Locust
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Locust skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Locust over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 698 - 960
Rank change year-on-year - - +269
Permanent jobs citing Locust 11 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% - 0.002%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.18% - 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £40,000 - -
25th Percentile £44,313 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.08%
75th Percentile £48,000 - -
90th Percentile £48,225 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +23.08%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,999 9,508 13,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.83% 9.21% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,533 6,588 8,414
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £58,700 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -9.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.35% +4.55%

Locust
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Locust in the UK

Locust
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Locust.

Salary trend for Locust in the UK

Locust
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Locust within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 - 11 £46,500 - 4
London - 7 £47,000 - 3
Work from Home - 5 £47,500 -
UK excluding London - 4 £40,000 - 2
South West - 4 £40,000 -

Locust
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 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Serverless
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon Bedrock
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon S3
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub
6 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Big Data
1 4 (36.36%) Delta Lake
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Selenium
2 7 (63.64%) Git
3 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
3 6 (54.55%) JMeter
3 6 (54.55%) Postman
4 5 (45.45%) Robot Framework
5 3 (27.27%) Gatling
6 2 (18.18%) CircleCI
6 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
6 2 (18.18%) LoadRunner
6 2 (18.18%) TestRail
6 2 (18.18%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (27.27%) Law
2 3 (27.27%) Marketing
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Test Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Test Automation Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Python Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Python Software Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) QA Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) QA Test Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Software Test Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Tester
5 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (72.73%) pytest
2 5 (45.45%) YAML
3 3 (27.27%) Playwright
4 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
3 8 (72.73%) API Testing
3 8 (72.73%) DevOps
4 7 (63.64%) Agile
4 7 (63.64%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (63.64%) Performance Testing
4 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (54.55%) Manual Testing
5 6 (54.55%) OWASP
5 6 (54.55%) Security Testing
6 5 (45.45%) Analytics
6 5 (45.45%) Integration Testing
6 5 (45.45%) Scrum
7 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
7 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (36.36%) Release Management
7 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
7 4 (36.36%) Validation
8 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) ISTQB
2 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
2 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (45.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) Google
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk