Load Testing Contracts in England

Load Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Load Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Load Testing over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 582 697
Rank change year-on-year +77 +115 -113
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 34 63 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.092% 0.13% 0.097%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 48 46
10th Percentile £416 £384 £363
25th Percentile £463 £418 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £470
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +6.49% -21.67%
75th Percentile £580 £675 £608
90th Percentile £590 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £38.00 -
% change year-on-year +64.47% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,798 44,069 63,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 30,926 45,337
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,559 1,731
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Load Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in England

Load Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Load Testing in England

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Testing in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Testing in England

Load Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Load Testing in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +79 21 £500 -2.53% 10
North of England +35 7 £475 -9.52% 4
North West +21 7 £475 +18.75% 1
South West +12 5 £590 -2.00% 1
Midlands +26 1 £425 - 3
West Midlands +16 1 £425 - 3
Load Testing
UK

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) Azure
2 13 (38.24%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (35.29%) AWS
4 6 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (17.65%) Serverless
5 5 (14.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (14.71%) AWS CodeBuild
5 5 (14.71%) AWS CodePipeline
5 5 (14.71%) GitHub
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (5.88%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.94%) BrowserStack
8 1 (2.94%) GCP
8 1 (2.94%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.71%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Git
1 11 (32.35%) Visual Studio
2 8 (23.53%) Postman
3 7 (20.59%) NUnit
3 7 (20.59%) SpecFlow
4 6 (17.65%) JMeter
5 5 (14.71%) Selenium
6 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
6 3 (8.82%) Cypress.io
6 3 (8.82%) FitNesse
6 3 (8.82%) JIRA
6 3 (8.82%) LoadRunner
6 3 (8.82%) TestRail
6 3 (8.82%) WebDriver
7 2 (5.88%) Gatling
8 1 (2.94%) Pa11y
8 1 (2.94%) TestCafe
General
1 10 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Finance
3 7 (20.59%) Back Office
4 5 (14.71%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.82%) Electronics
6 3 (8.82%) Front Office
6 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
6 3 (8.82%) Marketing
6 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Senior
2 13 (38.24%) Test Engineer
3 11 (32.35%) Senior Test Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) Test Automation Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (14.71%) Lead
7 4 (11.76%) Test Leader
7 4 (11.76%) Tester
8 3 (8.82%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Developer
8 3 (8.82%) QA Tester
8 3 (8.82%) Senior Tester
9 2 (5.88%) .NET Developer
9 2 (5.88%) Analyst
9 2 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (5.88%) Senior QA Tester
9 2 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
9 2 (5.88%) Test Analyst
10 1 (2.94%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (38.24%) .NET
2 11 (32.35%) Playwright
3 9 (26.47%) AngularJS
4 7 (20.59%) GraphQL
5 5 (14.71%) REST
6 2 (5.88%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.88%) XML
7 1 (2.94%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.94%) Kafka
7 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Test Automation
2 22 (64.71%) Agile
2 22 (64.71%) DevOps
3 21 (61.76%) CI/CD
4 18 (52.94%) Security Testing
5 15 (44.12%) Performance Testing
5 15 (44.12%) Test Strategy
6 12 (35.29%) BDD
6 12 (35.29%) Non-Functional Testing
6 12 (35.29%) Scrum
6 12 (35.29%) TDD
7 9 (26.47%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (23.53%) Continuous Deployment
9 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (20.59%) Customer Requirements
9 7 (20.59%) Kanban
9 7 (20.59%) Manual Testing
9 7 (20.59%) Task Automation
9 7 (20.59%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) TypeScript
2 10 (29.41%) SQL
3 7 (20.59%) C#
4 5 (14.71%) Python
5 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.88%) Java
7 1 (2.94%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Degree
2 5 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) ISTQB
3 3 (8.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (47.06%) Accessibility
2 8 (23.53%) QA
3 2 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Docker
2 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (2.94%) Kibana
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) SAP
3 3 (8.82%) Oracle
4 2 (5.88%) Splunk
5 1 (2.94%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) Pega
5 1 (2.94%) Qualys
5 1 (2.94%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.94%) Veracode