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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 483 541
Rank change year-on-year -85 +58 +161
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 20 33 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.055% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.38% 0.78% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 39
10th Percentile £316 £398 £413
25th Percentile £320 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £515 £533
Median % change year-on-year -30.10% -3.38% +9.33%
75th Percentile £481 £600 £623
90th Percentile £520 £647 £626
UK excluding London median daily rate £320 £450 £573
% change year-on-year -28.89% -21.43% +34.76%

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 5,324 4,242 5,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.63% 13.35% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,647 2,671 3,762
10th Percentile £338 £331 £363
25th Percentile £406 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £513
% change year-on-year -0.42% -6.93% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 72 198
10th Percentile £39.00 £28.88 £43.59
25th Percentile £52.50 £46.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.26
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.15 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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 11 January 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

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Top 9 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 January 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 -58 17 £350 -32.04% 5
UK excluding London -57 11 £320 -28.89% 6
South East -3 6 £320 -23.58%
London -21 6 £610 +18.45%
Work from Home -13 3 £451 -24.77% 3
East Midlands -20 3 £360 +38.46%
Midlands -39 3 £360 -51.19%
Scotland - 1 £500 - 1
East of England - 1 £450 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (65.00%) JMeter
2 10 (50.00%) Gatling
3 3 (15.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) GitLab
3 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) Postman
3 3 (15.00%) Selenium
4 2 (10.00%) JIRA
4 2 (10.00%) JUnit
4 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (5.00%) CircleCI
5 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.00%) HP UFT
5 1 (5.00%) Locust
5 1 (5.00%) Maven
5 1 (5.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 4 (20.00%) Finance
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Performance Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Performance Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Testing Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Performance Test Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Tester
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) REST
2 2 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (10.00%) SOAP
3 1 (5.00%) DOM
3 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Middleware
3 1 (5.00%) Playwright
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) Semantic HTML
3 1 (5.00%) Visualforce
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
3 1 (5.00%) XML
3 1 (5.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 13 (65.00%) Performance Testing
2 13 (65.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
4 8 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 7 (35.00%) API Testing
5 7 (35.00%) DevOps
6 6 (30.00%) Agile
6 6 (30.00%) Load Testing
6 6 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (30.00%) Scenario Testing
7 5 (25.00%) Incident Response
7 5 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
7 5 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (25.00%) Task Automation
8 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (20.00%) Test Scripting
9 3 (15.00%) Functional Testing
9 3 (15.00%) Regression Testing
9 3 (15.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) Apex Code
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Grafana
1 7 (35.00%) Prometheus
2 5 (25.00%) Ansible
2 5 (25.00%) Terraform
3 4 (20.00%) Kibana
4 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) New Relic
1 6 (30.00%) Splunk
2 5 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 5 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.00%) HP
4 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle