QA Jobs with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance (QA)
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 56 50
Rank change year-on-year -22 -6 +28
Permanent jobs citing QA 1,290 2,030 5,120
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.71% 5.28% 6.89%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 29.98% 35.87% 42.30%
Number of salaries quoted 886 1,337 2,376
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £52,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +7.98%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance 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 quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 4,303 5,659 12,104
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.39% 14.71% 16.29%
Number of salaries quoted 3,229 3,821 6,241
10th Percentile £34,905 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

QA trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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.

QA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

QA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 42 (3.26%) IIS
2 30 (2.33%) Confluence
3 22 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.01%) Documentum
5 12 (0.93%) CMS
6 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.47%) Drupal
8 5 (0.39%) Apache
8 5 (0.39%) WordPress
9 4 (0.31%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.31%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.23%) nginx
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.16%) Joomla!
11 2 (0.16%) Moodle
12 1 (0.078%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.078%) SAS
12 1 (0.078%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 64 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (0.54%) InfoPath
5 7 (0.54%) Trello
6 4 (0.31%) AutoCAD
6 4 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.31%) Revit
7 2 (0.16%) Adobe Captivate
7 2 (0.16%) Sketch
8 1 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.078%) Blender
8 1 (0.078%) Notion
8 1 (0.078%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.078%) UXPin
8 1 (0.078%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 45 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (1.01%) TrackWise
4 10 (0.78%) NEC Housing
5 9 (0.70%) SAP CO
6 8 (0.62%) SAP FI
7 6 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
7 6 (0.47%) SAP FI-AP
7 6 (0.47%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.47%) SAP Payroll
8 4 (0.31%) SAP SD
9 2 (0.16%) SAP EWM
9 2 (0.16%) SAP MII
9 2 (0.16%) SAP WM
9 2 (0.16%) Shopify
10 1 (0.078%) CA PPM
10 1 (0.078%) Endur
10 1 (0.078%) Findur
10 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.078%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 277 (21.47%) Azure
2 150 (11.63%) SaaS
3 146 (11.32%) AWS
4 125 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (4.03%) Power Platform
6 42 (3.26%) GCP
7 36 (2.79%) Dynamics 365
8 30 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (2.02%) GitHub
10 24 (1.86%) Power Automate
11 17 (1.32%) PowerApps
12 16 (1.24%) PaaS
12 16 (1.24%) SuccessFactors
13 11 (0.85%) BrowserStack
13 11 (0.85%) Serverless
14 9 (0.70%) Azure Stack
15 8 (0.62%) ClickUp
15 8 (0.62%) Snowflake
16 7 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
17 6 (0.47%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 22 (1.71%) Firewall
2 14 (1.09%) Internet
3 5 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
4 4 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.31%) VPN
5 3 (0.23%) DNS
5 3 (0.23%) HTTP
6 2 (0.16%) BGP
6 2 (0.16%) MQTT
6 2 (0.16%) SSL
6 2 (0.16%) VLAN
7 1 (0.078%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.078%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.078%) FlexRay
7 1 (0.078%) Modbus
7 1 (0.078%) Multicast
7 1 (0.078%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.078%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.078%) RS-422
7 1 (0.078%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (8.76%) SQL Server
2 30 (2.33%) MySQL
2 30 (2.33%) Power BI
2 30 (2.33%) Relational Database
3 21 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 15 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (1.16%) MongoDB
6 14 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (0.78%) Redis
8 9 (0.70%) Tableau
9 6 (0.47%) Power Query
9 6 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.39%) GIS
10 5 (0.39%) Looker
11 3 (0.23%) Big Data
11 3 (0.23%) OLTP
11 3 (0.23%) QualityStage
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 125 (9.69%) Selenium
2 118 (9.15%) JIRA
3 95 (7.36%) Postman
4 81 (6.28%) Git
5 73 (5.66%) Cucumber
6 60 (4.65%) Jenkins
7 54 (4.19%) Cypress.io
8 47 (3.64%) Visual Studio
9 32 (2.48%) SpecFlow
10 31 (2.40%) Jasmine
11 28 (2.17%) Karma Test Runner
12 26 (2.02%) JUnit
13 25 (1.94%) JMeter
14 23 (1.78%) TeamCity
15 19 (1.47%) Appium
16 15 (1.16%) SoapUI
17 14 (1.09%) Bitbucket
18 12 (0.93%) GitLab
18 12 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
19 11 (0.85%) TestRail
General
1 427 (33.10%) Social Skills
2 214 (16.59%) Finance
3 155 (12.02%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (11.01%) Legal
5 141 (10.93%) Retail
6 82 (6.36%) Marketing
7 80 (6.20%) Public Sector
8 53 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 52 (4.03%) Pharmaceutical
10 43 (3.33%) Manufacturing
11 36 (2.79%) Telecoms
12 35 (2.71%) Law
13 34 (2.64%) Aerospace
14 30 (2.33%) Games
14 30 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (2.25%) Police
16 28 (2.17%) Electronics
17 24 (1.86%) Banking
17 24 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
18 19 (1.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 240 (18.60%) Developer
2 198 (15.35%) Lead
3 151 (11.71%) Analyst
4 148 (11.47%) Senior
5 100 (7.75%) QA Engineer
6 79 (6.12%) Business Analyst
7 74 (5.74%) Tester
8 71 (5.50%) QA Manager
9 63 (4.88%) Software Engineer
10 59 (4.57%) Project Manager
11 53 (4.11%) C# Developer
12 52 (4.03%) Architect
13 43 (3.33%) Software Developer
14 42 (3.26%) QA Leader
14 42 (3.26%) Quality Manager
15 39 (3.02%) Senior Developer
16 38 (2.95%) .NET Developer
16 38 (2.95%) SAP Architect
17 37 (2.87%) Team Leader
18 35 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (11.94%) .NET
2 95 (7.36%) REST
3 91 (7.05%) AngularJS
4 85 (6.59%) React
5 84 (6.51%) CSS
6 83 (6.43%) HTML
7 63 (4.88%) Web Services
7 63 (4.88%) XML
8 56 (4.34%) ASP.NET
9 54 (4.19%) .NET Framework
9 54 (4.19%) JSON
10 46 (3.57%) RESTful
11 39 (3.02%) SOAP
12 37 (2.87%) Spring
13 34 (2.64%) .NET Core
14 33 (2.56%) XML Schema
15 31 (2.40%) Sass
16 28 (2.17%) RxJS
17 27 (2.09%) jQuery
18 26 (2.02%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 106 (8.22%) Product Ownership
2 52 (4.03%) Management Information System
3 49 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
4 41 (3.18%) Mobile App
5 31 (2.40%) Data Structures
6 27 (2.09%) Client/Server
7 25 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 23 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.78%) Life Science
9 20 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.40%) Cloud Native
10 18 (1.40%) Satnav
11 16 (1.24%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.16%) Low-Code
12 15 (1.16%) PropTech
13 14 (1.09%) Data Centre
13 14 (1.09%) LIMS
14 12 (0.93%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 73 (5.66%) Windows
2 57 (4.42%) Android
3 52 (4.03%) Apple iOS
4 43 (3.33%) Linux
5 7 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.39%) Debian
6 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.31%) AIX
7 4 (0.31%) VMS
8 3 (0.23%) Unix
9 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.16%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.078%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (37.67%) Agile
2 326 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
3 302 (23.41%) Test Automation
4 275 (21.32%) DevOps
5 222 (17.21%) Software Testing
6 199 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 187 (14.50%) Mentoring
8 175 (13.57%) Coaching
9 170 (13.18%) CI/CD
9 170 (13.18%) Project Management
10 160 (12.40%) Scrum
11 152 (11.78%) SDLC
12 138 (10.70%) Software Engineering
13 114 (8.84%) Code Quality
14 112 (8.68%) Roadmaps
15 97 (7.52%) Process Improvement
16 91 (7.05%) Unit Testing
17 90 (6.98%) User Experience
18 89 (6.90%) Test Scripting
18 89 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 235 (18.22%) JavaScript
2 196 (15.19%) C#
3 142 (11.01%) SQL
4 118 (9.15%) Python
5 113 (8.76%) Java
6 81 (6.28%) TypeScript
7 34 (2.64%) T-SQL
8 33 (2.56%) PHP
9 30 (2.33%) VB
10 28 (2.17%) C
10 28 (2.17%) VB.NET
10 28 (2.17%) VB6
11 25 (1.94%) C++
12 23 (1.78%) Kotlin
13 17 (1.32%) Swift
14 16 (1.24%) Go
15 8 (0.62%) PowerShell
16 6 (0.47%) Ruby
17 5 (0.39%) R
18 3 (0.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 263 (20.39%) Degree
2 116 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 63 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 56 (4.34%) SC Cleared
5 43 (3.33%) DBS Check
6 39 (3.02%) ISTQB
7 36 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 13 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.01%) ISEB
9 13 (1.01%) PMI Certification
10 9 (0.70%) CREST Certified
11 8 (0.62%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.62%) PMP
12 7 (0.54%) CSPO
13 6 (0.47%) IIBA
13 6 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
13 6 (0.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.41%) Accessibility
2 25 (1.94%) Good Clinical Practice
2 25 (1.94%) PMO
3 24 (1.86%) ISO 9001
3 24 (1.86%) Software Quality Assurance
4 18 (1.40%) GMP
5 14 (1.09%) GxP
5 14 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.01%) Data Quality
7 12 (0.93%) GDPR
8 9 (0.70%) NEBOSH
9 8 (0.62%) ISO 14001
9 8 (0.62%) ISO 22301
10 5 (0.39%) SLA
11 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.16%) GLP
12 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.078%) ISO 13485
13 1 (0.078%) ISO 26262
13 1 (0.078%) MISRA
System Software
1 71 (5.50%) Docker
2 15 (1.16%) Firmware
3 12 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.54%) Active Directory
6 4 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 44 (3.41%) Kubernetes
2 21 (1.63%) Ansible
3 19 (1.47%) Terraform
4 13 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
5 6 (0.47%) HP Quality Center
6 5 (0.39%) Grafana
6 5 (0.39%) Kibana
6 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (0.23%) Puppet
8 2 (0.16%) Podman
9 1 (0.078%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.078%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.078%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.078%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 206 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 69 (5.35%) SAP
3 37 (2.87%) ServiceNow
4 34 (2.64%) Google
5 12 (0.93%) Salesforce
6 11 (0.85%) Oracle
7 10 (0.78%) Aderant
7 10 (0.78%) NEC
8 9 (0.70%) BT
9 7 (0.54%) CheckPoint
10 6 (0.47%) Adobe
10 6 (0.47%) Ariba
10 6 (0.47%) Databricks
10 6 (0.47%) HP
10 6 (0.47%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.47%) OutSystems
11 5 (0.39%) Intel
12 4 (0.31%) Splunk
12 4 (0.31%) Thales
13 3 (0.23%) Twitter