LoadRunner Contract Job Trends in the South East

HP LoadRunner
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring LoadRunner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 207 - 197
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.050% - 0.018%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.58% - 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £286 - -
25th Percentile £294 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.79%
75th Percentile £319 - £419
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -9.52%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 519 350 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.68% 11.93% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 221 335
10th Percentile £280 £350 £325
25th Percentile £368 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £619
90th Percentile £650 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 20 37
10th Percentile £56.50 £47.25 £42.45
25th Percentile £70.00 £49.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.91% -15.38% +14.07%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £63.88 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £57.63 £65.00
% change year-on-year +17.14% -11.35% +5.69%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

LoadRunner job vacancy trend 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 LoadRunner.

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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Contract 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 LoadRunner within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 May 2026. 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
Surrey - 3 £313 -
LoadRunner
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Gatling
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
General
1 3 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Performance Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace