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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 520 499
Rank change year-on-year -68 -21 +120
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 71 37 71
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.11% 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.12% 0.75% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 30 43
10th Percentile £316 £346 £409
25th Percentile £392 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -7.41% +7.46%
75th Percentile £516 £647 £600
90th Percentile £623 £798 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £480 £540
% change year-on-year -6.25% -11.11% +27.06%

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 6,312 4,903 4,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.78% 14.91% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,046 3,312 3,269
10th Percentile £350 £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 £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 112 214
10th Percentile £31.50 £26.23 £28.98
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.25
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 £87.34 £85.10 £73.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - +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 8 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 8 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 -82 60 £430 -17.31% 7
UK excluding London -69 41 £450 -6.25% 6
London -68 24 £500 -9.09%
Work from Home -61 13 £525 +7.69% 2
South West -33 12 £450 +38.46%
North of England - 10 £548 - 3
Midlands -44 9 £409 -0.24% 1
West Midlands -45 9 £409 -24.61% 1
Yorkshire - 7 £629 - 2
South East - 6 £313 - 2
Scotland -8 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 2 (2.82%) Mule
1 2 (2.82%) Mule ESB
2 1 (1.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 28 (39.44%) Azure
2 21 (29.58%) AWS
3 16 (22.54%) GCP
4 6 (8.45%) GitHub
5 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.23%) Datadog
6 3 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.23%) SaaS
7 2 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.82%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (1.41%) Apigee
8 1 (1.41%) OCI
8 1 (1.41%) PaaS
8 1 (1.41%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.27%) HTTP
2 2 (2.82%) Firewall
3 1 (1.41%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.82%) Neo4j
2 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.82%) Tableau
3 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 58 (81.69%) JMeter
2 39 (54.93%) Gatling
3 15 (21.13%) NeoLoad
4 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
4 7 (9.86%) Postman
5 6 (8.45%) Selenium
6 5 (7.04%) REST Assured
7 4 (5.63%) Cucumber
7 4 (5.63%) Cypress.io
7 4 (5.63%) Git
7 4 (5.63%) GitLab
8 3 (4.23%) Appium
8 3 (4.23%) JIRA
8 3 (4.23%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.82%) Burp Suite
9 2 (2.82%) eggPlant
9 2 (2.82%) Gradle
9 2 (2.82%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.82%) TestDirector
General
1 22 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 16 (22.54%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.45%) Finance
5 5 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.82%) Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Billing
7 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Law
7 1 (1.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (26.76%) Performance Engineer
2 18 (25.35%) Lead
2 18 (25.35%) Tester
3 13 (18.31%) Performance Tester
3 13 (18.31%) Test Leader
4 7 (9.86%) Performance Test Engineer
4 7 (9.86%) Performance Test Leader
4 7 (9.86%) Senior
4 7 (9.86%) Test Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) Automation Test Lead
5 3 (4.23%) Consultant
5 3 (4.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) Lead Tester
5 3 (4.23%) Performance Consultant
5 3 (4.23%) Performance Test Consultant
5 3 (4.23%) Senior Performance Tester
5 3 (4.23%) Senior Tester
5 3 (4.23%) Test Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Performance Engineering Consultant
6 2 (2.82%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.49%) Web Services
2 9 (12.68%) Playwright
3 6 (8.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (5.63%) REST
5 3 (4.23%) Kafka
6 2 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (2.82%) HTML
6 2 (2.82%) Node.js
6 2 (2.82%) Quarkus
6 2 (2.82%) React
6 2 (2.82%) SOAP
6 2 (2.82%) Spring
6 2 (2.82%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.82%) XML
7 1 (1.41%) .NET
7 1 (1.41%) JSON
7 1 (1.41%) Middleware
7 1 (1.41%) OLE
7 1 (1.41%) RESTful
7 1 (1.41%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (12.68%) Mobile App
3 8 (11.27%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.82%) Equities
4 2 (2.82%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.82%) PKI
5 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.41%) NHS
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.04%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (69.01%) Performance Testing
2 44 (61.97%) DevOps
3 43 (60.56%) CI/CD
4 27 (38.03%) Test Strategy
5 26 (36.62%) Performance Engineering
6 21 (29.58%) Non-Functional Testing
7 19 (26.76%) Agile
8 17 (23.94%) Test Automation
8 17 (23.94%) Test Scripting
9 14 (19.72%) Scenario Testing
10 12 (16.90%) End-to-End Testing
10 12 (16.90%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (14.08%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (12.68%) Containerisation
13 8 (11.27%) Microservices
13 8 (11.27%) Observability
13 8 (11.27%) Volume Testing
14 7 (9.86%) Load Testing
14 7 (9.86%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.94%) Java
1 17 (23.94%) Python
2 13 (18.31%) SQL
3 4 (5.63%) Bash
3 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
3 4 (5.63%) Scala
4 2 (2.82%) C#
4 2 (2.82%) Groovy
4 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.41%) C
5 1 (1.41%) Cypher
5 1 (1.41%) Korn
5 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (23.94%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.63%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.41%) Degree
5 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.27%) QA
2 4 (5.63%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (29.58%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 21 (29.58%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.68%) Grafana
3 3 (4.23%) Kibana
4 2 (2.82%) Ansible
4 2 (2.82%) Istio
4 2 (2.82%) Terraform
5 1 (1.41%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.41%) HP Fortify
5 1 (1.41%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (40.85%) Dynatrace
2 26 (36.62%) AppDynamics
3 17 (23.94%) New Relic
4 16 (22.54%) Splunk
5 7 (9.86%) Google
5 7 (9.86%) Oracle
6 4 (5.63%) Informatica
7 3 (4.23%) Charles River
7 3 (4.23%) IBM
7 3 (4.23%) Micro Focus
7 3 (4.23%) OpenText
8 2 (2.82%) HP
8 2 (2.82%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.82%) TIBCO
9 1 (1.41%) Citrix
9 1 (1.41%) Databricks
9 1 (1.41%) Microsoft
9 1 (1.41%) Parasoft
9 1 (1.41%) SAP
9 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow