QA Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Work from Home is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 469 347
Rank change year-on-year +3 -122 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 110 216 648
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.33% 0.49% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.52% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 99 202 382
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,125 £39,325
25th Percentile £41,875 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £64,375 £72,500 £68,438
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,441 41,897 64,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,951 29,614 41,885
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

QA Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured QA Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

QA Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Engineer
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 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 a work from home option citing QA Engineer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024, 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 remote work options featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 110 (100.00%) QA
2 87 (79.09%) Test Automation
3 50 (45.45%) Software Testing
4 41 (37.27%) Agile
4 41 (37.27%) Postman
5 37 (33.64%) Selenium
6 35 (31.82%) Cucumber
7 34 (30.91%) CI/CD
8 31 (28.18%) BDD
9 30 (27.27%) API Testing
10 27 (24.55%) JIRA
10 27 (24.55%) Java
10 27 (24.55%) JavaScript
11 25 (22.73%) SQL
11 25 (22.73%) Cypress.io
12 24 (21.82%) QA Automation
13 23 (20.91%) Azure
14 22 (20.00%) Test Scripting
14 22 (20.00%) Scrum
14 22 (20.00%) DevOps
15 20 (18.18%) Product Ownership
16 18 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
16 18 (16.36%) Manual Testing
17 17 (15.45%) Jenkins
17 17 (15.45%) Python
17 17 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (15.45%) Social Skills
18 16 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
18 16 (14.55%) Fintech
19 15 (13.64%) SaaS

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 2 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Trello
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.91%) Azure
2 16 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (13.64%) SaaS
4 14 (12.73%) AWS
5 5 (4.55%) ClickUp
6 2 (1.82%) BrowserStack
6 2 (1.82%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (37.27%) Postman
2 37 (33.64%) Selenium
3 35 (31.82%) Cucumber
4 27 (24.55%) JIRA
5 25 (22.73%) Cypress.io
6 17 (15.45%) Jenkins
7 12 (10.91%) JMeter
7 12 (10.91%) SpecFlow
8 11 (10.00%) TeamCity
8 11 (10.00%) Visual Studio
9 7 (6.36%) Git
9 7 (6.36%) SoapUI
10 6 (5.45%) JUnit
11 5 (4.55%) Android Studio
11 5 (4.55%) REST Assured
12 4 (3.64%) Mockito
13 3 (2.73%) Appium
14 2 (1.82%) GitLab
14 2 (1.82%) JBehave
14 2 (1.82%) UI Automator
General
1 18 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (15.45%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.64%) Finance
4 13 (11.82%) Games
5 9 (8.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.45%) Banking
7 4 (3.64%) Automotive
7 4 (3.64%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.73%) Aviation
9 2 (1.82%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Retail
10 1 (0.91%) Military
10 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.73%) Spring
2 13 (11.82%) REST
2 13 (11.82%) Spring Boot
3 12 (10.91%) Gherkin
4 10 (9.09%) .NET
5 9 (8.18%) .NET Framework
5 9 (8.18%) Playwright
6 5 (4.55%) Nightwatchjs
6 5 (4.55%) Swagger
7 4 (3.64%) Web Services
7 4 (3.64%) WireMock
8 3 (2.73%) React
9 2 (1.82%) JSON
10 1 (0.91%) Chai
10 1 (0.91%) Jest
10 1 (0.91%) Node.js
10 1 (0.91%) OpenCV
10 1 (0.91%) Puppeteer
10 1 (0.91%) WebdriverIO
10 1 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.27%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.45%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (5.45%) Low-Code
3 6 (5.45%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (4.55%) Replication
5 2 (1.82%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.82%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.82%) IoT
5 2 (1.82%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.82%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.91%) Life Science
6 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.82%) Android
2 8 (7.27%) Apple iOS
2 8 (7.27%) Linux
3 7 (6.36%) Windows
4 5 (4.55%) Debian
4 5 (4.55%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.82%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (79.09%) Test Automation
2 50 (45.45%) Software Testing
3 41 (37.27%) Agile
4 34 (30.91%) CI/CD
5 31 (28.18%) BDD
6 30 (27.27%) API Testing
7 24 (21.82%) QA Automation
8 22 (20.00%) DevOps
8 22 (20.00%) Scrum
8 22 (20.00%) Test Scripting
9 18 (16.36%) Manual Testing
10 17 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (14.55%) Fintech
12 14 (12.73%) Non-Functional Testing
13 12 (10.91%) Acceptance Criteria
13 12 (10.91%) Functional Testing
13 12 (10.91%) TDD
14 11 (10.00%) Code Quality
14 11 (10.00%) Test Strategy
14 11 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.55%) Java
1 27 (24.55%) JavaScript
2 25 (22.73%) SQL
3 17 (15.45%) Python
4 15 (13.64%) C#
5 8 (7.27%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.82%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (10.91%) Degree
2 4 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.82%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.82%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.91%) ISEB
4 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (6.36%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.64%) Docker
2 3 (2.73%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (3.64%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (5.45%) MuleSoft
1 6 (5.45%) OutSystems
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft