LoadRunner Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

HP LoadRunner
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 52 61
Rank change year-on-year -53 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 4 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.34% 0.49% 0.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.48% 1.82% 1.33%
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 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £540 £513 £375
% change year-on-year +5.37% +36.67% -28.57%

All Development Application Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 271 110 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 22.97% 26.89% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 78 56
10th Percentile £358 £387 £403
25th Percentile £421 £429 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% +2.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £527 £575 £600
90th Percentile £586 £650 £641
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -9.52%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

LoadRunner job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

LoadRunner
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing LoadRunner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing LoadRunner

LoadRunner
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Sheffield -56 4 £540 +5.37% 1
LoadRunner
Yorkshire

LoadRunner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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