QA Tester Contracts with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in Work from Home is £438 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 332 423 553
Rank change year-on-year +91 +130 -91
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 13 36 69
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.088% 0.15% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 31 52
10th Percentile £345 £313 £300
25th Percentile £366 £400 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £428 £388
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +10.45% -3.13%
75th Percentile £474 £578 £475
90th Percentile £487 £650 £523
UK median daily rate £468 £575 £400
% change year-on-year -18.70% +43.75% -2.44%

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 Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Tester trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA 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 Tester.

QA Tester daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

QA Tester
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Tester daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

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

1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
3 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) JMeter
3 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
4 7 (53.85%) Postman
4 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
4 7 (53.85%) JIRA
4 7 (53.85%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (53.85%) Test Management
4 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
5 6 (46.15%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (46.15%) Cypress.io
5 6 (46.15%) Scrum
5 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
6 5 (38.46%) WebdriverIO
6 5 (38.46%) BlazeMeter
6 5 (38.46%) Cross-Browser Testing
6 5 (38.46%) BrowserStack
6 5 (38.46%) Analytics
6 5 (38.46%) Test Planning
6 5 (38.46%) Appium
6 5 (38.46%) GitLab
6 5 (38.46%) Firebase
6 5 (38.46%) Defect Tracking
6 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
6 5 (38.46%) Validation
6 5 (38.46%) Middleware
6 5 (38.46%) Performance Testing
6 5 (38.46%) Non-Functional Testing

QA 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 5 (38.46%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) BlazeMeter
1 5 (38.46%) BrowserStack
1 5 (38.46%) Firebase
1 5 (38.46%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.69%) Google Workspace
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) JMeter
2 7 (53.85%) Jenkins
2 7 (53.85%) JIRA
2 7 (53.85%) Postman
3 6 (46.15%) Cypress.io
4 5 (38.46%) Appium
4 5 (38.46%) GitLab
5 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
6 2 (15.38%) FitNesse
6 2 (15.38%) Git
6 2 (15.38%) LoadRunner
6 2 (15.38%) Selenium
6 2 (15.38%) SpecFlow
6 2 (15.38%) TestRail
7 1 (7.69%) QARun
7 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Back Office
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Front Office
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Middleware
1 5 (38.46%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (23.08%) Playwright
3 2 (15.38%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Reference Data
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 7 (53.85%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (53.85%) Test Management
4 6 (46.15%) Scrum
4 6 (46.15%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (38.46%) Analytics
5 5 (38.46%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 5 (38.46%) Defect Tracking
5 5 (38.46%) Non-Functional Testing
5 5 (38.46%) Performance Testing
5 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 5 (38.46%) Test Planning
5 5 (38.46%) Validation
6 4 (30.77%) API Testing
6 4 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Manual Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
7 3 (23.08%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
1 2 (15.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
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