LoadRunner Contract Job Trends

HP LoadRunner
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring LoadRunner skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 496 623
Rank change year-on-year -41 +127 +144
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 31 63 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.094% 0.16% 0.057%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.62% 1.23% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 38 23
10th Percentile £324 £406 £355
25th Percentile £360 £435 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.01% +14.44% -7.69%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £563
90th Percentile £600 £664 £714
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £419
% change year-on-year +2.22% +7.46% -1.47%

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 5,003 5,115 6,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 13.28% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,364 3,269 4,608
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 176 245
10th Percentile £31.28 £28.62 £46.00
25th Percentile £50.75 £51.19 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £87.05 £72.81 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LoadRunner as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LoadRunner 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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LoadRunner in the UK

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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 10 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 18 September 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 -12 28 £485 -8.49% 7
London -5 15 £500 -7.41% 3
UK excluding London -7 13 £460 +2.22% 5
Work from Home +22 10 £460 -8.00% 7
East of England - 6 £600 - 1
Midlands -15 5 £403 -45.39%
East Midlands - 3 £360 -
West Midlands -12 2 £543 -26.44%
South West +22 1 £325 -27.78%
Scotland - 1 £500 -

LoadRunner
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) IIS
Business Applications
1 5 (16.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (12.90%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (19.35%) GitHub
3 3 (9.68%) Tricentis Tosca
4 2 (6.45%) AWS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.23%) GCP
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
1 2 (6.45%) MySQL
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (64.52%) JMeter
2 10 (32.26%) Gatling
3 9 (29.03%) JIRA
4 8 (25.81%) Postman
5 7 (22.58%) NeoLoad
6 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
6 6 (19.35%) Selenium
7 4 (12.90%) Git
7 4 (12.90%) JUnit
7 4 (12.90%) REST Assured
8 2 (6.45%) Appium
8 2 (6.45%) Cypress.io
8 2 (6.45%) GitLab
8 2 (6.45%) TestNG
9 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
9 1 (3.23%) CircleCI
9 1 (3.23%) Cucumber
9 1 (3.23%) HP UFT
9 1 (3.23%) SoapUI
9 1 (3.23%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Finance
4 6 (19.35%) Banking
5 5 (16.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (6.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.23%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Police
7 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Retail
7 1 (3.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Lead
2 8 (25.81%) Test Leader
3 7 (22.58%) Test Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Tester
4 4 (12.90%) Performance Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Performance Tester
5 3 (9.68%) Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) QA Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Test Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Automation Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Performance Test Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Test Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Performance Test Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Performance Test Leader
7 1 (3.23%) SAP Test Manager
7 1 (3.23%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) REST
2 3 (9.68%) RESTful
2 3 (9.68%) SOAP
3 2 (6.45%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (6.45%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (6.45%) Playwright
4 1 (3.23%) DOM
4 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.23%) HTML
4 1 (3.23%) Middleware
4 1 (3.23%) Semantic HTML
4 1 (3.23%) Visualforce
4 1 (3.23%) Web Services
4 1 (3.23%) WebSockets
4 1 (3.23%) XML
4 1 (3.23%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) FMCG
1 5 (16.13%) Life Science
2 2 (6.45%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.23%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.23%) SCADA
3 1 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) Test Automation
2 17 (54.84%) Performance Testing
3 15 (48.39%) Non-Functional Testing
3 15 (48.39%) Test Strategy
4 13 (41.94%) Agile
5 12 (38.71%) API Testing
5 12 (38.71%) DevOps
6 11 (35.48%) Test Scripting
7 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
8 9 (29.03%) Load Testing
8 9 (29.03%) Scenario Testing
9 6 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (19.35%) Test Management
9 6 (19.35%) Validation
10 5 (16.13%) Functional Testing
10 5 (16.13%) Integration Testing
10 5 (16.13%) Regression Testing
10 5 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) Python
1 7 (22.58%) SQL
2 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.13%) C#
3 5 (16.13%) Java
4 2 (6.45%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.23%) Bash
5 1 (3.23%) SOQL
5 1 (3.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 3 (9.68%) GxP
2 3 (9.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Kibana
2 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Perfmon
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) AppDynamics
1 7 (22.58%) Dynatrace
1 7 (22.58%) New Relic
2 6 (19.35%) SAP
2 6 (19.35%) Splunk
3 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.68%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.45%) HP
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle
6 1 (3.23%) Ariba
6 1 (3.23%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.23%) Micro Focus
6 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.23%) OpenAI