Test Specialist Jobs with Work from Home Options

Test Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Specialist salary in Work from Home is £23,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 661 844
Rank change year-on-year +87 +183 -283
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Specialist 10 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.005% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.005% 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £43,375 -
25th Percentile £21,500 £46,563 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £23,000 £53,750 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.21% - -
75th Percentile £24,500 £61,563 -
90th Percentile £25,400 £65,125 -
UK median annual salary £26,000 £52,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -50.48% -32.26% +19.23%

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 32,422 40,723 66,198
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.03% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,878 28,925 42,092
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £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%

Test Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Specialist
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Specialist.

Test Specialist salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Specialist Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Test Specialist 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 Test Specialist in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (80.00%) JMeter
3 5 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (40.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 4 (40.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
4 4 (40.00%) AWS
4 4 (40.00%) WebDriver
4 4 (40.00%) Confluence
4 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 4 (40.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) JIRA
4 4 (40.00%) Selenium
4 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Java
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 4 (40.00%) Python
4 4 (40.00%) LDAP
4 4 (40.00%) IntelliJ
5 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io

Test Specialist 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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) JMeter
2 4 (40.00%) IntelliJ
2 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 4 (40.00%) Selenium
2 4 (40.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 4 (40.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) LDAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (40.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Performance Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Thought Leadership
2 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
1 4 (40.00%) Python
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared