QA Automation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 438 555
Rank change year-on-year +100 +117 -105
Contract jobs citing QA Automation 10 23 73
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.068% 0.095% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 58
10th Percentile £355 £316 £400
25th Percentile £423 £414 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £481
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% -6.49% +1.32%
75th Percentile £644 £534 £575
90th Percentile £697 £673 £612
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.08
Median hourly rate - - £68.17
75th Percentile - - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £68.17
% change year-on-year - - +81.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

QA Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,820 21,608 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,645 15,332 29,227
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 516
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

QA Automation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing QA Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

QA Automation trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation
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.

QA Automation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA Automation over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

QA Automation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation
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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) BlazeMeter
2 2 (20.00%) BrowserStack
2 2 (20.00%) Firebase
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 2 (20.00%) Route 53
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Postman
2 4 (40.00%) GitLab
2 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) Selenium
3 3 (30.00%) Appium
3 3 (30.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (30.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 3 (30.00%) JMeter
4 2 (20.00%) Git
4 2 (20.00%) webpack
5 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (10.00%) Log4Net
5 1 (10.00%) NUnit
5 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Front Office
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Tester
2 3 (30.00%) Automation Tester
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) QA Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) QA Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) QA Automation Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) QA Automation Tester
3 2 (20.00%) QA Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Automation Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Tester
4 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) WebdriverIO
2 2 (20.00%) Express.js
2 2 (20.00%) Node.js
2 2 (20.00%) Playwright
2 2 (20.00%) React
2 2 (20.00%) Redux
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) Middleware
3 1 (10.00%) pytest
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Derivative
1 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (40.00%) API Testing
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) BDD
3 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) API Development
4 2 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow