QA Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 410 497
Rank change year-on-year +81 +87 -60
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 16 49 125
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.20% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.21% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 41 94
10th Percentile - £334 £343
25th Percentile £363 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +18.75%
75th Percentile £475 £600 £525
90th Percentile £499 £650 £588
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% +25.00%

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 13,777 23,614 42,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.28% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,296 16,695 30,580
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 541 589
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.35
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.19 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

QA Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Engineer
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 Engineer.

QA Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA Engineer over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

QA Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, QA Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) QA
2 13 (81.25%) Test Automation
3 8 (50.00%) Agile
4 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
5 6 (37.50%) Playwright
5 6 (37.50%) Software Testing
6 5 (31.25%) Selenium
6 5 (31.25%) Java
6 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
6 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 4 (25.00%) Git
7 4 (25.00%) C#
7 4 (25.00%) Cypress.io
8 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
8 3 (18.75%) Manual Testing
8 3 (18.75%) Azure
8 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
8 3 (18.75%) Scrum
8 3 (18.75%) Regression Testing
8 3 (18.75%) SQL
8 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
8 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
8 3 (18.75%) Postman
9 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
9 2 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
9 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
9 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
9 2 (12.50%) Cucumber

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint 2013
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Selenium
2 4 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 4 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (18.75%) Postman
4 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 2 (12.50%) JMeter
4 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
5 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
5 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (6.25%) Mercurial
5 1 (6.25%) Newman
5 1 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
5 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
5 1 (6.25%) TestRail
5 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
5 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Playwright
2 2 (12.50%) React Native
2 2 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Next.js
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Test Automation
2 8 (50.00%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 6 (37.50%) Software Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Manual Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Regression Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
6 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
7 2 (12.50%) BDD
7 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
7 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Kanban
7 2 (12.50%) Migration
7 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) System Testing
7 2 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
1 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 4 (25.00%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.25%) Perl
5 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) PagerDuty
1 1 (6.25%) Splunk