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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 581 516 476
Rank change year-on-year -65 -40 +140
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 80 37 72
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.28% 0.75% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 30 44
10th Percentile £306 £346 £410
25th Percentile £353 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.41% +13.68%
75th Percentile £513 £647 £600
90th Percentile £607 £798 £651
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £460 £545
% change year-on-year -7.61% -15.60% +28.24%

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 6,242 4,906 5,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.69% 14.90% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,004 3,303 3,291
10th Percentile £351 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 111 210
10th Percentile £34.49 £27.94 £27.80
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £47.25
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £85.25 £73.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +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

LoadRunner
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 14 August 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 13 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 14 August 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 -74 68 £425 -18.27% 15
UK excluding London -67 45 £425 -7.61% 6
London -65 28 £450 -19.10% 8
North of England - 14 £488 - 3
Work from Home -43 13 £525 +14.13% 5
South West -36 12 £450 +38.46%
Yorkshire - 11 £488 - 2
Midlands -44 9 £409 +1.55% 1
West Midlands -46 9 £409 -24.61% 1
South East - 6 £313 - 2
Scotland -5 4 £480 -4.00%
North West - 3 £451 - 1
Wales - 1 £460 -

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 5 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.50%) Mule
3 2 (2.50%) Mule ESB
4 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 31 (38.75%) Azure
2 24 (30.00%) AWS
3 18 (22.50%) GCP
4 9 (11.25%) GitHub
5 6 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.75%) Datadog
6 3 (3.75%) SaaS
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.50%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.25%) Apigee
8 1 (1.25%) OCI
8 1 (1.25%) PaaS
8 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) HTTP
2 2 (2.50%) Firewall
3 1 (1.25%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Tableau
2 4 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.50%) Big Data
4 2 (2.50%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 67 (83.75%) JMeter
2 39 (48.75%) Gatling
3 15 (18.75%) NeoLoad
4 12 (15.00%) Postman
5 10 (12.50%) Jenkins
6 7 (8.75%) eggPlant
6 7 (8.75%) Selenium
6 7 (8.75%) SoapUI
6 7 (8.75%) SonarQube
7 6 (7.50%) Git
8 5 (6.25%) Cucumber
8 5 (6.25%) REST Assured
9 4 (5.00%) Cypress.io
9 4 (5.00%) GitLab
10 3 (3.75%) Appium
11 2 (2.50%) Burp Suite
11 2 (2.50%) Gradle
11 2 (2.50%) JIRA
11 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (2.50%) TestDirector
General
1 22 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.25%) Finance
4 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.50%) Banking
6 5 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.50%) Billing
8 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Law
8 1 (1.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (28.75%) Lead
2 22 (27.50%) Performance Engineer
3 19 (23.75%) Tester
4 15 (18.75%) Test Leader
5 13 (16.25%) Performance Tester
5 13 (16.25%) Test Engineer
6 10 (12.50%) Performance Test Engineer
6 10 (12.50%) Senior
7 9 (11.25%) Performance Test Leader
8 4 (5.00%) Automation Test Lead
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Test Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Automation Tester
9 3 (3.75%) Consultant
9 3 (3.75%) Performance Test Consultant
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Performance Tester
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Tester
9 3 (3.75%) Test Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.75%) Web Services
2 11 (13.75%) Kafka
3 9 (11.25%) Playwright
4 7 (8.75%) SOAP
5 6 (7.50%) Middleware
5 6 (7.50%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (7.50%) XML
6 5 (6.25%) .NET
6 5 (6.25%) HTML
7 4 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (3.75%) REST
8 3 (3.75%) XBRL
9 2 (2.50%) Node.js
9 2 (2.50%) Quarkus
9 2 (2.50%) React
9 2 (2.50%) Spring
9 2 (2.50%) Spring Boot
10 1 (1.25%) JSON
10 1 (1.25%) Taurus
10 1 (1.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.25%) Mobile App
3 8 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.50%) Equities
5 2 (2.50%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.50%) PKI
6 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.25%) NHS
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.25%) Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (67.50%) Performance Testing
2 47 (58.75%) CI/CD
3 43 (53.75%) DevOps
4 31 (38.75%) Test Strategy
5 28 (35.00%) Performance Engineering
6 24 (30.00%) Test Automation
7 22 (27.50%) Non-Functional Testing
8 20 (25.00%) Test Scripting
9 19 (23.75%) Agile
10 17 (21.25%) Scenario Testing
11 15 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
12 12 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (13.75%) Observability
13 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (12.50%) Containerisation
14 10 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (12.50%) Mentoring
15 8 (10.00%) Volume Testing
16 7 (8.75%) Load Testing
16 7 (8.75%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.25%) Python
2 22 (27.50%) Java
3 17 (21.25%) SQL
4 12 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.25%) Bash
6 4 (5.00%) Scala
7 3 (3.75%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.50%) Groovy
9 1 (1.25%) C
9 1 (1.25%) C#
9 1 (1.25%) Cypher
9 1 (1.25%) Korn
9 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 23 (28.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.50%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.75%) Degree
4 3 (3.75%) ISEB
4 3 (3.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) QA
2 6 (7.50%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 25 (31.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.25%) Grafana
3 5 (6.25%) HP Fortify
4 4 (5.00%) Control-M
5 3 (3.75%) Kibana
6 2 (2.50%) Ansible
6 2 (2.50%) Istio
6 2 (2.50%) Terraform
7 1 (1.25%) HP ALM
7 1 (1.25%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (41.25%) Dynatrace
2 26 (32.50%) AppDynamics
3 21 (26.25%) New Relic
4 20 (25.00%) Splunk
5 11 (13.75%) IBM
5 11 (13.75%) Oracle
6 7 (8.75%) Google
7 5 (6.25%) SAP
8 4 (5.00%) Databricks
8 4 (5.00%) Informatica
9 3 (3.75%) Charles River
9 3 (3.75%) Micro Focus
9 3 (3.75%) OpenText
10 2 (2.50%) HP
10 2 (2.50%) MuleSoft
10 2 (2.50%) TIBCO
11 1 (1.25%) Citrix
11 1 (1.25%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.25%) Parasoft
11 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow