Load Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 386 441
Rank change year-on-year +63 +55 +43
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 13 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.063% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.074% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 15
10th Percentile £449 £421 £310
25th Percentile £475 £453 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +11.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £544
90th Percentile £593 - £612
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year - +64.47% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Load Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Load Testing in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Testing in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Load Testing in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East - 5 £500 - 3
Midlands +25 4 £505 +18.82% 1
West Midlands +17 4 £505 +18.82% 1
South West +44 2 £568 -3.81% 1
Scotland +14 2 £474 -
Load Testing
UK

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 3 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (23.08%) Serverless
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (15.38%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (15.38%) Boomi
5 2 (15.38%) OCI
5 2 (15.38%) PaaS
5 2 (15.38%) SaaS
6 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) MariaDB
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
2 2 (15.38%) NUnit
2 2 (15.38%) Postman
2 2 (15.38%) SpecFlow
2 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
3 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.69%) Gatling
3 1 (7.69%) JMeter
3 1 (7.69%) Pa11y
3 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
1 4 (30.77%) Test Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Performance Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Performance Test Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Python Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Test Leader
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Playwright
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 2 (15.38%) CSS
2 2 (15.38%) Django
2 2 (15.38%) HTML
2 2 (15.38%) MACH
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
3 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
3 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) EPoS
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Test Automation
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 5 (38.46%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) BDD
5 4 (30.77%) Performance Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Scrum
5 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
5 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
6 3 (23.08%) API Testing
6 3 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (23.08%) Microservices
6 3 (23.08%) Security Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 2 (15.38%) Dashboard Development
7 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (15.38%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 4 (30.77%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) R
4 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) SAP