LoadRunner Contracts with Work from Home Options

HP LoadRunner
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 LoadRunner skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LoadRunner over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 444 553
Rank change year-on-year +114 +109 -114
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 11 24 62
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.073% 0.096% 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 0.63% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 39
10th Percentile £431 £412 £374
25th Percentile £451 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% +1.05% -4.52%
75th Percentile £560 £505 £550
90th Percentile £621 £541 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% +6.67%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

LoadRunner is in the Development Applications 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 development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,795 3,827 8,162
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.91% 15.25% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,284 2,742 5,889
10th Percentile £360 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +3.38% +8.81%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 108 100
10th Percentile £26.24 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £52.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.32 £60.54
90th Percentile - £83.19 £67.05
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +18.27% +15.56%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner.

LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

LoadRunner daily 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) JMeter
2 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
2 3 (27.27%) SpecFlow
3 2 (18.18%) FitNesse
3 2 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) Postman
3 2 (18.18%) Selenium
3 2 (18.18%) TestRail
4 1 (9.09%) Appium
4 1 (9.09%) NeoLoad
4 1 (9.09%) Rational Performance Tester
4 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
4 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
4 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Back Office
3 2 (18.18%) Front Office
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Performance Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Test Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) QA Tester
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Performance Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Tester
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Test Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior QA Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Playwright
2 2 (18.18%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) Reference Data
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Performance Testing
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Test Strategy
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (27.27%) API Testing
5 3 (27.27%) BDD
5 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Defect Management
5 3 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Performance Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Security Testing
5 3 (27.27%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Test Management
5 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
5 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
2 1 (9.09%) C
2 1 (9.09%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) C++
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
2 2 (18.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kibana
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Micro Focus
3 1 (9.09%) OpenText
3 1 (9.09%) Splunk