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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 545 569
Rank change year-on-year -96 +24 +108
Contract jobs citing NeoLoad 8 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.034% 0.040%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.13% 0.23% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 9
10th Percentile £313 - £443
25th Percentile £315 £431 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £366 £485 £594
Median % change year-on-year -24.54% -18.35% +32.00%
75th Percentile £401 £600 £600
90th Percentile £410 - £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £366 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -39.00% +41.18% -

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 6,212 4,717 5,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.81% 14.54% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,004 3,168 3,532
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £689 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 101 247
10th Percentile £26.05 £22.05 £29.95
25th Percentile £56.25 £47.50 £46.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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
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 10 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 July 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 -116 8 £366 -24.54% 2
UK excluding London -105 7 £366 -39.00% 2
North of England - 3 £325 -
South East - 3 £375 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 - -
Work from Home -67 1 - - 2
London -68 1 - - 2
Midlands - 1 £366 -
North East - 1 £325 -
West Midlands - 1 £366 -

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 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) JMeter
2 5 (62.50%) LoadRunner
3 3 (37.50%) Gatling
4 2 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 2 (25.00%) Postman
4 2 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (25.00%) Billing
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Performance Tester
1 3 (37.50%) Test Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior QA Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Non-Functional Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
1 2 (25.00%) OpenID
1 2 (25.00%) Playwright
1 2 (25.00%) pytest
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Performance Testing
3 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 4 (50.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Analysis
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Validation
6 2 (25.00%) API Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Data Validation
6 2 (25.00%) ETL
6 2 (25.00%) GitOps
6 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (25.00%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Cypher
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (12.50%) Kibana
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (37.50%) AppDynamics
2 3 (37.50%) Google
3 2 (25.00%) Splunk
4 1 (12.50%) New Relic
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) Parasoft