Load Testing Contracts in the South East

Load Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 184 211
Rank change year-on-year +27 +27 +50
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Load Testing 9 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.25% 0.063% 0.072%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.076% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile - £287 £461
25th Percentile £475 £334 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £481
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -11.69% +8.10%
75th Percentile £525 £444 £492
90th Percentile - £448 £497
England median daily rate £500 £475 £469
% change year-on-year +5.26% +1.33% -1.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,181 3,923 4,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.58% 82.17% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,987 2,368 3,373
10th Percentile £239 £260 £250
25th Percentile £394 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 309 240
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £21.18
Median hourly rate £24.00 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.15% +14.70% +80.31%
75th Percentile £53.50 £70.18 £65.06
90th Percentile £70.38 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +56.36%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Load Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Load Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Load Testing

Load Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Load Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Load Testing

Load Testing
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 24 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +15 9 £500 +17.65% 2
Berkshire +25 8 £500 +11.11%
Oxfordshire -10 1 £475 +82.69% 2
Load Testing
England

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (88.89%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
1 6 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) CSS
1 2 (22.22%) HTML
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (88.89%) Test Scripting
3 7 (77.78%) End-to-End Testing
3 7 (77.78%) Validation
4 6 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
4 6 (66.67%) High Availability
4 6 (66.67%) Performance Testing
4 6 (66.67%) Risk Analysis
4 6 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
4 6 (66.67%) Verification and Validation
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) API Testing
5 2 (22.22%) BDD
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
6 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
6 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Python
3 2 (22.22%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) QA