Load Testing Contracts in London

Load Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Load Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Load Testing over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 455 569
Rank change year-on-year +84 +114 -134
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 20 44 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.16% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.18% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 35 27
10th Percentile £433 £418 £398
25th Percentile - £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £523 £650 £600
90th Percentile £575 £729 £665
England median daily rate £500 £523 £475
% change year-on-year -4.31% +10.00% -20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Load Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,764 24,998 36,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.35% 91.09% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,289 17,888 26,458
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 285 428
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.63 £17.86
25th Percentile £19.94 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +7.64% +13.14%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.75 £50.65
90th Percentile £66.93 £78.30 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Load Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in London

Load Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in London.

Daily rate trend for Load Testing in London

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Testing in London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Testing in London

Load Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Load Testing in London

Load Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Central London +41 1 £450 -30.77% 4
West London - 1 £575 -
Load Testing
England

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 8 (40.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 5 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (25.00%) GitHub
4 5 (25.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) SpecFlow
2 5 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (25.00%) JMeter
3 4 (20.00%) Visual Studio
4 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (15.00%) FitNesse
4 3 (15.00%) JIRA
4 3 (15.00%) LoadRunner
4 3 (15.00%) Selenium
4 3 (15.00%) TestRail
5 2 (10.00%) Gatling
5 2 (10.00%) Postman
5 2 (10.00%) WebDriver
6 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
6 1 (5.00%) NUnit
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Back Office
2 7 (35.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Front Office
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Electronics
6 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) QA Tester
3 3 (15.00%) Test Leader
3 3 (15.00%) Tester
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior QA Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Site Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Developer in Test
5 1 (5.00%) ERP Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Test Leader
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) .NET
2 5 (25.00%) Playwright
2 5 (25.00%) REST
3 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Core
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (10.00%) Kafka
4 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (10.00%) XML
5 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (70.00%) Agile
3 13 (65.00%) DevOps
4 10 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 9 (45.00%) Test Strategy
6 8 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (35.00%) Performance Testing
8 6 (30.00%) BDD
8 6 (30.00%) Scrum
8 6 (30.00%) TDD
9 5 (25.00%) Architectural Design
9 5 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
9 5 (25.00%) Configuration Management
9 5 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
10 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
10 4 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (20.00%) High Availability
10 4 (20.00%) Security Testing
10 4 (20.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) C#
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 4 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (15.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (15.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) QA
2 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (10.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Grafana
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Checkmarx
4 1 (5.00%) Qualys
4 1 (5.00%) Rapid7
4 1 (5.00%) Veracode