Load Testing Contracts in the City of London

Load Testing
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Load Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Load Testing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 167 182
Rank change year-on-year +45 +15 -37
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 2 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.092% 0.11% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.12% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £369 £495 £598
25th Percentile £378 £544 £639
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -36.54% -3.70% +12.50%
75th Percentile £453 £700 £688
90th Percentile £466 £715 -
Central London median daily rate £413 £650 £675
% change year-on-year -36.54% -3.70% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Load Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,968 3,305 3,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.57% 91.53% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,396 2,228 2,947
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £676
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 26 41
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.08 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in the City of London

Load Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Load Testing in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOD
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft