Performance Testing Contracts in London

Performance Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 265 327 357
Rank change year-on-year +62 +30 -1
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 130 176 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.73% 0.65% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.71% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 127 200
10th Percentile £397 £445 £406
25th Percentile £444 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +12.20%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £700
90th Percentile £638 £738 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
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% -3.03%
75th Percentile - £88.06 £82.50
90th Percentile - £89.23 -
England median hourly rate - £85.75 £80.00
% change year-on-year - +7.19% +220.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,787 24,631 35,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.12% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,709 26,172
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.87%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in London

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in London

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in London

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in London

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +38 17 £500 -16.74% 1
South London +18 10 £620 +24.00%
West London +17 2 £571 - 1
East London - 2 £468 - 2
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 25 (19.23%) Confluence
2 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.08%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.31%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.54%) Apache
5 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.77%) GemFire
6 1 (0.77%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Windchill
2 2 (1.54%) Mingle
3 1 (0.77%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Endur
1 3 (2.31%) ENOVIA
1 3 (2.31%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (27.69%) Azure
2 31 (23.85%) AWS
3 23 (17.69%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (10.00%) Slack
5 11 (8.46%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.62%) Serverless
7 5 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.08%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.31%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (2.31%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.31%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.31%) Firebase
9 3 (2.31%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.31%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.54%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.08%) Internet
2 3 (2.31%) Reverse Proxy
2 3 (2.31%) VSAT
3 2 (1.54%) BGP
3 2 (1.54%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (1.54%) MPLS
3 2 (1.54%) VPN
4 1 (0.77%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.77%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.31%) DynamoDB
2 3 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.31%) MySQL
2 3 (2.31%) Power BI
3 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.54%) KDB
3 2 (1.54%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.77%) Big Data
4 1 (0.77%) DB2
4 1 (0.77%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (27.69%) JIRA
2 28 (21.54%) JMeter
3 25 (19.23%) SpecFlow
4 23 (17.69%) Jenkins
5 22 (16.92%) Selenium
6 20 (15.38%) Visual Studio
7 18 (13.85%) LoadRunner
8 17 (13.08%) WebDriver
9 11 (8.46%) Cucumber
9 11 (8.46%) Postman
10 8 (6.15%) Cypress.io
11 7 (5.38%) NeoLoad
12 6 (4.62%) Appium
12 6 (4.62%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (3.85%) Git
13 5 (3.85%) GitLab
14 4 (3.08%) Gatling
14 4 (3.08%) REST Assured
15 3 (2.31%) ScalaTest
15 3 (2.31%) TestRail
General
1 39 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.77%) Back Office
4 11 (8.46%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.69%) Finance
6 9 (6.92%) Banking
7 7 (5.38%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.62%) Legal
8 6 (4.62%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.85%) Law
10 4 (3.08%) Wholesale Banking
11 2 (1.54%) Electronics
11 2 (1.54%) Front Office
11 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.54%) Marketing
11 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (16.92%) Analyst
1 22 (16.92%) Senior
2 19 (14.62%) Lead
2 19 (14.62%) Test Analyst
2 19 (14.62%) Tester
3 16 (12.31%) Test Leader
4 15 (11.54%) Senior Analyst
4 15 (11.54%) Senior Test Analyst
5 14 (10.77%) Release Manager
6 12 (9.23%) Developer
6 12 (9.23%) Performance Engineer
6 12 (9.23%) Test Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) QA Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Performance Test Leader
9 6 (4.62%) Performance Test Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Automation Tester
10 5 (3.85%) QA Tester
11 4 (3.08%) Azure Test Lead
11 4 (3.08%) Scala Developer
11 4 (3.08%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.15%) .NET
2 15 (11.54%) AngularJS
3 14 (10.77%) XML
4 12 (9.23%) .NET Framework
5 7 (5.38%) Kafka
5 7 (5.38%) Playwright
5 7 (5.38%) REST
6 4 (3.08%) ADO
6 4 (3.08%) JSON
6 4 (3.08%) Middleware
6 4 (3.08%) Web Services
6 4 (3.08%) WebdriverIO
7 3 (2.31%) Akka
7 3 (2.31%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (2.31%) Gherkin
7 3 (2.31%) pytest
7 3 (2.31%) Spark Streaming
8 2 (1.54%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.54%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.54%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (3.08%) Mobile App
1 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
1 4 (3.08%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.31%) Hedge funds
2 3 (2.31%) NHS
2 3 (2.31%) PACS
3 2 (1.54%) CMDB
3 2 (1.54%) Derivative
4 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.77%) Contactless
4 1 (0.77%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.77%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.38%) Windows
2 5 (3.85%) Linux
3 4 (3.08%) Unix
4 1 (0.77%) Android
4 1 (0.77%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (60.77%) Test Automation
2 46 (35.38%) Agile
3 35 (26.92%) CI/CD
4 33 (25.38%) Test Strategy
5 31 (23.85%) DevOps
6 26 (20.00%) Scrum
7 23 (17.69%) Functional Testing
7 23 (17.69%) Non-Functional Testing
8 22 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (16.15%) Software Testing
10 20 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (14.62%) Operational Acceptance Testing
11 19 (14.62%) SDLC
12 17 (13.08%) Regression Testing
13 14 (10.77%) Configuration Management
13 14 (10.77%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (10.77%) Defect Management
13 14 (10.77%) Waterfall
14 13 (10.00%) Change Management
14 13 (10.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (27.69%) C#
2 28 (21.54%) Java
3 21 (16.15%) SQL
4 14 (10.77%) Python
5 13 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.92%) C++
7 6 (4.62%) Scala
7 6 (4.62%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.85%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.08%) C
10 3 (2.31%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.77%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.77%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (21.54%) Security Cleared
2 27 (20.77%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.08%) Degree
4 6 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.85%) ISEB
5 5 (3.85%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.31%) CCNA
6 3 (2.31%) CCNP
6 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.77%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (25.38%) QA
2 9 (6.92%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.31%) HL7
4 2 (1.54%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.54%) WCAG
5 1 (0.77%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (8.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.85%) Docker
3 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.77%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 25 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.85%) Ansible
2 5 (3.85%) Grafana
2 5 (3.85%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.31%) Kibana
4 1 (0.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (17.69%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.92%) Splunk
3 7 (5.38%) Oracle
4 6 (4.62%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (3.08%) AppDynamics
5 4 (3.08%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.08%) HP
5 4 (3.08%) iManage
5 4 (3.08%) Intapp
5 4 (3.08%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.31%) Google
6 3 (2.31%) IBM
6 3 (2.31%) PTC
6 3 (2.31%) SAP
6 3 (2.31%) Siemens
7 2 (1.54%) Adobe
7 2 (1.54%) Omniture
8 1 (0.77%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.77%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.77%) ServiceNow