Performance Testing Contracts in Reading

Performance Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 79 91
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 -32
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 20 10 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.67% 0.93% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 1.02% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 9
10th Percentile - £427 £347
25th Percentile £413 £447 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £623 £509 £675
90th Percentile - £514 -
Berkshire median daily rate £613 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +22.50% -9.09% +69.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,090 979 1,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 90.76% 91.24% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 649 821
10th Percentile £213 £365 £256
25th Percentile £404 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £615 £653 £600
90th Percentile £688 £721 £656
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 21 10
10th Percentile £26.10 £45.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £52.90 £53.50 £22.31
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +116.67% -31.03%
75th Percentile £84.40 £74.00 £48.13
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.19 £60.89
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.00 £56.89 £21.05
% change year-on-year +7.23% +170.24% -2.37%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in Reading

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in Reading

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Reading

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in Reading

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 11 (55.00%) Apache
1 11 (55.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) BGP
1 11 (55.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (55.00%) MPLS
1 11 (55.00%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (55.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (55.00%) MongoDB
1 11 (55.00%) NoSQL
1 11 (55.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) GitLab
1 11 (55.00%) JIRA
1 11 (55.00%) Robot Framework
1 11 (55.00%) TestRail
2 4 (20.00%) LoadRunner
3 3 (15.00%) JMeter
4 2 (10.00%) Git
General
1 6 (30.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 10 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Tester
3 4 (20.00%) Performance Tester
4 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) LoadRunner Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Performance Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) NETCONF
1 11 (55.00%) REST
1 11 (55.00%) RESTCONF
1 11 (55.00%) SOAP
1 11 (55.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Unix
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Scrum
1 13 (65.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (55.00%) Agile
2 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (55.00%) Containerisation
2 11 (55.00%) Integration Testing
2 11 (55.00%) Regression Testing
2 11 (55.00%) Security Testing
2 11 (55.00%) Unit Testing
2 11 (55.00%) Workflow
3 4 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (20.00%) Refactoring
3 4 (20.00%) Validation
4 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) SQL
2 11 (55.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) HP
3 1 (5.00%) Micro Focus
3 1 (5.00%) OpenText