Rational Performance Tester Contracts with Work from Home Options

IBM Rational Performance Tester (RPT)
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 Rational Performance Tester skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Rational Performance Tester over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 467 613
Rank change year-on-year +124 +146 -119
Contract jobs citing Rational Performance Tester 1 7 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.027% 0.013%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.054% 0.18% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £443 £350
25th Percentile - £463 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £480 £461
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +4.14% +24.57%
75th Percentile - £495 £518
90th Percentile - - £530
UK median daily rate £445 £480 £461
% change year-on-year -7.23% +4.14% +14.16%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Rational Performance Tester 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 1,835 3,905 8,285
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.05% 15.29% 18.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,319 2,795 5,986
10th Percentile £360 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% +3.33% +9.03%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 110 103
10th Percentile £27.62 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £47.06 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £62.20
90th Percentile - £82.73 £67.74
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +16.67%

Rational Performance Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Rational Performance Tester as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Rational Performance Tester trend for jobs with a WFH option

Rational Performance Tester
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 Rational Performance Tester.

Rational Performance Tester daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Rational Performance Tester
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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) IBM