Performance Tester Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Performance Tester role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Performance Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Tester
Rank 481 532 488
Rank change year-on-year
+51 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Tester 52 41 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.112% 0.070% 0.166%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.121% 0.076% 0.179%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 28 61
Average daily rate £355 £388 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.38% +7.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £314 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £355
% change year-on-year
- +2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42921 54032 55868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24602 29796 30366
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2138 2561 2889
Average hourly rate £18.53 £18.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.20% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.74 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Performance Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Performance Tester within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Performance Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Tester
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Performance Tester within the UK.

Performance Tester Daily Rate Trend

Performance Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Performance Tester within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Performance Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Performance Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Performance Tester within the UK.

Performance Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Performance Tester
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tester within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +61 37 £353 -6.00%
London +18 16 £355 -11.25%
Wales - 9 £395 -
South East +29 8 £363 +81.25%
Yorkshire +6 7 £225 -
Hampshire - 7 £363 -
Swansea - 6 £420 -
West Wales - 6 £420 -
West Yorkshire +1 5 £225 -
Leeds - 5 £225 -
Scotland -7 4 £325 -26.13%
Glasgow - 4 £325 -
South Wales - 3 £395 -
South West +19 2 £400 +21.21%
West Midlands +8 2 £308 +53.75%
Solihull - 2 £308 -
Gloucestershire - 2 £400 -
Berkshire - 2 £325 -
East of England +17 1 - -
City of London +11 1 £210 -44.00%
Cambridgeshire +9 1 - -
Tewkesbury - 1 - -
Lancashire - 1 - -
South Yorkshire - 1 - -
Skelmersdale - 1 - -
Gosport - 1 £325 -
County Antrim - 1 - -
Belfast - 1 - -
Cheltenham - 1 £400 -
Docklands, London - 1 £320 -

Performance Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Performance Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Performance Tester in their job title.

1 74 (70.48%) Performance Testing
2 50 (47.62%) LoadRunner
3 35 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 32 (30.48%) Rational Performance Tester
5 26 (24.76%) Security Cleared
6 25 (23.81%) SQL
7 23 (21.90%) IBM
8 20 (19.05%) HP
9 18 (17.14%) Java
10 16 (15.24%) C
10 16 (15.24%) UNIX
11 13 (12.38%) Oracle
12 12 (11.43%) Linux
12 12 (11.43%) Microsoft
12 12 (11.43%) SC Cleared
12 12 (11.43%) HP Quality Center
13 11 (10.48%) XML
13 11 (10.48%) Load Testing
13 11 (10.48%) Software Testing
14 10 (9.524%) HTTP
14 10 (9.524%) ISEB
15 9 (8.571%) HTML
16 8 (7.619%) SOAP
16 8 (7.619%) JMeter
17 7 (6.667%) Visual Studio
17 7 (6.667%) SOA
17 7 (6.667%) Test Automation
17 7 (6.667%) Test Management
18 6 (5.714%) Open Source
18 6 (5.714%) Hudson

Performance Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Performance Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Performance Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (10.48%) XML
2 9 (8.571%) HTML
3 8 (7.619%) SOAP
4 6 (5.714%) soapUI
5 4 (3.810%) Web Services
5 4 (3.810%) .NET
6 2 (1.905%) Ajax
6 2 (1.905%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.952%) JSON
7 1 (0.952%) RESTful
7 1 (0.952%) ASP.NET
7 1 (0.952%) JSP
7 1 (0.952%) XSLT
7 1 (0.952%) WAP
7 1 (0.952%) Middleware
7 1 (0.952%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 4 (3.810%) Windows Azure
2 1 (0.952%) Confluence
2 1 (0.952%) Apache
2 1 (0.952%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.952%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.952%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 4 (3.810%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.952%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (0.952%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.905%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.952%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.952%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.952%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.952%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.524%) HTTP
2 3 (2.857%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.905%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.905%) BSS
4 1 (0.952%) FTP
4 1 (0.952%) DNS
4 1 (0.952%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.714%) SQLPlus
2 3 (2.857%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.905%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.952%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (0.952%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 50 (47.62%) LoadRunner
2 32 (30.48%) Rational Performance Tester
3 8 (7.619%) JMeter
4 7 (6.667%) Visual Studio
5 6 (5.714%) Hudson
6 5 (4.762%) Talend Open Studio
7 4 (3.810%) Jenkins
7 4 (3.810%) TestDirector
8 3 (2.857%) SilkPerformer
9 2 (1.905%) JIRA
9 2 (1.905%) QuickTest Pro
9 2 (1.905%) GitHub
9 2 (1.905%) Git (software)
9 2 (1.905%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.952%) OpenSTA
10 1 (0.952%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.952%) JUnit
10 1 (0.952%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.952%) Selenium
10 1 (0.952%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 6 (5.714%) Telecoms
1 6 (5.714%) Finance
2 3 (2.857%) Banking
2 3 (2.857%) Spanish Language
3 2 (1.905%) Retail Banking
3 2 (1.905%) Retail
4 1 (0.952%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (0.952%) Games
4 1 (0.952%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.714%) Open Source
2 5 (4.762%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.952%) New Media
3 1 (0.952%) Mobile App
3 1 (0.952%) Mainframe
3 1 (0.952%) Statistics
3 1 (0.952%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.24%) UNIX
2 12 (11.43%) Linux
3 5 (4.762%) Windows
4 1 (0.952%) AIX
4 1 (0.952%) Solaris
4 1 (0.952%) Windows 2000
4 1 (0.952%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.952%) OpenVMS
4 1 (0.952%) zOS
4 1 (0.952%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.952%) Android
4 1 (0.952%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.952%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.952%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (70.48%) Performance Testing
2 35 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 11 (10.48%) Load Testing
3 11 (10.48%) Software Testing
4 7 (6.667%) Test Automation
4 7 (6.667%) SOA
4 7 (6.667%) Test Management
5 5 (4.762%) Service Delivery
5 5 (4.762%) Regression Testing
5 5 (4.762%) Web Development
5 5 (4.762%) Stress Testing
6 4 (3.810%) Security Testing
6 4 (3.810%) Web Testing
6 4 (3.810%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (2.857%) Matrix Management
7 3 (2.857%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (2.857%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (2.857%) TDD
7 3 (2.857%) Data Management
7 3 (2.857%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.81%) SQL
2 18 (17.14%) Java
3 16 (15.24%) C
4 5 (4.762%) Shell Script
5 4 (3.810%) C#
5 4 (3.810%) Perl
6 2 (1.905%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.905%) Python
7 1 (0.952%) Jython
7 1 (0.952%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.952%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.952%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (24.76%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.524%) ISEB
4 4 (3.810%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.905%) Degree
6 1 (0.952%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.952%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.857%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.857%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (11.43%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.905%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 23 (21.90%) IBM
2 20 (19.05%) HP
3 13 (12.38%) Oracle
4 12 (11.43%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.762%) Talend
6 4 (3.810%) Siebel
7 3 (2.857%) Citrix
8 2 (1.905%) RightScale
8 2 (1.905%) SAP
9 1 (0.952%) Sybase
9 1 (0.952%) Business Objects
9 1 (0.952%) Sun
9 1 (0.952%) Murex
9 1 (0.952%) Empirix
9 1 (0.952%) Perforce
9 1 (0.952%) VMware
9 1 (0.952%) Google
9 1 (0.952%) Atlassian
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