LoadRunner Contracts in England

HP LoadRunner
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring LoadRunner skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LoadRunner 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 441 509 585
Rank change year-on-year +68 +76 +116
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 44 33 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.18% 0.089% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.33% 0.77% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 22 48
10th Percentile £393 £414 £413
25th Percentile £455 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.02%
75th Percentile £706 £599 £738
90th Percentile £798 £636 -
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +10.53%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for LoadRunner in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for LoadRunner in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for LoadRunner in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner 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 +43 27 £500 +11.11% 5
North of England +23 6 £513 +36.67% 1
East of England - 5 £600 - 1
Midlands - 4 £426 - 5
North West - 4 - -
Yorkshire +8 2 £513 +36.67% 1
East Midlands - 2 £326 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £543 - 3
South West +43 1 £325 -37.50% 2
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UK

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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 (4.55%) CMS
1 2 (4.55%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (11.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (9.09%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) Azure
2 13 (29.55%) AWS
3 8 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.64%) GitHub
5 4 (9.09%) GCP
6 3 (6.82%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.27%) Datadog
8 1 (2.27%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) HTTP
2 2 (4.55%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) VPN
3 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) IDOL
2 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (79.55%) JMeter
2 9 (20.45%) Jenkins
2 9 (20.45%) JIRA
3 8 (18.18%) Selenium
4 7 (15.91%) NeoLoad
5 4 (9.09%) Postman
5 4 (9.09%) REST Assured
5 4 (9.09%) Serenity BDD
6 3 (6.82%) Gatling
7 2 (4.55%) Cucumber
7 2 (4.55%) HP UFT
7 2 (4.55%) Introscope
7 2 (4.55%) Zephyr
8 1 (2.27%) Burp Suite
8 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.27%) IntelliJ
8 1 (2.27%) JIRA Agile
8 1 (2.27%) JProfiler
8 1 (2.27%) Toad
8 1 (2.27%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (25.00%) Banking
2 11 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (11.36%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
5 1 (2.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Test Engineer
2 10 (22.73%) QA Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) Analyst
3 9 (20.45%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
3 9 (20.45%) Test Analyst
3 9 (20.45%) Tester
4 8 (18.18%) Financial Analyst
4 8 (18.18%) Lead
4 8 (18.18%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) QA Analyst
4 8 (18.18%) QA Test Analyst
4 8 (18.18%) QA Test Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) Consultant
5 6 (13.64%) Senior
5 6 (13.64%) Test Leader
6 5 (11.36%) Performance Consultant
6 5 (11.36%) Performance Test Consultant
6 5 (11.36%) Performance Tester
6 5 (11.36%) Test Consultant
7 4 (9.09%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.45%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (4.55%) .NET
2 2 (4.55%) HTML
2 2 (4.55%) J2EE
2 2 (4.55%) Web Services
3 1 (2.27%) Gherkin
3 1 (2.27%) Playwright
3 1 (2.27%) REST
3 1 (2.27%) Spring
3 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.27%) WebSockets
3 1 (2.27%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (11.36%) FMCG
2 5 (11.36%) Life Science
3 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.27%) Linux
2 11 (25.00%) Windows
3 2 (4.55%) AIX
3 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.55%) Unix
3 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (61.36%) Performance Testing
2 21 (47.73%) Agile
3 19 (43.18%) Non-Functional Testing
4 16 (36.36%) DevOps
5 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
5 14 (31.82%) Test Strategy
6 13 (29.55%) Test Automation
7 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (22.73%) Software Testing
7 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (20.45%) Stress Testing
8 9 (20.45%) Test Scripting
9 8 (18.18%) Scrum
9 8 (18.18%) Validation
10 7 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (13.64%) Defect Management
11 6 (13.64%) Integration Testing
11 6 (13.64%) Manual Testing
11 6 (13.64%) Service Management
11 6 (13.64%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (47.73%) Java
1 21 (47.73%) Python
2 12 (27.27%) SQL
3 9 (20.45%) Bash
4 8 (18.18%) C#
4 8 (18.18%) VB
5 7 (15.91%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.55%) C
6 2 (4.55%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.36%) ISTQB
4 3 (6.82%) Degree
5 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (31.82%) QA
2 3 (6.82%) GxP
2 3 (6.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Docker
1 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) Perfmon
2 2 (4.55%) CA Wily
2 2 (4.55%) Kibana
3 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.27%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) Dynatrace
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.64%) New Relic
2 6 (13.64%) SAP
3 5 (11.36%) Oracle
4 4 (9.09%) AppDynamics
4 4 (9.09%) Splunk
5 2 (4.55%) Google
5 2 (4.55%) HP
5 2 (4.55%) VMware
6 1 (2.27%) Ariba
6 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.27%) Micro Focus
6 1 (2.27%) Salesforce