LoadRunner Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

HP LoadRunner
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring LoadRunner skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 85 104
Rank change year-on-year -61 +19 +14
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.19% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.10% 1.06% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £466 £501 -
25th Percentile £487 £503 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £513 £375
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% +36.67% -28.57%
75th Percentile £564 £528 £388
90th Percentile £566 £534 -
England median daily rate £425 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% -7.77%

All Development Application Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 455 189 207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.12% 17.55% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 122 148
10th Percentile £350 £363 £386
25th Percentile £407 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £536 £550 £575
90th Percentile £600 £609 £623
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £61.25
Median hourly rate £13.50 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.72%
75th Percentile - - £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

LoadRunner job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

LoadRunner
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing LoadRunner

LoadRunner
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing LoadRunner

LoadRunner
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
South Yorkshire -53 4 £540 +5.37% 1
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
LoadRunner
England

LoadRunner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Gatling
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
1 4 (80.00%) JMeter
1 4 (80.00%) NeoLoad
1 4 (80.00%) Postman
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Test Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) LDAP
1 4 (80.00%) OpenID
1 4 (80.00%) Playwright
1 4 (80.00%) REST
1 4 (80.00%) SailPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Data Ingestion
1 4 (80.00%) Data Validation
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
1 4 (80.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (80.00%) GitOps
1 4 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) RBAC
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (80.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (80.00%) Validation
1 4 (80.00%) Volume Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Cypher
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) Scala
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle