Load Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Load Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Load Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 563 722 723
Rank change year-on-year +159 +1 +47
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 8 43 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.021% 0.058% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.071% 0.065%
Number of salaries quoted 6 31 34
10th Percentile - £25,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -23.08% -0.95%
75th Percentile £43,750 £56,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £46,250 £62,500 £76,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -9.52% -5.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Load Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Load Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Load Testing in the UK excluding London

Load Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
South East +87 5 £42,500 - 60
South West +114 1 £47,500 -32.14% 31
West Midlands +56 1 - - 25
Midlands +48 1 - - 46
North of England +30 1 - - 51
North West -6 1 - - 23
Load Testing
UK

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Postman
2 5 (62.50%) Cypress.io
2 5 (62.50%) TestComplete
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 1 (12.50%) Git
4 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) QA Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Software QA Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) Regression Testing
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Exploratory Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (12.50%) CRM
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
4 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (12.50%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Siebel