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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 495 550
Rank change year-on-year -72 +55 +138
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 23 35 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.42% 0.82% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 35
10th Percentile £317 £391 £426
25th Percentile £320 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% -6.19% +10.18%
75th Percentile £453 £575 £623
90th Percentile £563 £600 £632
UK excluding London median daily rate £360 £500 £613
% change year-on-year -28.00% -18.37% +28.95%

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 5,474 4,269 5,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.20% 13.59% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,758 2,676 3,818
10th Percentile £344 £340 £363
25th Percentile £406 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 67 209
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.40 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £47.50 £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 £76.53
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.75 £89.00
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

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 1 February 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 10 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 1 February 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 -69 20 £360 -28.00% 9
UK excluding London -56 14 £360 -28.00% 5
South East -13 6 £320 -23.58%
London -48 5 £700 +43.59% 4
Work from Home -11 4 £453 -7.08% 4
Yorkshire -51 4 £540 -4.00% 3
North of England -62 4 £540 -4.00% 3
East Midlands -22 3 £360 +10.60% 1
Midlands -52 3 £360 -7.93% 1
East of England - 1 £450 - 1

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 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 7 (30.43%) AWS
3 6 (26.09%) GCP
4 4 (17.39%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Neo4j
2 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (78.26%) JMeter
2 15 (65.22%) Gatling
3 6 (26.09%) GitLab
4 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
4 5 (21.74%) JIRA
4 5 (21.74%) NeoLoad
4 5 (21.74%) Postman
5 2 (8.70%) Git
5 2 (8.70%) Selenium
6 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
6 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.35%) JUnit
6 1 (4.35%) Locust
6 1 (4.35%) Maven
6 1 (4.35%) REST Assured
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Test Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Performance Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Performance Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Performance Tester
3 4 (17.39%) Tester
3 4 (17.39%) Testing Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Performance Test Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Automation Test Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Lead Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Test Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Test Automation Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) LDAP
2 4 (17.39%) OpenID
2 4 (17.39%) Playwright
2 4 (17.39%) SailPoint
3 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Middleware
3 1 (4.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Test Strategy
2 14 (60.87%) Performance Testing
2 14 (60.87%) Test Automation
3 12 (52.17%) CI/CD
4 10 (43.48%) DevOps
5 8 (34.78%) Agile
5 8 (34.78%) Non-Functional Testing
5 8 (34.78%) Scenario Testing
6 7 (30.43%) API Testing
7 6 (26.09%) Performance Metrics
7 6 (26.09%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (26.09%) Validation
8 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
8 5 (21.74%) Incident Response
8 5 (21.74%) Load Testing
8 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (21.74%) Task Automation
8 5 (21.74%) Test Scripting
9 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
9 4 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) Cypher
4 4 (17.39%) Scala
4 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Grafana
1 8 (34.78%) Prometheus
2 5 (21.74%) Ansible
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 4 (17.39%) Kibana
4 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) New Relic
1 6 (26.09%) Splunk
2 5 (21.74%) AppDynamics
2 5 (21.74%) Dynatrace
3 4 (17.39%) ServiceNow
4 2 (8.70%) Google
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.35%) HP
5 1 (4.35%) OpenAI
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle