Load Testing Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Load Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Load Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 83 80
Rank change year-on-year -40 -3 +26
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.10% 0.30% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.34% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £284 £382 £393
25th Percentile £316 £445 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% +15.79% +22.58%
75th Percentile £466 £575 £519
90th Percentile £501 £590 £538
North West median daily rate £450 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +22.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,669 895 1,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.87% 89.68% 87.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 580 589
10th Percentile £313 £302 £313
25th Percentile £417 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £465 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.66% -4.62% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £700 £678 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 67 35
10th Percentile £19.80 £15.49 £15.95
25th Percentile £33.82 £18.97 £23.68
Median hourly rate £60.50 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +167.34% -35.34% +84.21%
75th Percentile £74.50 £35.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £78.25 £64.25 £85.60
North West median hourly rate £47.12 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +87.39% -40.84% +21.43%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Load Testing job vacancy trend in Manchester

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Load Testing in Manchester

Load Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Load Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Semantic HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes