Load Testing Contracts in Northamptonshire

Load Testing
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Load Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Load Testing over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 1.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - -
75th Percentile £381 - -
90th Percentile £394 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £360 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 287 236 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 95.35% 88.72% 91.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 182 134
10th Percentile £268 £353 £213
25th Percentile £347 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £455
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -2.29% -2.06%
75th Percentile £447 £561 £548
90th Percentile £525 £619 £592
East Midlands median daily rate £405 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% -5.26% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 14
10th Percentile £17.57 £25.41 £12.64
25th Percentile - £28.88 £32.58
Median hourly rate £21.39 £36.34 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.14% -28.75% +45.71%
75th Percentile - £44.36 £51.50
90th Percentile £38.20 £48.17 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £20.00 £33.40
% change year-on-year -5.65% -40.11% +55.33%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Load Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in Northamptonshire

Load Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Load Testing in Northamptonshire

Load Testing
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Northampton - 3 £360 -
Load Testing
East Midlands

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (100.00%) New Relic
1 3 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft