Load Testing Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Load Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Load Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 55 66
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 16 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.85% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 1
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile - £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £460 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +8.24% -
75th Percentile £488 £465 £438
90th Percentile £538 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -22.73% +29.41% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Load Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 728 465 639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 84.36% 89.08% 83.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 334 422
10th Percentile £308 £190 £250
25th Percentile £405 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 44
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.20
25th Percentile £16.02 £12.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £20.25 £18.35 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.35% -32.66% +67.33%
75th Percentile £25.00 £29.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £30.68 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.29 £18.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +33.96% -19.42% +26.98%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Load Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Load Testing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Load Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Load Testing

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Testing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Load Testing in Birmingham

Load Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (81.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 13 (81.25%) GCP
3 10 (62.50%) GitHub
3 10 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (100.00%) JMeter
2 13 (81.25%) Cucumber
2 13 (81.25%) Git
2 13 (81.25%) JIRA
2 13 (81.25%) JUnit
2 13 (81.25%) Selenium
2 13 (81.25%) WebDriver
3 10 (62.50%) Jenkins
4 7 (43.75%) GitLab
General
1 13 (81.25%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Tester
2 8 (50.00%) Automation Tester
3 7 (43.75%) Senior
3 7 (43.75%) Senior Automation Tester
3 7 (43.75%) Senior Tester
4 3 (18.75%) Automation Test Lead
4 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Test Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Systems Tester
4 3 (18.75%) Test Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Test Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Integration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (81.25%) Spring
1 13 (81.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Distributed Architecture
1 10 (62.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) BDD
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
1 13 (81.25%) Continuous Improvement
1 13 (81.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 13 (81.25%) End-to-End Testing
1 13 (81.25%) Microservices
1 13 (81.25%) Observability
1 13 (81.25%) TDD
1 13 (81.25%) Test Automation
1 13 (81.25%) Test Strategy
1 13 (81.25%) Validation
2 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 10 (62.50%) Performance Testing
2 10 (62.50%) Stress Testing
2 10 (62.50%) Workshop Facilitation
3 8 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (43.75%) Data Validation
5 3 (18.75%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (81.25%) Grafana
1 13 (81.25%) Kubernetes
1 13 (81.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Dynatrace