Load Testing Contracts

Load Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Load Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Load Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 627 754
Rank change year-on-year +81 +127 -80
Contract jobs citing Load Testing 38 70 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.087% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 54 66
10th Percentile £356 £379 £356
25th Percentile £412 £413 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £580 £619 £600
90th Percentile £590 £723 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £425 £445
% change year-on-year +20.59% -4.54% +2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 £38.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +64.47% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Load Testing in the UK

Load Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Load Testing over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Load Testing in the UK

Load Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Load Testing in the UK

Load Testing
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +63 34 £500 - 18
London +66 18 £500 - 7
UK excluding London +19 17 £513 +20.59% 15
Work from Home +101 15 £425 -10.53% 7
North of England +18 7 £430 -18.10% 3
North West +17 5 £463 +15.63% 3
South West +2 5 £590 -2.00%
West Midlands +20 3 £488 - 6
Midlands +15 3 £488 +14.71% 7
North East - 2 £368 -
Scotland +44 1 - - 2
South East +13 1 £425 +6.92% 1

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:

Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) Azure
1 14 (36.84%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (28.95%) AWS
3 5 (13.16%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (13.16%) Serverless
4 4 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (7.89%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
6 2 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (5.26%) GitHub
7 1 (2.63%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.63%) BrowserStack
7 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.63%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.63%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.63%) MariaDB
3 1 (2.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (39.47%) Git
2 12 (31.58%) Visual Studio
3 8 (21.05%) JMeter
3 8 (21.05%) Postman
3 8 (21.05%) Selenium
3 8 (21.05%) SpecFlow
4 7 (18.42%) NUnit
5 5 (13.16%) JIRA
6 4 (10.53%) Cucumber
6 4 (10.53%) WebDriver
7 3 (7.89%) Cypress.io
7 3 (7.89%) FitNesse
7 3 (7.89%) Gatling
7 3 (7.89%) LoadRunner
7 3 (7.89%) TestRail
8 2 (5.26%) Bitbucket
9 1 (2.63%) Pa11y
9 1 (2.63%) Ranorex
9 1 (2.63%) TestCafe
General
1 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Back Office
3 7 (18.42%) Finance
4 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
6 4 (10.53%) Manufacturing
7 3 (7.89%) Electronics
7 3 (7.89%) Front Office
7 3 (7.89%) Marketing
7 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
8 2 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.63%) French Language
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Senior
2 11 (28.95%) Test Engineer
3 10 (26.32%) Senior Test Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) Test Automation Engineer
5 6 (15.79%) Lead
5 6 (15.79%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) Developer
6 5 (13.16%) Test Leader
6 5 (13.16%) Tester
7 4 (10.53%) Analyst
8 3 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) QA Tester
8 3 (7.89%) Senior Tester
8 3 (7.89%) Test Analyst
9 2 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) AWS Developer
9 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) QA Automation Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) QA Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) Senior QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (36.84%) .NET
2 12 (31.58%) Playwright
3 9 (23.68%) AngularJS
4 8 (21.05%) REST
5 7 (18.42%) GraphQL
6 3 (7.89%) .NET Core
7 2 (5.26%) .NET Framework
7 2 (5.26%) OpenAPI
7 2 (5.26%) Swagger
7 2 (5.26%) XML
8 1 (2.63%) AWS CDK
8 1 (2.63%) Gherkin
8 1 (2.63%) React
8 1 (2.63%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.63%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Agile
1 25 (65.79%) Test Automation
2 23 (60.53%) CI/CD
3 19 (50.00%) Performance Testing
4 18 (47.37%) DevOps
5 17 (44.74%) Security Testing
6 15 (39.47%) Scrum
6 15 (39.47%) TDD
6 15 (39.47%) Test Strategy
7 14 (36.84%) BDD
8 12 (31.58%) Non-Functional Testing
9 10 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (23.68%) Kanban
11 8 (21.05%) Manual Testing
12 7 (18.42%) Customer Requirements
12 7 (18.42%) Software Testing
12 7 (18.42%) Task Automation
12 7 (18.42%) Waterfall
13 6 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
14 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) SQL
2 11 (28.95%) TypeScript
3 8 (21.05%) C#
4 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.79%) Python
5 5 (13.16%) Java
6 3 (7.89%) PowerShell
7 2 (5.26%) Scala
8 1 (2.63%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) ISTQB
3 3 (7.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (39.47%) Accessibility
2 8 (21.05%) QA
3 3 (7.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
2 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.63%) Grafana
1 1 (2.63%) Kibana
1 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle
2 4 (10.53%) SAP
3 2 (5.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.63%) Adobe
4 1 (2.63%) Ariba
4 1 (2.63%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.63%) Google
4 1 (2.63%) Pega
4 1 (2.63%) Qualys
4 1 (2.63%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.63%) Veracode