Hybrid/Remote QA Job Trends

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring QA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 70 70
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -10
Permanent jobs citing QA 795 805 1,195
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.73% 4.89% 3.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.26% 27.47% 29.00%
Number of salaries quoted 486 434 797
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,875 £36,550
25th Percentile £44,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,125 £87,500 £83,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -16.67%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,572 2,930 4,121
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.76% 17.79% 12.85%
Number of salaries quoted 2,299 1,643 3,024
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £34,089
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,965
Median % change year-on-year - +3.51% -3.39%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £94,800 £97,500
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.87% +9.52% -8.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing QA and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

QA job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing QA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing QA

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing QA over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

QA salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (1.89%) Confluence
2 12 (1.51%) SharePoint
3 7 (0.88%) IIS
4 6 (0.75%) nginx
5 5 (0.63%) Apache
5 5 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.63%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.50%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.38%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) CMS
8 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.13%) JBoss
9 1 (0.13%) Moodle
9 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 89 (11.19%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.50%) Windchill
6 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.13%) InDesign
8 1 (0.13%) Notion
8 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.50%) Shopify
4 2 (0.25%) Academy Housing
4 2 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.13%) HFM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 188 (23.65%) AWS
2 139 (17.48%) Azure
3 82 (10.31%) SaaS
4 81 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
6 67 (8.43%) Power Platform
7 28 (3.52%) GitHub
8 26 (3.27%) GCP
9 25 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (3.02%) Serverless
11 15 (1.89%) Power Automate
12 14 (1.76%) Entra ID
13 12 (1.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 12 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.51%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.38%) PaaS
14 11 (1.38%) PowerApps
15 9 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.02%) Broadband
2 6 (0.75%) VLAN
3 4 (0.50%) MQTT
3 4 (0.50%) NGN
3 4 (0.50%) SD-WAN
3 4 (0.50%) SMS
3 4 (0.50%) WAN
4 3 (0.38%) DHCP
4 3 (0.38%) DNS
4 3 (0.38%) VoIP
4 3 (0.38%) VPN
4 3 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.25%) Wireless
6 1 (0.13%) FTP
6 1 (0.13%) HTTP
6 1 (0.13%) LAN
6 1 (0.13%) RTP
6 1 (0.13%) RTSP
6 1 (0.13%) SS7
6 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.65%) Power BI
2 27 (3.40%) SQL Server
3 21 (2.64%) Relational Database
4 19 (2.39%) MongoDB
5 18 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (1.76%) MySQL
7 13 (1.64%) Tableau
8 12 (1.51%) Metadata
9 11 (1.38%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.26%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.75%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.63%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.50%) Redis
16 2 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 64 (8.05%) JIRA
2 53 (6.67%) Git
3 41 (5.16%) Selenium
4 27 (3.40%) Cypress.io
5 22 (2.77%) Postman
6 20 (2.52%) GitLab
7 18 (2.26%) JMeter
8 13 (1.64%) SpecFlow
9 12 (1.51%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.26%) Jenkins
11 9 (1.13%) JUnit
12 7 (0.88%) WebDriver
12 7 (0.88%) XCUITest
13 5 (0.63%) Locust
13 5 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.50%) Appium
14 4 (0.50%) NUnit
14 4 (0.50%) SoapUI
15 3 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 371 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 161 (20.25%) Finance
3 97 (12.20%) Legal
4 86 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (8.93%) Law
6 62 (7.80%) Public Sector
7 47 (5.91%) Banking
8 40 (5.03%) Swedish Language
9 38 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (4.28%) French Language
12 33 (4.15%) Legal Technology
13 27 (3.40%) Marketing
14 22 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (1.51%) Games
16 11 (1.38%) Local Government
17 9 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
17 9 (1.13%) Health Technology
18 7 (0.88%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 175 (22.01%) Senior
2 149 (18.74%) Analyst
3 88 (11.07%) Lead
4 76 (9.56%) Developer
5 75 (9.43%) Service Analyst
6 74 (9.31%) Service Desk Analyst
7 56 (7.04%) QA Engineer
8 53 (6.67%) Senior Manager
9 45 (5.66%) Senior Developer
10 37 (4.65%) Tester
11 35 (4.40%) Software Engineer
12 28 (3.52%) Consultant
13 25 (3.14%) Senior QA Engineer
13 25 (3.14%) Testing Manager
14 22 (2.77%) Test Engineer
15 21 (2.64%) QA Automation Engineer
15 21 (2.64%) QA Leader
15 21 (2.64%) QA Tester
16 19 (2.39%) Business Analyst
17 18 (2.26%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (12.96%) .NET
2 47 (5.91%) Playwright
3 46 (5.79%) React
4 41 (5.16%) REST
5 16 (2.01%) Web Services
6 14 (1.76%) HTML
7 13 (1.64%) AngularJS
8 12 (1.51%) RESTful
8 12 (1.51%) XML
9 11 (1.38%) .NET Core
9 11 (1.38%) .NET Framework
9 11 (1.38%) CSS
9 11 (1.38%) JSON
10 10 (1.26%) ASP.NET
10 10 (1.26%) SOAP
11 9 (1.13%) Node.js
11 9 (1.13%) Spring
12 8 (1.01%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (1.01%) Gherkin
12 8 (1.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 97 (12.20%) Product Ownership
2 36 (4.53%) Virtual Team
3 32 (4.03%) Podcast
3 32 (4.03%) Web Conferencing
4 27 (3.40%) Cloud Native
5 21 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (2.64%) Management Information System
6 18 (2.26%) AI Agents
6 18 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.14%) Mobile App
8 16 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
8 16 (2.01%) Low-Code
9 13 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 12 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.51%) PMI
11 11 (1.38%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.38%) e-Learning
12 9 (1.13%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.13%) Video\Live Streaming
13 8 (1.01%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.52%) Windows
2 17 (2.14%) Android
2 17 (2.14%) Apple iOS
3 16 (2.01%) Linux
4 3 (0.38%) VME
5 2 (0.25%) Unix
5 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (34.21%) Agile
2 265 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 198 (24.91%) Test Automation
4 195 (24.53%) CI/CD
5 185 (23.27%) DevOps
6 171 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
7 131 (16.48%) Mentoring
8 130 (16.35%) Software Testing
9 129 (16.23%) Software Engineering
10 110 (13.84%) ITIL
11 100 (12.58%) Coaching
12 95 (11.95%) Test Strategy
13 93 (11.70%) ITSM
14 87 (10.94%) Customer Service
15 84 (10.57%) AI
15 84 (10.57%) Microservices
16 81 (10.19%) Performance Metrics
17 77 (9.69%) Stakeholder Management
18 76 (9.56%) Decision-Making
19 75 (9.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 136 (17.11%) C#
2 120 (15.09%) Python
3 109 (13.71%) SQL
4 80 (10.06%) JavaScript
5 75 (9.43%) TypeScript
6 74 (9.31%) Java
7 38 (4.78%) PowerShell
8 13 (1.64%) Go
9 10 (1.26%) Bash
10 9 (1.13%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.88%) PHP
12 6 (0.75%) Bicep
12 6 (0.75%) C++
12 6 (0.75%) VBA
13 4 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.50%) Ruby
13 4 (0.50%) Rust
14 3 (0.38%) COBOL
14 3 (0.38%) Scala
15 1 (0.13%) C
Qualifications
1 126 (15.85%) Degree
2 76 (9.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 75 (9.43%) AWS Certification
4 74 (9.31%) MCSE
5 58 (7.30%) Security Cleared
6 44 (5.53%) SC Cleared
7 22 (2.77%) DBS Check
8 20 (2.52%) PMI Certification
9 18 (2.26%) ISTQB
10 10 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (1.13%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.01%) PMP
13 6 (0.75%) IRCA
14 5 (0.63%) Master's Degree
15 4 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 3 (0.38%) CAPM
16 3 (0.38%) CHECK Team Member
16 3 (0.38%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.28%) Accessibility
2 35 (4.40%) GDPR
3 29 (3.65%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.52%) PMO
5 14 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.76%) Software Quality Assurance
6 12 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 12 (1.51%) ISO 9001
6 12 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.51%) P3O
6 12 (1.51%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.38%) WCAG
8 8 (1.01%) PERC
9 5 (0.63%) SLA
10 4 (0.50%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.50%) GRC
10 4 (0.50%) ISO 9000
10 4 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 4 (0.50%) NIST
11 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 59 (7.42%) Docker
2 13 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.02%) Terraform
3 14 (1.76%) Grafana
4 10 (1.26%) Ansible
5 9 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.38%) Istio
7 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 158 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 95 (11.95%) ServiceNow
3 20 (2.52%) Salesforce
4 14 (1.76%) Oracle
5 12 (1.51%) SAP
6 10 (1.26%) Google
7 8 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 6 (0.75%) Adobe
9 5 (0.63%) Databricks
9 5 (0.63%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.50%) Apple
10 4 (0.50%) HighQ
10 4 (0.50%) Legatics
11 3 (0.38%) Avaya
11 3 (0.38%) Cisco
11 3 (0.38%) dotdigital
11 3 (0.38%) Planview
11 3 (0.38%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.38%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.25%) Planon
299 hybrid/remote QA jobs