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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 520 580
Rank change year-on-year -99 +60 +136
Contract jobs citing NeoLoad 5 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.017% 0.018%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.085% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 6
10th Percentile £466 - £388
25th Percentile £487 £431 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £438 £452
Median % change year-on-year +23.43% -3.21% -13.90%
75th Percentile £564 £444 £519
90th Percentile £566 - £567
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -31.82%

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 5,875 4,041 5,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.22% 13.91% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,937 2,706 3,506
10th Percentile £343 £340 £358
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £607 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 73 185
10th Percentile £39.53 £25.41 £35.00
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £45.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.59 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%

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
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 7 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 28 March 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 5 £540 +23.43%
UK excluding London - 5 £540 -
North of England - 4 £540 -
Yorkshire - 4 £540 -
Work from Home -30 2 £497 +13.49%
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Neo4j
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
2 4 (80.00%) Gatling
2 4 (80.00%) GitLab
2 4 (80.00%) JMeter
2 4 (80.00%) LoadRunner
2 4 (80.00%) Postman
3 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Test Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) LDAP
1 4 (80.00%) OpenID
1 4 (80.00%) Playwright
1 4 (80.00%) REST
1 4 (80.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Data Ingestion
1 4 (80.00%) Data Validation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
1 4 (80.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (80.00%) GitOps
1 4 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (80.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) RBAC
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (80.00%) Validation
1 4 (80.00%) Volume Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (60.00%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Cypher
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) Scala
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Google