Load Testing Contracts in England

Load Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 468 509 590
Rank change year-on-year +41 +81 +121
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 17 33 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.089% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.10% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 47
10th Percentile £406 £425 £407
25th Percentile £461 £463 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -0.20% +5.47%
75th Percentile £578 £579 £608
90th Percentile £612 £590 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year - +64.47% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in England

Load Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Load Testing in England

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Testing in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Load Testing in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +23 6 £475 -5.00% 18
South East - 5 £500 - 37
Midlands +25 4 £505 +18.82% 31
West Midlands +17 4 £505 +18.82% 17
South West +44 2 £568 -3.81% 19
Load Testing
UK

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) NetSuite
2 1 (5.88%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon S3
3 3 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (17.65%) Serverless
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CodeCommit
4 2 (11.76%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (11.76%) Boomi
4 2 (11.76%) OCI
4 2 (11.76%) PaaS
4 2 (11.76%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.88%) MS Access
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Git
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) JMeter
2 3 (17.65%) LoadRunner
3 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
3 2 (11.76%) NUnit
3 2 (11.76%) Postman
3 2 (11.76%) SpecFlow
3 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.88%) Pa11y
4 1 (5.88%) Selenium
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Electronics
5 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
5 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Tester
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Performance Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Python Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Test Leader
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) ERP Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Playwright
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.76%) CSS
2 2 (11.76%) Django
2 2 (11.76%) HTML
2 2 (11.76%) MACH
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (5.88%) Gherkin
3 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.88%) WebSockets
3 1 (5.88%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) EPoS
1 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
1 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Test Scripting
3 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) End-to-End Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Performance Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
5 4 (23.53%) BDD
5 4 (23.53%) Integration Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Regression Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) Security Testing
6 3 (17.65%) API Testing
6 3 (17.65%) CRM
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (17.65%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Test Management
6 3 (17.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) Java
3 5 (29.41%) JavaScript
4 4 (23.53%) C#
5 2 (11.76%) R
5 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) QA
3 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kibana
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) HP