LoadRunner Contracts with Work from Home Options

HP LoadRunner
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 LoadRunner skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LoadRunner over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 431 554
Rank change year-on-year +96 +123 -94
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 10 23 58
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.068% 0.093% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.56% 0.62% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 39
10th Percentile £385 £412 £374
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% -4.52%
75th Percentile £500 £505 £550
90th Percentile £592 £541 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £480
% change year-on-year -2.91% +7.29% +6.08%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

LoadRunner 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 1,785 3,703 8,171
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.09% 15.03% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 2,664 5,867
10th Percentile £360 £388 £383
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £541 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.10% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
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 39 105 106
10th Percentile £25.99 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £43.38 £52.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.32
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +19.47% +16.26%
75th Percentile £86.25 £71.28 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £85.91 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +14.84%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

LoadRunner trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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 LoadRunner.

LoadRunner daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing LoadRunner over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

LoadRunner daily rate 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) JMeter
2 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (20.00%) FitNesse
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Postman
2 2 (20.00%) SoapUI
2 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (20.00%) TestRail
3 1 (10.00%) NeoLoad
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Back Office
3 2 (20.00%) Front Office
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Performance Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Senior
1 3 (30.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) QA Tester
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Performance Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Test Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Senior QA Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Playwright
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Reference Data
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Performance Testing
1 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (30.00%) Defect Management
4 3 (30.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Security Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Test Management
4 3 (30.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) Dependency Management
5 2 (20.00%) Load Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
1 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk