NeoLoad Contract Job Trends

Neotys NeoLoad
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring NeoLoad skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 598 523 591
Rank change year-on-year -75 +68 +143
Contract jobs citing NeoLoad 10 5 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.024% 0.016% 0.021%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.17% 0.12% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £401 - £392
25th Percentile £405 £431 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £438 £452
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% -3.21% -11.80%
75th Percentile £533 £444 £481
90th Percentile £564 - £542
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

NeoLoad 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 5,739 4,163 5,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.85% 13.57% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,919 2,685 3,680
10th Percentile £344 £330 £363
25th Percentile £405 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £630
90th Percentile £688 £725 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £478 £500
% change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 63 215
10th Percentile £31.20 £26.30 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £79.69 £84.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

NeoLoad
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NeoLoad relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

NeoLoad job vacancy trend in the UK

NeoLoad
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NeoLoad.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NeoLoad

NeoLoad
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NeoLoad over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NeoLoad in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NeoLoad.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing NeoLoad

NeoLoad
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NeoLoad within the UK over the 6 months to 26 February 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 -86 10 £439 +0.34%
UK excluding London - 9 £439 -
North of England - 4 £540 -
Yorkshire - 4 £540 -
Midlands - 4 £403 -
West Midlands - 4 £403 -
Work from Home -14 3 £497 +13.49%
London -28 1 - -
South East - 1 £425 -

NeoLoad
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 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
1 5 (50.00%) GCP
1 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Power BI
2 4 (40.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (90.00%) JIRA
2 5 (50.00%) Gatling
2 5 (50.00%) JMeter
2 5 (50.00%) LoadRunner
3 4 (40.00%) GitLab
3 4 (40.00%) Postman
4 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Lead
2 4 (40.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Test Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Test Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) REST
2 4 (40.00%) LDAP
2 4 (40.00%) OpenID
2 4 (40.00%) Playwright
2 4 (40.00%) SailPoint
3 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (10.00%) Middleware
3 1 (10.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) SCADA
2 3 (30.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (40.00%) Data Validation
4 4 (40.00%) ETL
4 4 (40.00%) Event-Driven
4 4 (40.00%) GitOps
4 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
4 4 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) RBAC
4 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 4 (40.00%) Validation
4 4 (40.00%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Java
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Cypher
2 4 (40.00%) Scala
2 4 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) New Relic
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk