Performance Testing Contracts in the North West

Performance Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 159 165
Rank change year-on-year +26 +6 -33
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 5 1 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.19% 0.032% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.035% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 15
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile £463 - £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £575 £427
Median % change year-on-year -13.91% +34.66% -5.11%
75th Percentile £518 - £563
90th Percentile - - £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £531
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +11.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,300 2,829 3,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.88% 90.47% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 1,993 2,598
10th Percentile £308 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 139 169
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.80 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.89% +46.94% +32.43%
75th Percentile £46.11 £49.46 £50.78
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the North West

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the North West

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the North West

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +26 5 £495 -13.91% 5
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) SpeedCurve
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) NeoLoad
1 1 (20.00%) Pa11y
1 1 (20.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) iOS Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) iOS Development
1 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Storyboarding
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Active Listening
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) SOLID
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Swift
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana