Load Testing Contract Job Trends in London

Load Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Load Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 367 394
Rank change year-on-year -3 +27 +130
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 11 10 15
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.077% 0.064% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.071% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 10
10th Percentile - £439 £490
25th Percentile £400 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £538 £800 £594
90th Percentile £541 £885 £600
England median daily rate £425 £525 £481
% change year-on-year -19.05% +9.09% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £77.50 -
England median hourly rate - £77.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,110 14,014 17,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.71% 89.83% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,647 9,052 12,526
10th Percentile £338 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £766 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 165 236
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.50 £35.32
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% +6.19% -11.16%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Load Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Load Testing job vacancy trend in London

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Load Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Load Testing

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Testing in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Testing in London

Load Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Load Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Load Testing

Load Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Serverless
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Functions
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Selenium
2 5 (45.45%) JMeter
3 4 (36.36%) GitLab
3 4 (36.36%) Postman
3 4 (36.36%) REST Assured
4 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
4 3 (27.27%) JIRA
4 3 (27.27%) JUnit
5 2 (18.18%) Gatling
5 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
5 2 (18.18%) Locust
5 2 (18.18%) TestNG
6 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
6 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
6 1 (9.09%) Git
6 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
6 1 (9.09%) Maven
6 1 (9.09%) TestRail
6 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Developer
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer in Test
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Integration Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) AWS CDK
2 2 (18.18%) OpenAPI
2 2 (18.18%) Playwright
2 2 (18.18%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) Swagger
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Derivative
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Equities
2 1 (9.09%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) Validation
4 5 (45.45%) Defect Management
4 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (36.36%) API Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Integration Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Performance Testing
5 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (36.36%) Test Strategy
6 3 (27.27%) Data Management
6 3 (27.27%) Data Validation
6 3 (27.27%) Microservices
6 3 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Scrum
6 3 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) C#
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
2 3 (27.27%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (9.09%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) Charles River
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Murex