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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 553 625
Rank change year-on-year -2 +72 +160
Contract jobs citing NeoLoad 6 10 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.027% 0.031%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.12% 0.20% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 12
10th Percentile £401 £494 £410
25th Percentile £402 £544 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -30.83% +41.18% -12.82%
75th Percentile £463 £603 £450
90th Percentile £509 £615 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -14.74% +11.76% -11.69%

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 5,103 5,017 6,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.37% 13.32% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,463 3,138 4,420
10th Percentile £326 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £645
90th Percentile £688 £720 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.61% -2.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 168 244
10th Percentile £16.84 £29.67 £46.18
25th Percentile £42.75 £51.19 £51.44
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £76.53
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.88 £90.00
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
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 15 October 2025. 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 +7 6 £415 -30.83% 3
UK excluding London -12 4 £405 -14.74% 2
Midlands - 3 £403 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £403 - 1
London +8 2 £540 -10.00% 2
Work from Home +31 1 - - 2
South East - 1 £425 - 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 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
3 1 (16.67%) Gatling
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) Gradle
3 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
3 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Backend Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Test Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
2 1 (16.67%) JMS
2 1 (16.67%) JPA
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) Sass
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Batch
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) SCADA
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
1 4 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Scalability Testing
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) UML
3 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) logstash
1 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) New Relic
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk