Load Testing Contract Job Trends in Reading

Load Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Load Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 11 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.83% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 548 958 965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.18% 87.89% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 529 648
10th Percentile £330 £350 £250
25th Percentile £450 £475 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +7.06%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 16
10th Percentile - £14.50 £32.17
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.25 £58.44
Median hourly rate £37.28 £60.46 £63.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% -4.64% +15.26%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.41 £69.51
90th Percentile £69.40 £74.87 £75.13
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £58.49 £61.79
% change year-on-year -44.76% -5.34% +22.36%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Load Testing job vacancy trend in Reading

Load Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Load Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Load Testing

Load Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 9 (81.82%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (63.64%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (36.36%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) CSS
1 2 (18.18%) HTML
1 2 (18.18%) Playwright
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 11 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 9 (81.82%) Analytical Thinking
2 9 (81.82%) End-to-End Testing
2 9 (81.82%) High Availability
2 9 (81.82%) Performance Testing
2 9 (81.82%) Risk Analysis
2 9 (81.82%) Scenario Testing
2 9 (81.82%) Validation
2 9 (81.82%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) API Testing
3 2 (18.18%) BDD
3 2 (18.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (81.82%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) AWS Certification
1 9 (81.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (81.82%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes