Load Testing Job Trends in Scotland

Load Testing
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 - 260
Rank change year-on-year - - -71
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.031% - 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% - 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,250 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 - £57,500
75th Percentile £63,750 - £65,000
90th Percentile - - £66,500
UK median annual salary £47,000 £60,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -21.67% +26.32% -9.52%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,258 2,057 5,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.39% 93.12% 88.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 838 2,564
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,075
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £50,668 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% -3.49% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Load Testing job vacancy trend in Scotland

Load Testing
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Load Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Load Testing

Load Testing
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Moray - 1 £62,500 - 1
Load Testing
UK

Load Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Intelligent Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana