LoadRunner Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

HP LoadRunner
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring LoadRunner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.070% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £403 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £428 - -
90th Percentile £434 - -
England median daily rate £388 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -27.91% +7.50% -4.76%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

LoadRunner 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 496 170 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.46% 12.89% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 103 140
10th Percentile £350 £346 £260
25th Percentile £413 £410 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +6.00% -16.36%
75th Percentile £537 £539 £536
90th Percentile £588 £650 £605
England median daily rate £500 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £25.00 - £10.50
25th Percentile £25.65 £56.25 £32.75
Median hourly rate £63.50 £57.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% +2.22% +68.49%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.80 - -
England median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LoadRunner relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

LoadRunner job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing LoadRunner.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing LoadRunner

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing LoadRunner.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing LoadRunner

LoadRunner
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Birmingham - 2 £413 - 1
LoadRunner
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) ODBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) ATDD
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow