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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 363 407
Rank change year-on-year +20 +44 +87
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 21 16 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.088% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 20
10th Percentile £360 £335 £354
25th Percentile £396 £410 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £423
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +30.18% -1.52%
75th Percentile £525 £590 £470
90th Percentile £563 - £491
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £469
% change year-on-year +5.26% +1.33% -1.32%

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 13,713 15,054 19,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.26% 82.90% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,208 9,069 12,909
10th Percentile £239 £250 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,372 1,502 1,189
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.92 £42.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.07% +19.72% +61.36%
75th Percentile £45.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.89
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £40.59
% change year-on-year -38.57% +0.86% +53.17%

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 18 August 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 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +29 9 £500 +45.99% 3
Midlands -7 5 £381 -21.77% 2
North of England -20 3 £375 -7.41% 8
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
South West +22 2 - -
Scotland -4 2 £550 -
West Midlands -12 2 £460 -5.64% 2
Yorkshire - 2 £338 -
North West -8 1 £550 +15.79% 6
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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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (14.29%) Serverless
4 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (4.76%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (4.76%) Boomi
5 1 (4.76%) OCI
5 1 (4.76%) PaaS
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.52%) ClickHouse
2 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
2 2 (9.52%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (14.29%) LoadRunner
2 3 (14.29%) Selenium
3 2 (9.52%) Cucumber
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.76%) Pa11y
General
1 10 (47.62%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Tech for Good
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Test Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Senior
5 3 (14.29%) Tester
6 2 (9.52%) Automation Tester
6 2 (9.52%) Data Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Performance Test Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Applications Tester
7 1 (4.76%) Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Automation Tester
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Python Developer
7 1 (4.76%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Playwright
2 3 (14.29%) REST
3 2 (9.52%) AWS CDK
3 2 (9.52%) CSS
3 2 (9.52%) HTML
4 1 (4.76%) Django
4 1 (4.76%) MACH
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (9.52%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (9.52%) IoT
2 1 (4.76%) EPoS
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 10 (47.62%) CI/CD
2 10 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (42.86%) DevOps
3 9 (42.86%) Scenario Testing
4 8 (38.10%) Performance Testing
4 8 (38.10%) Test Scripting
5 7 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (33.33%) Validation
6 6 (28.57%) Analytical Thinking
6 6 (28.57%) High Availability
6 6 (28.57%) Risk Analysis
6 6 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
7 5 (23.81%) API Testing
7 5 (23.81%) Test Strategy
8 3 (14.29%) Agile
8 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
8 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) SQL
2 11 (52.38%) Python
3 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 4 (19.05%) C#
5 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.76%) Java
6 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 6 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kibana
2 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) AppDynamics
1 3 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 3 (14.29%) New Relic
1 3 (14.29%) Splunk
2 2 (9.52%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle