LoadRunner Job Trends in England

HP LoadRunner
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring LoadRunner skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 714 632 747
Rank change year-on-year -82 +115 -20
Permanent jobs citing LoadRunner 23 17 20
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.024% 0.039% 0.028%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.56% 0.48% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 17 13 11
10th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -29.03% +19.23%
75th Percentile £53,250 £70,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £80,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -29.03% +76.01%

All Development Application Skills
England

LoadRunner 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,125 3,511 5,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.34% 8.01% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,706 2,238 4,037
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £38,650
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £61,700 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.28% +4.17% -7.69%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

LoadRunner job vacancy trend in England

LoadRunner
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing LoadRunner.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing LoadRunner

LoadRunner
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing LoadRunner in England over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for LoadRunner in England

LoadRunner
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -26 9 £47,500 +5.56% 1
West Midlands - 8 £47,500 - 1
London -35 7 £48,250 -39.69%
South East - 5 £50,000 - 2
North of England -42 2 £47,500 -13.64% 2
North West -6 1 - - 1
East Midlands -24 1 - -
North East - 1 £47,500 -
LoadRunner
UK

LoadRunner
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 1 (4.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Azure
3 8 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (4.35%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (4.35%) BrowserStack
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 23 (100.00%) JMeter
2 15 (65.22%) Gatling
3 9 (39.13%) Selenium
4 8 (34.78%) Cucumber
4 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
5 7 (30.43%) Cypress.io
5 7 (30.43%) GitLab
5 7 (30.43%) Postman
6 6 (26.09%) REST Assured
6 6 (26.09%) SonarQube
7 5 (21.74%) Burp Suite
8 4 (17.39%) HP UFT
9 2 (8.70%) SoapUI
10 1 (4.35%) Git
10 1 (4.35%) JIRA
10 1 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
10 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
10 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
10 1 (4.35%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (34.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Health Technology
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Senior
1 7 (30.43%) Test Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Performance Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Performance Test Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) QA Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Performance Tester
4 4 (17.39%) Tester
5 3 (13.04%) Lead
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Performance Tester
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Tester
6 2 (8.70%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) QA Leader
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Performance Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior QA Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Playwright
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (4.35%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Performance Testing
2 16 (69.57%) Agile
3 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
4 12 (52.17%) Test Automation
5 11 (47.83%) Test Scripting
6 9 (39.13%) DevOps
7 8 (34.78%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (34.78%) Runbook
7 8 (34.78%) Software Testing
7 8 (34.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 7 (30.43%) Test Strategy
8 7 (30.43%) Validation
9 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (26.09%) Security Testing
10 5 (21.74%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
10 5 (21.74%) Continuous Delivery
10 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
10 5 (21.74%) OWASP
10 5 (21.74%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Java
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) Groovy
6 1 (4.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (17.39%) Master's Degree
4 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
5 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (43.48%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Grafana
2 5 (21.74%) HP Fortify
2 5 (21.74%) Kibana
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) AppDynamics
2 7 (30.43%) Dynatrace
3 5 (21.74%) Veracode
4 1 (4.35%) NCR
4 1 (4.35%) New Relic
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk