Load Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 425 481
Rank change year-on-year +45 +56 -60
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 14 26 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.068% 0.11% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.12% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 19 25
10th Percentile £423 £345 £352
25th Percentile £463 £381 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.11% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £590 £538 £650
90th Percentile - £595 -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -11.36%
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,292 20,943 27,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,311 14,478 18,837
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £379 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,286 1,344
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £14.21
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.65 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Load Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Load Testing in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Testing in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Load Testing in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
North of England +35 7 £475 -9.52% 4
North West +27 7 £475 +18.75% 1
South West +18 5 £590 -2.00% 1
Scotland +34 1 - - 2
Midlands +23 1 £425 - 3
West Midlands +18 1 £425 - 3
Load Testing
UK

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) SpeedCurve
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
1 5 (35.71%) NUnit
1 5 (35.71%) Postman
1 5 (35.71%) Visual Studio
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.14%) Gatling
3 1 (7.14%) JMeter
3 1 (7.14%) Pa11y
3 1 (7.14%) TestCafe
3 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Senior
1 11 (78.57%) Test Engineer
2 10 (71.43%) Senior Test Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 5 (35.71%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
1 5 (35.71%) AngularJS
1 5 (35.71%) GraphQL
1 5 (35.71%) Playwright
2 1 (7.14%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Security Testing
2 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
3 10 (71.43%) Non-Functional Testing
4 8 (57.14%) DevOps
5 7 (50.00%) Performance Testing
6 6 (42.86%) Agile
6 6 (42.86%) BDD
6 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
6 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (35.71%) Customer Experience
7 5 (35.71%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (35.71%) Exploratory Testing
7 5 (35.71%) Kanban
7 5 (35.71%) Manual Testing
7 5 (35.71%) Scrum
7 5 (35.71%) Task Automation
7 5 (35.71%) TDD
7 5 (35.71%) Test Strategy
7 5 (35.71%) Waterfall
8 4 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (85.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kibana
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle
1 1 (7.14%) Pega
1 1 (7.14%) SAP