Performance Testing Contracts in England

Performance Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 403 414
Rank change year-on-year +68 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 215 257 428
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.51% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.56% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 175 322
10th Percentile £362 £416 £385
25th Percentile £425 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £596 £600 £659
90th Percentile £630 £718 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £81.68 -
25th Percentile - £83.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate - £85.75 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.19% +220.00%
75th Percentile - £88.06 £82.50
90th Percentile - £89.23 -
UK median hourly rate - £85.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year - +351.32% -24.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,201 45,536 64,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.24% 90.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,119 31,974 45,794
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,240 1,592 1,770
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
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 Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 29 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
London +62 130 £500 - 18
South East +25 30 £480 -5.70% 9
Midlands +28 16 £363 -15.30% 9
South West +19 16 £588 +6.82% 7
East Midlands +31 12 £363 -3.33% 6
North of England +24 6 £495 -5.71% 7
North West +26 5 £495 -11.21% 6
West Midlands +20 4 £375 -25.00% 3
East of England +13 3 £513 -21.15% 6
Yorkshire +17 1 - -
Performance Testing
UK

Performance Testing
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 31 (14.42%) Confluence
2 16 (7.44%) Apache
3 13 (6.05%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.79%) Apache Spark
5 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.86%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.47%) GemFire
7 1 (0.47%) IIS
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Windchill
2 2 (0.93%) Mingle
3 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.40%) Endur
1 3 (1.40%) ENOVIA
1 3 (1.40%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (24.65%) Azure
2 43 (20.00%) AWS
3 32 (14.88%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (6.05%) Slack
5 11 (5.12%) Entra ID
6 9 (4.19%) Serverless
7 7 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.33%) BlazeMeter
9 5 (2.33%) BrowserStack
9 5 (2.33%) Firebase
9 5 (2.33%) GitHub
10 4 (1.86%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 4 (1.86%) Tricentis Tosca
11 3 (1.40%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.40%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.05%) BGP
1 13 (6.05%) Ethernet VPN
1 13 (6.05%) MPLS
1 13 (6.05%) VPN
2 12 (5.58%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (1.86%) Internet
4 3 (1.40%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.40%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.51%) SQL Server
2 13 (6.05%) MongoDB
2 13 (6.05%) NoSQL
2 13 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.86%) MySQL
3 4 (1.86%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.40%) Big Data
4 3 (1.40%) DynamoDB
4 3 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (1.40%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.40%) Power BI
4 3 (1.40%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (0.93%) KDB
6 1 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.47%) DB2
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 61 (28.37%) JIRA
2 45 (20.93%) JMeter
3 28 (13.02%) Jenkins
4 27 (12.56%) LoadRunner
5 26 (12.09%) Selenium
6 25 (11.63%) SpecFlow
7 24 (11.16%) Visual Studio
8 18 (8.37%) GitLab
9 17 (7.91%) Postman
9 17 (7.91%) WebDriver
10 15 (6.98%) Cypress.io
11 14 (6.51%) TestRail
12 13 (6.05%) Robot Framework
13 12 (5.58%) Cucumber
13 12 (5.58%) Git
14 9 (4.19%) Appium
15 7 (3.26%) NeoLoad
15 7 (3.26%) Team Foundation Server
16 6 (2.79%) NUnit
17 4 (1.86%) Gatling
General
1 61 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 26 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (10.70%) Public Sector
4 21 (9.77%) Finance
5 14 (6.51%) Back Office
6 12 (5.58%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.19%) Banking
8 7 (3.26%) Electronics
8 7 (3.26%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.26%) Manufacturing
8 7 (3.26%) Marketing
9 6 (2.79%) Legal
10 5 (2.33%) Law
11 4 (1.86%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.93%) Front Office
12 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (16.74%) Analyst
1 36 (16.74%) Senior
2 35 (16.28%) Test Engineer
3 33 (15.35%) Tester
4 31 (14.42%) Test Analyst
5 23 (10.70%) Lead
6 20 (9.30%) Test Leader
7 18 (8.37%) Developer
8 17 (7.91%) Performance Engineer
9 15 (6.98%) Senior Analyst
9 15 (6.98%) Senior Test Analyst
10 14 (6.51%) Release Manager
11 13 (6.05%) Network Engineer
12 12 (5.58%) Performance Tester
13 10 (4.65%) Architect
13 10 (4.65%) QA Engineer
13 10 (4.65%) Senior Test Engineer
14 9 (4.19%) Performance Test Engineer
15 8 (3.72%) Performance Test Leader
15 8 (3.72%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.56%) .NET
2 20 (9.30%) AngularJS
2 20 (9.30%) REST
3 15 (6.98%) XML
4 13 (6.05%) NETCONF
4 13 (6.05%) RESTCONF
4 13 (6.05%) SOAP
5 12 (5.58%) .NET Framework
5 12 (5.58%) YANG
6 10 (4.65%) Playwright
7 7 (3.26%) Kafka
8 6 (2.79%) Middleware
8 6 (2.79%) WebdriverIO
9 5 (2.33%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.33%) LDAP
10 4 (1.86%) ADO
10 4 (1.86%) Gherkin
10 4 (1.86%) JSON
10 4 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.79%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.33%) CMDB
2 5 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (2.33%) Onboarding
3 4 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (1.86%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.86%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.40%) Hedge funds
4 3 (1.40%) NHS
4 3 (1.40%) PACS
5 2 (0.93%) Derivative
6 1 (0.47%) Contactless
6 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.47%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.47%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.47%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.12%) Unix
2 10 (4.65%) Linux
3 8 (3.72%) Windows
4 3 (1.40%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (54.88%) Test Automation
2 81 (37.67%) Agile
3 53 (24.65%) CI/CD
4 51 (23.72%) Scrum
5 49 (22.79%) Test Strategy
6 48 (22.33%) DevOps
7 37 (17.21%) Non-Functional Testing
8 33 (15.35%) Functional Testing
9 32 (14.88%) Regression Testing
9 32 (14.88%) Software Testing
10 27 (12.56%) Integration Testing
10 27 (12.56%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (12.56%) Scenario Testing
11 25 (11.63%) Operational Acceptance Testing
12 24 (11.16%) Security Testing
12 24 (11.16%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (10.70%) Waterfall
14 22 (10.23%) SDLC
15 21 (9.77%) Manual Testing
16 20 (9.30%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 45 (20.93%) C#
2 42 (19.53%) SQL
3 39 (18.14%) Python
4 35 (16.28%) Java
5 14 (6.51%) JavaScript
5 14 (6.51%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.19%) C++
7 8 (3.72%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.26%) Scala
8 7 (3.26%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.86%) C
10 3 (1.40%) Swift
11 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.47%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 54 (25.12%) Security Cleared
2 44 (20.47%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.16%) Degree
4 13 (6.05%) ISTQB
5 11 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.19%) ISEB
7 6 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.79%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.40%) CCNA
8 3 (1.40%) CCNP
8 3 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (21.86%) QA
2 16 (7.44%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.40%) HL7
4 2 (0.93%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (0.93%) WCAG
5 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (8.84%) Docker
2 12 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.47%) GridGain
4 1 (0.47%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (13.95%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.65%) Grafana
3 9 (4.19%) Ansible
4 8 (3.72%) Kibana
5 5 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.47%) Terraform
6 1 (0.47%) vRealize
Vendors
1 35 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.30%) Oracle
3 9 (4.19%) Splunk
4 8 (3.72%) HP
4 8 (3.72%) SAP
5 6 (2.79%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.86%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.86%) Dynatrace
6 4 (1.86%) iManage
6 4 (1.86%) Intapp
6 4 (1.86%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.40%) Google
7 3 (1.40%) IBM
7 3 (1.40%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.40%) OpenText
7 3 (1.40%) PTC
7 3 (1.40%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.40%) Siemens
8 2 (0.93%) Adobe
8 2 (0.93%) Omniture