LoadRunner Contract Job Trends in Leeds

HP LoadRunner
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring LoadRunner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - 64
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.65% - 0.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.19% - 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £303 - -
25th Percentile £315 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £348 - £375
75th Percentile £453 - £388
90th Percentile £594 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £348 - £375

All Development Application Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 167 107 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 15.61% 17.57% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 70 107
10th Percentile £325 £375 £385
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% -5.05%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £675 £615
West Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -10.09%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LoadRunner relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

LoadRunner job vacancy trend in Leeds

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Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing LoadRunner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing LoadRunner

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LoadRunner in Leeds over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LoadRunner in Leeds

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Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing LoadRunner.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing LoadRunner

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Tableau
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) JMeter
2 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) Git
4 1 (14.29%) eggPlant
4 1 (14.29%) Gatling
4 1 (14.29%) Postman
4 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Lead
2 4 (57.14%) Test Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Lead Test Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Test Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 3 (42.86%) Test Leader
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Test Leader
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Performance Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Chaos Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (14.29%) Resilience Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) New Relic
2 4 (57.14%) Dynatrace
2 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 4 (57.14%) Splunk
3 2 (28.57%) Databricks
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle