Load Testing Job Trends in the North East

Load Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Load Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.064% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.085% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% +0.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,174 563 1,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 75.64% 94.46% 86.93%
Number of salaries quoted 784 306 1,212
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,375 £28,266
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% -3.23%
75th Percentile £65,640 £68,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Load Testing job vacancy trend in the North East

Load Testing
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Load Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Load Testing

Load Testing
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the North East region over the 6 months to 23 March 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 - -
Load Testing
England

Load Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SEO Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana