QA Test Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Test Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 - 591
Rank change year-on-year - - -99
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Engineer 4 0 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% - 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% - 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 17
10th Percentile £420 - £334
25th Percentile £422 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £488 - £488
90th Percentile £495 - £545
UK median daily rate £444 £628 £419
% change year-on-year -29.28% +49.85% -1.47%

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 13,806 23,471 42,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 16,589 30,510
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £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 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 538 592
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.44 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.33
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 £79.43 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

QA Test Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Test Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Test 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 Test Engineer.

QA Test Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, QA Test 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) SDET
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) PagerDuty
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) BDD
4 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing

QA Test 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 (25.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Newman
1 1 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) SDET
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) A/B Testing
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Fintech
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Personalization
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (25.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk