QA Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 78 58
Rank change year-on-year -4 -20 -8
Permanent jobs citing QA 794 1,249 1,803
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.88% 3.65% 5.01%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.37% 29.26% 34.31%
Number of salaries quoted 428 823 1,264
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £78,188
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +4.35%

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 3,258 4,268 5,255
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.90% 12.48% 14.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,846 3,111 3,664
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,875 £97,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% +4.55%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

QA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing QA over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

QA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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
1 164 (20.65%) Confluence
2 12 (1.51%) CMS
3 8 (1.01%) Appian
4 4 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.38%) Apache Solr
5 3 (0.38%) nginx
5 3 (0.38%) SAS
6 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) Moodle
7 1 (0.13%) Totara
7 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 15 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.76%) MS Visio
4 12 (1.51%) Trello
5 6 (0.76%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.50%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 19 (2.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.63%) CA PPM
3 5 (0.63%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.38%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.13%) Magento
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.13%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.13%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 358 (45.09%) Azure
2 351 (44.21%) AWS
3 170 (21.41%) GCP
4 47 (5.92%) Serverless
5 35 (4.41%) Power Platform
6 29 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (3.53%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (3.40%) GitHub
9 25 (3.15%) Amazon S3
10 23 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (2.90%) SaaS
11 20 (2.52%) Power Automate
12 18 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (2.14%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
17 7 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 6 (0.76%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.01%) Network Security
2 7 (0.88%) BGP
2 7 (0.88%) OSPF
3 6 (0.76%) VLAN
4 5 (0.63%) Firewall
4 5 (0.63%) IPsec
4 5 (0.63%) MPLS
4 5 (0.63%) Multicast
5 4 (0.50%) 3GPP
5 4 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.25%) DNS
7 1 (0.13%) Intranet
7 1 (0.13%) RFID
7 1 (0.13%) RS-232
7 1 (0.13%) RS-422
7 1 (0.13%) RS-485
7 1 (0.13%) SpaceWire
7 1 (0.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (33.00%) SQL Server
2 31 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (3.65%) Power BI
4 24 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
5 21 (2.64%) MySQL
6 19 (2.39%) DynamoDB
7 17 (2.14%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.76%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.26%) Tableau
10 8 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.01%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.01%) Redis
11 7 (0.88%) Metadata
11 7 (0.88%) Metadata Repository
12 5 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (0.50%) Ataccama
14 3 (0.38%) Triplestore
15 2 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.25%) Pentaho
15 2 (0.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 311 (39.17%) JIRA
2 309 (38.92%) Selenium
3 260 (32.75%) Cucumber
4 255 (32.12%) GitLab
4 255 (32.12%) SonarQube
5 251 (31.61%) Maven
6 249 (31.36%) Bitbucket
6 249 (31.36%) Sonatype Nexus
7 38 (4.79%) Git
8 26 (3.27%) Cypress.io
9 22 (2.77%) Appium
10 19 (2.39%) Jenkins
11 14 (1.76%) Postman
12 13 (1.64%) SpecFlow
13 9 (1.13%) JMeter
14 8 (1.01%) Moq
14 8 (1.01%) WebDriver
15 6 (0.76%) SoapUI
16 5 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
17 4 (0.50%) Gradle
General
1 359 (45.21%) Finance
2 291 (36.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 273 (34.38%) Banking
4 192 (24.18%) Social Skills
5 112 (14.11%) Retail
6 93 (11.71%) Investment Banking
7 90 (11.34%) Corporate Banking
8 83 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
9 33 (4.16%) Law
10 28 (3.53%) Marketing
11 26 (3.27%) Games
11 26 (3.27%) Legal
12 25 (3.15%) Health Technology
13 22 (2.77%) Tech for Good
14 21 (2.64%) Publishing
15 18 (2.27%) Manufacturing
16 16 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
17 15 (1.89%) Public Sector
18 14 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 283 (35.64%) Software Engineer
2 131 (16.50%) Developer
3 94 (11.84%) Senior
4 60 (7.56%) Lead
5 51 (6.42%) Analyst
6 46 (5.79%) Senior Developer
7 38 (4.79%) QA Engineer
8 30 (3.78%) Software Developer
9 27 (3.40%) Tester
10 18 (2.27%) Senior Software Developer
10 18 (2.27%) Test Engineer
11 17 (2.14%) Project Manager
12 16 (2.02%) C# Developer
12 16 (2.02%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (1.89%) .NET Developer
13 15 (1.89%) Applications Support
13 15 (1.89%) Automation Tester
13 15 (1.89%) Consultant
13 15 (1.89%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (1.76%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (38.79%) React
2 282 (35.52%) HTML
3 281 (35.39%) CSS
4 258 (32.49%) Spring
5 256 (32.24%) Spring Boot
6 254 (31.99%) Redux
7 250 (31.49%) Kafka
8 247 (31.11%) JPA
9 158 (19.90%) Hibernate
10 136 (17.13%) RESTful
11 130 (16.37%) REST
12 99 (12.47%) Jest
13 91 (11.46%) CSS3
13 91 (11.46%) HTML5
14 90 (11.34%) Sass
15 56 (7.05%) .NET
16 35 (4.41%) Playwright
17 24 (3.02%) Node.js
18 22 (2.77%) JSON
18 22 (2.77%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 287 (36.15%) Product Ownership
2 256 (32.24%) Enterprise Software
3 29 (3.65%) Mobile App
4 15 (1.89%) NHS
5 14 (1.76%) Mobile Games
5 14 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.51%) Cloud Native
6 12 (1.51%) Educational Technology
6 12 (1.51%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.26%) Digital Media
8 8 (1.01%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.01%) Social Media
9 7 (0.88%) Algorithms
10 6 (0.76%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.76%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.76%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.63%) PMI
12 4 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.91%) Linux
2 34 (4.28%) Windows
3 27 (3.40%) Apple iOS
4 19 (2.39%) Android
5 8 (1.01%) Windows Vista
6 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.50%) Unix
8 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.38%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.25%) CentOS
9 2 (0.25%) Rocky
10 1 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Debian
10 1 (0.13%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (63.35%) Agile
2 377 (47.48%) DevOps
3 366 (46.10%) Test Automation
4 332 (41.81%) CI/CD
5 331 (41.69%) Software Engineering
6 297 (37.41%) Microservices
7 286 (36.02%) SDLC
8 283 (35.64%) Containerisation
9 273 (34.38%) Front End Development
10 269 (33.88%) Full-Stack Development
11 265 (33.38%) Performance Optimisation
12 244 (30.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 192 (24.18%) TDD
14 177 (22.29%) Clean Code
15 167 (21.03%) User Experience
16 165 (20.78%) Mentoring
17 136 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
18 114 (14.36%) Migration
19 95 (11.96%) Strategic Thinking
20 90 (11.34%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 350 (44.08%) JavaScript
2 334 (42.07%) SQL
3 324 (40.81%) Java
4 170 (21.41%) TypeScript
5 99 (12.47%) C#
6 98 (12.34%) Python
7 17 (2.14%) Kotlin
7 17 (2.14%) PHP
8 16 (2.02%) C++
9 13 (1.64%) Swift
10 12 (1.51%) Objective-C
11 9 (1.13%) Bash
12 8 (1.01%) Go
13 7 (0.88%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.76%) C
14 6 (0.76%) Groovy
14 6 (0.76%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.50%) Delphi
15 4 (0.50%) Ruby
16 3 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 107 (13.48%) Degree
2 42 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 38 (4.79%) Security Cleared
4 34 (4.28%) ISTQB
5 27 (3.40%) SC Cleared
6 22 (2.77%) PMI Certification
6 22 (2.77%) PMP
7 11 (1.39%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.13%) CISSP
8 9 (1.13%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.76%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (0.50%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.38%) CSPO
12 3 (0.38%) HNC
12 3 (0.38%) ISEB
13 2 (0.25%) CCSAS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (12.59%) Accessibility
2 14 (1.76%) NCSC
3 13 (1.64%) PMO
4 12 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.13%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.01%) NIST
7 6 (0.76%) CDISC
7 6 (0.76%) P3O
8 3 (0.38%) GMP
8 3 (0.38%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.25%) AQAP
9 2 (0.25%) Dublin Core
9 2 (0.25%) GDPR
9 2 (0.25%) IEC 62304
9 2 (0.25%) ISO 13485
9 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.13%) ECSS
System Software
1 287 (36.15%) Docker
2 3 (0.38%) Firmware
3 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 268 (33.75%) Kubernetes
2 20 (2.52%) Terraform
3 14 (1.76%) Grafana
4 13 (1.64%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.51%) Ansible
6 5 (0.63%) Puppet
7 3 (0.38%) Argo
7 3 (0.38%) Packer
8 2 (0.25%) Iperf
8 2 (0.25%) Nagios
8 2 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (0.25%) Salt
9 1 (0.13%) Check_MK
9 1 (0.13%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.13%) Kibana
9 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.13%) logstash
9 1 (0.13%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 248 (31.23%) Solace
2 60 (7.56%) Microsoft
3 12 (1.51%) Oracle
4 11 (1.39%) Google
4 11 (1.39%) SAP
5 10 (1.26%) Salesforce
6 9 (1.13%) Adobe
7 8 (1.01%) Planview
8 7 (0.88%) Cisco
8 7 (0.88%) TikTok
9 6 (0.76%) Autodesk
10 5 (0.63%) IBM
10 5 (0.63%) N-able
10 5 (0.63%) Pegasus
10 5 (0.63%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.50%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.50%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.50%) New Relic
11 4 (0.50%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.50%) VMware