Locust Job Trends in the North West

Locust
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Locust skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 - 206
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Locust 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.021% - 0.024%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.30% - 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 - -
75th Percentile £74,066 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,079 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.80% +9.09% -47.62%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 335 544 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.00% 7.72% 12.83%
Number of salaries quoted 153 296 441
10th Percentile £30,500 £37,537 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -11.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -

Locust
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Locust relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Locust job vacancy trend in the North West

Locust
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Locust within the North West region over the 6 months to 23 October 2025. 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
Manchester - 1 £70,079 -
Locust
England

Locust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 Delivery
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%) 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