LoadRunner Contract Job Trends in the North of England

HP LoadRunner
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring LoadRunner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 160 178
Rank change year-on-year -77 +18 +30
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 6 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.091% 0.18% 0.043%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 1.16% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £466 £501 -
25th Percentile £487 £503 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £513 £375
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% +36.67% -28.57%
75th Percentile £564 £528 £388
90th Percentile £566 £534 -
England median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -7.77%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 981 518 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.90% 15.61% 10.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 367 362
10th Percentile £350 £353 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -5.79% -7.00%
75th Percentile £538 £537 £575
90th Percentile £630 £600 £645
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 8 14
10th Percentile £36.00 £52.13 £37.55
25th Percentile £49.65 £65.55 £45.88
Median hourly rate £60.00 £73.75 £47.59
Median % change year-on-year -18.64% +54.97% -8.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.81 £70.31
90th Percentile £70.75 £80.70 £80.45
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

LoadRunner job vacancy trend in the North of England

LoadRunner
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing LoadRunner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing LoadRunner

LoadRunner
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing LoadRunner.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing LoadRunner

LoadRunner
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Yorkshire -61 5 £540 +5.37% 1
North West -49 1 - -
LoadRunner
England

LoadRunner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Gatling
2 4 (66.67%) GitLab
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) JMeter
2 4 (66.67%) NeoLoad
2 4 (66.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) Burp Suite
3 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Gradle
3 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
3 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Test Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Playwright
2 4 (66.67%) LDAP
2 4 (66.67%) OpenID
2 4 (66.67%) REST
2 4 (66.67%) SailPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (16.67%) Quarkus
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 4 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (66.67%) Data Validation
2 4 (66.67%) ETL
2 4 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 4 (66.67%) GitOps
2 4 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Analysis
2 4 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) RBAC
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Validation
2 4 (66.67%) Volume Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Cypher
2 4 (66.67%) Scala
2 4 (66.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Istio
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle