QA Test Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance Test Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Test Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £37,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 593 588 853
Rank change year-on-year -5 +265 -291
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Test Engineer 5 39 35
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.014% 0.10% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.11% 0.048%
Number of salaries quoted 3 39 29
10th Percentile - £30,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £54,375 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £59,750
UK median annual salary £41,250 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -17.50% -4.76% +10.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,012 36,073 73,380
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.94% 97.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,833 26,365 42,607
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,385 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.38% +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 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
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 Test Engineer.

QA Test Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Test Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA Test Engineer over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

QA Test Engineer salary histogram 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 10 June 2024, QA Test 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) QA
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
3 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (40.00%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) UI Automator
3 2 (40.00%) Appium
3 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) JBehave
3 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X
3 2 (40.00%) Automotive
3 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration

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:

Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Appium
1 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (40.00%) JBehave
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Selenium
1 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (40.00%) UI Automator
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Mocha
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Automotive
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Android
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (40.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Fintech
4 1 (20.00%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility