2 8 (19.05%) Azure
3 7 (16.67%) AWS
4 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (9.52%) GCP
5 3 (7.14%) BrowserStack
5 3 (7.14%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (4.76%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.38%) mabl
7 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (66.67%) Selenium
2 12 (28.57%) Postman
3 11 (26.19%) Appium
4 6 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 6 (14.29%) JIRA
5 3 (7.14%) JUnit
5 3 (7.14%) TestNG
6 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.76%) Git
6 2 (4.76%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (4.76%) SoapUI
6 2 (4.76%) SpecFlow
6 2 (4.76%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.38%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
7 1 (2.38%) JMeter
7 1 (2.38%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.38%) TestComplete
General
1 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Legal
4 5 (11.90%) Law
5 4 (9.52%) Billing
5 4 (9.52%) Cantonese Language
5 4 (9.52%) Mandarin Language
6 2 (4.76%) Games
6 2 (4.76%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.38%) Advertising
7 1 (2.38%) Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Finance
7 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Playwright
2 6 (14.29%) .NET
3 3 (7.14%) pytest
4 2 (4.76%) REST
4 2 (4.76%) SOAP
5 1 (2.38%) CSS
5 1 (2.38%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.38%) HTML
5 1 (2.38%) RESTful
5 1 (2.38%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 6 (14.29%) Client/Server
3 5 (11.90%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.14%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.76%) Online Games
5 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.38%) Digital Media
6 1 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 28 (66.67%) Agile
3 20 (47.62%) Manual Testing
4 16 (38.10%) Test Scripting
5 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (28.57%) Software Testing
7 10 (23.81%) Mentoring
7 10 (23.81%) Test Strategy
8 9 (21.43%) QA Automation
9 7 (16.67%) API Testing
9 7 (16.67%) DevOps
9 7 (16.67%) Fintech
9 7 (16.67%) Security Testing
10 6 (14.29%) Code Quality
10 6 (14.29%) Performance Testing
10 6 (14.29%) Regression Testing
10 6 (14.29%) Test Management
11 5 (11.90%) Defect Tracking
11 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) C#
2 9 (21.43%) JavaScript
2 9 (21.43%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) SQL
3 8 (19.05%) Java
4 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.38%) Go
5 1 (2.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) ISTQB
2 3 (7.14%) ISEB
3 1 (2.38%) Degree
3 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.38%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft