Locust Job Trends in Birmingham

Locust
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Locust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Locust 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.084% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 1.02% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,323 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,542 - -
75th Percentile £74,762 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £70,542 - -

All Development Application Skills
Birmingham

Locust falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 98 123 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.24% 5.62% 9.65%
Number of salaries quoted 78 50 111
10th Percentile £29,825 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £51,563 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,373 £80,000
90th Percentile - £83,875 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +10.01%

Locust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform