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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 539 490 593
Rank change year-on-year -49 +103 +164
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 16 62 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.048% 0.17% 0.090%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.31% 1.27% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 37 34
10th Percentile £350 £410 £400
25th Percentile £360 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +15.79% -3.06%
75th Percentile £520 £600 £622
90th Percentile £565 £678 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £360 £525 £489
% change year-on-year -31.43% +7.36% +15.06%

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 5,167 4,898 6,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 13.21% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,510 3,049 4,428
10th Percentile £327 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -1.08%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -3.06% -4.39% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 160 237
10th Percentile £20.95 £26.22 £45.88
25th Percentile £44.74 £49.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £77.25 £74.00 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LoadRunner over the 6 months to 24 October 2025.

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

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Top 8 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 October 2025. 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 -59 14 £403 -29.96% 50
London -21 9 £535 -2.73% 22
Work from Home +12 5 £500 - 41
UK excluding London -35 5 £360 -31.43% 40
Midlands -30 3 £360 -51.19% 3
East Midlands - 3 £360 - 2
Scotland - 1 £500 -
East of England - 1 £200 - 12

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
2 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) JMeter
2 6 (37.50%) Gatling
3 5 (31.25%) Postman
4 4 (25.00%) Selenium
5 3 (18.75%) Git
5 3 (18.75%) JIRA
5 3 (18.75%) JUnit
6 2 (12.50%) GitLab
6 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
7 1 (6.25%) Appium
7 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
7 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
7 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
7 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
7 1 (6.25%) HP UFT
7 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
7 1 (6.25%) Maven
7 1 (6.25%) NeoLoad
7 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
7 1 (6.25%) TestNG
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Retail
3 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
5 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) SOAP
3 2 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (6.25%) DOM
4 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) Middleware
4 1 (6.25%) Playwright
4 1 (6.25%) Semantic HTML
4 1 (6.25%) Visualforce
4 1 (6.25%) Web Services
4 1 (6.25%) XML
4 1 (6.25%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.25%) Reinsurance
2 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Test Automation
2 10 (62.50%) Test Strategy
3 9 (56.25%) API Testing
4 8 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 8 (50.00%) Performance Testing
5 7 (43.75%) Load Testing
5 7 (43.75%) Test Scripting
6 6 (37.50%) DevOps
6 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (37.50%) Scenario Testing
7 5 (31.25%) Agile
7 5 (31.25%) Functional Testing
7 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 4 (25.00%) Regression Testing
9 3 (18.75%) Integration Testing
9 3 (18.75%) Low Latency
9 3 (18.75%) User Experience
9 3 (18.75%) User Stories
9 3 (18.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (18.75%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) Apex Code
4 2 (12.50%) C#
4 2 (12.50%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
1 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kibana
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (6.25%) Grafana
3 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) AppDynamics
1 5 (31.25%) Dynatrace
1 5 (31.25%) New Relic
1 5 (31.25%) Splunk
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) BeyondTrust
3 1 (6.25%) CyberArk
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle