Locust Job Trends in Salford

Locust
Manchester > Salford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Salford 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 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Locust 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Salford 1.12% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 25.00% - -
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 - - -
Manchester median annual salary £70,079 - -

All Development Application Skills
Salford

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 Salford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4 7 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Salford 4.49% 4.61% 12.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - £53,040
25th Percentile £66,091 - £55,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £44,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +59.27% -32.31% +40.54%
75th Percentile £74,066 - £69,800
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +9.09%

Locust
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salford 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