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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 516 493
Rank change year-on-year -70 -23 +136
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 81 36 72
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.11% 0.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.30% 0.73% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 29 41
10th Percentile £306 £343 £406
25th Percentile £355 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -5.66% +11.58%
75th Percentile £513 £600 £600
90th Percentile £605 £798 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £460 £540
% change year-on-year -7.61% -14.81% +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 6,218 4,950 5,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.62% 15.08% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,000 3,338 3,271
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 114 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £28.08 £25.99
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £46.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.97 £84.58 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +2.46%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 -90 69 £428 -16.18% 12
UK excluding London -83 45 £425 -7.61% 7
London -64 29 £440 -20.00% 5
North of England - 14 £488 - 3
Work from Home -59 13 £525 +14.13% 3
South West -27 12 £450 +38.46%
Yorkshire - 11 £488 - 1
West Midlands -47 9 £409 -24.61% 2
Midlands -51 9 £409 +1.55% 2
South East - 6 £313 - 2
Scotland -12 4 £480 -4.00%
North West - 3 £451 - 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 5 (6.17%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.47%) Mule
3 2 (2.47%) Mule ESB
4 1 (1.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 32 (39.51%) Azure
2 24 (29.63%) AWS
3 18 (22.22%) GCP
4 9 (11.11%) GitHub
5 6 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.70%) Datadog
7 3 (3.70%) SaaS
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.47%) BlazeMeter
8 2 (2.47%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.23%) Apigee
9 1 (1.23%) OCI
9 1 (1.23%) PaaS
9 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) HTTP
2 2 (2.47%) Firewall
3 1 (1.23%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.88%) Tableau
2 4 (4.94%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.47%) Big Data
4 2 (2.47%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 68 (83.95%) JMeter
2 40 (49.38%) Gatling
3 15 (18.52%) NeoLoad
4 12 (14.81%) Postman
5 11 (13.58%) Jenkins
6 8 (9.88%) Selenium
7 7 (8.64%) eggPlant
7 7 (8.64%) SoapUI
7 7 (8.64%) SonarQube
8 6 (7.41%) Git
8 6 (7.41%) REST Assured
9 5 (6.17%) Cucumber
9 5 (6.17%) GitLab
10 4 (4.94%) Cypress.io
11 3 (3.70%) Appium
12 2 (2.47%) Burp Suite
12 2 (2.47%) Gradle
12 2 (2.47%) JIRA
12 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (2.47%) TestDirector
General
1 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.69%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.35%) Finance
4 7 (8.64%) Banking
4 7 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.47%) Billing
7 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Law
7 1 (1.23%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (29.63%) Lead
2 22 (27.16%) Performance Engineer
3 19 (23.46%) Tester
4 16 (19.75%) Test Leader
5 13 (16.05%) Performance Tester
5 13 (16.05%) Test Engineer
6 10 (12.35%) Performance Test Engineer
6 10 (12.35%) Senior
7 9 (11.11%) Performance Test Leader
8 5 (6.17%) Automation Test Lead
9 4 (4.94%) Senior Test Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Automation Tester
10 3 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Lead Tester
10 3 (3.70%) Performance Consultant
10 3 (3.70%) Performance Test Consultant
10 3 (3.70%) Senior Performance Tester
10 3 (3.70%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.52%) Web Services
2 11 (13.58%) Kafka
3 9 (11.11%) Playwright
4 7 (8.64%) SOAP
5 6 (7.41%) Middleware
5 6 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (7.41%) XML
6 5 (6.17%) .NET
6 5 (6.17%) HTML
7 4 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (4.94%) REST
8 3 (3.70%) XBRL
9 2 (2.47%) Node.js
9 2 (2.47%) Quarkus
9 2 (2.47%) React
9 2 (2.47%) Spring
9 2 (2.47%) Spring Boot
9 2 (2.47%) Terraform
10 1 (1.23%) Taurus
10 1 (1.23%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.35%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 8 (9.88%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.47%) Equities
5 2 (2.47%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.47%) PKI
6 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.23%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.23%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.23%) NHS
6 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.11%) Linux
2 5 (6.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (67.90%) Performance Testing
2 48 (59.26%) CI/CD
3 44 (54.32%) DevOps
4 32 (39.51%) Test Strategy
5 28 (34.57%) Performance Engineering
6 25 (30.86%) Test Automation
7 22 (27.16%) Non-Functional Testing
8 20 (24.69%) Agile
8 20 (24.69%) Test Scripting
9 17 (20.99%) Scenario Testing
10 16 (19.75%) End-to-End Testing
11 13 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (13.58%) Observability
12 11 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (12.35%) Containerisation
13 10 (12.35%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (12.35%) Mentoring
14 8 (9.88%) Microservices
14 8 (9.88%) Volume Testing
15 7 (8.64%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (30.86%) Python
2 23 (28.40%) Java
3 17 (20.99%) SQL
4 12 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.17%) Bash
6 4 (4.94%) Scala
7 3 (3.70%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.47%) C#
8 2 (2.47%) Groovy
9 1 (1.23%) C
9 1 (1.23%) Cypher
9 1 (1.23%) Korn
9 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 24 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.64%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.70%) Degree
4 3 (3.70%) ISEB
4 3 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.88%) QA
2 6 (7.41%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 25 (30.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 24 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.05%) Grafana
3 5 (6.17%) HP Fortify
4 4 (4.94%) Control-M
5 3 (3.70%) Kibana
6 2 (2.47%) Ansible
6 2 (2.47%) Istio
7 1 (1.23%) HP ALM
7 1 (1.23%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (40.74%) Dynatrace
2 26 (32.10%) AppDynamics
3 21 (25.93%) New Relic
4 20 (24.69%) Splunk
5 11 (13.58%) IBM
5 11 (13.58%) Oracle
6 7 (8.64%) Google
7 5 (6.17%) SAP
8 4 (4.94%) Databricks
8 4 (4.94%) Informatica
9 3 (3.70%) Charles River
9 3 (3.70%) Micro Focus
9 3 (3.70%) OpenText
10 2 (2.47%) HP
10 2 (2.47%) MuleSoft
10 2 (2.47%) TIBCO
11 1 (1.23%) Citrix
11 1 (1.23%) Microsoft
11 1 (1.23%) Parasoft
11 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow