NeoLoad Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Neotys NeoLoad
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring NeoLoad skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 - 184
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing NeoLoad 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.059% - 0.041%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.41% - 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £466 - £373
25th Percentile £487 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £425
75th Percentile £564 - £463
90th Percentile £566 - £478
England median daily rate £453 £461 £454
% change year-on-year -1.79% +1.60% +6.82%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

NeoLoad 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 974 535 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.33% 15.51% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 386 380
10th Percentile £346 £340 £363
25th Percentile £399 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £460 £486
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -5.40% -7.38%
75th Percentile £538 £535 £575
90th Percentile £630 £600 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 9 16
10th Percentile £35.38 £52.14 £37.55
25th Percentile £52.50 £70.00 £43.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £72.50 £46.84
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +54.78% -10.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £65.94
90th Percentile £72.63 £80.05 £80.09
England median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%

NeoLoad
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

NeoLoad job vacancy trend in the North of England

NeoLoad
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

NeoLoad
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 NeoLoad within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 June 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 - 4 £540 - 1
NeoLoad
England

NeoLoad
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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Gatling
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) JMeter
1 4 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Test Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) LDAP
1 4 (100.00%) OpenID
1 4 (100.00%) Playwright
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 4 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) GitOps
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
1 4 (100.00%) Volume Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (75.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Cypher
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Scala
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) Google