QA Automation Tester Contracts with Work from Home Options

Automation QA Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Automation QA Tester daily rate in Work from Home is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 452 598
Rank change year-on-year +109 +146 -108
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Tester 3 13 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.021% 0.054% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.056% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 16
10th Percentile £375 £301 £334
25th Percentile £406 £326 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £427 £454
Median % change year-on-year +8.44% -6.01% -1.89%
75th Percentile £528 £447 £486
90th Percentile £564 £512 £563
UK median daily rate £421 £428 £375
% change year-on-year -1.58% +14.13% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,673 23,018 42,241
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.28% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,245 16,317 30,649
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 528 572
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £25.53 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +47.89% +52.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £76.80 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

QA Automation Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Automation Tester trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation Tester
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing QA Automation Tester.

QA Automation Tester daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA Automation Tester over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

QA Automation Tester daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, QA Automation Tester contract 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 contract jobs with a WFH option featuring QA Automation Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Appium
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Firebase
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter

QA Automation Tester 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (33.33%) Firebase
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Appium
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow