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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 516 517
Rank change year-on-year -94 +1 +103
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 55 39 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.89% 0.81% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 41
10th Percentile £306 £355 £406
25th Percentile £361 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £481 £729 £600
90th Percentile £536 £798 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -23.43% -2.78% +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 6,204 4,807 5,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.76% 14.71% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,984 3,237 3,406
10th Percentile £350 £325 £351
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £595 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 104 229
10th Percentile £26.10 £23.25 £27.60
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £84.80 £73.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -97 50 £417 -22.42% 8
UK excluding London -87 34 £402 -23.43% 6
London -85 18 £428 -22.27% 2
South West -30 12 £450 +38.46%
Midlands -44 10 £405 -25.44%
West Midlands -53 10 £405 -25.44%
Work from Home -57 9 £455 -6.67% 1
South East - 6 £313 - 2
North of England -62 5 £500 -2.44% 4
North West - 3 £451 - 2
Yorkshire -45 2 £700 +36.59% 2
Scotland -10 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 (3.64%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 26 (47.27%) Azure
2 19 (34.55%) AWS
3 9 (16.36%) GCP
4 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.27%) GitHub
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.64%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (3.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.82%) Apigee
6 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) HTTP
2 2 (3.64%) Firewall
3 1 (1.82%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (80.00%) JMeter
2 29 (52.73%) Gatling
3 7 (12.73%) NeoLoad
3 7 (12.73%) Postman
4 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
4 6 (10.91%) REST Assured
5 4 (7.27%) JIRA
5 4 (7.27%) Selenium
6 3 (5.45%) Appium
6 3 (5.45%) Cucumber
6 3 (5.45%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.64%) Burp Suite
7 2 (3.64%) Git
7 2 (3.64%) Gradle
7 2 (3.64%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (3.64%) TestDirector
8 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.82%) JUnit
8 1 (1.82%) SoapUI
General
1 18 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.45%) Finance
6 2 (3.64%) Banking
6 2 (3.64%) Billing
7 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Law
7 1 (1.82%) Police
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Tester
2 13 (23.64%) Performance Engineer
2 13 (23.64%) Performance Tester
3 11 (20.00%) Lead
4 7 (12.73%) Senior
4 7 (12.73%) Test Leader
5 3 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.45%) Lead Tester
5 3 (5.45%) Senior Performance Tester
5 3 (5.45%) Senior Tester
6 2 (3.64%) Automation Test Lead
6 2 (3.64%) Consultant
6 2 (3.64%) Performance Consultant
6 2 (3.64%) Performance Test Consultant
6 2 (3.64%) Performance Test Leader
6 2 (3.64%) Test Manager
7 1 (1.82%) Automation Tester
7 1 (1.82%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) Junior QA Tester
7 1 (1.82%) Performance Engineering Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.55%) Web Services
2 6 (10.91%) Playwright
3 5 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (7.27%) REST
5 2 (3.64%) Node.js
5 2 (3.64%) Quarkus
5 2 (3.64%) React
5 2 (3.64%) Spring
5 2 (3.64%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.82%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.82%) JDBC
6 1 (1.82%) JSON
6 1 (1.82%) ODBC
6 1 (1.82%) OLE
6 1 (1.82%) RESTful
6 1 (1.82%) SOAP
6 1 (1.82%) Taurus
6 1 (1.82%) WireMock
6 1 (1.82%) XML
6 1 (1.82%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Mobile App
2 8 (14.55%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.64%) Equities
4 2 (3.64%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.64%) PKI
5 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.82%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (69.09%) Performance Testing
2 35 (63.64%) DevOps
3 34 (61.82%) CI/CD
4 24 (43.64%) Performance Engineering
5 15 (27.27%) Agile
6 14 (25.45%) Test Strategy
7 13 (23.64%) Scenario Testing
7 13 (23.64%) Test Scripting
8 12 (21.82%) Test Automation
9 11 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
10 8 (14.55%) End-to-End Testing
10 8 (14.55%) Performance Monitoring
10 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (10.91%) Load Testing
11 6 (10.91%) Microservices
11 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (9.09%) Operational Acceptance Testing
12 5 (9.09%) Performance Metrics
12 5 (9.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.82%) SQL
2 9 (16.36%) Java
2 9 (16.36%) Python
3 2 (3.64%) Bash
3 2 (3.64%) Groovy
4 1 (1.82%) C
4 1 (1.82%) C#
4 1 (1.82%) Korn
4 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.27%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) Degree
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.73%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (30.91%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.73%) Grafana
3 3 (5.45%) Kibana
4 2 (3.64%) Ansible
4 2 (3.64%) Istio
4 2 (3.64%) Terraform
5 1 (1.82%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.82%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (41.82%) Dynatrace
2 20 (36.36%) AppDynamics
3 14 (25.45%) New Relic
3 14 (25.45%) Splunk
4 5 (9.09%) Oracle
5 4 (7.27%) Google
5 4 (7.27%) Informatica
6 3 (5.45%) Micro Focus
6 3 (5.45%) OpenText
7 2 (3.64%) Charles River
7 2 (3.64%) HP
8 1 (1.82%) Citrix
8 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.82%) Parasoft
8 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow