Performance Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 373 348
Rank change year-on-year +60 -25 -5
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 80 78 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.33% 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.36% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 52 128
10th Percentile £356 £375 £348
25th Percentile £413 £410 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £560
90th Percentile £623 £631 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £85.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year - +351.32% -24.00%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
South East +28 31 £480 -5.70% 8
South West +31 17 £588 +6.82% 9
Midlands +29 16 £363 -15.30% 9
East Midlands +28 12 £363 -3.33% 6
Scotland +31 6 £550 +29.79% 9
North of England +28 5 £495 -5.71% 6
North West +30 4 £495 -13.91% 5
West Midlands +15 4 £375 -25.00% 3
East of England +17 3 £513 -21.15% 6
Wales +16 2 £615 +29.47% 1
Yorkshire +14 1 - -
Performance Testing
UK

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 14 (17.50%) Apache
2 11 (13.75%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (5.00%) Confluence
4 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.25%) IIS
5 1 (1.25%) JBoss
5 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.75%) Azure
2 12 (15.00%) AWS
3 11 (13.75%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.50%) GitHub
5 3 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.75%) Serverless
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.50%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.50%) PaaS
7 1 (1.25%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.25%) GCP
7 1 (1.25%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.75%) BGP
1 11 (13.75%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (13.75%) MPLS
1 11 (13.75%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (13.75%) VPN
2 1 (1.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) MongoDB
1 12 (15.00%) NoSQL
1 12 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.25%) Big Data
3 4 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.50%) MySQL
4 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.25%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.25%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 21 (26.25%) JIRA
2 19 (23.75%) JMeter
3 11 (13.75%) GitLab
3 11 (13.75%) LoadRunner
3 11 (13.75%) Robot Framework
3 11 (13.75%) TestRail
4 9 (11.25%) Git
5 7 (8.75%) Selenium
6 6 (7.50%) Postman
7 5 (6.25%) NUnit
7 5 (6.25%) Visual Studio
8 4 (5.00%) Cypress.io
8 4 (5.00%) Jenkins
9 3 (3.75%) JUnit
10 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
11 1 (1.25%) Appium
11 1 (1.25%) Gatling
11 1 (1.25%) IntelliJ
11 1 (1.25%) WebDriver
11 1 (1.25%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (2.50%) Banking
4 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.25%) Electronics
5 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Test Engineer
2 15 (18.75%) Senior
3 10 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 10 (12.50%) Tester
4 9 (11.25%) Analyst
4 9 (11.25%) Senior Test Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Test Analyst
5 8 (10.00%) Architect
6 7 (8.75%) Developer
6 7 (8.75%) Lead
6 7 (8.75%) Performance Tester
7 5 (6.25%) Performance Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Oracle Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Test Leader
9 3 (3.75%) Performance Test Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (16.25%) REST
2 11 (13.75%) NETCONF
2 11 (13.75%) RESTCONF
2 11 (13.75%) SOAP
2 11 (13.75%) YANG
3 6 (7.50%) .NET
3 6 (7.50%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.00%) GraphQL
4 4 (5.00%) LDAP
4 4 (5.00%) Playwright
5 3 (3.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (3.75%) RESTful
6 2 (2.50%) React
7 1 (1.25%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.25%) jQuery
7 1 (1.25%) JSON
7 1 (1.25%) Kafka
7 1 (1.25%) Node.js
7 1 (1.25%) Spring
7 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.50%) CMDB
3 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.75%) Unix
2 6 (7.50%) Linux
3 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Windows
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 33 (41.25%) Agile
3 25 (31.25%) Security Testing
4 23 (28.75%) Scrum
5 20 (25.00%) DevOps
6 19 (23.75%) CI/CD
6 19 (23.75%) Test Strategy
7 18 (22.50%) Integration Testing
8 15 (18.75%) Manual Testing
9 14 (17.50%) Regression Testing
9 14 (17.50%) Scenario Testing
9 14 (17.50%) Test Scripting
10 13 (16.25%) Containerisation
10 13 (16.25%) Workflow
11 12 (15.00%) Non-Functional Testing
11 12 (15.00%) Unit Testing
12 11 (13.75%) Test Management
13 10 (12.50%) Software Testing
13 10 (12.50%) Waterfall
14 9 (11.25%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.00%) SQL
2 22 (27.50%) Python
3 8 (10.00%) C#
3 8 (10.00%) Java
4 7 (8.75%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.50%) Swift
6 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.25%) Scala
7 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.50%) Degree
4 9 (11.25%) ISTQB
5 8 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (8.75%) Master's Degree
7 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (6.25%) ISEB
8 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) QA
2 7 (8.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (18.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.25%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Grafana
1 6 (7.50%) Kibana
1 6 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Ansible
3 1 (1.25%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.25%) Terraform
3 1 (1.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (18.75%) Oracle
2 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.50%) HP
5 1 (1.25%) Google
5 1 (1.25%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.25%) OpenText
5 1 (1.25%) SAP
5 1 (1.25%) Splunk
5 1 (1.25%) VMware