LoadRunner Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

HP LoadRunner
England > Midlands

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 116 -
Rank change year-on-year -56 - -
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.029% 0.14% -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% 1.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £391 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.01% - -
England median daily rate £361 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -27.73% - +2.56%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

LoadRunner falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 497 257 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.29% 12.11% 8.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 352 169 156
10th Percentile £326 £348 £260
25th Percentile £402 £406 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +7.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £637 £648 £600
England median daily rate £500 £507 £538
% change year-on-year -1.47% -5.58% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £25.00 - £10.50
25th Percentile £25.65 £56.25 £32.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £57.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.39% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.80 - £67.16
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LoadRunner relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

LoadRunner job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing LoadRunner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing LoadRunner

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing LoadRunner.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing LoadRunner

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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 LoadRunner within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 February 2026. 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
East Midlands -27 1 £403 +23.73% 1
LoadRunner
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk