QA Automation Jobs with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance (QA) Automation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for QA Automation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA Automation over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 510 522
Rank change year-on-year -52 +12 -10
Permanent jobs citing QA Automation 34 124 374
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.098% 0.32% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.33% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 32 118 158
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,789 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,000 £70,000 £72,978
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

QA Automation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,253 37,089 72,078
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.24% 96.02% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,514 26,211 41,851
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

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 May 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) SaaS
3 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) BrowserStack
5 3 (8.82%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (5.88%) GCP
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.94%) MySQL
1 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (70.59%) Selenium
2 16 (47.06%) Postman
3 15 (44.12%) Cypress.io
4 12 (35.29%) Cucumber
5 10 (29.41%) Jenkins
6 8 (23.53%) JMeter
6 8 (23.53%) REST Assured
7 6 (17.65%) SpecFlow
8 5 (14.71%) Appium
8 5 (14.71%) Git
8 5 (14.71%) JIRA
8 5 (14.71%) JUnit
9 4 (11.76%) Mockito
10 3 (8.82%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (5.88%) NUnit
11 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio
12 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
12 1 (2.94%) SoapUI
12 1 (2.94%) TestNG
12 1 (2.94%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Health Technology
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
3 2 (5.88%) Marketing
4 1 (2.94%) Electronics
4 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Publishing
4 1 (2.94%) Tech for Good
4 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (67.65%) QA Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) Automation Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) QA Automation Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Lead
3 4 (11.76%) QA Leader
4 3 (8.82%) Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) QA Tester
4 3 (8.82%) Tester
5 2 (5.88%) Automation Tester
5 2 (5.88%) Java Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) QA Automation Tester
5 2 (5.88%) Test Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Data Migration Tester
6 1 (2.94%) Head of Test
6 1 (2.94%) QA Analyst
6 1 (2.94%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) .NET
1 8 (23.53%) Playwright
2 5 (14.71%) Spring
3 4 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 4 (11.76%) Web Services
3 4 (11.76%) WireMock
4 3 (8.82%) React
4 3 (8.82%) Swagger
5 2 (5.88%) CSS
5 2 (5.88%) HTML
5 2 (5.88%) REST
6 1 (2.94%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (2.94%) COM
6 1 (2.94%) Jest
6 1 (2.94%) OpenCV
6 1 (2.94%) Puppeteer
6 1 (2.94%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Driving Licence
1 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (97.06%) Test Automation
2 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
3 14 (41.18%) API Testing
4 13 (38.24%) BDD
5 11 (32.35%) Agile
5 11 (32.35%) DevOps
6 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (29.41%) Software Testing
7 9 (26.47%) Test Scripting
8 7 (20.59%) Software Engineering
9 6 (17.65%) Microservices
9 6 (17.65%) Scrum
9 6 (17.65%) SDET
10 5 (14.71%) Coaching
10 5 (14.71%) Manual Testing
10 5 (14.71%) Strategic Thinking
10 5 (14.71%) Unit Testing
11 4 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (11.76%) Design Patterns
11 4 (11.76%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) Java
2 13 (38.24%) SQL
3 8 (23.53%) C#
4 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.94%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.94%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) SAP
2 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow