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 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 487 569
Rank change year-on-year +8 +82 +171
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 30 32 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.096% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 44
10th Percentile £360 £368 £366
25th Percentile £401 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £538 £580 £572
90th Percentile £575 £590 £717
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -

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 25,240 28,504 39,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.80% 85.87% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,076 18,556 27,628
10th Percentile £300 £313 £323
25th Percentile £404 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £628 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £756 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,445 1,637 1,366
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.25 £18.91
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.02
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% +3.61% +53.35%
75th Percentile £50.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -1.35% +56.60%

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 16 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Testing in England

Load Testing
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 16 August 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
South East +30 9 £500 +45.99% 3
London +9 9 £525 +10.53% 20
Midlands -5 5 £381 -21.77% 2
North of England -17 3 £375 -7.41% 8
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
South West +18 2 - -
West Midlands -3 2 £460 -5.64% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £338 -
North West -7 1 £550 +15.79% 6
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 1 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) NetSuite
1 1 (3.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (10.00%) Serverless
4 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (3.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.33%) Boomi
5 1 (3.33%) OCI
5 1 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Route 53
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (10.00%) MySQL
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.67%) ClickHouse
3 2 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) JIRA
1 7 (23.33%) LoadRunner
2 5 (16.67%) JMeter
2 5 (16.67%) Selenium
3 4 (13.33%) Cucumber
4 3 (10.00%) Gatling
5 2 (6.67%) Git
5 2 (6.67%) JUnit
5 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
5 2 (6.67%) SpecFlow
5 2 (6.67%) TestNG
6 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (3.33%) GitLab
6 1 (3.33%) Pa11y
General
1 12 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.33%) Advertising
5 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Tester
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Senior
5 3 (10.00%) Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Automation Tester
6 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Developer in Test
6 2 (6.67%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Performance Test Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Performance Tester
6 2 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Optimisation Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Principal Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Playwright
2 4 (13.33%) REST
3 2 (6.67%) AWS CDK
3 2 (6.67%) CSS
3 2 (6.67%) HTML
3 2 (6.67%) RESTful
4 1 (3.33%) Django
4 1 (3.33%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (3.33%) MACH
4 1 (3.33%) OAuth
4 1 (3.33%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.33%) SAML
4 1 (3.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (6.67%) IoT
2 1 (3.33%) EPoS
2 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.33%) PKI
2 1 (3.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 13 (43.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (43.33%) Performance Testing
3 12 (40.00%) DevOps
3 12 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
4 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (36.67%) Test Scripting
5 9 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 9 (30.00%) Validation
6 8 (26.67%) Test Strategy
7 7 (23.33%) Agile
7 7 (23.33%) API Testing
8 6 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
8 6 (20.00%) High Availability
8 6 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
8 6 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
9 5 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
9 5 (16.67%) Regression Testing
10 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) SQL
2 12 (40.00%) Python
3 5 (16.67%) C#
3 5 (16.67%) Java
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.33%) R
5 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Kibana
2 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Perfmon
3 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) AppDynamics
1 4 (13.33%) Dynatrace
1 4 (13.33%) New Relic
1 4 (13.33%) Splunk
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) BeyondTrust
4 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.33%) HP