Hybrid/Remote Load Testing Contract Job Trends

Load Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Load Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 306 362
Rank change year-on-year -2 +56 +160
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 12 12 11
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.12% 0.10% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.12% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 10
10th Percentile £400 £456 £375
25th Percentile £402 £513 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £579 £435
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +32.99% -17.14%
75th Percentile £556 £659 £488
90th Percentile £598 £725 £510
UK median daily rate £425 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -19.05% +10.53% -8.65%

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 9,299 10,367 15,093
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.82% 89.19% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,130 6,519 10,315
10th Percentile £331 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 210 363
10th Percentile £15.30 £18.04 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £28.32
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.63 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.30% -34.63% -1.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.01 £70.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £87.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Load Testing and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Load Testing job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Load Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Load Testing

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Load Testing over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Load Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Load Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Load Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Load Testing

Load Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) CMS
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Selenium
2 5 (41.67%) JMeter
3 3 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 3 (25.00%) JIRA
3 3 (25.00%) Postman
3 3 (25.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 2 (16.67%) Gatling
4 2 (16.67%) JUnit
4 2 (16.67%) Locust
4 2 (16.67%) TestNG
5 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
5 1 (8.33%) GitLab
5 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (8.33%) LoadRunner
5 1 (8.33%) MSTest
5 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
5 1 (8.33%) TestRail
5 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
5 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Advertising
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer in Test
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Optimisation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Playwright
2 3 (25.00%) RESTful
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) Gherkin
3 2 (16.67%) pytest
3 2 (16.67%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) .NET
4 1 (8.33%) Django
4 1 (8.33%) Great Expectations
4 1 (8.33%) HTML
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
4 1 (8.33%) React
4 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 7 (58.33%) Test Strategy
4 5 (41.67%) Agile
4 5 (41.67%) Performance Testing
5 4 (33.33%) API Testing
5 4 (33.33%) BDD
5 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 4 (33.33%) Microservices
6 3 (25.00%) Defect Management
6 3 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Regression Testing
6 3 (25.00%) SDET
6 3 (25.00%) Security Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (25.00%) Validation
7 2 (16.67%) Data Management
7 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) ISEB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.33%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (8.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) New Relic
1 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk