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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 473 494 581
Rank change year-on-year +21 +87 +145
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 38 52 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.98% 1.18% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 30 39
10th Percentile £400 £402 £395
25th Percentile £470 £423 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% +7.69%
75th Percentile £729 £600 £738
90th Percentile £798 £638 -
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%

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 3,870 4,401 6,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.20% 12.44% 13.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,648 2,938 4,554
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £664
90th Percentile £700 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 216 201
10th Percentile £39.25 £32.36 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.19 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.15 £73.88 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.15% +4.00% +13.64%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +18 27 £500 - 6
East of England - 6 £600 - 4
West Midlands +6 2 £543 -26.44% 1
Yorkshire +5 2 £513 +36.67%
North of England -4 2 £513 +36.67%
Midlands -9 2 £543 -26.44% 2
South West +40 1 £325 -39.81%
LoadRunner
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 1 (2.63%) Confluence
1 1 (2.63%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (13.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (10.53%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) Azure
2 9 (23.68%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (21.05%) AWS
4 7 (18.42%) GitHub
5 4 (10.53%) Tricentis Tosca
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.26%) GCP
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.63%) Datadog
7 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) HTTP
1 1 (2.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.63%) MySQL
2 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.63%) Power BI
2 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (81.58%) JMeter
2 9 (23.68%) JIRA
3 8 (21.05%) Jenkins
4 7 (18.42%) Gatling
5 6 (15.79%) NeoLoad
6 5 (13.16%) Postman
7 4 (10.53%) Selenium
7 4 (10.53%) Serenity BDD
8 3 (7.89%) REST Assured
9 2 (5.26%) Zephyr
10 1 (2.63%) Appium
10 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
10 1 (2.63%) Cypress.io
10 1 (2.63%) Git
10 1 (2.63%) JIRA Agile
10 1 (2.63%) JProfiler
10 1 (2.63%) JUnit
10 1 (2.63%) ScriptRunner
10 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
10 1 (2.63%) TestNG
General
1 19 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (31.58%) Finance
3 11 (28.95%) Banking
4 10 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.16%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Police
7 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) QA Engineer
1 10 (26.32%) Test Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Analyst
2 9 (23.68%) Lead
2 9 (23.68%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 9 (23.68%) Test Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) Financial Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) QA Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) QA Test Analyst
3 8 (21.05%) QA Test Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Test Leader
4 7 (18.42%) Tester
5 6 (15.79%) Performance Tester
6 5 (13.16%) Consultant
6 5 (13.16%) Performance Consultant
6 5 (13.16%) Performance Test Consultant
6 5 (13.16%) Senior
6 5 (13.16%) Test Consultant
7 4 (10.53%) Senior Performance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (2.63%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.63%) Playwright
2 1 (2.63%) RESTful
2 1 (2.63%) SOAP
2 1 (2.63%) Spring
2 1 (2.63%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.63%) WebSockets
2 1 (2.63%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (13.16%) FMCG
2 5 (13.16%) Life Science
3 2 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Linux
2 9 (23.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (55.26%) Performance Testing
2 19 (50.00%) Agile
3 18 (47.37%) Non-Functional Testing
4 13 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (31.58%) DevOps
6 11 (28.95%) Test Automation
6 11 (28.95%) Test Strategy
7 10 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (23.68%) Stress Testing
8 9 (23.68%) Test Scripting
9 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
9 7 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (18.42%) Software Testing
10 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
10 6 (15.79%) Microservices
10 6 (15.79%) Performance Engineering
10 6 (15.79%) Scrum
10 6 (15.79%) Test Management
11 5 (13.16%) Validation
11 5 (13.16%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (52.63%) Python
2 18 (47.37%) Java
3 9 (23.68%) Bash
3 9 (23.68%) C#
3 9 (23.68%) JavaScript
4 8 (21.05%) VB
5 5 (13.16%) SQL
6 2 (5.26%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (31.58%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) GxP
2 3 (7.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.63%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Perfmon
2 2 (5.26%) Kibana
3 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.63%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Dynatrace
2 6 (15.79%) New Relic
2 6 (15.79%) SAP
3 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.26%) AppDynamics
4 2 (5.26%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Splunk
5 1 (2.63%) Ariba
5 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.63%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (2.63%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.63%) HP
5 1 (2.63%) Micro Focus
5 1 (2.63%) Salesforce