Quality Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Quality Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £57,500 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 378 573 633
Rank change year-on-year +195 +60 +96
Permanent jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 19 19 40
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.056% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.058% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 15 15 31
10th Percentile - £43,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,231 £47,500 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £66,911
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -2.86% +7.92%
75th Percentile £68,818 £70,000 £75,294
90th Percentile £73,886 - £87,419
UK median annual salary £57,500 £40,000 £66,911
% change year-on-year +43.75% -40.22% +11.52%

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% -

Quality Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Quality Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Quality Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Quality Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Quality Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Quality 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 Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (89.47%) Test Automation
2 16 (84.21%) Agile
3 12 (63.16%) Java
3 12 (63.16%) Finance
4 11 (57.89%) Banking
4 11 (57.89%) Jenkins
4 11 (57.89%) DevOps
5 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
6 7 (36.84%) Product Ownership
6 7 (36.84%) Defect Management
6 7 (36.84%) Selenium
7 6 (31.58%) QA
7 6 (31.58%) Test Scripting
7 6 (31.58%) Cucumber
7 6 (31.58%) BDD
7 6 (31.58%) Confluence
7 6 (31.58%) Test Strategy
7 6 (31.58%) Agile Testing
7 6 (31.58%) JIRA
7 6 (31.58%) Scrum
7 6 (31.58%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (26.32%) GCP
8 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
8 5 (26.32%) Docker
8 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
8 5 (26.32%) Git
8 5 (26.32%) Python
8 5 (26.32%) Azure
8 5 (26.32%) AWS
8 5 (26.32%) Security Testing

Quality 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 6 (31.58%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
1 5 (26.32%) GCP
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 7 (36.84%) Selenium
3 6 (31.58%) Cucumber
3 6 (31.58%) JIRA
4 5 (26.32%) Git
5 4 (21.05%) Appium
5 4 (21.05%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
6 1 (5.26%) Gradle
6 1 (5.26%) JUnit
6 1 (5.26%) Maven
6 1 (5.26%) Postman
6 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
6 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (5.26%) Spinnaker
6 1 (5.26%) TestNG
6 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (63.16%) Finance
2 11 (57.89%) Banking
3 4 (21.05%) Cantonese Language
3 4 (21.05%) Mandarin Language
3 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Electronics
5 1 (5.26%) Local Government
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) JSON
1 1 (5.26%) Playwright
1 1 (5.26%) Swagger
1 1 (5.26%) Web Services
1 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.26%) CAN bus
2 1 (5.26%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Market Risk
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Test Automation
2 16 (84.21%) Agile
3 11 (57.89%) DevOps
4 9 (47.37%) CI/CD
5 7 (36.84%) Defect Management
6 6 (31.58%) Agile Testing
6 6 (31.58%) BDD
6 6 (31.58%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (31.58%) Scrum
6 6 (31.58%) Test Scripting
6 6 (31.58%) Test Strategy
7 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
7 5 (26.32%) Security Testing
8 4 (21.05%) Benchmarking
8 4 (21.05%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (21.05%) Fintech
8 4 (21.05%) Mentoring
9 2 (10.53%) Data Management
9 2 (10.53%) Validation
10 1 (5.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) ISTQB
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) Basel III
3 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) IFRS
3 1 (5.26%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform