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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 607 527 483
Rank change year-on-year -80 -44 +119
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 78 33 74
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.10% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.26% 0.66% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 26 44
10th Percentile £313 £331 £406
25th Percentile £350 £370 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £513 £592 £600
90th Percentile £611 £730 £622
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £460 £450
% change year-on-year -4.89% +2.22% +5.88%

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 6,170 4,989 5,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.45% 15.14% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 3,360 3,265
10th Percentile £355 £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 £595 £600 £625
90th Percentile £690 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 114 182
10th Percentile £35.38 £28.59 £28.33
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £72.25 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.09 £86.83 £71.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LoadRunner over the 6 months to 29 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 12 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 29 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 -76 67 £430 -14.00% 18
UK excluding London -66 42 £438 -4.89% 8
London -63 29 £440 -13.73% 10
North of England - 14 £488 - 4
South West -28 12 £450 +38.46% 1
Work from Home -56 12 £538 +16.85% 8
Yorkshire - 11 £488 - 2
West Midlands -31 9 £409 -24.61% 1
Midlands -43 9 £409 +1.55% 1
Scotland -19 4 £480 -4.00%
South East - 4 £331 - 2
North West - 3 £451 - 1

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 (6.41%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.56%) Mule
3 2 (2.56%) Mule ESB
4 1 (1.28%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 32 (41.03%) Azure
2 21 (26.92%) AWS
3 17 (21.79%) GCP
4 10 (12.82%) GitHub
5 7 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.85%) Datadog
6 3 (3.85%) SaaS
7 2 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.28%) Apigee
8 1 (1.28%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (1.28%) OCI
8 1 (1.28%) PaaS
8 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) HTTP
2 2 (2.56%) Firewall
3 1 (1.28%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.26%) Tableau
2 4 (5.13%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.56%) Big Data
4 2 (2.56%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 65 (83.33%) JMeter
2 36 (46.15%) Gatling
3 15 (19.23%) NeoLoad
4 12 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 12 (15.38%) Postman
5 8 (10.26%) Selenium
5 8 (10.26%) SoapUI
6 7 (8.97%) eggPlant
6 7 (8.97%) SonarQube
7 6 (7.69%) Git
7 6 (7.69%) REST Assured
8 5 (6.41%) Cucumber
8 5 (6.41%) GitLab
9 4 (5.13%) Cypress.io
10 3 (3.85%) Appium
11 2 (2.56%) Burp Suite
11 2 (2.56%) Gradle
11 2 (2.56%) JIRA
11 2 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (2.56%) TestDirector
General
1 21 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.82%) Finance
4 9 (11.54%) Banking
5 5 (6.41%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.56%) Billing
7 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.28%) Law
7 1 (1.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (29.49%) Lead
2 22 (28.21%) Performance Engineer
3 16 (20.51%) Test Leader
4 15 (19.23%) Tester
5 14 (17.95%) Test Engineer
6 10 (12.82%) Performance Test Engineer
7 9 (11.54%) Performance Tester
7 9 (11.54%) Senior
8 8 (10.26%) Performance Test Leader
9 6 (7.69%) Automation Test Lead
10 5 (6.41%) Senior Test Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Lead Test Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
11 4 (5.13%) Test Automation Engineer
12 3 (3.85%) Automation Tester
12 3 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
12 3 (3.85%) Performance Consultant
12 3 (3.85%) Performance Test Consultant
12 3 (3.85%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (19.23%) Web Services
2 12 (15.38%) Kafka
3 9 (11.54%) Playwright
4 8 (10.26%) SOAP
5 7 (8.97%) Middleware
6 6 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (7.69%) XML
7 5 (6.41%) .NET
7 5 (6.41%) HTML
8 4 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.13%) REST
9 3 (3.85%) XBRL
10 2 (2.56%) Node.js
10 2 (2.56%) Quarkus
10 2 (2.56%) React
10 2 (2.56%) Spring
10 2 (2.56%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.56%) Terraform
11 1 (1.28%) RESTful
11 1 (1.28%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.54%) Mobile App
2 8 (10.26%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.56%) Equities
5 2 (2.56%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.56%) PKI
6 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.28%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.28%) NHS
6 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.54%) Linux
2 5 (6.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 43 (55.13%) CI/CD
2 43 (55.13%) DevOps
3 31 (39.74%) Test Strategy
4 28 (35.90%) Performance Engineering
5 27 (34.62%) Test Automation
6 23 (29.49%) Non-Functional Testing
7 17 (21.79%) Scenario Testing
8 16 (20.51%) Agile
8 16 (20.51%) End-to-End Testing
8 16 (20.51%) Test Scripting
9 13 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (14.10%) Mentoring
10 11 (14.10%) Observability
10 11 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (12.82%) Containerisation
11 10 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
12 8 (10.26%) Microservices
12 8 (10.26%) Volume Testing
13 7 (8.97%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (34.62%) Python
2 22 (28.21%) Java
3 17 (21.79%) SQL
4 13 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.41%) Bash
6 4 (5.13%) Scala
7 3 (3.85%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.56%) C#
8 2 (2.56%) Groovy
9 1 (1.28%) Cypher
9 1 (1.28%) Korn
9 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 24 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.97%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.85%) Degree
4 3 (3.85%) ISEB
4 3 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) QA
2 6 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 26 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (32.05%) Kubernetes
2 12 (15.38%) Grafana
3 5 (6.41%) HP Fortify
4 4 (5.13%) Control-M
5 2 (2.56%) Ansible
5 2 (2.56%) Istio
6 1 (1.28%) HP ALM
6 1 (1.28%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.28%) Kibana
6 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (41.03%) Dynatrace
2 24 (30.77%) AppDynamics
3 22 (28.21%) New Relic
4 21 (26.92%) Splunk
5 12 (15.38%) IBM
6 11 (14.10%) Oracle
7 6 (7.69%) Google
8 5 (6.41%) SAP
9 4 (5.13%) Databricks
9 4 (5.13%) Informatica
10 3 (3.85%) Charles River
10 3 (3.85%) Micro Focus
10 3 (3.85%) OpenText
11 2 (2.56%) HP
11 2 (2.56%) MuleSoft
11 2 (2.56%) TIBCO
12 1 (1.28%) Parasoft
12 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow