Load Testing Contract Job Trends in Newport

Load Testing
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newport requiring Load Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 3.33% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £638 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - -
75th Percentile £713 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £675 - £157

All Process and Methodology Skills
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30 63 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 100.00% 95.45% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 80
10th Percentile £265 £185 £273
25th Percentile £405 £210 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -27.27% -3.51%
75th Percentile £594 - £638
90th Percentile £713 £518 £653
South Wales median daily rate £413 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +3.13% -11.11% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 29 9
10th Percentile £78.25 £15.20 £13.18
25th Percentile £79.38 £20.12 £27.08
Median hourly rate £82.50 £25.36 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +225.32% -49.28% +150.00%
75th Percentile £84.38 £47.50 £55.25
90th Percentile £84.75 £50.75 £55.50
South Wales median hourly rate £17.50 £25.18 £29.83
% change year-on-year -30.50% -15.60% +49.16%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

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

Load Testing job vacancy trend in Newport

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

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

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

Load Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) MSTest
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001