Load Testing Jobs

Load Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 694 835 882
Rank change year-on-year +141 +47 +23
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 17 75 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.073% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.087% 0.088%
Number of salaries quoted 15 62 52
10th Percentile - £31,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% -5.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £70,313
90th Percentile £87,500 £112,750 £78,382
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -23.08% -0.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Load Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Load Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Load Testing in the UK

Load Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Load Testing.

Salary trend for Load Testing in the UK

Load Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Testing over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Load Testing in the UK

Load Testing
Top 10 Job Locations

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 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
England +116 17 £47,500 - 239
London +107 9 £65,000 - 28
UK excluding London +159 8 £42,500 +6.25% 235
South East +87 5 £42,500 - 60
Work from Home +83 3 £60,000 +35.60% 164
South West +114 1 £47,500 -32.14% 31
West Midlands +56 1 - - 24
Midlands +48 1 - - 45
North of England +30 1 - - 51
North West -6 1 - - 23

Load Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.88%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) Azure
1 10 (58.82%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) GitHub
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (17.65%) Power Automate
4 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 3 (17.65%) PowerApps
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Serverless
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Postman
2 8 (47.06%) Cypress.io
3 6 (35.29%) JMeter
4 5 (29.41%) JIRA
4 5 (29.41%) Selenium
4 5 (29.41%) SoapUI
4 5 (29.41%) TestComplete
5 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
5 3 (17.65%) Mocha
5 3 (17.65%) MSTest
5 3 (17.65%) NUnit
5 3 (17.65%) SpecFlow
6 2 (11.76%) Gatling
6 2 (11.76%) Git
6 2 (11.76%) GitLab
6 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
6 2 (11.76%) TestRail
7 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
7 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Games
4 1 (5.88%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) QA Engineer
1 5 (29.41%) Software QA Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) QA Leader
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Test Leader
2 3 (17.65%) Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Integration Tester
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Backend Developer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Games Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Swagger
1 4 (23.53%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (17.65%) Jest
2 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 3 (17.65%) Playwright
2 3 (17.65%) REST
2 3 (17.65%) Web Services
3 2 (11.76%) JWT
3 2 (11.76%) OAuth
3 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (11.76%) SAML
4 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) OpenAPI
4 1 (5.88%) Sass
4 1 (5.88%) Spring
4 1 (5.88%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.88%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Test Automation
2 12 (70.59%) DevOps
3 10 (58.82%) Agile
4 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 8 (47.06%) Microservices
5 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (41.18%) Regression Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Exploratory Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Security Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
6 5 (29.41%) Validation
7 4 (23.53%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (23.53%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Manual Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
8 3 (17.65%) Code Quality
8 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
8 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
8 3 (17.65%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (82.35%) SQL
2 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
3 5 (29.41%) Python
4 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
5 3 (17.65%) C#
6 2 (11.76%) PHP
7 1 (5.88%) Apex Code
7 1 (5.88%) Bash
7 1 (5.88%) Java
7 1 (5.88%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) ISTQB
1 5 (29.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
3 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) QA
2 3 (17.65%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Google
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle
1 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.88%) Siebel
1 1 (5.88%) Splunk