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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 554 540
Rank change year-on-year -99 -14 +77
Contract jobs citing NeoLoad 22 6 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.018% 0.027%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.34% 0.12% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 6
10th Percentile £321 £401 £494
25th Percentile £361 £402 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £415 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% -30.83% +41.18%
75th Percentile £630 £463 £603
90th Percentile £669 £509 £615
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £405 £475
% change year-on-year +23.46% -14.74% +11.76%

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 6,456 5,081 4,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 15.43% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,136 3,452 3,116
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £495
% change year-on-year - -4.04% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 111 168
10th Percentile £22.68 £16.84 £29.67
25th Percentile £50.00 £42.75 £51.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.00 £71.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 13 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NeoLoad in the UK

NeoLoad
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 11 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 13 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 -109 20 £500 +20.48% 5
UK excluding London -79 12 £500 +23.46% 1
London -74 8 £500 -7.41% 5
North of England - 7 £595 -
Yorkshire - 6 £629 -
Work from Home -61 4 £663 - 3
South East -64 3 £375 -11.76% 1
Midlands -45 1 £366 -9.07%
West Midlands -51 1 £366 -9.07%
North East - 1 £325 -
South West - 1 - -

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
1 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
1 10 (45.45%) GCP
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) Datadog
4 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.09%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (4.55%) GitHub
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
1 1 (4.55%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Neo4j
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (90.91%) JMeter
2 15 (68.18%) Gatling
2 15 (68.18%) LoadRunner
3 6 (27.27%) GitLab
4 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 4 (18.18%) Postman
4 4 (18.18%) Selenium
5 3 (13.64%) JIRA
6 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
6 2 (9.09%) Zephyr
7 1 (4.55%) Appium
7 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
7 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
7 1 (4.55%) Git
7 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
7 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Billing
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Lead
1 6 (27.27%) Performance Test Leader
1 6 (27.27%) Test Engineer
1 6 (27.27%) Test Leader
2 5 (22.73%) Performance Tester
2 5 (22.73%) Tester
3 4 (18.18%) Performance Test Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Performance Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Developer in Test
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Tester
6 1 (4.55%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Performance Consultant
6 1 (4.55%) Test Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) Playwright
2 2 (9.09%) LDAP
2 2 (9.09%) OpenID
2 2 (9.09%) pytest
2 2 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.55%) RESTful
3 1 (4.55%) Web Services
3 1 (4.55%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Cloud Native
2 5 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) DevOps
2 18 (81.82%) Performance Testing
3 15 (68.18%) Test Strategy
4 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
5 12 (54.55%) Non-Functional Testing
6 9 (40.91%) Agile
6 9 (40.91%) Test Scripting
7 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
8 7 (31.82%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (22.73%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (22.73%) End-to-End Testing
9 5 (22.73%) High Availability
9 5 (22.73%) Microservices
9 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (22.73%) Validation
10 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
10 4 (18.18%) Performance Analysis
10 4 (18.18%) Performance Engineering
10 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
10 4 (18.18%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) Scala
4 3 (13.64%) Cypher
4 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.09%) C#
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) SQL
6 1 (4.55%) Groovy
6 1 (4.55%) Korn
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Grafana
2 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Kibana
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Google
2 7 (31.82%) AppDynamics
3 6 (27.27%) Dynatrace
4 2 (9.09%) New Relic
4 2 (9.09%) Splunk
5 1 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle
5 1 (4.55%) Parasoft
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow