Load Testing Contracts

Load Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Load Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Load Testing over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 630 744
Rank change year-on-year +82 +114 -88
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 39 76 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.13% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.15% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 58 63
10th Percentile £385 £384 £356
25th Percentile £444 £418 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £580 £587 £600
90th Percentile £590 £721 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £580 £475 £427
% change year-on-year +22.11% +11.24% -5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
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 is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

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 14 May 2024.

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 10 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 14 May 2024. 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 +87 35 £500 -0.20% 19
London +66 21 £500 -4.76% 8
UK excluding London +54 15 £580 +22.11% 13
Work from Home +96 13 £500 +5.26% 10
North West +32 7 £475 +18.75% 2
North of England +26 7 £475 -9.52% 5
South West +10 5 £590 -2.00% 1
West Midlands +23 2 £425 - 3
Midlands +23 2 £425 - 3
Scotland +33 1 - - 2

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:

Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.90%) AWS
1 14 (35.90%) Azure
2 13 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (17.95%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (17.95%) Serverless
4 5 (12.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (12.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (12.82%) AWS CodeBuild
4 5 (12.82%) AWS CodePipeline
4 5 (12.82%) GitHub
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.56%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.56%) GCP
7 1 (2.56%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (12.82%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.56%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (30.77%) Git
2 11 (28.21%) Visual Studio
3 8 (20.51%) Postman
4 7 (17.95%) JMeter
4 7 (17.95%) NUnit
4 7 (17.95%) SpecFlow
5 6 (15.38%) Selenium
6 4 (10.26%) Cucumber
6 4 (10.26%) JIRA
6 4 (10.26%) WebDriver
7 3 (7.69%) Cypress.io
7 3 (7.69%) FitNesse
7 3 (7.69%) Gatling
7 3 (7.69%) LoadRunner
7 3 (7.69%) TestRail
8 1 (2.56%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.56%) Pa11y
8 1 (2.56%) TestCafe
General
1 11 (28.21%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 7 (17.95%) Back Office
4 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.26%) Manufacturing
6 3 (7.69%) Electronics
6 3 (7.69%) Front Office
6 3 (7.69%) Marketing
6 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.56%) French Language
7 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Senior
2 13 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 11 (28.21%) Senior Test Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) Test Automation Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Lead
6 5 (12.82%) Tester
7 4 (10.26%) Developer
7 4 (10.26%) Test Leader
8 3 (7.69%) Analyst
8 3 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) QA Tester
8 3 (7.69%) Senior Tester
9 2 (5.13%) .NET Developer
9 2 (5.13%) SAP Manager
9 2 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (5.13%) Senior QA Tester
9 2 (5.13%) Senior Test Analyst
9 2 (5.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) .NET
2 11 (28.21%) Playwright
3 9 (23.08%) AngularJS
4 7 (17.95%) GraphQL
5 6 (15.38%) REST
6 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
6 2 (5.13%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.13%) XML
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CDK
7 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.56%) Gherkin
7 1 (2.56%) Kafka
7 1 (2.56%) OpenAPI
7 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (2.56%) React
7 1 (2.56%) RESTful
7 1 (2.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.56%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) Agile
1 24 (61.54%) Test Automation
2 23 (58.97%) CI/CD
3 22 (56.41%) DevOps
4 18 (46.15%) Security Testing
5 16 (41.03%) Performance Testing
6 15 (38.46%) Test Strategy
7 13 (33.33%) BDD
7 13 (33.33%) TDD
8 12 (30.77%) Non-Functional Testing
8 12 (30.77%) Scrum
9 10 (25.64%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (20.51%) Continuous Deployment
11 8 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (20.51%) Manual Testing
12 7 (17.95%) Customer Requirements
12 7 (17.95%) Kanban
12 7 (17.95%) Task Automation
12 7 (17.95%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) SQL
1 11 (28.21%) TypeScript
2 7 (17.95%) C#
3 6 (15.38%) Python
4 5 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.69%) Java
5 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) Degree
2 6 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 6 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 5 (12.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (7.69%) ISTQB
4 3 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (41.03%) Accessibility
2 9 (23.08%) QA
3 2 (5.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
2 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (5.13%) Grafana
1 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Kibana
2 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
1 5 (12.82%) SAP
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) Google
3 2 (5.13%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe
4 1 (2.56%) Ariba
4 1 (2.56%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.56%) Pega
4 1 (2.56%) Qualys
4 1 (2.56%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.56%) Veracode