Performance Testing Contracts in Central London

Performance Testing
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Performance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Testing 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 113 152 166
Rank change year-on-year +39 +14 -10
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 20 18 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.83% 0.48% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.53% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 23
10th Percentile £427 £483 £405
25th Percentile £450 £513 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £700
90th Percentile - £718 £788
London median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Performance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,413 4,157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.63% 91.28% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,546 2,322 3,182
10th Percentile £350 £325 £369
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £593 £575
% change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 29 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.05 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.50 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £28.98 £53.75 £55.38
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £27.84 £37.34 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.44% -0.43% +14.77%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in Central London

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in Central London

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Central London

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in Central London

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the Central London region 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
City of London +44 19 £500 -20.03% 3
West End of London - 1 £450 -
Camden - 1 £450 -
Performance Testing
London

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (15.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) Twilio
6 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (5.00%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (5.00%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) CTI
1 2 (10.00%) VoIP
2 1 (5.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) KDB
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) SpecFlow
2 7 (35.00%) Selenium
3 5 (25.00%) JMeter
4 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (20.00%) WebDriver
5 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (15.00%) Postman
5 3 (15.00%) REST Assured
5 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio
6 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (10.00%) Git
6 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
7 1 (5.00%) Appium
7 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
7 1 (5.00%) GitLab
7 1 (5.00%) JIRA
7 1 (5.00%) LoadRunner
7 1 (5.00%) NeoLoad
7 1 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Front Office
2 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Retail
2 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.00%) Back Office
3 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Test Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (10.00%) C++ Developer
4 2 (10.00%) C++/Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Developer Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Java Analyst Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Market Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Market Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Market Data Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
1 3 (15.00%) Middleware
2 2 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.00%) Web Services
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
3 1 (5.00%) Playwright
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) IVR
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (45.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (45.00%) DevOps
3 8 (40.00%) API Testing
4 7 (35.00%) Test Strategy
5 5 (25.00%) ETRM
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (20.00%) Scrum
7 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
7 3 (15.00%) TDD
8 2 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
8 2 (10.00%) Load Testing
8 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (10.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) C#
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) Java
4 3 (15.00%) C++
4 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.00%) Python
6 1 (5.00%) Bicep
6 1 (5.00%) C
6 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
1 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (10.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.00%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Avaya
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco
2 2 (10.00%) Genesys
2 2 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Splunk