Performance Tester Contracts in Berkshire

Performance Tester
South East > Berkshire

The median Performance Tester daily rate in Berkshire is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 110 131
Rank change year-on-year -11 +21 -38
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Tester 4 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.20% 0.33% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.35% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile - £427 £435
25th Percentile £413 £447 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £504 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -8.36% +11.39%
75th Percentile £484 £512 £575
90th Percentile £567 £514 -
South East median daily rate £425 £479 £550
% change year-on-year -11.23% -12.95% +11.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Berkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,885 1,733 2,299
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 94.75% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,001 1,110 1,479
10th Percentile £213 £331 £206
25th Percentile £375 £415 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £580
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 58 41
10th Percentile £18.80 £17.38 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £21.99 £17.00
Median hourly rate £59.00 £56.89 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% +170.88% -2.33%
75th Percentile £70.50 £73.90 £32.50
90th Percentile £86.19 £80.25 £68.25
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.21% +128.95% -13.40%

Performance Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings that featured Performance Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tester in Berkshire

Performance Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tester in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tester in Berkshire

Performance Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tester in Berkshire over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tester in Berkshire

Performance Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tester in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tester in Berkshire

Performance Tester
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tester within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Reading -17 4 £425 -15.00%
Performance Tester
South East

Performance Tester Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Performance Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Berkshire region featuring Performance Tester in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) JMeter
2 3 (75.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Unix
3 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management

Performance Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle