Load Testing Contracts

Load Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 501 549 632
Rank change year-on-year +48 +83 +146
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 26 39 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.090% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.11% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 51
10th Percentile £421 £337 £375
25th Percentile £461 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £581
90th Percentile - £590 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -2.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year - +64.47% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,594 37,018 49,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.06% 85.18% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,435 23,595 34,319
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,318 2,562 1,697
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.74 £11.40
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £53.93 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £38.12 £32.40
% change year-on-year -35.51% +17.65% +54.29%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Load Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in the UK

Load Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Testing.

Daily rate trend for Load Testing in the UK

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Testing over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Load Testing in the UK

Load Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Testing.

Hourly rate trend for Load Testing in the UK

Load Testing
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 June 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
England +44 20 £500 +2.56% 47
UK excluding London +44 15 £500 - 34
Work from Home +33 10 £468 +10.00% 37
London +44 9 £500 +2.56% 16
South East +45 8 £500 +45.99% 6
Scotland +11 4 £525 - 3
Midlands +10 3 £505 +3.59% 7
West Midlands +9 3 £505 +3.59% 5

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) NetSuite
2 2 (7.69%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (26.92%) Serverless
3 6 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 6 (23.08%) Azure
4 4 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) Boomi
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (7.69%) OCI
6 2 (7.69%) PaaS
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (3.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) NoSQL
2 4 (15.38%) DynamoDB
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (11.54%) MySQL
3 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.69%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.85%) MS Access
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) JIRA
2 5 (19.23%) JMeter
3 4 (15.38%) LoadRunner
4 3 (11.54%) Gatling
4 3 (11.54%) Git
5 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
5 2 (7.69%) GitLab
5 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
5 2 (7.69%) SpecFlow
6 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
6 1 (3.85%) Pa11y
6 1 (3.85%) Postman
6 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (3.85%) WebStorm
General
1 15 (57.69%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Tester
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Performance Tester
5 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Test Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Performance Test Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Python Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) AWS CDK
2 2 (7.69%) CSS
2 2 (7.69%) Django
2 2 (7.69%) HTML
2 2 (7.69%) MACH
2 2 (7.69%) Playwright
3 1 (3.85%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (3.85%) JSON
3 1 (3.85%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.85%) Restlet
3 1 (3.85%) SAML
3 1 (3.85%) SOAP
3 1 (3.85%) WebSockets
3 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) EPoS
2 1 (3.85%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.85%) PKI
2 1 (3.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) CI/CD
1 14 (53.85%) Test Automation
2 12 (46.15%) Performance Testing
2 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (46.15%) Test Scripting
3 10 (38.46%) DevOps
4 8 (30.77%) Agile
4 8 (30.77%) End-to-End Testing
4 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (30.77%) Validation
5 7 (26.92%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Analytical Thinking
6 5 (19.23%) High Availability
6 5 (19.23%) Risk Analysis
6 5 (19.23%) Verification and Validation
7 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
7 4 (15.38%) Regression Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Actionable Insight
8 3 (11.54%) API Testing
8 3 (11.54%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 13 (50.00%) Python
3 10 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 5 (19.23%) Java
5 4 (15.38%) C#
6 2 (7.69%) R
7 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Terraform
3 2 (7.69%) Grafana
3 2 (7.69%) Kibana
3 2 (7.69%) Perfmon
3 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (3.85%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.85%) Dell
3 1 (3.85%) HP
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce