The first table below looks at the demand for LoadRunner skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LoadRunner over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP LoadRunner
Rank 552 501 436
Rank change year-on-year
-51 -65
Permanent jobs citing LoadRunner 332 443 566
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.305% 0.368% 0.441%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.061% 2.633% 3.438%
Number of salaries quoted 284 375 455
Average salary £46,000 £46,500 £47,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.07% -1.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,190 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £75,000 £68,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £44,000
% change year-on-year
- -3.40%
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
16111 16823 16464
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.79% 13.96% 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 13782 14685 14501
Average salary £44,000 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.52% +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%

LoadRunner
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

LoadRunner Jobs Demand Trend

LoadRunner
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the UK.

LoadRunner Salary Trend

LoadRunner
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LoadRunner over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

LoadRunner Salary Histogram

LoadRunner
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -49 313 £46,000 +2.22% 24
London -26 129 £55,000 +4.76% 13
Yorkshire +8 39 £35,000 -6.66% 1
Leeds -2 36 £35,000 -6.66%
West Yorkshire -6 36 £35,000 -6.66%
South East -6 35 £50,000 +16.27% 3
North West +14 34 £42,500 -5.55% 4
South West +3 28 £46,000 +14.28% 1
Manchester - 22 £45,000 - 4
City of London -37 19 £60,000 +6.66% 3
Berkshire +13 18 £50,000 +25.00% 1
North Yorkshire - 15 £35,000 - 1
Gloucestershire +24 14 £46,000 -
Dorset -3 14 £50,000 -37.50% 1
Gloucester - 14 £46,000 -
West Midlands +1 13 £48,750 +42.33% 2
East Midlands +15 12 £32,500 +6.55%
Cheshire +2 12 £42,500 -5.55%
Harrogate - 12 £35,000 - 1
Nottinghamshire +2 11 £32,500 +6.55%
East of England -40 11 £36,500 -14.11%
Bournemouth +4 10 £55,000 - 1
Nottingham -2 10 £32,500 +6.55%
Knutsford +11 9 £42,500 +25.00%
Scotland +1 9 £45,000 -28.00%
Bromley - 9 £72,500 -
Surrey +16 8 £30,000 -33.33% 1
Hertfordshire -14 8 £34,000 -24.44%
Reading -14 8 £50,000 +33.33% 1
Edinburgh -1 7 £45,000 -30.76%

LoadRunner
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing LoadRunner also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LoadRunner.

1 314 (45.11%) QuickTest Pro
2 307 (44.11%) Performance Testing
3 268 (38.51%) QA
4 258 (37.07%) Finance
5 253 (36.35%) HP
6 205 (29.45%) ISEB
7 194 (27.87%) Selenium
8 190 (27.30%) Java
9 176 (25.29%) HP Quality Center
10 165 (23.71%) SQL
11 161 (23.13%) Test Scripting
12 150 (21.55%) Test Automation
13 149 (21.41%) C#
14 141 (20.26%) Software Testing
15 133 (19.11%) Automated Testing
16 131 (18.82%) Oracle
17 126 (18.10%) Degree
18 124 (17.82%) UNIX
19 120 (17.24%) Banking
20 89 (12.79%) Agile Software Development
20 89 (12.79%) Test Management
21 87 (12.50%) SAP
22 86 (12.36%) ISTQB
23 83 (11.93%) Security Cleared
24 79 (11.35%) Linux
25 78 (11.21%) SQL Server
26 77 (11.06%) Windows
27 76 (10.92%) Telecoms
28 75 (10.78%) Scrum
29 73 (10.49%) Automation Testing

LoadRunner
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing LoadRunner also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LoadRunner. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 69 (9.914%) HTML
2 66 (9.483%) XML
3 55 (7.902%) .NET
4 53 (7.615%) Web Services
5 27 (3.879%) WebSphere
6 25 (3.592%) ASP.NET
7 24 (3.448%) J2EE
8 19 (2.730%) SOAP
8 19 (2.730%) Middleware
9 17 (2.443%) WPF
10 15 (2.155%) XML Schema
10 15 (2.155%) CGI
11 12 (1.724%) LINQ
12 10 (1.437%) soapUI
13 7 (1.006%) Flash
14 5 (0.718%) Ajax
14 5 (0.718%) Java EE
14 5 (0.718%) Grails
14 5 (0.718%) jQuery
15 4 (0.575%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 23 (3.305%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.443%) IIS
3 14 (2.011%) Tomcat
4 9 (1.293%) Tuxedo
5 6 (0.862%) MQSeries
6 5 (0.718%) WebLogic
7 4 (0.575%) Documentum
8 3 (0.431%) Apache
9 2 (0.287%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.287%) MS Exchange
10 1 (0.144%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 23 (3.305%) MS Excel
2 7 (1.006%) MS PowerPoint
3 5 (0.718%) MS Project
3 5 (0.718%) MS Office
4 3 (0.431%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 22 (3.161%) SAP FI
1 22 (3.161%) SAP FI/CO
1 22 (3.161%) SAP CO
2 19 (2.730%) SAP SD
2 19 (2.730%) SAP MM
2 19 (2.730%) SAP CRM
2 19 (2.730%) SAP IS-U
3 3 (0.431%) SAP PSCD
4 2 (0.287%) Oracle Financial Analyzer
5 1 (0.144%) Google Analytics
5 1 (0.144%) Eikon
Communications & Networking
1 60 (8.621%) LAN
1 60 (8.621%) WAN
2 50 (7.184%) HTTP
3 18 (2.586%) Internet
4 15 (2.155%) SAN
5 9 (1.293%) FTP
6 5 (0.718%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.575%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.431%) DHCP
8 3 (0.431%) DNS
8 3 (0.431%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (0.431%) NAS
9 1 (0.144%) BSS
9 1 (0.144%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (11.21%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.874%) Oracle 8/8i
3 16 (2.299%) SQL Server 2005
4 15 (2.155%) IDOL
5 14 (2.011%) SAP HANA
5 14 (2.011%) Big Data
6 13 (1.868%) RDBMS
6 13 (1.868%) Oracle BI EE
6 13 (1.868%) Oracle ODI
7 8 (1.149%) DB2
8 6 (0.862%) DbVisualizer
9 5 (0.718%) Oracle 10g
10 4 (0.575%) TOAD
10 4 (0.575%) Oracle 9i
11 3 (0.431%) Oracle OWB
11 3 (0.431%) MySQL
12 2 (0.287%) SAP BW
12 2 (0.287%) DataStage
13 1 (0.144%) Oracle Reports
13 1 (0.144%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 314 (45.11%) QuickTest Pro
2 194 (27.87%) Selenium
3 58 (8.333%) WinRunner
4 55 (7.902%) JMeter
5 43 (6.178%) JUnit
6 40 (5.747%) SilkPerformer
7 39 (5.603%) Cucumber
8 32 (4.598%) WebDriver
9 29 (4.167%) WebLOAD
10 28 (4.023%) Visual Studio
11 24 (3.448%) JIRA
11 24 (3.448%) FitNesse
12 22 (3.161%) TestComplete
12 22 (3.161%) Rational Robot
12 22 (3.161%) TestDirector
13 21 (3.017%) TestPartner
13 21 (3.017%) QALoad
13 21 (3.017%) OpenSTA
14 18 (2.586%) jMock
14 18 (2.586%) EasyMock
General
1 258 (37.07%) Finance
2 120 (17.24%) Banking
3 76 (10.92%) Telecoms
4 59 (8.477%) Retail
5 40 (5.747%) Investment Banking
6 14 (2.011%) Financial Institution
7 12 (1.724%) Manufacturing
7 12 (1.724%) Publishing
8 11 (1.580%) Front Office
9 8 (1.149%) Retail Banking
9 8 (1.149%) Games
10 6 (0.862%) Law
11 5 (0.718%) Legal
11 5 (0.718%) Wholesale Banking
11 5 (0.718%) Online Betting
12 4 (0.575%) Marketing
12 4 (0.575%) Back Office
13 1 (0.144%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.144%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 186 (26.72%) Analyst
2 157 (22.56%) Tester
3 143 (20.55%) Test Analyst
4 122 (17.53%) Consultant
5 96 (13.79%) Test Consultant
5 96 (13.79%) Test Manager
6 63 (9.052%) Performance Tester
7 62 (8.908%) Senior Analyst
8 56 (8.046%) Test Leader
9 46 (6.609%) Automation Tester
10 45 (6.466%) Performance Test Analyst
10 45 (6.466%) Performance Analyst
11 43 (6.178%) QA Analyst
12 42 (6.034%) Senior Test Analyst
13 40 (5.747%) Performance Engineer
14 38 (5.460%) Performance Test Consultant
15 37 (5.316%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
16 35 (5.029%) Test Engineer
17 29 (4.167%) SAP Consultant
18 27 (3.879%) Technical Tester
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.741%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 31 (4.454%) Derivative
3 30 (4.310%) Equities
4 29 (4.167%) Open Source
5 28 (4.023%) Mobile App
6 20 (2.874%) Enterprise Software
7 19 (2.730%) Digital Media
8 18 (2.586%) Mathematics
8 18 (2.586%) Mainframe
9 15 (2.155%) PKI
10 13 (1.868%) Computer Science
11 11 (1.580%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.580%) Social Network
12 10 (1.437%) Client/Server
13 9 (1.293%) Hedge funds
14 7 (1.006%) Management Information System
15 5 (0.718%) N-Tier
15 5 (0.718%) Online Banking
15 5 (0.718%) Physics
15 5 (0.718%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 124 (17.82%) UNIX
2 79 (11.35%) Linux
3 77 (11.06%) Windows
4 38 (5.460%) Windows XP
5 35 (5.029%) Windows Server 2003
6 22 (3.161%) Windows 7
7 20 (2.874%) Solaris
8 17 (2.443%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (1.293%) HPUX
9 9 (1.293%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.575%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (0.431%) AIX
11 3 (0.431%) VMS
12 2 (0.287%) OpenVMS
12 2 (0.287%) zOS
13 1 (0.144%) Android
13 1 (0.144%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (44.11%) Performance Testing
2 161 (23.13%) Test Scripting
3 150 (21.55%) Test Automation
4 141 (20.26%) Software Testing
5 133 (19.11%) Automated Testing
6 89 (12.79%) Agile Software Development
6 89 (12.79%) Test Management
7 75 (10.78%) Scrum
8 73 (10.49%) Automation Testing
9 70 (10.06%) Test Strategy
10 60 (8.621%) User Acceptance Testing
11 52 (7.471%) CRM
12 51 (7.328%) Non-Functional Testing
13 46 (6.609%) E-Commerce
14 44 (6.322%) TDD
14 44 (6.322%) Manual Testing
15 43 (6.178%) Regression Testing
16 39 (5.603%) BDD
17 37 (5.316%) Agile Testing
18 34 (4.885%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 190 (27.30%) Java
2 165 (23.71%) SQL
3 149 (21.41%) C#
4 32 (4.598%) Shell Script
4 32 (4.598%) C++
5 29 (4.167%) VBScript
6 27 (3.879%) Python
7 22 (3.161%) Ruby
8 20 (2.874%) C
8 20 (2.874%) Perl
9 19 (2.730%) VBA
10 16 (2.299%) PL/SQL
10 16 (2.299%) JavaScript
11 14 (2.011%) VB
12 12 (1.724%) XAML
13 7 (1.006%) ABAP
14 6 (0.862%) Groovy
14 6 (0.862%) Korn
15 2 (0.287%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.287%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 205 (29.45%) ISEB
2 126 (18.10%) Degree
3 86 (12.36%) ISTQB
4 83 (11.93%) Security Cleared
5 53 (7.615%) SC Cleared
6 28 (4.023%) DV Cleared
7 23 (3.305%) SAP Certification
8 12 (1.724%) ISEB Practitioner
9 7 (1.006%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 3 (0.431%) PhD
10 3 (0.431%) CSQA
11 2 (0.287%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.144%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (38.51%) QA
2 10 (1.437%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.287%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.144%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (3.305%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.586%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.155%) VMware ESX
3 15 (2.155%) VMware Workstation
4 4 (0.575%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.431%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.144%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.144%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 176 (25.29%) HP Quality Center
2 16 (2.299%) Netcool
3 15 (2.155%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 5 (0.718%) HP SiteScope
5 2 (0.287%) CA Wily
5 2 (0.287%) WebInspect
6 1 (0.144%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.144%) OpenView
6 1 (0.144%) Puppet
Vendors
