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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 477 541
Rank change year-on-year -115 +64 +99
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 38 46 54
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.083% 0.16% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.65% 1.13% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 33 40
10th Percentile £306 £382 £417
25th Percentile £320 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £529
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -5.48% +0.76%
75th Percentile £463 £706 £623
90th Percentile £551 £798 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £360 £513 £545
% change year-on-year -29.76% -5.96% +3.81%

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 5,806 4,071 5,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.69% 13.93% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,858 2,735 3,486
10th Percentile £340 £340 £357
25th Percentile £405 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £723 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 72 174
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.28 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.68 £51.20 £41.96
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +3.69% -0.81%
75th Percentile £75.44 £75.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.10 £82.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £62.25
% change year-on-year +4.65% +3.61% +1.22%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -109 34 £400 -21.95% 15
UK excluding London -88 27 £360 -29.76% 8
South West -22 9 £450 +38.46% 1
South East - 9 £313 - 3
London -92 8 £425 -15.00% 7
Work from Home -40 6 £460 +1.10% 4
Yorkshire -50 4 £540 +2.86%
North of England -69 4 £540 +2.86%
West Midlands -60 3 £425 -7.61% 2
Midlands -64 3 £425 +8.70% 3
East of England -34 1 £450 -25.00% 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 1 (2.63%) Confluence
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (42.11%) AWS
2 13 (34.21%) Azure
3 10 (26.32%) GCP
4 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.63%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Neo4j
2 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (97.37%) JMeter
2 30 (78.95%) Gatling
3 10 (26.32%) Postman
4 7 (18.42%) Jenkins
4 7 (18.42%) JIRA
5 6 (15.79%) GitLab
6 5 (13.16%) Selenium
7 4 (10.53%) NeoLoad
7 4 (10.53%) REST Assured
8 3 (7.89%) Appium
8 3 (7.89%) Cypress.io
9 1 (2.63%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.63%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.63%) Locust
9 1 (2.63%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (2.63%) SoapUI
9 1 (2.63%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.63%) TestNG
9 1 (2.63%) TestRail
9 1 (2.63%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
1 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Performance Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Tester
3 9 (23.68%) Performance Tester
4 6 (15.79%) Lead
5 4 (10.53%) Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Performance Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Senior
5 4 (10.53%) Testing Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Performance Tester
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Tester
6 3 (7.89%) Test Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Automation Test Lead
7 2 (5.26%) Lead Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Lead Tester
7 2 (5.26%) Test Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Test Automation Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Test Manager
8 1 (2.63%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) Playwright
1 8 (21.05%) REST
2 4 (10.53%) LDAP
2 4 (10.53%) OpenID
2 4 (10.53%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.63%) Gherkin
3 1 (2.63%) JDBC
3 1 (2.63%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) ODBC
3 1 (2.63%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Cloud Native
1 5 (13.16%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.89%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (81.58%) CI/CD
2 25 (65.79%) Performance Testing
3 22 (57.89%) DevOps
4 15 (39.47%) Test Strategy
5 14 (36.84%) Agile
6 13 (34.21%) Performance Engineering
7 12 (31.58%) Test Automation
8 9 (23.68%) Test Scripting
9 8 (21.05%) Performance Metrics
10 7 (18.42%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (18.42%) Scenario Testing
11 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
11 6 (15.79%) Validation
12 5 (13.16%) Data Validation
12 5 (13.16%) Incident Response
12 5 (13.16%) Non-Functional Testing
12 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (13.16%) Runbook
12 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 5 (13.16%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) Python
2 10 (26.32%) Java
3 9 (23.68%) SQL
4 5 (13.16%) TypeScript
5 4 (10.53%) Cypher
5 4 (10.53%) Scala
6 1 (2.63%) Bash
6 1 (2.63%) C
6 1 (2.63%) C#
6 1 (2.63%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Docker
2 4 (10.53%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Grafana
1 11 (28.95%) Kubernetes
2 7 (18.42%) Prometheus
3 5 (13.16%) Ansible
3 5 (13.16%) Terraform
4 3 (7.89%) Kibana
5 1 (2.63%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) AppDynamics
2 12 (31.58%) Dynatrace
3 11 (28.95%) New Relic
4 10 (26.32%) Splunk
5 5 (13.16%) ServiceNow
6 4 (10.53%) Google
7 3 (7.89%) Micro Focus
7 3 (7.89%) OpenText
8 1 (2.63%) Citrix
8 1 (2.63%) HP
8 1 (2.63%) Microsoft