QA Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance Specialist
UK > Work from Home

As of 9 June 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Quality Assurance Specialist daily rate in Work from Home.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 - 622
Rank change year-on-year - - -112
Contract jobs requiring a QA Specialist 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.014% - 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% - 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £445
75th Percentile - - £468
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £115 £550 £383
% change year-on-year -79.09% +43.79% +19.53%

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 13,716 22,731 42,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.23% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,231 16,123 30,649
10th Percentile £325 £358 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £634
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 528 566
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.75
25th Percentile £22.54 £25.00 £19.58
Median hourly rate £43.00 £51.57 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -16.61% +32.81% +67.29%
75th Percentile £63.38 £66.33 £58.66
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.80 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

QA Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Specialist
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 Specialist.

QA Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, QA Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing

QA 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) SDET
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA