Load Testing Contracts in Scotland

Load Testing
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Load Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Load Testing over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 161 171
Rank change year-on-year +35 +10 -14
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 1 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.046% 0.21% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.23% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 4
10th Percentile - £425 £318
25th Percentile - £463 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £368
Median % change year-on-year - +29.25% -
75th Percentile - £488 £410
90th Percentile - - £456
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Load Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,924 2,605 3,277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.58% 92.54% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,868 2,327
10th Percentile £225 £260 £249
25th Percentile £389 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £587 £560 £550
90th Percentile £663 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 55 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.32
25th Percentile £15.84 £11.78 £20.38
Median hourly rate £18.41 £17.21 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% -56.98% -
75th Percentile £40.94 £50.74 £49.15
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.94 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in Scotland

Load Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Load Testing in Scotland

Load Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Glasgow +6 1 - -
Load Testing
UK

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle