Load Testing Job Trends in England

Load Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Load Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 587 644 619
Rank change year-on-year +57 -25 +207
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 30 35 61
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.057% 0.073% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.080% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 8 28 51
10th Percentile £51,500 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £58,438 £57,813 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% +15.38%
75th Percentile £74,063 £80,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £111,746
UK median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% +20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Load Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,913 43,729 44,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.21% 90.84% 89.77%
Number of salaries quoted 25,804 21,413 34,236
10th Percentile £28,742 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Load Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Load Testing job vacancy trend in England

Load Testing
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Load Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Load Testing

Load Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Testing in England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Load Testing in England

Load Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +34 13 - - 5
East of England - 8 £57,500 - 2
London +48 4 £67,500 -20.59% 4
South West - 3 £70,000 -
North of England +9 2 £63,750 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £60,000 -
North West - 1 £67,500 - 5
Load Testing
UK

Load Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 12 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (10.00%) SAP CX
3 1 (3.33%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (20.00%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) ClickHouse
1 2 (6.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (56.67%) JIRA
2 12 (40.00%) eCATT
2 12 (40.00%) NeoLoad
3 5 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.67%) Postman
4 4 (13.33%) Cucumber
4 4 (13.33%) GitLab
4 4 (13.33%) JMeter
4 4 (13.33%) LoadRunner
4 4 (13.33%) Selenium
5 3 (10.00%) SoapUI
6 2 (6.67%) Appium
6 2 (6.67%) REST Assured
7 1 (3.33%) Android Studio
7 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.33%) Gatling
7 1 (3.33%) Xcode
General
1 20 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 15 (50.00%) Finance
3 13 (43.33%) Marketing
4 12 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
4 12 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.67%) Tech for Good
7 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (3.33%) Banking
7 1 (3.33%) Electronics
7 1 (3.33%) Police
7 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Analyst
1 12 (40.00%) Performance Analyst
1 12 (40.00%) Performance Test Analyst
1 12 (40.00%) Test Analyst
1 12 (40.00%) Testing Analyst
2 10 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Lead
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
3 3 (10.00%) Test Leader
4 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Performance Test Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Senior Tester
5 1 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Middleware
1 4 (13.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.33%) pytest
2 1 (3.33%) React Native
2 1 (3.33%) RESTful
2 1 (3.33%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (3.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (6.67%) IoT
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.33%) Derivative
2 1 (3.33%) Equities
2 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Android
1 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Test Strategy
2 16 (53.33%) Test Management
3 15 (50.00%) ERP
4 14 (46.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 13 (43.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (43.33%) Performance Testing
5 13 (43.33%) Programme Management
5 13 (43.33%) Roadmaps
6 12 (40.00%) Performance Analysis
6 12 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
6 12 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 12 (40.00%) Risk Management
6 12 (40.00%) Source to Pay
6 12 (40.00%) User Experience
6 12 (40.00%) Visualisation
7 7 (23.33%) CI/CD
8 6 (20.00%) DevOps
8 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 5 (16.67%) API Testing
9 5 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) C#
5 1 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) VB
5 1 (3.33%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 12 (40.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 16 (53.33%) SAP
2 12 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (6.67%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) Charles River
4 1 (3.33%) Murex