Locust Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Locust
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Locust skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Locust over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 456 - 645
Rank change year-on-year - - +201
Permanent jobs citing Locust 5 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.027% - 0.002%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% - 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,000 - -
90th Percentile £48,450 - -
UK median annual salary £46,500 - £105,000
% change year-on-year - - +55.56%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,500 3,887 6,200
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.65% 11.52% 15.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,418 2,974 4,387
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,813 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £64,140
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -6.45% +6.90%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,772 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,934 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

Locust
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Locust trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Locust
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Locust.

Locust salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Locust
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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Gatling
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) JMeter
2 3 (60.00%) Postman
3 2 (40.00%) CircleCI
3 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
3 2 (40.00%) Robot Framework
3 2 (40.00%) TestRail
3 2 (40.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) QA Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) QA Test Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) pytest
1 2 (40.00%) YAML
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) OWASP
3 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) API Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Test Management
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (60.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk