LoadRunner Contracts

HP LoadRunner
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for LoadRunner skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LoadRunner over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 633 753
Rank change year-on-year +84 +120 -152
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 41 70 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.79% 0.79% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 50 73
10th Percentile £409 £413 £356
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £623 £738 £575
90th Percentile £638 - £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +16.67% +16.67% +28.57%

All Development Application Skills
UK

LoadRunner is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,192 8,904 15,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 15.03% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,489 6,260 11,273
10th Percentile £355 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.68%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 245 212
10th Percentile £33.40 £45.00 £37.02
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.35
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +22.14% +11.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.80 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.75
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.33% +21.67%

LoadRunner
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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LoadRunner.

Daily rate trend for LoadRunner in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LoadRunner over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LoadRunner in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LoadRunner.

Hourly rate trend for LoadRunner in the UK

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Top 10 Contract 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 3 May 2024. 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 +92 33 £500 -4.76% 6
London +64 22 £450 -14.29% 3
Work from Home +115 16 £540 +12.50% 6
UK excluding London +56 14 £613 +16.67% 3
South West +19 4 £520 -11.86% 1
Scotland +39 3 £625 - 1
South East +18 3 £615 +46.43%
North of England +29 2 £375 -28.57% 1
Yorkshire +21 2 £375 -28.57%
Wales - 2 £615 -

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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 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) CMS
3 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.44%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.51%) AWS
2 7 (17.07%) GitHub
3 6 (14.63%) Azure
4 4 (9.76%) Tricentis Tosca
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (7.32%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.88%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.44%) GCP
7 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) MySQL
1 4 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.32%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.32%) Big Data
2 3 (7.32%) DynamoDB
2 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 25 (60.98%) JMeter
2 8 (19.51%) NeoLoad
3 6 (14.63%) Selenium
4 4 (9.76%) Cucumber
4 4 (9.76%) Git
4 4 (9.76%) JIRA
4 4 (9.76%) SpecFlow
4 4 (9.76%) TestRail
5 3 (7.32%) Appium
5 3 (7.32%) FitNesse
5 3 (7.32%) Rational Performance Tester
5 3 (7.32%) Visual Studio
5 3 (7.32%) WebDriver
6 2 (4.88%) HP UFT
6 2 (4.88%) Postman
7 1 (2.44%) Gatling
7 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (31.71%) Finance
1 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.95%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Back Office
4 4 (9.76%) Banking
4 4 (9.76%) Law
4 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.32%) Front Office
5 3 (7.32%) Legal
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Lead
2 10 (24.39%) Tester
3 9 (21.95%) Test Leader
4 8 (19.51%) Performance Engineer
4 8 (19.51%) Senior
5 7 (17.07%) Performance Tester
6 6 (14.63%) Performance Test Leader
7 5 (12.20%) Analyst
7 5 (12.20%) Test Analyst
8 3 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (7.32%) Consultant
8 3 (7.32%) QA Tester
8 3 (7.32%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (7.32%) Senior Test Analyst
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Test Lead
9 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
9 2 (4.88%) LoadRunner Specialist
9 2 (4.88%) Senior Performance Engineer
9 2 (4.88%) Senior Tester
9 2 (4.88%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) Playwright
1 3 (7.32%) REST
2 2 (4.88%) Java EE
2 2 (4.88%) Web Services
3 1 (2.44%) ADO
3 1 (2.44%) Gherkin
3 1 (2.44%) RESTful
3 1 (2.44%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.88%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.44%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.44%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Unix
2 2 (4.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.44%) Android
3 1 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (82.93%) Performance Testing
2 22 (53.66%) Test Strategy
3 19 (46.34%) Test Automation
4 15 (36.59%) Defect Management
4 15 (36.59%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (31.71%) Functional Testing
5 13 (31.71%) Non-Functional Testing
6 11 (26.83%) Agile
6 11 (26.83%) System Integration Testing
6 11 (26.83%) Test Scripting
6 11 (26.83%) User Acceptance Testing
7 9 (21.95%) Configuration Management
7 9 (21.95%) Migration
7 9 (21.95%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (19.51%) Waterfall
9 7 (17.07%) Performance Engineering
9 7 (17.07%) Refactoring
9 7 (17.07%) Scenario Testing
9 7 (17.07%) Validation
10 6 (14.63%) Privileged Access Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.63%) Java
2 3 (7.32%) C
2 3 (7.32%) C#
2 3 (7.32%) C++
2 3 (7.32%) JavaScript
2 3 (7.32%) Python
2 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
3 1 (2.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.07%) Degree
2 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) ISTQB
3 3 (7.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Kibana
1 3 (7.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Oracle
2 7 (17.07%) HP
3 5 (12.20%) OpenText
3 5 (12.20%) Splunk
4 4 (9.76%) CA Agile Central
4 4 (9.76%) iManage
4 4 (9.76%) Intapp
4 4 (9.76%) OpenAI
5 3 (7.32%) AppDynamics
5 3 (7.32%) Google
5 3 (7.32%) IBM
5 3 (7.32%) Micro Focus
6 2 (4.88%) Adobe
6 2 (4.88%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.88%) Omniture
7 1 (2.44%) JDA
7 1 (2.44%) SAP