HP LoadRunner
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring LoadRunner skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 764 668 769
Rank change year-on-year -96 +101 -15
Permanent jobs citing LoadRunner 23 18 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.021% 0.036% 0.027%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.50% 0.45% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 17 14 12
10th Percentile £38,500 £40,000 £58,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -29.03% +76.01%
75th Percentile £53,250 £67,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £64,750 £79,875 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% -29.03% +82.35%

All Development Application Skills
UK

LoadRunner 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,600 4,001 7,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.28% 8.01% 8.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,985 2,475 4,496
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,592 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,700 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing LoadRunner relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

LoadRunner job vacancy trend in the UK

LoadRunner
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LoadRunner.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing LoadRunner

LoadRunner
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LoadRunner over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for LoadRunner in the UK

LoadRunner
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the UK over the 6 months to 18 August 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
England -82 23 £50,000 -9.09% 6
UK excluding London -87 16 £50,000 -9.09% 6
Midlands -26 9 £47,500 +5.56% 2
West Midlands - 8 £47,500 - 2
London -35 7 £48,250 -39.69%
South East - 5 £50,000 - 2
Work from Home -23 2 £62,500 +56.25% 1
North of England -42 2 £47,500 -13.64% 2
North West -6 1 - - 1
East Midlands -24 1 - -
North East - 1 £47,500 -

LoadRunner
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Azure
3 8 (34.78%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Tricentis Tosca
5 1 (4.35%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (4.35%) BrowserStack
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 23 (100.00%) JMeter
2 15 (65.22%) Gatling
3 9 (39.13%) Selenium
4 8 (34.78%) Cucumber
4 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
5 7 (30.43%) Cypress.io
5 7 (30.43%) GitLab
5 7 (30.43%) Postman
6 6 (26.09%) REST Assured
6 6 (26.09%) SonarQube
7 5 (21.74%) Burp Suite
8 4 (17.39%) HP UFT
9 2 (8.70%) SoapUI
10 1 (4.35%) Git
10 1 (4.35%) JIRA
10 1 (4.35%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
10 1 (4.35%) TeamCity
10 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
10 1 (4.35%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (34.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Health Technology
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Senior
1 7 (30.43%) Test Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Performance Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Performance Test Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) QA Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Performance Tester
4 4 (17.39%) Tester
5 3 (13.04%) Lead
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Performance Tester
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Tester
6 2 (8.70%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) QA Leader
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Performance Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior QA Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Performance Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) QA Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) Playwright
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.70%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (4.35%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (95.65%) Performance Testing
2 16 (69.57%) Agile
3 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
4 12 (52.17%) Test Automation
5 11 (47.83%) Test Scripting
6 9 (39.13%) DevOps
7 8 (34.78%) Non-Functional Testing
7 8 (34.78%) Runbook
7 8 (34.78%) Software Testing
7 8 (34.78%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 7 (30.43%) Test Strategy
8 7 (30.43%) Validation
9 6 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (26.09%) Security Testing
10 5 (21.74%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
10 5 (21.74%) Continuous Delivery
10 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
10 5 (21.74%) OWASP
10 5 (21.74%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Java
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) Groovy
6 1 (4.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (17.39%) Master's Degree
4 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
5 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (43.48%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Grafana
2 5 (21.74%) HP Fortify
2 5 (21.74%) Kibana
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) AppDynamics
2 7 (30.43%) Dynatrace
3 5 (21.74%) Veracode
4 1 (4.35%) NCR
4 1 (4.35%) New Relic
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk