QA Automation Jobs with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring QA Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited QA Automation over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 477 490 521
Rank change year-on-year +13 +31 +40
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 17 30 313
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.075% 0.12% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.13% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 11 26 187
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,125 £47,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.43% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,438 £65,000
90th Percentile - £84,375 £72,500
UK median annual salary £68,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.58% - +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

QA Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 20,367 23,340 59,725
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.31% 95.44% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 10,556 17,219 38,791
10th Percentile £36,000 £37,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,481 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.70%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,469 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing QA Automation.

QA Automation salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Automation
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA Automation over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

QA Automation salary 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) BrowserStack
2 4 (23.53%) GitHub
2 4 (23.53%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Git
2 4 (23.53%) Appium
2 4 (23.53%) Cucumber
2 4 (23.53%) JUnit
2 4 (23.53%) Robot Framework
2 4 (23.53%) Selenium
2 4 (23.53%) TestNG
3 3 (17.65%) Xcode
3 3 (17.65%) XCTest
3 3 (17.65%) XCUITest
4 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.88%) GitLab
5 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.88%) JMeter
5 1 (5.88%) Postman
5 1 (5.88%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.88%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
5 1 (5.88%) TestComplete
5 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (29.41%) Electronics
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
1 5 (29.41%) Manufacturing
1 5 (29.41%) Marketing
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
1 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) QA Automation Engineer
1 14 (82.35%) QA Engineer
2 12 (70.59%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 4 (23.53%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior QA Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Mobile Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Automation Tester
5 2 (11.76%) QA Automation Tester
5 2 (11.76%) QA Test Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) QA Tester
5 2 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Tester
6 1 (5.88%) Data Migration Tester
6 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Playwright
2 4 (23.53%) Jest
3 2 (11.76%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) .NET
4 1 (5.88%) CSS
4 1 (5.88%) HTML
4 1 (5.88%) pytest
4 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Test Automation
2 10 (58.82%) Test Scripting
3 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) Software Testing
4 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 6 (35.29%) BDD
4 6 (35.29%) DevOps
5 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (29.41%) Code Quality
5 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (29.41%) Digital Marketing
5 5 (29.41%) Programme Management
5 5 (29.41%) Scrum
6 4 (23.53%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (23.53%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (23.53%) Exploratory Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (23.53%) TDD
6 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) C++
2 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
3 3 (17.65%) Swift
4 2 (11.76%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) SAP
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow