Load Testing Contract Job Trends in the North West

Load Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Load Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 112 138
Rank change year-on-year -32 +26 +35
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.12% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.16% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £382 £365 -
25th Percentile £445 £369 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £488
90th Percentile £590 £525 -
England median daily rate £425 £538 £481
% change year-on-year -20.93% +11.69% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,191 1,842 2,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.49% 86.32% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 1,037 1,594
10th Percentile £213 £274 £288
25th Percentile £358 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £574 £575 £600
90th Percentile £655 £656 £684
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 108 154
10th Percentile £16.43 £16.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £20.86 £21.20 £17.81
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.01 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% -9.83% +37.54%
75th Percentile £55.00 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.00 £68.65 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Load Testing job vacancy trend in the North West

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Load Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Load Testing

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Testing in the North West

Load Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Load Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Load Testing

Load Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Manchester -6 3 £550 +37.50% 1
Load Testing
England

Load Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Puppeteer
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA