LoadRunner Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

HP LoadRunner
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring LoadRunner skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LoadRunner 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 290 329 449
Rank change year-on-year +39 +120 +117
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 14 16 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.94% 0.86% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 20
10th Percentile £391 £447 £400
25th Percentile £400 £451 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £540 £480
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% +1.05%
75th Percentile £494 £623 £505
90th Percentile - - £541
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +10.53%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

LoadRunner falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

LoadRunner
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

LoadRunner trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

LoadRunner
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

LoadRunner daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

LoadRunner
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

LoadRunner daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

LoadRunner
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 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) Datadog
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) HTTP
1 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (78.57%) JMeter
2 4 (28.57%) Serenity BDD
3 3 (21.43%) JIRA
4 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 2 (14.29%) NeoLoad
5 1 (7.14%) Appium
5 1 (7.14%) Burp Suite
5 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
5 1 (7.14%) Gatling
5 1 (7.14%) Git
5 1 (7.14%) IntelliJ
5 1 (7.14%) Introscope
5 1 (7.14%) JProfiler
5 1 (7.14%) JUnit
5 1 (7.14%) Postman
5 1 (7.14%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (7.14%) Selenium
5 1 (7.14%) TestNG
5 1 (7.14%) Toad
5 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Performance Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Performance Test Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Senior
1 4 (28.57%) Senior Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Senior Performance Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Senior Test Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Test Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Tester
2 3 (21.43%) Performance Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Manager
4 1 (7.14%) SAP Test Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) J2EE
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
1 1 (7.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) FMCG
1 1 (7.14%) Life Science
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) AIX
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Agile
1 12 (85.71%) Performance Testing
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (42.86%) Defect Management
3 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (35.71%) Performance Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 4 (28.57%) Microservices
5 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (28.57%) Scrum
5 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (21.43%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
6 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
7 2 (14.29%) Kanban
7 2 (14.29%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 7 (50.00%) C#
4 5 (35.71%) JavaScript
5 3 (21.43%) SQL
6 2 (14.29%) Groovy
7 1 (7.14%) Bash
7 1 (7.14%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) GxP
2 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Perfmon
2 2 (14.29%) Kibana
3 1 (7.14%) CA Wily
3 1 (7.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Dynatrace
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) New Relic
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle
4 2 (14.29%) SAP
4 2 (14.29%) Splunk
5 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
5 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
5 1 (7.14%) Google
5 1 (7.14%) HP
5 1 (7.14%) Micro Focus
5 1 (7.14%) VMware