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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 473 550
Rank change year-on-year -110 +77 +90
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 42 46 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.088% 0.16% 0.087%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.73% 1.11% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 34 26
10th Percentile £306 £383 £388
25th Percentile £363 £433 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £475 £695 £548
90th Percentile £560 £798 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -12.20% -5.09% +2.86%

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 5,777 4,146 5,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.11% 14.26% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,778 2,775 3,435
10th Percentile £349 £338 £354
25th Percentile £408 £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 241 72 204
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.33 £32.10
25th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £79.04
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £61.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.76% -5.38% +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 15 May 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 14 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 15 May 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 -127 37 £425 -15.00% 6
UK excluding London -85 28 £450 -12.20% 4
South West -19 12 £450 +38.46%
London -81 11 £425 -15.00% 3
Work from Home -33 7 £500 +8.70%
North of England -63 6 £540 +5.37%
Yorkshire -54 5 £540 +5.37%
West Midlands -58 5 £413 -23.96% 2
Midlands -65 5 £413 -3.06% 2
South East - 3 £313 - 1
Scotland +2 1 - -
East of England -36 1 £450 -25.00% 1
North West -36 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 (2.38%) Confluence
1 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 16 (38.10%) AWS
1 16 (38.10%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) GCP
3 4 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) GitHub
6 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.38%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) HTTP
2 1 (2.38%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Neo4j
2 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 37 (88.10%) JMeter
2 29 (69.05%) Gatling
3 10 (23.81%) Postman
4 8 (19.05%) Jenkins
5 7 (16.67%) JIRA
6 5 (11.90%) GitLab
6 5 (11.90%) REST Assured
6 5 (11.90%) Selenium
7 4 (9.52%) NeoLoad
8 3 (7.14%) Appium
8 3 (7.14%) Cypress.io
9 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
9 2 (4.76%) Git
10 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
10 1 (2.38%) Gradle
10 1 (2.38%) JUnit
10 1 (2.38%) SoapUI
10 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
10 1 (2.38%) TestNG
10 1 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.76%) Finance
6 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Performance Engineer
2 12 (28.57%) Tester
3 10 (23.81%) Performance Tester
4 8 (19.05%) Lead
5 5 (11.90%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Performance Tester
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Tester
6 3 (7.14%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Architect
7 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Lead Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Lead Tester
7 2 (4.76%) Test Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Test Automation Architect
7 2 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Test Leader
7 2 (4.76%) Test Manager
8 1 (2.38%) Quality Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) Playwright
2 8 (19.05%) REST
3 4 (9.52%) LDAP
3 4 (9.52%) OpenID
3 4 (9.52%) SailPoint
4 3 (7.14%) Web Services
5 2 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (2.38%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.38%) JDBC
6 1 (2.38%) Kafka
6 1 (2.38%) Node.js
6 1 (2.38%) ODBC
6 1 (2.38%) Quarkus
6 1 (2.38%) React
6 1 (2.38%) Spring
6 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.38%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
1 5 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.38%) Equities
4 1 (2.38%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.38%) PKI
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (73.81%) CI/CD
2 28 (66.67%) DevOps
3 24 (57.14%) Performance Testing
4 17 (40.48%) Performance Engineering
5 15 (35.71%) Agile
6 13 (30.95%) Test Automation
7 10 (23.81%) Test Strategy
8 9 (21.43%) Scenario Testing
8 9 (21.43%) Test Scripting
9 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 7 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
10 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (14.29%) Validation
11 5 (11.90%) Data Validation
11 5 (11.90%) Microservices
11 5 (11.90%) Operational Acceptance Testing
11 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (11.90%) Runbook
11 5 (11.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 5 (11.90%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.19%) Java
1 11 (26.19%) SQL
2 10 (23.81%) Python
3 5 (11.90%) TypeScript
4 4 (9.52%) Cypher
4 4 (9.52%) Scala
5 1 (2.38%) Bash
5 1 (2.38%) C
5 1 (2.38%) C#
5 1 (2.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) Docker
2 4 (9.52%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 14 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.29%) Grafana
3 3 (7.14%) Kibana
4 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.38%) Ansible
5 1 (2.38%) HP ALM
5 1 (2.38%) Istio
5 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (38.10%) Dynatrace
2 15 (35.71%) AppDynamics
3 13 (30.95%) New Relic
3 13 (30.95%) Splunk
4 5 (11.90%) ServiceNow
5 4 (9.52%) Google
6 3 (7.14%) Micro Focus
6 3 (7.14%) OpenText
7 2 (4.76%) Oracle
8 1 (2.38%) Charles River
8 1 (2.38%) Citrix
8 1 (2.38%) HP
8 1 (2.38%) Microsoft