LoadRunner Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

HP LoadRunner
England > East Midlands

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -27 - -
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.10% 0.35% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.99% 2.99% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £326 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.73% - -
England median daily rate £361 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -27.73% - +2.56%

All Development Application Skills
East Midlands

LoadRunner 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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 101 67 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.51% 11.82% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 46 31
10th Percentile £303 £340 £300
25th Percentile £334 £356 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £453 £440
Median % change year-on-year -11.31% +3.01% -7.37%
75th Percentile £469 £500 £486
90th Percentile £566 £542 £588
England median daily rate £500 £507 £538
% change year-on-year -1.47% -5.58% -6.52%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LoadRunner relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

LoadRunner job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing LoadRunner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing LoadRunner

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing LoadRunner.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing LoadRunner

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 February 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
Northamptonshire -24 1 £403 +23.73% 1
LoadRunner
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk