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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 591 488 530
Rank change year-on-year -103 +42 +101
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 56 44 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.14% 0.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.92% 0.99% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 34 35
10th Percentile £306 £362 £406
25th Percentile £363 £433 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.30% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £473 £695 £600
90th Percentile £551 £798 £621
UK excluding London median daily rate £417 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -18.63% -5.09% +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 6,070 4,466 5,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.87% 14.62% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,915 2,983 3,543
10th Percentile £350 £331 £353
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £625
90th Percentile £688 £699 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 89 254
10th Percentile £26.05 £20.86 £31.39
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.59 £75.00
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 29 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 29 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 -105 49 £425 -15.00% 2
UK excluding London -85 36 £417 -18.63% 2
London -75 15 £425 -15.00%
South West -24 12 £450 +38.46%
Work from Home -59 11 £457 -3.64% 1
Midlands -49 10 £405 -12.07% 1
West Midlands -50 10 £405 -25.44% 1
North of England -67 7 £520 +1.46%
South East - 6 £313 - 1
Yorkshire -45 5 £540 +5.37%
North West -43 2 £500 -
Scotland -8 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 2 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 29 (51.79%) Azure
2 22 (39.29%) AWS
3 11 (19.64%) GCP
4 4 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.14%) GitHub
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.79%) Apigee
7 1 (1.79%) BlazeMeter
7 1 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.71%) HTTP
2 2 (3.57%) Firewall
3 1 (1.79%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) Neo4j
2 3 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 45 (80.36%) JMeter
2 32 (57.14%) Gatling
3 11 (19.64%) Postman
4 9 (16.07%) Jenkins
5 8 (14.29%) JIRA
5 8 (14.29%) NeoLoad
6 6 (10.71%) REST Assured
7 5 (8.93%) GitLab
8 4 (7.14%) Selenium
9 3 (5.36%) Appium
9 3 (5.36%) Cucumber
9 3 (5.36%) Cypress.io
10 2 (3.57%) Burp Suite
10 2 (3.57%) Git
10 2 (3.57%) Gradle
10 2 (3.57%) SonarQube
10 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (3.57%) TestDirector
11 1 (1.79%) Serenity BDD
11 1 (1.79%) TestRail
General
1 16 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.57%) Billing
4 2 (3.57%) Finance
5 1 (1.79%) Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.79%) Law
5 1 (1.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Tester
2 13 (23.21%) Performance Tester
3 12 (21.43%) Lead
3 12 (21.43%) Performance Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Senior
5 6 (10.71%) Test Leader
6 4 (7.14%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Lead Tester
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Performance Tester
7 3 (5.36%) Senior Tester
8 2 (3.57%) Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Lead Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Performance Test Leader
8 2 (3.57%) Test Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Test Automation Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Test Manager
9 1 (1.79%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (17.86%) Playwright
2 8 (14.29%) REST
2 8 (14.29%) Web Services
3 5 (8.93%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (7.14%) LDAP
4 4 (7.14%) OpenID
4 4 (7.14%) SailPoint
5 2 (3.57%) Node.js
5 2 (3.57%) Quarkus
5 2 (3.57%) React
5 2 (3.57%) Spring
5 2 (3.57%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.79%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.79%) JSON
6 1 (1.79%) OLE
6 1 (1.79%) RESTful
6 1 (1.79%) Taurus
6 1 (1.79%) WireMock
6 1 (1.79%) XML
6 1 (1.79%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Mobile App
2 6 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.93%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.36%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.57%) Equities
5 2 (3.57%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.57%) PKI
6 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.79%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (66.07%) CI/CD
2 35 (62.50%) DevOps
2 35 (62.50%) Performance Testing
3 24 (42.86%) Performance Engineering
4 17 (30.36%) Agile
5 15 (26.79%) Scenario Testing
5 15 (26.79%) Test Automation
6 14 (25.00%) Test Strategy
7 12 (21.43%) Test Scripting
8 10 (17.86%) Non-Functional Testing
9 9 (16.07%) Containerisation
10 8 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (14.29%) Volume Testing
11 7 (12.50%) Validation
12 6 (10.71%) Operational Acceptance Testing
12 6 (10.71%) Performance Monitoring
13 5 (8.93%) Microservices
13 5 (8.93%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (8.93%) Runbook
13 5 (8.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) Java
1 12 (21.43%) Python
2 11 (19.64%) SQL
3 5 (8.93%) TypeScript
4 4 (7.14%) Cypher
4 4 (7.14%) Scala
5 2 (3.57%) Bash
5 2 (3.57%) Groovy
6 1 (1.79%) C
6 1 (1.79%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (26.79%) Docker
2 4 (7.14%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Systems Management
1 17 (30.36%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.93%) Grafana
3 3 (5.36%) Kibana
4 2 (3.57%) Ansible
4 2 (3.57%) Istio
4 2 (3.57%) Terraform
5 1 (1.79%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.79%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.79%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (35.71%) Dynatrace
2 17 (30.36%) AppDynamics
3 12 (21.43%) New Relic
3 12 (21.43%) Splunk
4 5 (8.93%) Oracle
4 5 (8.93%) ServiceNow
5 4 (7.14%) Google
5 4 (7.14%) Informatica
6 3 (5.36%) Micro Focus
6 3 (5.36%) OpenText
7 2 (3.57%) Charles River
7 2 (3.57%) HP
8 1 (1.79%) Citrix
8 1 (1.79%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.79%) Parasoft