Locust Contracts in England

Locust
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Locust skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Locust 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 483 - 649
Rank change year-on-year - - +113
Contract jobs citing Locust 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% - 0.008%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.061% - 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £325 - £419
25th Percentile £344 - £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £460
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.33%
75th Percentile £469 - £483
90th Percentile £495 - £493
UK median daily rate £400 - £460
% change year-on-year - - -8.00%

All Development Application Skills
England

Locust 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%

Locust
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Locust in England

Locust
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Locust in England

Locust
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Locust in England

Locust
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 Locust 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 - 2 £400 - 1
Locust
UK

Locust
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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks