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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 608 503 516
Rank change year-on-year -105 +13 +119
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 53 42 64
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.85% 0.89% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 35 39
10th Percentile £306 £366 £398
25th Percentile £359 £416 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £458 £684 £600
90th Percentile £527 £798 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -21.95% -5.09% +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 4,744 5,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.77% 14.59% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,981 3,188 3,511
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
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 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 103 239
10th Percentile £26.05 £22.64 £26.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £49.00 £46.22
Median hourly rate £66.50 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.72% -2.31% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.60 £72.75
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 17 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 17 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 -114 46 £409 -18.20% 4
UK excluding London -78 32 £400 -21.95% 4
London -92 16 £425 -15.00% 1
South West -31 12 £450 +38.46%
Midlands -50 10 £405 -12.07%
West Midlands -51 10 £405 -25.44%
Work from Home -61 9 £455 -3.96%
South East - 6 £313 - 3
North of England -73 3 £500 -2.44% 1
North West - 2 £500 -
Scotland -9 1 - -
Yorkshire -44 1 - - 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 (3.77%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 26 (49.06%) Azure
2 19 (35.85%) AWS
3 8 (15.09%) GCP
4 4 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.55%) GitHub
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.77%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (3.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.89%) Apigee
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) HTTP
2 2 (3.77%) Firewall
3 1 (1.89%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.66%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 42 (79.25%) JMeter
2 29 (54.72%) Gatling
3 7 (13.21%) Postman
4 6 (11.32%) Jenkins
4 6 (11.32%) REST Assured
5 5 (9.43%) NeoLoad
6 4 (7.55%) JIRA
6 4 (7.55%) Selenium
7 3 (5.66%) Appium
7 3 (5.66%) Cucumber
7 3 (5.66%) Cypress.io
8 2 (3.77%) Burp Suite
8 2 (3.77%) Git
8 2 (3.77%) Gradle
8 2 (3.77%) SonarQube
8 2 (3.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (3.77%) TestDirector
9 1 (1.89%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.89%) TestNG
General
1 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
4 5 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.77%) Billing
5 2 (3.77%) Finance
6 1 (1.89%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Law
6 1 (1.89%) Police
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) Tester
2 14 (26.42%) Performance Tester
3 12 (22.64%) Performance Engineer
4 10 (18.87%) Lead
5 7 (13.21%) Senior
6 6 (11.32%) Test Leader
7 3 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Lead Tester
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Performance Tester
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Tester
8 2 (3.77%) Automation Test Lead
8 2 (3.77%) Performance Test Leader
8 2 (3.77%) Test Manager
9 1 (1.89%) Automation Tester
9 1 (1.89%) GCP Engineer
9 1 (1.89%) Junior QA Tester
9 1 (1.89%) Non-Functional Tester
9 1 (1.89%) Performance Engineering Consultant
9 1 (1.89%) Performance Test Consultant
9 1 (1.89%) Senior Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) Web Services
2 6 (11.32%) Playwright
3 5 (9.43%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (7.55%) REST
5 2 (3.77%) Node.js
5 2 (3.77%) Quarkus
5 2 (3.77%) React
5 2 (3.77%) Spring
5 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.89%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.89%) JDBC
6 1 (1.89%) JSON
6 1 (1.89%) ODBC
6 1 (1.89%) OLE
6 1 (1.89%) RESTful
6 1 (1.89%) SOAP
6 1 (1.89%) Taurus
6 1 (1.89%) WireMock
6 1 (1.89%) XML
6 1 (1.89%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Mobile App
2 7 (13.21%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.77%) Equities
4 2 (3.77%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.77%) PKI
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.89%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (67.92%) Performance Testing
2 34 (64.15%) CI/CD
3 32 (60.38%) DevOps
4 24 (45.28%) Performance Engineering
5 16 (30.19%) Agile
6 12 (22.64%) Scenario Testing
6 12 (22.64%) Test Automation
7 11 (20.75%) Test Strategy
8 10 (18.87%) Non-Functional Testing
8 10 (18.87%) Test Scripting
9 7 (13.21%) Performance Monitoring
10 6 (11.32%) Load Testing
10 6 (11.32%) Microservices
10 6 (11.32%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (11.32%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (9.43%) Containerisation
11 5 (9.43%) End-to-End Testing
11 5 (9.43%) Runbook
11 5 (9.43%) SDLC
11 5 (9.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (22.64%) SQL
2 9 (16.98%) Java
2 9 (16.98%) Python
3 2 (3.77%) Bash
3 2 (3.77%) Groovy
4 1 (1.89%) C
4 1 (1.89%) C#
4 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) Degree
5 1 (1.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (28.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (32.08%) Kubernetes
2 6 (11.32%) Grafana
3 3 (5.66%) Kibana
4 2 (3.77%) Ansible
4 2 (3.77%) Istio
4 2 (3.77%) Terraform
5 1 (1.89%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.89%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (39.62%) Dynatrace
2 18 (33.96%) AppDynamics
3 13 (24.53%) New Relic
3 13 (24.53%) Splunk
4 5 (9.43%) Oracle
5 4 (7.55%) Informatica
6 3 (5.66%) Google
6 3 (5.66%) Micro Focus
6 3 (5.66%) OpenText
7 2 (3.77%) Charles River
7 2 (3.77%) HP
8 1 (1.89%) Citrix
8 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.89%) Parasoft
8 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow