LoadRunner Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

HP LoadRunner
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring LoadRunner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - 69
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.51% - 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 3.45% - 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £303 - -
25th Percentile £315 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £348 - £375
75th Percentile £453 - £388
90th Percentile £594 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -28.57%

All Development Application Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 203 117 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 14.77% 15.33% 18.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 74 124
10th Percentile £318 £378 £383
25th Percentile £400 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +11.11% -10.09%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £611 £675 £632
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

LoadRunner job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing LoadRunner

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LoadRunner in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for LoadRunner in West Yorkshire

LoadRunner
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing LoadRunner

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Leeds - 7 £348 - 2
LoadRunner
Yorkshire

LoadRunner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Tableau
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) JMeter
2 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) Git
4 1 (14.29%) eggPlant
4 1 (14.29%) Gatling
4 1 (14.29%) Postman
4 1 (14.29%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Lead
2 4 (57.14%) Test Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Lead Test Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Test Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 3 (42.86%) Test Leader
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Test Leader
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Performance Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (14.29%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Chaos Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (14.29%) Resilience Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) New Relic
2 4 (57.14%) Dynatrace
2 4 (57.14%) IBM
2 4 (57.14%) Splunk
3 2 (28.57%) Databricks
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle