QA Contracts with Work from Home Options

Quality Assurance (QA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 76 72
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing QA 473 681 1,522
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.21% 2.84% 3.43%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.20% 22.94% 26.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 508 1,046
10th Percentile £325 £324 £350
25th Percentile £419 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £588
90th Percentile £713 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £509 £508 £515
% change year-on-year +0.30% -1.46% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 15
10th Percentile £13.40 - £19.80
25th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £16.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -60.00% +110.53%
75th Percentile £47.38 £19.50 £67.87
90th Percentile £72.50 - £72.50
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £22.49 £46.50
% change year-on-year -37.74% -51.65% +141.56%

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 contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,039 2,969 5,827
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.86% 12.39% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 2,146 4,171
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £512
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +1.66% +7.68%
75th Percentile £621 £630 £613
90th Percentile £750 £743 £700
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -2.38% +0.96% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 70 130
10th Percentile £12.45 £17.50 £11.99
25th Percentile £14.00 £20.91 £19.31
Median hourly rate £23.50 £38.80 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.43% -12.81% +134.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £59.27 £55.50
90th Percentile £66.00 £70.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £23.05 £37.50 £28.12
% change year-on-year -38.55% +33.38% +33.88%

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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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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing QA.

QA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

QA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing QA.

QA hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing QA over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

QA hourly rate 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 32 (6.77%) Confluence
2 15 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.33%) CMS
4 5 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (0.85%) Apache Solr
5 4 (0.85%) nginx
6 3 (0.63%) WordPress
7 2 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.42%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.21%) Appian
8 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 27 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.54%) MS Visio
4 11 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.21%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.21%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.21%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.63%) SAP CO
3 3 (0.63%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.42%) Primavera
4 2 (0.42%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.42%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.21%) Magento
5 1 (0.21%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.21%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.21%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 78 (16.49%) Azure
2 57 (12.05%) AWS
3 37 (7.82%) Dynamics 365
4 29 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (5.92%) Power Platform
6 25 (5.29%) GCP
7 24 (5.07%) GitHub
8 17 (3.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 16 (3.38%) Azure API Management
9 16 (3.38%) SaaS
10 9 (1.90%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 7 (1.48%) Adobe Analytics
11 7 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.48%) WhatsApp
12 6 (1.27%) Apigee
12 6 (1.27%) Firebase
12 6 (1.27%) Miro
12 6 (1.27%) PaaS
12 6 (1.27%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.27%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.75%) WAN
2 11 (2.33%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.11%) LAN
4 9 (1.90%) DNS
5 8 (1.69%) Firewall
6 7 (1.48%) Internet
6 7 (1.48%) VPN
7 6 (1.27%) IPsec
8 5 (1.06%) Ethernet
8 5 (1.06%) MPLS
9 4 (0.85%) ADSL
9 4 (0.85%) FIX Connectivity
9 4 (0.85%) HTTP
9 4 (0.85%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
10 3 (0.63%) PSTN
10 3 (0.63%) SSL
10 3 (0.63%) VoIP
11 2 (0.42%) PPP
11 2 (0.42%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (7.61%) SQL Server
2 25 (5.29%) Power BI
3 21 (4.44%) MySQL
4 17 (3.59%) Relational Database
5 9 (1.90%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.69%) Tableau
7 6 (1.27%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.06%) Looker
8 5 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.06%) Siebel EIM
9 4 (0.85%) Couchbase
9 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.63%) Metadata
11 2 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.42%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.42%) Oracle Database 10g
11 2 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 59 (12.47%) JIRA
2 27 (5.71%) Postman
3 22 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.44%) Git
5 19 (4.02%) Cypress.io
6 18 (3.81%) GitLab
6 18 (3.81%) JMeter
7 15 (3.17%) Selenium
8 11 (2.33%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.90%) Appium
9 9 (1.90%) SpecFlow
10 7 (1.48%) TeamCity
10 7 (1.48%) TestRail
10 7 (1.48%) webpack
11 6 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 5 (1.06%) Bitbucket
12 5 (1.06%) Maven
13 4 (0.85%) Visual Studio
14 3 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (0.63%) JUnit
General
1 172 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 100 (21.14%) Finance
3 63 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (8.46%) Banking
5 25 (5.29%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.23%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (3.17%) Legal
8 14 (2.96%) Marketing
9 12 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.33%) Investment Banking
11 10 (2.11%) Retail
12 9 (1.90%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.48%) Front Office
13 7 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.85%) Advertising
15 4 (0.85%) Back Office
15 4 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 96 (20.30%) Analyst
2 66 (13.95%) Developer
2 66 (13.95%) Lead
3 47 (9.94%) Business Analyst
4 28 (5.92%) Architect
5 24 (5.07%) Project Manager
6 21 (4.44%) Senior
6 21 (4.44%) Test Analyst
6 21 (4.44%) Tester
7 17 (3.59%) Consultant
7 17 (3.59%) QA Engineer
8 14 (2.96%) .NET Developer
9 13 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (2.75%) QA Tester
9 13 (2.75%) Test Manager
10 12 (2.54%) QA Analyst
10 12 (2.54%) QA Leader
10 12 (2.54%) Test Engineer
11 11 (2.33%) Data Analyst
11 11 (2.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.61%) React
2 33 (6.98%) .NET
3 31 (6.55%) REST
4 29 (6.13%) HTML
5 28 (5.92%) CSS
6 27 (5.71%) XML
7 21 (4.44%) Node.js
8 15 (3.17%) AngularJS
8 15 (3.17%) JSON
8 15 (3.17%) Middleware
8 15 (3.17%) Vue
9 13 (2.75%) Web Services
10 12 (2.54%) Playwright
10 12 (2.54%) SOAP
11 11 (2.33%) YAML
12 9 (1.90%) Swagger
13 8 (1.69%) RESTful
14 7 (1.48%) Gherkin
14 7 (1.48%) Laravel
14 7 (1.48%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.67%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.59%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.75%) Public Cloud
4 10 (2.11%) Mobile App
5 9 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.69%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.48%) Derivative
7 7 (1.48%) Equities
7 7 (1.48%) Hedge funds
7 7 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.27%) Data Structures
8 6 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.27%) IoT
9 5 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.85%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.85%) Wiki
11 3 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.40%) Windows
2 31 (6.55%) Linux
3 9 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.69%) Unix
5 6 (1.27%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.06%) Android
6 5 (1.06%) CentOS
7 4 (0.85%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.63%) VMS
8 3 (0.63%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.42%) OpenVMS
10 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (37.84%) Agile
2 98 (20.72%) Test Automation
3 93 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
4 74 (15.64%) DevOps
5 64 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (12.90%) Test Strategy
7 57 (12.05%) Project Management
8 55 (11.63%) CI/CD
9 53 (11.21%) Scrum
10 50 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 49 (10.36%) User Acceptance Testing
12 47 (9.94%) Migration
13 44 (9.30%) Analytics
14 41 (8.67%) User Stories
15 38 (8.03%) Mentoring
16 36 (7.61%) Validation
17 34 (7.19%) Requirements Gathering
18 32 (6.77%) Continuous Integration
18 32 (6.77%) Project Delivery
19 29 (6.13%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 70 (14.80%) SQL
2 65 (13.74%) C#
2 65 (13.74%) JavaScript
3 39 (8.25%) Java
4 37 (7.82%) Python
5 20 (4.23%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.54%) PHP
6 12 (2.54%) PowerShell
7 9 (1.90%) F#
8 5 (1.06%) Bash
9 4 (0.85%) Bicep
9 4 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.85%) VB
10 3 (0.63%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.63%) R
11 2 (0.42%) ABAP
11 2 (0.42%) COBOL
11 2 (0.42%) DCL
11 2 (0.42%) Perl
11 2 (0.42%) VB6
Qualifications
1 52 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 49 (10.36%) Degree
3 38 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 14 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (2.96%) ISTQB
5 11 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.33%) PMI Certification
5 11 (2.33%) PMP
6 10 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.06%) BC Cleared
7 5 (1.06%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.85%) ISEB
9 3 (0.63%) CCA
9 3 (0.63%) CCNA
9 3 (0.63%) CCNP
9 3 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.42%) CCDP
10 2 (0.42%) CCIP
10 2 (0.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.23%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.11%) PMO
3 10 (2.11%) SLA
4 9 (1.90%) GDPR
5 4 (0.85%) HIPAA
5 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.85%) NIST
6 3 (0.63%) WCAG
7 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.21%) GAMP
8 1 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.21%) GxP
8 1 (0.21%) HL7
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (2.33%) Docker
2 4 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 20 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (3.17%) Ansible
3 14 (2.96%) Terraform
4 6 (1.27%) Grafana
5 5 (1.06%) Kibana
5 5 (1.06%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.85%) logstash
6 4 (0.85%) Progress Chef
6 4 (0.85%) Puppet
7 3 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.63%) SCCM
8 2 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.42%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.21%) Graylog
9 1 (0.21%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.21%) Nagios
9 1 (0.21%) Nessus
9 1 (0.21%) SELinux
9 1 (0.21%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 60 (12.68%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.46%) SAP
3 34 (7.19%) Oracle
4 17 (3.59%) Google
5 13 (2.75%) Adobe
6 12 (2.54%) Pega
7 10 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.69%) Databricks
9 8 (1.69%) Splunk
10 7 (1.48%) BT
10 7 (1.48%) Cisco
11 6 (1.27%) Atlassian
11 6 (1.27%) Optimizely
12 5 (1.06%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.06%) CA Agile Central
12 5 (1.06%) Monetate
12 5 (1.06%) Siebel
12 5 (1.06%) Tealium
13 4 (0.85%) Citrix