Performance Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Performance Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 147 161
Rank change year-on-year +31 +14 -18
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 16 16 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.58% 0.47% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.53% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 32
10th Percentile £350 £363 £380
25th Percentile £354 £412 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £428 £454
Median % change year-on-year -15.30% -5.62% +17.79%
75th Percentile £469 £500 £496
90th Percentile £538 £550 £513
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,260 3,027 4,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.30% 88.51% 88.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,511 2,116 3,276
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +4.74% +16.56%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £565
90th Percentile £700 £680 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 121 146
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.00 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £15.10 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +5.71% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.75 £22.21
90th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £34.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the Midlands

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the Midlands

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the Midlands

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the Midlands

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
East Midlands +28 12 £363 -3.33% 7
West Midlands +12 4 £375 -25.00% 2
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JMeter
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Analyst
1 7 (43.75%) Test Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Test Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Test Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Performance Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 2 (12.50%) Tester
5 1 (6.25%) OAT Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Test Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Test Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) LDAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Test Scripting
2 5 (31.25%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 5 (31.25%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (25.00%) System Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 4 (25.00%) Web Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (18.75%) Data Design
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Scrum
4 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Security Testing
5 1 (6.25%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (6.25%) Test Strategy
5 1 (6.25%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (25.00%) ISEB
3 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
3 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Ansible
1 4 (25.00%) Grafana
1 4 (25.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle