HP LoadRunner
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for LoadRunner skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LoadRunner over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 867 856 1047
Rank change year-on-year -11 +191 -252
Permanent jobs citing LoadRunner 29 114 185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.30% 0.75% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 19 67 100
10th Percentile - £41,700 £42,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £48,360 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £64,750
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +0.39% +3.60%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £70,250
90th Percentile £92,237 £80,000 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 £51,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +51.22% -18.00% +13.64%

All Development Application Skills
UK

LoadRunner is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,547 15,237 34,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.74% 14.56% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,733 9,275 15,885
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LoadRunner as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LoadRunner in the UK

LoadRunner
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LoadRunner.

Salary trend for LoadRunner in the UK

LoadRunner
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LoadRunner over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for LoadRunner in the UK

LoadRunner
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +57 28 £77,500 +19.23% 4
UK excluding London -16 15 £77,500 +51.22% 2
London +99 14 £76,250 +17.31% 3
Yorkshire +89 9 £77,500 +38.39%
North of England +40 9 £77,500 +40.91%
Work from Home +46 7 £75,000 +15.38% 2
South East +30 3 - -
East of England +14 2 £85,000 +78.95%
Scotland -77 1 - - 2

LoadRunner
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) Confluence
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 18 (62.07%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) GCP
3 4 (13.79%) GitHub
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (10.34%) PaaS
4 3 (10.34%) Tricentis Tosca
5 2 (6.90%) AWS
5 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.90%) IaaS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (3.45%) BrowserStack
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) DNS
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
1 1 (3.45%) Multicast
1 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (72.41%) JMeter
2 8 (27.59%) Selenium
3 7 (24.14%) Gatling
4 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
4 6 (20.69%) NeoLoad
4 6 (20.69%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (17.24%) HP UFT
5 5 (17.24%) MSTest
6 2 (6.90%) Git
6 2 (6.90%) JIRA
6 2 (6.90%) JUnit
6 2 (6.90%) Maven
6 2 (6.90%) Postman
6 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.45%) JProfiler
7 1 (3.45%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (65.52%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Law
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Legal
4 2 (6.90%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Lead
1 8 (27.59%) Tester
2 7 (24.14%) Performance Tester
3 6 (20.69%) Test Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Test Leader
4 4 (13.79%) Performance Test Leader
5 3 (10.34%) Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Azure Test Lead
6 2 (6.90%) Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Performance Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Performance Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Performance Test Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Performance Test Consultant
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Test Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Test Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Lead DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Senior LoadRunner Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Web Services
2 3 (10.34%) .NET
2 3 (10.34%) RESTful
3 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Blueprints
3 2 (6.90%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) SOAP
4 1 (3.45%) Spring
4 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.45%) BBC
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Clustering
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.45%) PKI
2 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (96.55%) Performance Testing
2 17 (58.62%) Test Automation
3 15 (51.72%) Test Scripting
4 13 (44.83%) Non-Functional Testing
5 12 (41.38%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (37.93%) Agile
7 10 (34.48%) Defect Management
7 10 (34.48%) Functional Testing
8 8 (27.59%) CI/CD
8 8 (27.59%) Test Strategy
9 7 (24.14%) API Testing
9 7 (24.14%) Performance Engineering
9 7 (24.14%) Software Testing
10 6 (20.69%) Computer Science
10 6 (20.69%) DevOps
10 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (20.69%) ITIL
10 6 (20.69%) Regression Testing
10 6 (20.69%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (17.24%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) Java
2 3 (10.34%) C
2 3 (10.34%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
3 2 (6.90%) Go
3 2 (6.90%) Groovy
3 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 2 (6.90%) Scala
3 2 (6.90%) SQL
4 1 (3.45%) Bicep
4 1 (3.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
1 6 (20.69%) ISTQB
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.24%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (17.24%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) Accessibility
2 5 (17.24%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.90%) Istio
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) HP SiteScope
3 1 (3.45%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Dynatrace
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 4 (13.79%) OpenAI
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle
5 2 (6.90%) AppDynamics
5 2 (6.90%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (6.90%) iManage
5 2 (6.90%) Intapp
5 2 (6.90%) Splunk
6 1 (3.45%) Citrix
6 1 (3.45%) IBM
6 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.45%) New Relic
6 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow