Load Testing Contracts in the City of London

Load Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 117 126 174
Rank change year-on-year +9 +48 +9
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.050% 0.12%
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
Central London median daily rate £550 £450 £650
% change year-on-year +22.22% -30.77% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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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

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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:

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