Load Testing Contracts in Central London

Load Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Load Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Load Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 132 168
Rank change year-on-year +5 +36 +22
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% 0.041% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.045% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £495
25th Percentile £525 £425 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -30.77% -3.70%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £700
90th Percentile - - £715
London median daily rate £475 £500 £501
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.20% +0.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in Central London

Load Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Load Testing in Central London

Load Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +9 2 £550 +22.22% 1
Load Testing
London

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) ERP Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Manager
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) SAP