QA Tester Jobs with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in Work from Home is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 604 736
Rank change year-on-year +35 +132 -201
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 24 59 116
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18 57 81
10th Percentile £31,250 £22,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +33.33%
75th Percentile £43,750 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,125 £66,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +17.65%

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 32,500 39,912 66,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 96.00% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,881 28,336 41,924
10th Percentile £33,013 £36,733 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Tester trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Tester
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 Tester.

QA Tester salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Tester
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA Tester over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

QA Tester salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, QA Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) QA
2 14 (58.33%) Test Automation
3 12 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 11 (45.83%) Agile
5 10 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (29.17%) Cucumber
6 7 (29.17%) BDD
6 7 (29.17%) Non-Functional Testing
6 7 (29.17%) Scrum
6 7 (29.17%) Web Development
6 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
6 7 (29.17%) Project Management
6 7 (29.17%) B2B
7 6 (25.00%) AWS
7 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 5 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (20.83%) Product Ownership
8 5 (20.83%) Fintech
8 5 (20.83%) Backlog Refinement
8 5 (20.83%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 5 (20.83%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (20.83%) User Experience
8 5 (20.83%) Software Delivery
8 5 (20.83%) Spring Boot
8 5 (20.83%) Selenium
8 5 (20.83%) Release Management
8 5 (20.83%) Agile Testing

QA Tester 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 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Cucumber
2 5 (20.83%) Selenium
3 2 (8.33%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 2 (8.33%) JMeter
3 2 (8.33%) SpecFlow
3 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
3 2 (8.33%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
General
1 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (20.83%) Retail
4 3 (12.50%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Front Office
6 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Spring
1 5 (20.83%) Spring Boot
2 3 (12.50%) Playwright
3 2 (8.33%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.17%) CSS
4 1 (4.17%) HTML
4 1 (4.17%) Jest
4 1 (4.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Test Automation
2 12 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 11 (45.83%) Agile
4 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (29.17%) B2B
5 7 (29.17%) BDD
5 7 (29.17%) Non-Functional Testing
5 7 (29.17%) Project Management
5 7 (29.17%) Scrum
5 7 (29.17%) Web Development
6 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 5 (20.83%) Agile Testing
7 5 (20.83%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 5 (20.83%) Backlog Refinement
7 5 (20.83%) Fintech
7 5 (20.83%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (20.83%) Software Delivery
7 5 (20.83%) Test Strategy
7 5 (20.83%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Java
2 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.50%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft