Locust Contract Job Trends in Central London

Locust
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Locust skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Locust 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.040% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £318 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 - -
75th Percentile £353 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £335 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -42.98% -2.08% -

All Development Application Skills
Central London

Locust falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 279 287 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.18% 14.61% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 198 205
10th Percentile £413 £359 £400
25th Percentile £463 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% -2.65% +2.68%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £688
90th Percentile £736 £714 £780
London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £17.98 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -
75th Percentile £42.00 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £73.75 £86.25 -
London median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +8.89% +20.00% -45.45%

Locust
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Locust relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Locust job vacancy trend in Central London

Locust
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 Locust within the Central London region over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. 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 - 1 £335 - 1
Locust
London

Locust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) INAP
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Network
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (100.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (100.00%) Metaswitch