Load Testing Contract Job Trends in Preston

Load Testing
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Load Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 0.61% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £72.66 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 71 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 81.71% 91.03% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 47 23
10th Percentile £286 £358 £223
25th Percentile £425 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £475 £585
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% -18.80% +33.71%
75th Percentile £652 £630 £648
90th Percentile £712 £674 £930
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -0.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 18
10th Percentile £37.25 £23.32 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £26.88 -
Median hourly rate £69.50 £40.83 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +70.24% +154.20% -65.00%
75th Percentile £74.50 £47.12 £22.99
90th Percentile £80.00 £60.39 £35.16
Lancashire median hourly rate £61.57 £44.09 £35.36
% change year-on-year +39.65% +24.69% -23.43%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Load Testing job vacancy trend in Preston

Load Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle