Load Testing Jobs with Work from Home Options

Load Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Load Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Load Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 640 756
Rank change year-on-year +90 +116 -265
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 41 29 86
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.068% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.071% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 32 28 51
10th Percentile £32,500 £44,000 -
25th Percentile £36,888 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,248 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.76% +11.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £50,932 £71,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £56,000 £78,382 £67,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +2.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Load Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,987 41,089 65,497
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.64% 96.07% 96.93%
Number of salaries quoted 23,565 28,569 41,256
10th Percentile £33,944 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Load Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Load Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Load Testing.

Load Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Load Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Load Testing salary 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 1 (2.44%) Apache
1 1 (2.44%) Drupal
1 1 (2.44%) nginx
1 1 (2.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Endur
1 1 (2.44%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) AWS
2 8 (19.51%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (12.20%) GitHub
3 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (9.76%) PaaS
5 2 (4.88%) GCP
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.76%) Internet
1 4 (9.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) SQL Server
2 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.76%) InfluxDB
3 4 (9.76%) MongoDB
3 4 (9.76%) Redis
4 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) Postman
2 5 (12.20%) JIRA
2 5 (12.20%) JMeter
3 4 (9.76%) GitLab
3 4 (9.76%) Katalon Studio
3 4 (9.76%) SoapUI
4 2 (4.88%) Selenium
4 2 (4.88%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
General
1 9 (21.95%) Legal
1 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Police
3 4 (9.76%) Law
3 4 (9.76%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
3 4 (9.76%) Welsh Language
4 2 (4.88%) Finance
4 2 (4.88%) Local Government
5 1 (2.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Test Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Developer
3 6 (14.63%) Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Senior
3 6 (14.63%) Systems Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Systems Test Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Test Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) Web Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Security Engineer
4 4 (9.76%) Software Test Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Lead
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.88%) C# Web Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Lead Test Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Node.js Developer
6 2 (4.88%) React Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) .NET
1 13 (31.71%) HTML
2 9 (21.95%) CSS
3 8 (19.51%) XML
4 7 (17.07%) Node.js
5 6 (14.63%) ASP.NET Web API
5 6 (14.63%) CSS3
5 6 (14.63%) KnockoutJS
5 6 (14.63%) REST
5 6 (14.63%) SOAP
6 5 (12.20%) Gherkin
6 5 (12.20%) Web Services
7 4 (9.76%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (9.76%) Entity Framework
7 4 (9.76%) MassTransit
7 4 (9.76%) OAuth
7 4 (9.76%) OAuth2
7 4 (9.76%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (9.76%) WebdriverIO
7 4 (9.76%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Management Information System
2 9 (21.95%) Algorithms
2 9 (21.95%) Data Structures
3 8 (19.51%) Product Ownership
4 7 (17.07%) Cloud Native
5 4 (9.76%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (9.76%) NHS
5 4 (9.76%) Onboarding
6 3 (7.32%) PMI
7 2 (4.88%) Legacy Code
8 1 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Unix
1 4 (9.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (78.05%) Test Automation
2 27 (65.85%) DevOps
3 23 (56.10%) Agile
4 19 (46.34%) Software Testing
5 18 (43.90%) Mentoring
6 17 (41.46%) Functional Testing
6 17 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (34.15%) Coaching
7 14 (34.15%) Non-Functional Testing
8 13 (31.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (31.71%) Visualisation
9 12 (29.27%) Manual Testing
9 12 (29.27%) Regression Testing
9 12 (29.27%) Test Scripting
10 11 (26.83%) Performance Testing
10 11 (26.83%) Unit Testing
10 11 (26.83%) User Experience
11 10 (24.39%) Computer Science
11 10 (24.39%) Data Analysis
11 10 (24.39%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 20 (48.78%) SQL
2 17 (41.46%) JavaScript
3 13 (31.71%) C#
4 6 (14.63%) T-SQL
4 6 (14.63%) VB.NET
5 4 (9.76%) Groovy
5 4 (9.76%) PHP
6 2 (4.88%) C
7 1 (2.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (39.02%) Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (12.20%) ISTQB
2 5 (12.20%) Master's Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Numerate Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 4 (9.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (9.76%) CIPD
3 4 (9.76%) DBS Check
3 4 (9.76%) GIAC
4 3 (7.32%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (34.15%) QA
2 5 (12.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.88%) HL7
4 1 (2.44%) NCSC
4 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) Docker
2 4 (9.76%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.76%) VMware Server
3 2 (4.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (19.51%) Grafana
2 4 (9.76%) Kibana
3 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (41.46%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.51%) ServiceNow
3 7 (17.07%) Google
4 4 (9.76%) Oracle
4 4 (9.76%) Splunk
4 4 (9.76%) VMware
5 2 (4.88%) Progress
6 1 (2.44%) OpenLink