QA Tester Jobs with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Quality Assurance Tester salary in Work from Home is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 582 740
Rank change year-on-year +11 +158 -198
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Tester 25 52 121
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.072% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.14% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 17 52 82
10th Percentile £34,250 £22,750 £31,375
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £43,750 £65,000 £73,125
90th Percentile £82,500 £66,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +17.65%

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 33,316 37,036 72,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.20% 95.88% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,385 26,789 42,482
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,481 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +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 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
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 Tester.

QA Tester salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

QA Tester
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

QA Tester salary 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 31 May 2024, QA Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) QA
2 16 (64.00%) Test Automation
3 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (44.00%) Software Testing
4 11 (44.00%) Agile
5 10 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (32.00%) Selenium
6 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (28.00%) BDD
7 7 (28.00%) Non-Functional Testing
7 7 (28.00%) Web Development
7 7 (28.00%) Project Management
7 7 (28.00%) Scrum
7 7 (28.00%) B2B
7 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
8 6 (24.00%) Regression Testing
8 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
8 6 (24.00%) Test Scripting
8 6 (24.00%) AWS
8 6 (24.00%) Cucumber
8 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
8 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
9 5 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
9 5 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 5 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (20.00%) User Experience
9 5 (20.00%) Release Management
9 5 (20.00%) Retail
9 5 (20.00%) Java
9 5 (20.00%) E-Commerce

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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) SaaS
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Selenium
2 6 (24.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (12.00%) JMeter
3 3 (12.00%) SpecFlow
3 3 (12.00%) TeamCity
3 3 (12.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (8.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (8.00%) JIRA
5 1 (4.00%) Git
5 1 (4.00%) GitLab
5 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.00%) JUnit
5 1 (4.00%) TestNG
General
1 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Retail
4 4 (16.00%) Finance
4 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (12.00%) Banking
6 2 (8.00%) Front Office
7 1 (4.00%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Spring
1 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (12.00%) Gherkin
2 3 (12.00%) Playwright
3 2 (8.00%) CSS
3 2 (8.00%) HTML
4 1 (4.00%) Jest
4 1 (4.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (44.00%) Agile
3 11 (44.00%) Software Testing
4 10 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (28.00%) B2B
5 7 (28.00%) BDD
5 7 (28.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 7 (28.00%) Project Management
5 7 (28.00%) Scrum
5 7 (28.00%) Web Development
6 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (24.00%) Regression Testing
6 6 (24.00%) Test Scripting
7 5 (20.00%) B2C
7 5 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 5 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
7 5 (20.00%) E-Commerce
7 5 (20.00%) Release Management
7 5 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.00%) Java
3 4 (16.00%) C#
3 4 (16.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft