LoadRunner Contracts

HP LoadRunner
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring LoadRunner skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LoadRunner over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 511 624
Rank change year-on-year +4 +113 +162
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 43 63 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.15% 0.097%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.93% 1.17% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 40 44
10th Percentile £362 £402 £402
25th Percentile £433 £445 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +3.45%
75th Percentile £695 £600 £738
90th Percentile £798 £626 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £540 £425
% change year-on-year -5.09% +27.06% -10.53%

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 4,633 5,388 7,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.57% 12.43% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,104 3,565 5,580
10th Percentile £330 £351 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £693 £725 £760
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 251 238
10th Percentile £21.10 £31.25 £45.83
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.44 £85.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +11.82%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LoadRunner in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for LoadRunner in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LoadRunner over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LoadRunner in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for LoadRunner in the UK

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Top 13 Contract 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 5 July 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 +42 41 £500 - 55
London +32 27 £500 - 37
Work from Home +26 16 £474 -5.25% 20
UK excluding London +43 15 £513 -5.09% 21
East of England - 6 £600 - 6
North of England +7 4 £513 +36.67% 3
Midlands +10 3 £460 -37.63% 3
West Midlands +7 2 £543 -26.44% 2
Yorkshire +4 2 £513 +36.67%
North West - 2 - - 3
South West +31 1 £325 -35.00%
Scotland +1 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £391 - 1

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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 1 (2.33%) Confluence
1 1 (2.33%) IIS
1 1 (2.33%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (11.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (9.30%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.88%) Azure
2 10 (23.26%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (20.93%) AWS
4 8 (18.60%) GitHub
5 4 (9.30%) Tricentis Tosca
6 3 (6.98%) GCP
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.65%) Datadog
7 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.33%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) HTTP
2 1 (2.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
1 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
1 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.33%) MySQL
2 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (79.07%) JMeter
2 9 (20.93%) JIRA
3 8 (18.60%) Gatling
3 8 (18.60%) Jenkins
4 7 (16.28%) Selenium
5 6 (13.95%) NeoLoad
5 6 (13.95%) Postman
6 4 (9.30%) Serenity BDD
7 3 (6.98%) REST Assured
8 2 (4.65%) Appium
8 2 (4.65%) Cypress.io
8 2 (4.65%) Git
8 2 (4.65%) JUnit
8 2 (4.65%) TestNG
8 2 (4.65%) Zephyr
9 1 (2.33%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.33%) IntelliJ
9 1 (2.33%) Introscope
9 1 (2.33%) JProfiler
9 1 (2.33%) Toad
General
1 22 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.23%) Banking
2 13 (30.23%) Finance
3 12 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.33%) Police
6 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Test Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) QA Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) Tester
3 9 (20.93%) Analyst
3 9 (20.93%) Lead
3 9 (20.93%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
3 9 (20.93%) Test Analyst
4 8 (18.60%) Financial Analyst
4 8 (18.60%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) QA Analyst
4 8 (18.60%) QA Test Analyst
4 8 (18.60%) QA Test Engineer
4 8 (18.60%) Test Leader
5 6 (13.95%) Performance Tester
6 5 (11.63%) Consultant
6 5 (11.63%) Performance Consultant
6 5 (11.63%) Performance Test Consultant
6 5 (11.63%) Senior
6 5 (11.63%) Test Consultant
7 4 (9.30%) Senior Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (4.65%) RESTful
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (2.33%) HTML
3 1 (2.33%) J2EE
3 1 (2.33%) Playwright
3 1 (2.33%) SOAP
3 1 (2.33%) Spring
3 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.33%) Web Services
3 1 (2.33%) WebSockets
3 1 (2.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 5 (11.63%) FMCG
2 5 (11.63%) Life Science
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.33%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.26%) Linux
2 9 (20.93%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) AIX
3 1 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (60.47%) Performance Testing
2 21 (48.84%) Agile
3 20 (46.51%) Non-Functional Testing
4 15 (34.88%) DevOps
4 15 (34.88%) Test Automation
5 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (30.23%) Test Strategy
6 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
6 11 (25.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (25.58%) Test Scripting
7 9 (20.93%) Software Testing
7 9 (20.93%) Stress Testing
8 8 (18.60%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
9 7 (16.28%) Scrum
9 7 (16.28%) Validation
10 6 (13.95%) API Testing
10 6 (13.95%) Integration Testing
10 6 (13.95%) Microservices
10 6 (13.95%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 21 (48.84%) Python
2 19 (44.19%) Java
3 10 (23.26%) C#
3 10 (23.26%) JavaScript
4 9 (20.93%) Bash
5 8 (18.60%) VB
6 7 (16.28%) SQL
7 2 (4.65%) Groovy
8 1 (2.33%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (27.91%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) GxP
2 3 (6.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Perfmon
2 2 (4.65%) Kibana
3 1 (2.33%) CA Wily
3 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.33%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Dynatrace
2 6 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (13.95%) New Relic
2 6 (13.95%) SAP
3 4 (9.30%) Splunk
4 3 (6.98%) AppDynamics
4 3 (6.98%) Oracle
5 2 (4.65%) HP
6 1 (2.33%) Ariba
6 1 (2.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.33%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.33%) Google
6 1 (2.33%) Micro Focus
6 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.33%) VMware