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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 498 549
Rank change year-on-year -80 +51 +105
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 30 34 47
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.52% 0.84% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 23 38
10th Percentile £306 £393 £437
25th Percentile £320 £478 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -9.68% +16.25%
75th Percentile £458 £752 £623
90th Percentile £543 £798 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £320 £513 £615
% change year-on-year -37.56% -16.67% +23.00%

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 5,780 4,049 5,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.50% 13.74% 11.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 2,671 3,586
10th Percentile £342 £330 £357
25th Percentile £405 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £627
90th Percentile £688 £725 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 69 202
10th Percentile £33.58 £24.17 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.94 £71.25 £70.94
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -95 26 £388 -26.19% 7
UK excluding London -80 22 £320 -37.56% 4
South East - 9 £313 - 1
Work from Home -29 5 £457 -6.36% 2
London -63 5 £425 -19.05% 3
South West - 5 £450 - 1
Yorkshire -55 4 £540 -4.00%
North of England -67 4 £540 -4.00%
Midlands -65 2 £413 +26.73% 2
West Midlands - 2 £413 - 1
East of England - 1 £450 -
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 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) AWS
2 10 (33.33%) Azure
3 7 (23.33%) GCP
4 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
5 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.33%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Neo4j
2 3 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (96.67%) JMeter
2 25 (83.33%) Gatling
3 7 (23.33%) Jenkins
4 6 (20.00%) GitLab
4 6 (20.00%) JIRA
4 6 (20.00%) Postman
5 4 (13.33%) NeoLoad
6 2 (6.67%) Selenium
7 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
7 1 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.33%) Git
7 1 (3.33%) JUnit
7 1 (3.33%) Locust
7 1 (3.33%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.33%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
7 1 (3.33%) TestNG
7 1 (3.33%) TestRail
7 1 (3.33%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Tester
2 8 (26.67%) Performance Tester
3 6 (20.00%) Performance Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Lead
5 4 (13.33%) Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Performance Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Senior
5 4 (13.33%) Test Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Testing Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Performance Tester
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Tester
7 2 (6.67%) Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Automation Test Lead
7 2 (6.67%) Lead Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Lead Tester
7 2 (6.67%) Test Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Test Automation Architect
7 2 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Manager
8 1 (3.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Playwright
1 5 (16.67%) REST
2 4 (13.33%) LDAP
2 4 (13.33%) OpenID
2 4 (13.33%) SailPoint
3 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.33%) JDBC
3 1 (3.33%) Kafka
3 1 (3.33%) ODBC
3 1 (3.33%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 22 (73.33%) Performance Testing
3 16 (53.33%) DevOps
4 15 (50.00%) Test Strategy
5 14 (46.67%) Agile
6 10 (33.33%) Test Automation
7 8 (26.67%) Performance Engineering
7 8 (26.67%) Performance Metrics
7 8 (26.67%) Test Scripting
8 7 (23.33%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 6 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
9 6 (20.00%) Validation
10 5 (16.67%) Incident Response
10 5 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
10 5 (16.67%) Runbook
10 5 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (16.67%) Task Automation
10 5 (16.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) Python
2 7 (23.33%) Java
3 6 (20.00%) SQL
4 5 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 4 (13.33%) Cypher
5 4 (13.33%) Scala
6 1 (3.33%) Bash
6 1 (3.33%) C
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
2 4 (13.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Grafana
2 7 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 7 (23.33%) Prometheus
3 5 (16.67%) Ansible
3 5 (16.67%) Terraform
4 3 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) AppDynamics
2 8 (26.67%) Dynatrace
3 7 (23.33%) New Relic
4 6 (20.00%) Splunk
5 5 (16.67%) ServiceNow
6 4 (13.33%) Google
7 1 (3.33%) Citrix
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft