QA Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Engineer salary in Work from Home is £52,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 460 324
Rank change year-on-year -25 -136 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Engineer 100 199 814
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.29% 0.50% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.52% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 89 186 426
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,375 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,991 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £68,438
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% - +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 33,036 38,142 71,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 95.90% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 25,238 27,095 42,472
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

QA Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Engineer
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 Engineer.

QA Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

QA Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, QA Engineer 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 permanent jobs with remote work options featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 100 (100.00%) QA
2 77 (77.00%) Test Automation
3 47 (47.00%) Software Testing
4 43 (43.00%) Postman
5 36 (36.00%) Selenium
5 36 (36.00%) Agile
6 31 (31.00%) Cucumber
6 31 (31.00%) CI/CD
7 29 (29.00%) API Testing
8 28 (28.00%) BDD
9 27 (27.00%) JIRA
10 24 (24.00%) JavaScript
10 24 (24.00%) Cypress.io
10 24 (24.00%) Azure
11 23 (23.00%) DevOps
11 23 (23.00%) Java
11 23 (23.00%) SQL
11 23 (23.00%) QA Automation
12 20 (20.00%) Test Scripting
13 18 (18.00%) Jenkins
14 17 (17.00%) Python
14 17 (17.00%) Scrum
14 17 (17.00%) Azure DevOps
15 16 (16.00%) Social Skills
15 16 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
16 15 (15.00%) Product Ownership
16 15 (15.00%) SaaS
17 14 (14.00%) Manual Testing
18 13 (13.00%) Android

QA 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 2 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (5.00%) Trello
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.00%) Azure
2 17 (17.00%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (15.00%) SaaS
4 11 (11.00%) AWS
5 5 (5.00%) ClickUp
6 2 (2.00%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 43 (43.00%) Postman
2 36 (36.00%) Selenium
3 31 (31.00%) Cucumber
4 27 (27.00%) JIRA
5 24 (24.00%) Cypress.io
6 18 (18.00%) Jenkins
7 12 (12.00%) SpecFlow
8 11 (11.00%) JMeter
8 11 (11.00%) TeamCity
8 11 (11.00%) Visual Studio
9 7 (7.00%) Git
9 7 (7.00%) SoapUI
10 6 (6.00%) JUnit
11 5 (5.00%) Android Studio
11 5 (5.00%) REST Assured
12 4 (4.00%) Appium
12 4 (4.00%) Mockito
13 2 (2.00%) JBehave
13 2 (2.00%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (2.00%) TestNG
General
1 16 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.00%) Games
4 11 (11.00%) Finance
5 6 (6.00%) Banking
5 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.00%) Automotive
6 4 (4.00%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.00%) Agriculture
7 2 (2.00%) Aviation
7 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.00%) Retail
8 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.00%) REST
2 12 (12.00%) Gherkin
3 11 (11.00%) Spring
4 10 (10.00%) .NET
4 10 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 9 (9.00%) .NET Framework
5 9 (9.00%) Playwright
6 5 (5.00%) Nightwatchjs
6 5 (5.00%) Swagger
7 4 (4.00%) Web Services
7 4 (4.00%) WireMock
8 3 (3.00%) React
9 2 (2.00%) JSON
9 2 (2.00%) XML
10 1 (1.00%) Jest
10 1 (1.00%) Node.js
10 1 (1.00%) OpenCV
10 1 (1.00%) Puppeteer
10 1 (1.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 6 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (6.00%) Low-Code
3 6 (6.00%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (5.00%) Replication
5 2 (2.00%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (2.00%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.00%) IoT
5 2 (2.00%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.00%) Life Science
6 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.00%) Android
2 8 (8.00%) Apple iOS
2 8 (8.00%) Linux
3 7 (7.00%) Windows
4 5 (5.00%) Debian
4 5 (5.00%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (77.00%) Test Automation
2 47 (47.00%) Software Testing
3 36 (36.00%) Agile
4 31 (31.00%) CI/CD
5 29 (29.00%) API Testing
6 28 (28.00%) BDD
7 23 (23.00%) DevOps
7 23 (23.00%) QA Automation
8 20 (20.00%) Test Scripting
9 17 (17.00%) Scrum
10 16 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (14.00%) Manual Testing
12 13 (13.00%) Acceptance Criteria
12 13 (13.00%) Fintech
13 11 (11.00%) Code Quality
14 10 (10.00%) Exploratory Testing
15 9 (9.00%) Defect Management
15 9 (9.00%) User Experience
16 8 (8.00%) Coaching
16 8 (8.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.00%) JavaScript
2 23 (23.00%) Java
2 23 (23.00%) SQL
3 17 (17.00%) Python
4 13 (13.00%) C#
5 7 (7.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (12.00%) Degree
2 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.00%) ISEB
3 2 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (7.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.00%) Docker
1 4 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (6.00%) MuleSoft
1 6 (6.00%) OutSystems
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft