NeoLoad Contract Job Trends

Neotys NeoLoad
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring NeoLoad skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 553 633
Rank change year-on-year -4 +80 +179
Contract jobs citing NeoLoad 8 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.034% 0.026%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.16% 0.26% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 12
10th Percentile £507 £423 £410
25th Percentile £540 £494 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +41.18% -14.14%
75th Percentile - £602 £450
90th Percentile - £612 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +41.18% - -10.53%

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 4,965 5,092 6,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.20% 13.26% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,337 3,251 4,675
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £719 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 176 243
10th Percentile £29.00 £28.62 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.19 £53.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.13 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.88 £90.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.77%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing NeoLoad as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for NeoLoad in the UK

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NeoLoad over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

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

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Top 5 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 21 September 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 +10 8 £600 - 17
UK excluding London +14 5 £600 +41.18% 15
East of England - 5 £600 -
London +13 3 £513 -14.58% 5
Work from Home +24 1 - - 3

NeoLoad
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) SAP ERP
1 4 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) LoadRunner
2 6 (75.00%) JMeter
3 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (37.50%) JIRA
5 2 (25.00%) Gatling
6 1 (12.50%) Eclipse
6 1 (12.50%) Git
6 1 (12.50%) Gradle
6 1 (12.50%) IntelliJ
6 1 (12.50%) Maven
6 1 (12.50%) Postman
6 1 (12.50%) Selenium
6 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (62.50%) Pharmaceutical
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Lead
2 4 (50.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Test Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Test Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) JMS
2 1 (12.50%) JPA
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) Sass
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Batch
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) FMCG
1 5 (62.50%) Life Science
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Non-Functional Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Test Management
2 5 (62.50%) Waterfall
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (50.00%) ERP
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Matrix Management
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Service Management
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Chaos Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) GxP
1 3 (37.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) logstash
1 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (25.00%) New Relic
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Ariba
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Splunk