Load Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Load Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Load Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Load Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 333 449
Rank change year-on-year +38 +116 +129
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 9 12 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.078% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.089% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 20
10th Percentile £400 £328 £363
25th Percentile £455 £385 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £533 £485
Median % change year-on-year -10.80% +9.79% -7.62%
75th Percentile £538 £580 £556
90th Percentile £593 £706 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year - +64.47% -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year - +64.47% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Load Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Load Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Load Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Load Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Load Testing.

Load Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Load Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Load Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Load Testing
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 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MariaDB
1 1 (11.11%) MS Access
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JMeter
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
2 2 (22.22%) NUnit
2 2 (22.22%) Postman
2 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (11.11%) Gatling
3 1 (11.11%) JIRA
3 1 (11.11%) Pa11y
3 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Electronics
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Senior
1 3 (33.33%) Test Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
2 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) EPoS
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
2 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 2 (22.22%) BDD
4 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (22.22%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Kanban
4 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
4 2 (22.22%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kibana
1 2 (22.22%) Perfmon
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) SAP