1 253 (36.35%) HP
2 131 (18.82%) Oracle
3 87 (12.50%) SAP
4 50 (7.184%) Microsoft
5 39 (5.603%) Citrix
6 32 (4.598%) IBM
7 28 (4.023%) Fujitsu
8 25 (3.592%) Siebel
9 23 (3.305%) VMware
10 16 (2.299%) Meridio
11 15 (2.155%) EMC
12 9 (1.293%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.006%) Informatica
14 4 (0.575%) Borland
15 3 (0.431%) webMethods
16 2 (0.287%) Fundtech
16 2 (0.287%) Progress
16 2 (0.287%) Micro Focus
16 2 (0.287%) Cognizant
16 2 (0.287%) Sybase
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Automation/Tester/Agile/QA/Harrogate/Selenium/QTP/Loadrunner/Cucumber... You will have an excellent knowledge of automated test tools ( Selenium, QTP, Loadrunner, Cucumber etc ) to work on their...
AMsource Technology
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Travelling role.ERP Performance Test Analyst / SAP Performance Test Consultant required - HP Loadrunner experience or SAP test experience is desirable but not essential. My client, a leading Management...
Williams McKinley Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 25 May 2013
London
Carry out Load / Performance testing on Web / Internet applications, utilising knowledge of Java and other similar development environments... Experience with Performance Testing tools such as Load Runner and...
Sogeti
Salary: Excellent Salary + Flexible Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Main measurement tool will be HP Load Runner... Good knowledge of networking and Network analysis tools like Fiddler, http analyzer Good understanding of xml, html, web services and...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Competitive
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Main measurement tool will be HP Load Runner... Good knowledge of networking and Network analysis tools like Fiddler, http analyzer Good understanding of xml, html, web services and...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Competitive
Posted: 18 June 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
Aston Carter
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + bonus and benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 7 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Actis Recruitment.
Salary: From £24,000 to £30,000 per annum + excellent bonus + bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire,...
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: To £30,000 + excellent bonus + benefits
Posted: 19 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
TEKsystems
Salary: £26000 - £30000 per annum + package
Posted: 13 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £38000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Capita Resourcing - Jobs at Capita
Salary: £38000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 7 June 2013
London
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £65,000 to £80,000 per annum plus bonus & excellent benefits pack
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Nicoll Curtin
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + benefits & bonus
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
FIRST POINT IT RESOURCING
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: Negotiable on Application
Posted: 18 June 2013
Surrey, Crawley, Epsom, Sussex, South East
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: To c£60,000 + excellent bonus + benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside,...
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: To c£60,000 + excellent bonus + benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
London
Williams McKinley Ltd
Salary: £55000 - £80000 per annum + inclusive of benefits package
Posted: 25 May 2013
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Real Time Recruitment
Salary: £30,000 - £40,000 per year
Posted: 18 June 2013
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