Hybrid/Remote LoadRunner Contract Job Trends

HP LoadRunner
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring LoadRunner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 299 330
Rank change year-on-year -28 +31 +135
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 6 10 31
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.051% 0.098% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.37% 0.70% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 27
10th Percentile £429 £397 £450
25th Percentile £453 £419 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £474 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% -22.65% +27.60%
75th Percentile £560 £494 £623
90th Percentile £569 - -
UK median daily rate £425 £538 £540
% change year-on-year -20.93% -0.46% +2.86%

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 1,619 1,434 1,930
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 13.82% 14.09% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,090 1,033 1,392
10th Percentile £350 £336 £363
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -1.23% -7.95%
75th Percentile £576 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 22 49
10th Percentile £52.50 £25.35 £26.07
25th Percentile £65.00 £33.44 £48.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.44 £90.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £89.53 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

LoadRunner job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

LoadRunner
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

LoadRunner
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing LoadRunner over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

LoadRunner daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

LoadRunner
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) BlazeMeter
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JMeter
2 4 (66.67%) Postman
3 3 (50.00%) Gatling
3 3 (50.00%) JIRA
4 2 (33.33%) GitLab
4 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (33.33%) NeoLoad
5 1 (16.67%) Locust
5 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) LDAP
1 2 (33.33%) OpenID
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
1 2 (33.33%) REST
1 2 (33.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
1 4 (66.67%) Validation
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) GitOps
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Cypher
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Google
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) New Relic