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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 592 506 506
Rank change year-on-year -86 0 +114
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 64 38 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.03% 0.78% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 32 41
10th Percentile £311 £355 £406
25th Percentile £381 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £500 £729 £600
90th Percentile £565 £798 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -19.05% -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 6,199 4,843 5,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.70% 14.76% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,977 3,281 3,331
10th Percentile £350 £322 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £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 258 105 220
10th Percentile £26.10 £23.65 £27.80
25th Percentile £55.00 £50.00 £46.23
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 £86.15 £84.65 £74.00
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 30 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 30 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 -96 53 £425 -20.93% 6
UK excluding London -66 39 £425 -19.05% 4
London -73 19 £428 -22.27% 2
South West -25 12 £450 +38.46%
Work from Home -55 12 £493 +1.03% 1
Midlands -50 10 £405 -25.44%
West Midlands -56 10 £405 -25.44%
North of England -65 7 £500 -2.44% 3
South East - 6 £313 - 1
Scotland -10 4 £480 -
Yorkshire -45 4 £663 +29.27% 2
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 2 (3.13%) Confluence
1 2 (3.13%) Mule
1 2 (3.13%) Mule ESB
2 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 27 (42.19%) Azure
2 20 (31.25%) AWS
3 12 (18.75%) GCP
4 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.25%) GitHub
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.13%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (3.13%) Datadog
5 2 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (3.13%) SaaS
6 1 (1.56%) Apigee
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.56%) OCI
6 1 (1.56%) PaaS
6 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) HTTP
2 2 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.56%) Neo4j
3 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (79.69%) JMeter
2 33 (51.56%) Gatling
3 11 (17.19%) NeoLoad
4 7 (10.94%) Postman
4 7 (10.94%) Selenium
5 6 (9.38%) Jenkins
5 6 (9.38%) REST Assured
6 5 (7.81%) Cucumber
7 4 (6.25%) Cypress.io
7 4 (6.25%) GitLab
7 4 (6.25%) JIRA
8 3 (4.69%) Appium
9 2 (3.13%) Burp Suite
9 2 (3.13%) Git
9 2 (3.13%) Gradle
9 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
9 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (3.13%) TestDirector
10 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
10 1 (1.56%) TestNG
General
1 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (6.25%) Finance
6 2 (3.13%) Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Billing
7 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Law
7 1 (1.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) Tester
2 15 (23.44%) Performance Engineer
3 14 (21.88%) Lead
4 13 (20.31%) Performance Tester
5 10 (15.63%) Test Leader
6 7 (10.94%) Senior
7 5 (7.81%) Performance Test Leader
8 3 (4.69%) Automation Tester
8 3 (4.69%) Consultant
8 3 (4.69%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Lead Tester
8 3 (4.69%) Performance Consultant
8 3 (4.69%) Performance Test Consultant
8 3 (4.69%) Performance Test Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Performance Tester
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Tester
8 3 (4.69%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Test Manager
9 2 (3.13%) Automation Test Lead
9 2 (3.13%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) Web Services
2 9 (14.06%) Playwright
3 6 (9.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (6.25%) REST
5 2 (3.13%) HTML
5 2 (3.13%) Node.js
5 2 (3.13%) Quarkus
5 2 (3.13%) React
5 2 (3.13%) Spring
5 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.56%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.56%) JDBC
6 1 (1.56%) JSON
6 1 (1.56%) ODBC
6 1 (1.56%) OLE
6 1 (1.56%) SOAP
6 1 (1.56%) Taurus
6 1 (1.56%) WireMock
6 1 (1.56%) XML
6 1 (1.56%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (14.06%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) Equities
3 2 (3.13%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.13%) PKI
4 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.56%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.56%) NHS
4 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (67.19%) Performance Testing
2 40 (62.50%) DevOps
3 39 (60.94%) CI/CD
4 24 (37.50%) Performance Engineering
5 19 (29.69%) Test Strategy
6 18 (28.13%) Agile
6 18 (28.13%) Non-Functional Testing
7 15 (23.44%) Test Automation
7 15 (23.44%) Test Scripting
8 13 (20.31%) Scenario Testing
9 9 (14.06%) End-to-End Testing
9 9 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
11 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (9.38%) Containerisation
12 6 (9.38%) Load Testing
12 6 (9.38%) Microservices
12 6 (9.38%) Operational Acceptance Testing
13 5 (7.81%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.44%) Java
2 13 (20.31%) Python
3 12 (18.75%) SQL
4 4 (6.25%) Bash
5 2 (3.13%) C#
5 2 (3.13%) Groovy
5 2 (3.13%) Scala
5 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.56%) C
6 1 (1.56%) Cypher
6 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.56%) Korn
6 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 11 (17.19%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Degree
5 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (28.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.94%) Grafana
3 3 (4.69%) Kibana
4 2 (3.13%) Ansible
4 2 (3.13%) Istio
4 2 (3.13%) Terraform
5 1 (1.56%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.56%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (42.19%) Dynatrace
2 25 (39.06%) AppDynamics
3 15 (23.44%) New Relic
4 14 (21.88%) Splunk
5 7 (10.94%) Google
6 6 (9.38%) Oracle
7 4 (6.25%) Informatica
8 3 (4.69%) Micro Focus
8 3 (4.69%) OpenText
9 2 (3.13%) Charles River
9 2 (3.13%) HP
9 2 (3.13%) MuleSoft
9 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
9 2 (3.13%) TIBCO
10 1 (1.56%) Citrix
10 1 (1.56%) Microsoft
10 1 (1.56%) Parasoft