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 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 590 479 534
Rank change year-on-year -111 +55 +81
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 45 47 41
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.092% 0.16% 0.095%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.77% 1.11% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 35 27
10th Percentile £306 £340 £389
25th Percentile £363 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £473 £684 £565
90th Percentile £559 £798 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £417 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -16.60% -7.41% +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 5,838 4,232 5,155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.62% 11.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,797 2,835 3,455
10th Percentile £350 £340 £351
25th Percentile £410 £410 £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 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 75 224
10th Percentile £35.00 £20.85 £26.77
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.21 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £81.78 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -125 41 £425 -15.00% 9
UK excluding London -83 31 £417 -16.60% 6
South West -18 12 £450 +38.46%
London -85 12 £425 -15.00% 2
Midlands -53 8 £409 -3.88% 4
West Midlands -54 8 £409 -24.61% 4
Work from Home -50 6 £500 +5.54% 4
North of England -77 6 £540 +5.37% 1
Yorkshire -58 5 £540 +5.37% 1
South East - 4 £313 -
Scotland -2 1 - -
North West -43 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 (2.22%) Confluence
1 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 19 (42.22%) Azure
2 17 (37.78%) AWS
3 10 (22.22%) GCP
4 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) GitHub
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.22%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) HTTP
2 1 (2.22%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Neo4j
2 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (84.44%) JMeter
2 27 (60.00%) Gatling
3 10 (22.22%) Postman
4 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
4 7 (15.56%) JIRA
5 5 (11.11%) GitLab
5 5 (11.11%) NeoLoad
5 5 (11.11%) REST Assured
6 4 (8.89%) Selenium
7 3 (6.67%) Appium
7 3 (6.67%) Cypress.io
8 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.22%) Git
9 1 (2.22%) Gradle
9 1 (2.22%) JUnit
9 1 (2.22%) SoapUI
9 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
9 1 (2.22%) TestNG
9 1 (2.22%) Zephyr
General
1 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.44%) Finance
6 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Performance Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Tester
3 10 (22.22%) Lead
4 9 (20.00%) Performance Tester
5 7 (15.56%) Senior
6 4 (8.89%) Automation Test Lead
6 4 (8.89%) Test Leader
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Performance Tester
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Tester
8 2 (4.44%) Architect
8 2 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Lead Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Lead Tester
8 2 (4.44%) Test Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Test Automation Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Test Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Test Manager
9 1 (2.22%) Consultant
9 1 (2.22%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.00%) Playwright
2 8 (17.78%) REST
3 6 (13.33%) Web Services
4 4 (8.89%) LDAP
4 4 (8.89%) OpenID
4 4 (8.89%) SailPoint
5 3 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (2.22%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.22%) JDBC
6 1 (2.22%) Node.js
6 1 (2.22%) ODBC
6 1 (2.22%) OLE
6 1 (2.22%) Quarkus
6 1 (2.22%) React
6 1 (2.22%) RESTful
6 1 (2.22%) Spring
6 1 (2.22%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.22%) Taurus
6 1 (2.22%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Mobile App
2 6 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.44%) Equities
5 2 (4.44%) Fixed Income
6 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.22%) PKI
6 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 28 (62.22%) DevOps
3 26 (57.78%) Performance Testing
4 20 (44.44%) Performance Engineering
5 14 (31.11%) Test Automation
6 13 (28.89%) Agile
7 11 (24.44%) Scenario Testing
7 11 (24.44%) Test Strategy
8 10 (22.22%) Test Scripting
9 8 (17.78%) Containerisation
9 8 (17.78%) Non-Functional Testing
10 6 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (13.33%) Validation
10 6 (13.33%) Volume Testing
11 5 (11.11%) Data Validation
11 5 (11.11%) Microservices
11 5 (11.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
11 5 (11.11%) Runbook
11 5 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) Java
1 11 (24.44%) Python
1 11 (24.44%) SQL
2 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 4 (8.89%) Cypher
3 4 (8.89%) Scala
4 2 (4.44%) Groovy
5 1 (2.22%) Bash
5 1 (2.22%) C
5 1 (2.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (31.11%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 15 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (11.11%) Grafana
3 3 (6.67%) Kibana
4 1 (2.22%) Ansible
4 1 (2.22%) HP ALM
4 1 (2.22%) Istio
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Dynatrace
2 15 (33.33%) AppDynamics
3 12 (26.67%) New Relic
3 12 (26.67%) Splunk
4 5 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 4 (8.89%) Google
6 3 (6.67%) Micro Focus
6 3 (6.67%) OpenText
6 3 (6.67%) Oracle
7 2 (4.44%) Charles River
8 1 (2.22%) Citrix
8 1 (2.22%) HP
8 1 (2.22%) Microsoft
8 1 (2.22%) Parasoft