LoadRunner Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

HP LoadRunner
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring LoadRunner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 - 126
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.091% - 0.043%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.25% - 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £413
75th Percentile £388 - £419
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £313 - £413
% change year-on-year - - +1.54%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 240 181 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.28% 10.91% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 108 160
10th Percentile £309 £325 £330
25th Percentile £395 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £638
90th Percentile £610 £604 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 11 10
10th Percentile £60.00 £51.00 £51.10
25th Percentile £80.75 £65.63 £60.12
Median hourly rate £88.00 £75.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% +15.38% +16.59%
75th Percentile - £86.32 £65.75
90th Percentile - £89.63 £91.00
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +13.04%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

LoadRunner job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing LoadRunner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing LoadRunner

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing LoadRunner.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing LoadRunner

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
Berkshire - 3 £375 - 1
LoadRunner
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
1 3 (100.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 2 (66.67%) Billing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Test Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Volume Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
3 1 (33.33%) Parasoft