Load Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Load Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 706 717 756
Rank change year-on-year +11 +39 -184
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 43 35 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.061% 0.058% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.061% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 31 33 65
10th Percentile £25,750 £33,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -0.95% +10.53%
75th Percentile £56,875 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £71,750 £65,600
UK median annual salary £47,500 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +2.33%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,616 57,236 66,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.97% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,251 29,494 41,057
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Load Testing in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Load Testing in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the UK excluding London 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +46 12 £35,000 -19.54% 4
Midlands 0 12 £41,250 -36.54% 3
West Midlands +13 8 £52,500 -19.23% 3
North West +11 8 £35,000 -30.00% 1
South East -8 8 - - 1
South West -23 7 £60,000 -25.00% 1
Wales - 4 - -
Yorkshire - 4 £35,000 - 3
East Midlands - 4 £26,500 -
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:

Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) Azure
2 7 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (11.63%) AWS
4 2 (4.65%) GCP
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub
5 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.33%) PaaS
5 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.28%) Relational Database
1 7 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 10 (23.26%) Postman
2 4 (9.30%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.33%) GitLab
General
1 17 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Legal
3 5 (11.63%) Finance
3 5 (11.63%) Law
4 4 (9.30%) Aerospace
4 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Manufacturing
4 4 (9.30%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (9.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (23.26%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Web Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Test Engineer
3 6 (13.95%) Tester
4 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Applications Engineer
5 4 (9.30%) Integration Tester
5 4 (9.30%) Lead
5 4 (9.30%) Resource Assistant
5 4 (9.30%) Software Test Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior
7 2 (4.65%) C# Developer
7 2 (4.65%) C# Web Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Node.js Developer
7 2 (4.65%) React Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Web Developer
8 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (2.33%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) .NET
1 15 (34.88%) HTML
2 11 (25.58%) CSS
2 11 (25.58%) Web Services
3 7 (16.28%) ASP.NET Web API
3 7 (16.28%) CSS3
3 7 (16.28%) KnockoutJS
3 7 (16.28%) REST
4 5 (11.63%) .NET Framework
4 5 (11.63%) ASP.NET
4 5 (11.63%) ASP.NET MVC
4 5 (11.63%) Entity Framework
4 5 (11.63%) MassTransit
4 5 (11.63%) Node.js
4 5 (11.63%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (9.30%) ADO
5 4 (9.30%) Gherkin
5 4 (9.30%) RESTful
5 4 (9.30%) XML
5 4 (9.30%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Algorithms
1 8 (18.60%) Data Structures
1 8 (18.60%) Management Information System
2 7 (16.28%) Product Ownership
3 5 (11.63%) FMCG
4 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
4 4 (9.30%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (9.30%) NHS
4 4 (9.30%) Renewable Energy
4 4 (9.30%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (6.98%) PMI
6 2 (4.65%) Legacy Code
7 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.33%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (62.79%) DevOps
2 23 (53.49%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (53.49%) Test Automation
3 19 (44.19%) Agile
4 16 (37.21%) Coaching
4 16 (37.21%) Information Security
5 15 (34.88%) Mentoring
5 15 (34.88%) Software Testing
6 14 (32.56%) Roadmaps
7 11 (25.58%) Regression Testing
8 10 (23.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (23.26%) Functional Testing
8 10 (23.26%) Manual Testing
8 10 (23.26%) Unit Testing
8 10 (23.26%) User Experience
9 9 (20.93%) Capacity Planning
9 9 (20.93%) Decision-Making
9 9 (20.93%) Security Operations
9 9 (20.93%) Visualisation
10 8 (18.60%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) JavaScript
1 16 (37.21%) SQL
2 15 (34.88%) C#
3 7 (16.28%) T-SQL
3 7 (16.28%) VB.NET
4 4 (9.30%) Groovy
5 2 (4.65%) C
5 2 (4.65%) Java
5 2 (4.65%) PHP
6 1 (2.33%) Bicep
6 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Degree
2 4 (9.30%) CIPD
2 4 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (9.30%) DBS Check
2 4 (9.30%) Master's Degree
2 4 (9.30%) Numerate Degree
3 3 (6.98%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.26%) QA
2 4 (9.30%) ISO 14001
2 4 (9.30%) ISO 9001
3 2 (4.65%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (20.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.30%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (9.30%) VMware Server
3 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Grafana
1 1 (2.33%) Kibana
1 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (65.12%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.93%) VMware
3 5 (11.63%) Google
3 5 (11.63%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.65%) Progress
5 1 (2.33%) Splunk