LoadRunner Contract Job Trends

HP LoadRunner
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring LoadRunner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 501 547
Rank change year-on-year -85 +46 +137
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 22 31 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.054% 0.10% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.39% 0.75% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 36
10th Percentile £310 £391 £448
25th Percentile £320 £475 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £614
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -18.53% +22.75%
75th Percentile £453 £600 £623
90th Percentile £563 £798 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £320 £513 £615
% change year-on-year -37.56% -16.67% +23.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,599 4,143 5,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.77% 13.57% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,825 2,666 3,728
10th Percentile £343 £330 £360
25th Percentile £405 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 63 213
10th Percentile £30.73 £26.30 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £79.69 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

LoadRunner job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LoadRunner

LoadRunner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LoadRunner over the 6 months to 23 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LoadRunner in the UK

LoadRunner
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LoadRunner

LoadRunner
Top 10 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the UK over the 6 months to 23 February 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
England -89 19 £375 -25.00% 7
UK excluding London -64 13 £320 -37.56% 4
South East - 7 £320 - 2
London -50 6 £425 -13.92% 4
Yorkshire -56 4 £540 -4.00%
North of England -56 4 £540 -4.00%
Work from Home -13 3 £497 +1.85% 2
Midlands -53 1 £400 +22.89% 1
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
East of England - 1 £450 -

LoadRunner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 7 (31.82%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Neo4j
2 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (95.45%) JMeter
2 18 (81.82%) Gatling
3 7 (31.82%) GitLab
3 7 (31.82%) Jenkins
3 7 (31.82%) JIRA
4 6 (27.27%) Postman
5 5 (22.73%) NeoLoad
6 3 (13.64%) Selenium
7 2 (9.09%) Artifactory
7 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
7 2 (9.09%) Git
7 2 (9.09%) JUnit
7 2 (9.09%) REST Assured
8 1 (4.55%) Locust
8 1 (4.55%) Maven
8 1 (4.55%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (4.55%) TeamCity
8 1 (4.55%) TestNG
8 1 (4.55%) TestRail
8 1 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
5 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Tester
2 6 (27.27%) Performance Tester
3 5 (22.73%) Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Performance Analyst
4 4 (18.18%) Test Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Testing Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (9.09%) Lead Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior
6 2 (9.09%) Test Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Test Automation Architect
6 2 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Test Manager
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Tester
7 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
7 1 (4.55%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) REST
2 5 (22.73%) Playwright
3 4 (18.18%) LDAP
3 4 (18.18%) OpenID
3 4 (18.18%) SailPoint
4 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.55%) JDBC
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) Middleware
4 1 (4.55%) ODBC
4 1 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Management Information System
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Performance Testing
2 16 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 15 (68.18%) Test Strategy
4 12 (54.55%) Agile
5 11 (50.00%) DevOps
5 11 (50.00%) Test Automation
6 7 (31.82%) Test Scripting
7 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 6 (27.27%) Performance Metrics
7 6 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (27.27%) Validation
8 5 (22.73%) Incident Response
8 5 (22.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (22.73%) Task Automation
9 4 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
9 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (18.18%) Microservices
9 4 (18.18%) Performance Analysis
9 4 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
9 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) Java
3 5 (22.73%) TypeScript
4 4 (18.18%) Cypher
4 4 (18.18%) Scala
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Grafana
2 8 (36.36%) Prometheus
3 5 (22.73%) Ansible
3 5 (22.73%) Terraform
4 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) ServiceNow
2 3 (13.64%) Google
3 2 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
3 2 (9.09%) New Relic
3 2 (9.09%) Splunk
4 1 (4.55%) HP
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle