Load Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Load Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 132 163
Rank change year-on-year +25 +31 -
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.21% 0.036% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.044% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £462 - £373
25th Percentile £473 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.82% - -
75th Percentile £548 £438 £494
90th Percentile £564 - £528
England median daily rate £513 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +2.50% -0.20% +5.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Load Testing in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Testing in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +17 4 £505 +18.82% 1
Load Testing
England

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CodeCommit
2 2 (50.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 2 (50.00%) Boomi
2 2 (50.00%) OCI
2 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Pa11y
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Applications Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Django
1 2 (50.00%) MACH
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) API Development
2 2 (50.00%) API Integration
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) R
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle