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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 530 506
Rank change year-on-year -70 -24 +107
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 79 27 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.082% 0.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.24% 0.53% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 21 36
10th Percentile £313 £350 £409
25th Percentile £350 £360 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £485 £535
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% -9.35% +25.88%
75th Percentile £506 £550 £600
90th Percentile £600 £600 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £406 £451 £450
% change year-on-year -10.16% +0.31% +7.46%

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 6,385 5,078 5,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.63% 15.33% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,076 3,421 3,180
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £689 £688 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 111 172
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.05 £31.43
25th Percentile £50.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £77.50 £73.98
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

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 2 October 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 12 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 2 October 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 -78 65 £430 -11.34% 21
UK excluding London -74 40 £406 -10.16% 8
London -64 32 £458 -8.50% 12
North of England - 15 £475 - 4
Yorkshire - 12 £475 - 4
Work from Home -69 11 £525 +5.00% 10
Scotland -22 7 £460 -8.00%
West Midlands -34 7 £366 -41.44%
Midlands -50 7 £366 -4.03%
South East - 7 £375 - 2
South West -31 5 - - 2
North West - 3 £451 -

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 5 (6.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.06%) Mule
2 4 (5.06%) Mule ESB
2 4 (5.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 33 (41.77%) Azure
2 23 (29.11%) AWS
3 18 (22.78%) GCP
4 12 (15.19%) GitHub
5 9 (11.39%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.80%) Datadog
7 3 (3.80%) SaaS
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.27%) Apigee
9 1 (1.27%) BlazeMeter
9 1 (1.27%) OCI
9 1 (1.27%) PaaS
9 1 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.86%) HTTP
2 2 (2.53%) Firewall
3 1 (1.27%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.66%) Tableau
2 4 (5.06%) Oracle Database
3 3 (3.80%) Big Data
3 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.53%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 60 (75.95%) JMeter
2 34 (43.04%) Gatling
3 15 (18.99%) NeoLoad
4 14 (17.72%) Jenkins
5 13 (16.46%) Postman
6 9 (11.39%) eggPlant
6 9 (11.39%) SoapUI
7 8 (10.13%) Git
7 8 (10.13%) Selenium
8 7 (8.86%) SonarQube
9 6 (7.59%) JIRA
9 6 (7.59%) REST Assured
10 5 (6.33%) Cucumber
10 5 (6.33%) GitLab
11 4 (5.06%) JUnit
11 4 (5.06%) TestNG
12 3 (3.80%) Appium
12 3 (3.80%) TestRail
12 3 (3.80%) Zephyr
13 2 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.05%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.66%) Banking
3 10 (12.66%) Finance
4 6 (7.59%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.53%) Billing
7 1 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 30 (37.97%) Lead
2 20 (25.32%) Test Leader
3 19 (24.05%) Tester
4 18 (22.78%) Test Engineer
5 17 (21.52%) Performance Engineer
6 12 (15.19%) Performance Test Engineer
6 12 (15.19%) Senior
7 11 (13.92%) Performance Tester
8 9 (11.39%) Performance Test Leader
9 6 (7.59%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (7.59%) Automation Test Lead
9 6 (7.59%) Senior Test Engineer
10 5 (6.33%) Lead Test Engineer
11 4 (5.06%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
11 4 (5.06%) Test Automation Engineer
12 3 (3.80%) Automation Tester
12 3 (3.80%) Consultant
12 3 (3.80%) Lead Tester
12 3 (3.80%) Performance Consultant
12 3 (3.80%) Performance Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.52%) Web Services
2 16 (20.25%) Kafka
3 11 (13.92%) Middleware
4 10 (12.66%) SOAP
5 7 (8.86%) HTML
6 6 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (7.59%) Oracle Fusion
6 6 (7.59%) Playwright
6 6 (7.59%) XML
7 5 (6.33%) .NET
8 4 (5.06%) REST
9 3 (3.80%) XBRL
10 2 (2.53%) Node.js
10 2 (2.53%) Quarkus
10 2 (2.53%) React
10 2 (2.53%) Spring
10 2 (2.53%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.53%) Terraform
11 1 (1.27%) JSON
11 1 (1.27%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Mobile App
2 7 (8.86%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.80%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.53%) Equities
6 2 (2.53%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.53%) PKI
7 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.27%) NHS
7 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.39%) Linux
2 5 (6.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (68.35%) Performance Testing
2 38 (48.10%) CI/CD
2 38 (48.10%) Test Strategy
3 35 (44.30%) DevOps
4 30 (37.97%) Test Automation
5 28 (35.44%) Non-Functional Testing
6 23 (29.11%) Agile
7 22 (27.85%) Test Scripting
8 20 (25.32%) Performance Engineering
9 19 (24.05%) End-to-End Testing
10 17 (21.52%) Scenario Testing
11 15 (18.99%) Mentoring
12 14 (17.72%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (13.92%) Containerisation
13 11 (13.92%) Disaster Recovery
14 10 (12.66%) Observability
14 10 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
15 9 (11.39%) Volume Testing
16 8 (10.13%) Security Testing
16 8 (10.13%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 31 (39.24%) Python
2 22 (27.85%) Java
3 20 (25.32%) JavaScript
4 13 (16.46%) SQL
5 5 (6.33%) Bash
6 4 (5.06%) Scala
7 3 (3.80%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.53%) C#
9 1 (1.27%) Cypher
9 1 (1.27%) Groovy
9 1 (1.27%) Korn
9 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (39.24%) Security Cleared
2 30 (37.97%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.13%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.80%) Degree
4 3 (3.80%) ISEB
5 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.53%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.19%) QA
2 6 (7.59%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 21 (26.58%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (25.32%) Kubernetes
2 14 (17.72%) Grafana
3 5 (6.33%) Control-M
3 5 (6.33%) HP Fortify
4 2 (2.53%) Ansible
4 2 (2.53%) Istio
4 2 (2.53%) Kibana
5 1 (1.27%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (37.97%) Dynatrace
2 19 (24.05%) AppDynamics
3 16 (20.25%) IBM
3 16 (20.25%) New Relic
3 16 (20.25%) Splunk
4 11 (13.92%) Oracle
5 6 (7.59%) Databricks
5 6 (7.59%) Google
6 5 (6.33%) SAP
7 4 (5.06%) Informatica
7 4 (5.06%) MuleSoft
7 4 (5.06%) TIBCO
8 3 (3.80%) Charles River
9 1 (1.27%) HP
9 1 (1.27%) Parasoft
9 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow