Load Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Load Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Load Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Load Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 427 575
Rank change year-on-year +101 +148 -105
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 15 30 48
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 37
10th Percentile £340 £366 £354
25th Percentile £369 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £576 £531 £600
90th Percentile £580 £645 £650
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.47% - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £38.00 -
% change year-on-year +64.47% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Load Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Load Testing
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

Load Testing
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 Load Testing.

Load Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Load Testing over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Load Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Load Testing
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP MDG
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
1 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.67%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 5 (33.33%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) SpecFlow
4 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (20.00%) JMeter
4 3 (20.00%) NUnit
4 3 (20.00%) Postman
4 3 (20.00%) Selenium
4 3 (20.00%) WebDriver
5 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (13.33%) FitNesse
5 2 (13.33%) JIRA
5 2 (13.33%) LoadRunner
5 2 (13.33%) TestRail
6 1 (6.67%) Ranorex
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Back Office
3 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
4 3 (20.00%) Electronics
4 3 (20.00%) Marketing
4 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Front Office
6 1 (6.67%) French Language
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Test Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Tester
4 2 (13.33%) QA Tester
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Test Lead
5 1 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) .NET
1 5 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 5 (33.33%) Playwright
2 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (13.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Reference Data
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Test Automation
2 9 (60.00%) Agile
3 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
4 7 (46.67%) Security Testing
5 6 (40.00%) DevOps
5 6 (40.00%) Performance Testing
6 5 (33.33%) BDD
6 5 (33.33%) Scrum
6 5 (33.33%) TDD
6 5 (33.33%) Test Strategy
7 4 (26.67%) API Testing
7 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
7 4 (26.67%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (20.00%) Code Quality
8 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
8 3 (20.00%) Kanban
8 3 (20.00%) Software Testing
8 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
8 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (20.00%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 3 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Ariba
3 1 (6.67%) Checkmarx
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Qualys
3 1 (6.67%) Rapid7
3 1 (6.67%) Veracode