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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 445 557
Rank change year-on-year +113 +112 -132
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 19 27 66
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.02% 0.67% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 43
10th Percentile £447 £389 £376
25th Percentile £452 £441 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -4.04%
75th Percentile £623 £505 £523
90th Percentile - £544 £600
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -0.95% +10.53% +5.56%

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 1,864 4,032 8,361
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.02% 15.40% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,334 2,883 6,050
10th Percentile £363 £400 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £712
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 124 102
10th Percentile £27.62 £45.00 -
25th Percentile £47.06 £54.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £61.61
90th Percentile - £78.37 £67.77
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +12.22%

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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 23 April 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) GitHub
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Google Analytics
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (5.26%) Azure
4 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.26%) Rubrik
4 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle BI EE
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.26%) Big Data
2 1 (5.26%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) JMeter
2 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
2 3 (15.79%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) SpecFlow
3 2 (10.53%) FitNesse
3 2 (10.53%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Selenium
3 2 (10.53%) TestRail
4 1 (5.26%) Appium
4 1 (5.26%) NeoLoad
4 1 (5.26%) Postman
4 1 (5.26%) Rational Performance Tester
4 1 (5.26%) TestDirector
4 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Public Sector
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Back Office
4 2 (10.53%) Front Office
4 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Tester
2 5 (26.32%) Performance Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) Performance Tester
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
4 3 (15.79%) Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Test Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Lead
5 2 (10.53%) LoadRunner Performance Tester
5 2 (10.53%) LoadRunner Specialist
5 2 (10.53%) LoadRunner Tester
5 2 (10.53%) QA Tester
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Performance Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Performance Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Performance Test Leader
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Senior QA Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Splunk Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Playwright
2 2 (10.53%) Java EE
2 2 (10.53%) REST
2 2 (10.53%) Web Services
3 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
1 1 (5.26%) Reference Data
1 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Unix
2 2 (10.53%) Solaris
2 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Performance Testing
2 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
3 6 (31.58%) Test Strategy
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) Configuration Management
4 5 (26.32%) Performance Engineering
4 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (26.32%) Refactoring
4 5 (26.32%) Test Scripting
4 5 (26.32%) Validation
5 4 (21.05%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (21.05%) Test Management
6 3 (15.79%) Analytics
6 3 (15.79%) API Testing
6 3 (15.79%) BDD
6 3 (15.79%) Defect Management
6 3 (15.79%) Performance Analysis
6 3 (15.79%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (15.79%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.26%) C
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
1 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
3 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
3 2 (10.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (5.26%) Kibana
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Splunk
3 2 (10.53%) Adobe
3 2 (10.53%) Dynatrace
3 2 (10.53%) Google
3 2 (10.53%) HP
3 2 (10.53%) Omniture
4 1 (5.26%) AppDynamics
4 1 (5.26%) IBM
4 1 (5.26%) Micro Focus
4 1 (5.26%) OpenText