LoadRunner Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

HP LoadRunner
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring LoadRunner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 49 56
Rank change year-on-year -56 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.37% 0.56% 0.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.66% 2.08% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £466 £501 -
25th Percentile £487 £503 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% - -
75th Percentile £564 £528 -
90th Percentile £566 £534 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £540 £513 -
% change year-on-year +5.37% - -

All Development Application Skills
Sheffield

LoadRunner falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 241 96 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 22.29% 26.82% 16.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 64 49
10th Percentile £367 £385 £398
25th Percentile £430 £409 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -1.38% -22.00%
75th Percentile £529 £552 £605
90th Percentile £619 £650 £645
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -4.51% +2.00% -23.08%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LoadRunner relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

LoadRunner job vacancy trend in Sheffield

LoadRunner
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing LoadRunner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing LoadRunner

LoadRunner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Gatling
1 4 (100.00%) GitLab
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
1 4 (100.00%) JMeter
1 4 (100.00%) NeoLoad
1 4 (100.00%) Postman
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Test Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) LDAP
1 4 (100.00%) OpenID
1 4 (100.00%) Playwright
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 4 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) GitOps
1 4 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) RBAC
1 4 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
1 4 (100.00%) Volume Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (75.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Cypher
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Scala
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (50.00%) Google