Load Testing Contracts in London

Load Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Load Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Load Testing over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 385 448
Rank change year-on-year +44 +63 +125
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 9 19 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.071% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 27
10th Percentile £400 £366 £418
25th Percentile £431 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £554 £706
90th Percentile £597 £579 £728
England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +6.38%

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 11,730 15,562 22,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.36% 88.43% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,860 11,108 16,505
10th Percentile £336 £340 £375
25th Percentile £425 £448 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 302 261
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.54 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £22.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.00% +9.86%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.45 £67.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.03
% change year-on-year -34.02% +8.82% +36.41%

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 26 June 2025.

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 26 June 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
Central London +4 1 - - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (11.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (22.22%) DynamoDB
3 1 (11.11%) MS Access
3 1 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JMeter
1 4 (44.44%) LoadRunner
2 1 (11.11%) Gatling
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Tester
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
2 1 (11.11%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth
2 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
2 1 (11.11%) SAML
2 1 (11.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Test Scripting
2 4 (44.44%) Performance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 1 (11.11%) CRM
5 1 (11.11%) ERP
5 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kibana
1 2 (22.22%) Perfmon
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
2 1 (11.11%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle