Senior QA Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Quality Assurance Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 581 612
Rank change year-on-year +177 +31 +77
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 9 8 59
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.060% 0.024% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.025% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 51
10th Percentile £51,500 £42,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £57,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -22.22% +8.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,375 £80,000
90th Percentile £58,650 £61,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +7.69%

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 13,568 32,486 41,019
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 95.98% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,888 24,950 29,138
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,116 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,451 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.29% -9.68% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

Senior QA Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior QA Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior QA Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior QA Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior QA Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) QA
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) Manual Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Selenium
3 6 (66.67%) C#
4 5 (55.56%) Agile
4 5 (55.56%) SaaS
4 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
5 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
6 3 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
6 3 (33.33%) Postman
6 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
6 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
6 3 (33.33%) ISTQB
6 3 (33.33%) JIRA
6 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
6 3 (33.33%) SQL
6 3 (33.33%) Project Management
6 3 (33.33%) Law
6 3 (33.33%) Legal
7 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
8 1 (11.11%) Exploratory Testing
8 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (11.11%) QA Automation
8 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 1 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
8 1 (11.11%) Onboarding

Senior 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Law
2 3 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) Manual Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Software Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Agile
5 3 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 3 (33.33%) Process Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) Project Management
5 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
7 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (11.11%) CRM
7 1 (11.11%) Exploratory Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (11.11%) QA Automation
7 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
7 1 (11.11%) User Experience
7 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA