LoadRunner Contracts

HP LoadRunner
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for LoadRunner skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LoadRunner over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 619 750
Rank change year-on-year +81 +131 -172
Contract jobs citing LoadRunner 38 65 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.74% 0.77% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 48 69
10th Percentile £389 £418 £352
25th Percentile £440 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £565 £738 £586
90th Percentile £615 - £611
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £525 £451
% change year-on-year +2.86% +16.34% +28.93%

All Development Application Skills
UK

LoadRunner is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,137 8,429 15,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.80% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,452 5,946 11,103
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 228 212
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.06 £38.43
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.11
90th Percentile £78.45 £82.50 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

LoadRunner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for LoadRunner in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for LoadRunner in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LoadRunner over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LoadRunner in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for LoadRunner in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the UK over the 6 months to 16 May 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 +82 31 £478 -9.05% 5
London +74 24 £465 -11.52% 2
Work from Home +108 10 £475 -1.04% 8
UK excluding London +57 10 £540 +2.86% 5
South West +10 4 £520 -11.86%
Scotland - 3 £625 - 2
North of England +26 2 £375 -28.57% 2
Yorkshire +14 2 £375 -28.57% 1
South East +13 1 £413 -1.79%

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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 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.26%) CMS
3 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP FI
1 1 (2.63%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Azure
3 5 (13.16%) Tricentis Tosca
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) MySQL
1 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.89%) Big Data
2 3 (7.89%) DynamoDB
2 3 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (60.53%) JMeter
2 9 (23.68%) NeoLoad
3 7 (18.42%) Selenium
4 4 (10.53%) Appium
4 4 (10.53%) Git
4 4 (10.53%) JIRA
4 4 (10.53%) Postman
4 4 (10.53%) Rational Performance Tester
4 4 (10.53%) TestRail
4 4 (10.53%) Visual Studio
4 4 (10.53%) WebDriver
5 3 (7.89%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.89%) FitNesse
5 3 (7.89%) SpecFlow
6 2 (5.26%) Gatling
6 2 (5.26%) HP UFT
6 2 (5.26%) JUnit
6 2 (5.26%) SoapUI
7 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (42.11%) Finance
1 16 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Back Office
4 5 (13.16%) Banking
4 5 (13.16%) Law
5 4 (10.53%) Legal
6 3 (7.89%) Front Office
7 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Lead
2 10 (26.32%) Test Leader
3 9 (23.68%) Senior
4 8 (21.05%) Analyst
4 8 (21.05%) Test Analyst
5 7 (18.42%) Performance Test Leader
5 7 (18.42%) Tester
6 6 (15.79%) Performance Engineer
7 4 (10.53%) Performance Tester
7 4 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (10.53%) Senior Test Analyst
8 3 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (7.89%) Consultant
8 3 (7.89%) QA Tester
9 2 (5.26%) Azure Test Lead
9 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
9 2 (5.26%) Senior Performance Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) Senior QA Tester
9 2 (5.26%) Service Management Consultant
9 2 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) REST
2 2 (5.26%) Playwright
2 2 (5.26%) SOAP
3 1 (2.63%) ADO
3 1 (2.63%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.63%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Android
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (76.32%) Performance Testing
2 24 (63.16%) Test Strategy
3 23 (60.53%) Test Automation
4 19 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (44.74%) Non-Functional Testing
6 16 (42.11%) Agile
6 16 (42.11%) Defect Management
6 16 (42.11%) Functional Testing
7 13 (34.21%) Test Scripting
8 12 (31.58%) System Integration Testing
9 11 (28.95%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (26.32%) Waterfall
11 9 (23.68%) Migration
12 8 (21.05%) Roadmaps
12 8 (21.05%) Software Testing
13 7 (18.42%) Continuous Integration
13 7 (18.42%) Scenario Testing
14 6 (15.79%) Security Testing
14 6 (15.79%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.16%) Java
2 4 (10.53%) C#
3 3 (7.89%) C
3 3 (7.89%) C++
3 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
3 3 (7.89%) Python
3 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.26%) SQL
5 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) Degree
2 3 (7.89%) ISTQB
2 3 (7.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (26.32%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Kibana
1 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (15.79%) Oracle
2 5 (13.16%) CA Agile Central
2 5 (13.16%) HP
2 5 (13.16%) iManage
2 5 (13.16%) Intapp
2 5 (13.16%) OpenAI
3 4 (10.53%) IBM
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.89%) AppDynamics
4 3 (7.89%) Splunk
5 2 (5.26%) OpenText
6 1 (2.63%) Google
6 1 (2.63%) JDA
6 1 (2.63%) SAP