Performance Test Engineer Contracts in England

Performance Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Performance Test Engineer daily rate in England is £501 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 516 642 750
Rank change year-on-year +126 +108 -133
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Test Engineer 17 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.047% 0.010% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.011% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 12
10th Percentile £390 £424 -
25th Percentile £438 £441 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £538 £530 £488
90th Percentile - £583 £499
UK median daily rate £501 £613 £425
% change year-on-year -18.20% +44.12% -0.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,813 46,135 67,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.65% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,418 32,774 48,161
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,361 1,875
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.52 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.52
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.03%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.02 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

Performance Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Performance Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Test Engineer in England

Performance Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Test Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Performance Test Engineer in England

Performance Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Test Engineer in England

Performance Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Test Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Test Engineer in England

Performance Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Test Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 14 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
London +92 11 £500 +11.11%
Midlands +29 5 £525 +5.00%
East Midlands - 5 £525 -
North West - 1 £475 -
North of England - 1 £475 -
Performance Test Engineer
UK

Performance Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Performance Test Engineer 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 England region featuring Performance Test Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (88.24%) JMeter
2 12 (70.59%) Test Automation
3 10 (58.82%) Performance Testing
4 9 (52.94%) Python
4 9 (52.94%) Java
5 8 (47.06%) Shell Script
5 8 (47.06%) JIRA
5 8 (47.06%) Confluence
5 8 (47.06%) Grafana
5 8 (47.06%) Prometheus
6 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
7 6 (35.29%) AWS
8 5 (29.41%) Operational Acceptance Testing
8 5 (29.41%) LDAP
9 4 (23.53%) Agile
9 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
9 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
9 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
10 3 (17.65%) Scrum
10 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
10 3 (17.65%) Azure
10 3 (17.65%) ISTQB
10 3 (17.65%) ISEB
10 3 (17.65%) Ansible
10 3 (17.65%) DevOps
10 3 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (17.65%) Data Design
11 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
11 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
12 1 (5.88%) Functional Testing

Performance Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 8 (47.06%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
Development Applications
1 15 (88.24%) JMeter
2 8 (47.06%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
4 1 (5.88%) NeoLoad
General
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) LDAP
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Test Automation
2 10 (58.82%) Performance Testing
3 5 (29.41%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (23.53%) Software Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Data Design
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
6 1 (5.88%) Auto-Scaling
6 1 (5.88%) Defect Management
6 1 (5.88%) Functional Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Microservices
6 1 (5.88%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Performance Engineering
6 1 (5.88%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (5.88%) System Integration Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Test Strategy
6 1 (5.88%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Java
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 8 (47.06%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (17.65%) ISEB
3 3 (17.65%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Grafana
1 8 (47.06%) Prometheus
2 3 (17.65%) Ansible