Performance Testing Contracts

Performance Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 363 416 418
Rank change year-on-year +53 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 245 324 527
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.54% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.60% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 218 392
10th Percentile £360 £411 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £632 £675 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +3.06% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £81.68 -
25th Percentile - £83.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate - £85.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +351.32% -20.83%
75th Percentile - £88.06 £21.00
90th Percentile - £89.23 £57.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +82 215 £500 - 55
London +52 130 £500 - 18
Work from Home +51 85 £519 +9.21% 31
UK excluding London +68 79 £505 +3.06% 42
South East +33 30 £480 -5.70% 9
South West +29 16 £588 +6.82% 6
Midlands +23 16 £363 -15.30% 8
East Midlands +27 12 £363 -3.33% 5
North of England +28 6 £495 -5.71% 6
Scotland +26 6 £550 +29.79% 6
North West +18 5 £495 -11.21% 5
West Midlands +22 4 £375 -25.00% 3
East of England +16 3 £513 -21.15% 7
Wales +17 2 £615 +29.47% 1
Yorkshire +14 1 - -

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 33 (13.47%) Confluence
2 16 (6.53%) Apache
3 13 (5.31%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.45%) Apache Spark
5 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.41%) GemFire
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (2.86%) Trello
2 3 (1.22%) Windchill
3 2 (0.82%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.22%) Endur
1 3 (1.22%) ENOVIA
1 3 (1.22%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 61 (24.90%) Azure
2 52 (21.22%) AWS
3 34 (13.88%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.71%) Slack
5 11 (4.49%) Entra ID
6 10 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.08%) Serverless
7 9 (3.67%) PaaS
8 8 (3.27%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (3.27%) GitHub
8 8 (3.27%) SaaS
9 7 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (2.86%) Miro
10 6 (2.45%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.45%) BrowserStack
10 6 (2.45%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.04%) BlazeMeter
11 5 (2.04%) Firebase
11 5 (2.04%) PowerApps
12 4 (1.63%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.31%) BGP
1 13 (5.31%) Ethernet VPN
1 13 (5.31%) MPLS
1 13 (5.31%) VPN
2 12 (4.90%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (2.45%) Internet
4 3 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.22%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.31%) MongoDB
2 13 (5.31%) NoSQL
2 13 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.45%) Big Data
4 5 (2.04%) MySQL
4 5 (2.04%) Power BI
5 4 (1.63%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.22%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.22%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.22%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.82%) KDB
8 1 (0.41%) DB2
8 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.41%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.41%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (26.53%) JIRA
2 53 (21.63%) JMeter
3 36 (14.69%) Selenium
4 35 (14.29%) LoadRunner
5 30 (12.24%) Jenkins
6 26 (10.61%) SpecFlow
6 26 (10.61%) Visual Studio
7 19 (7.76%) Cypress.io
7 19 (7.76%) GitLab
7 19 (7.76%) WebDriver
8 18 (7.35%) Postman
9 14 (5.71%) Cucumber
9 14 (5.71%) Git
9 14 (5.71%) TestRail
10 13 (5.31%) Robot Framework
11 9 (3.67%) Appium
12 7 (2.86%) NeoLoad
12 7 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
13 6 (2.45%) NUnit
14 5 (2.04%) Gatling
General
1 66 (26.94%) Social Skills
2 29 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 23 (9.39%) Finance
5 14 (5.71%) Back Office
6 12 (4.90%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.49%) Banking
8 8 (3.27%) Legal
9 7 (2.86%) Electronics
9 7 (2.86%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.86%) Marketing
10 5 (2.04%) Law
11 4 (1.63%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.82%) Front Office
12 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (16.73%) Senior
2 40 (16.33%) Analyst
3 38 (15.51%) Tester
4 35 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 35 (14.29%) Test Engineer
5 29 (11.84%) Lead
6 23 (9.39%) Test Leader
7 19 (7.76%) Developer
8 17 (6.94%) Performance Engineer
9 15 (6.12%) Release Manager
9 15 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
9 15 (6.12%) Senior Test Analyst
10 14 (5.71%) Performance Tester
11 13 (5.31%) Network Engineer
12 11 (4.49%) QA Engineer
13 10 (4.08%) Architect
13 10 (4.08%) Senior Test Engineer
13 10 (4.08%) Test Manager
14 9 (3.67%) Performance Test Engineer
14 9 (3.67%) Performance Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.84%) .NET
2 21 (8.57%) REST
3 20 (8.16%) AngularJS
4 15 (6.12%) XML
5 13 (5.31%) .NET Framework
5 13 (5.31%) NETCONF
5 13 (5.31%) Playwright
5 13 (5.31%) RESTCONF
5 13 (5.31%) SOAP
6 12 (4.90%) YANG
7 8 (3.27%) WebdriverIO
8 7 (2.86%) Kafka
9 6 (2.45%) Middleware
10 5 (2.04%) ADO
10 5 (2.04%) Gherkin
10 5 (2.04%) GraphQL
10 5 (2.04%) JSON
10 5 (2.04%) LDAP
10 5 (2.04%) Web Services
11 4 (1.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (2.86%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.04%) CMDB
2 5 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (2.04%) Onboarding
3 4 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (1.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.63%) Mobile App
4 3 (1.22%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.22%) Hedge funds
4 3 (1.22%) NHS
4 3 (1.22%) PACS
4 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
5 2 (0.82%) Derivative
6 1 (0.41%) Contactless
6 1 (0.41%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.41%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.41%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.41%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.31%) Unix
2 12 (4.90%) Windows
3 11 (4.49%) Linux
4 3 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (55.92%) Test Automation
2 91 (37.14%) Agile
3 60 (24.49%) CI/CD
4 58 (23.67%) DevOps
5 57 (23.27%) Test Strategy
6 51 (20.82%) Scrum
7 40 (16.33%) Non-Functional Testing
8 38 (15.51%) Functional Testing
8 38 (15.51%) Regression Testing
9 36 (14.69%) Software Testing
10 32 (13.06%) Integration Testing
11 30 (12.24%) Operational Acceptance Testing
11 30 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (11.43%) Scenario Testing
12 28 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (11.43%) Waterfall
13 27 (11.02%) Security Testing
14 26 (10.61%) Test Scripting
15 24 (9.80%) SDLC
16 23 (9.39%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 46 (18.78%) C#
1 46 (18.78%) SQL
2 40 (16.33%) Python
3 37 (15.10%) Java
4 17 (6.94%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.67%) C++
7 8 (3.27%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.86%) Scala
8 7 (2.86%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.63%) C
10 3 (1.22%) Swift
11 2 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.41%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 63 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 53 (21.63%) SC Cleared
3 33 (13.47%) Degree
4 15 (6.12%) ISTQB
5 13 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (4.08%) ISEB
7 8 (3.27%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.22%) CCNA
9 3 (1.22%) CCNP
9 3 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.22%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.41%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (19.59%) QA
2 18 (7.35%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.22%) HL7
4 2 (0.82%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (0.82%) WCAG
5 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (8.16%) Docker
2 12 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.41%) GridGain
4 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (13.88%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.08%) Ansible
2 10 (4.08%) Grafana
3 8 (3.27%) Kibana
4 5 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.22%) Terraform
6 1 (0.41%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 44 (17.96%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.80%) Oracle
3 15 (6.12%) Splunk
4 10 (4.08%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.67%) SAP
6 8 (3.27%) HP
7 6 (2.45%) CA Agile Central
8 4 (1.63%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.63%) Google
8 4 (1.63%) iManage
8 4 (1.63%) Intapp
8 4 (1.63%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.22%) IBM
9 3 (1.22%) Micro Focus
9 3 (1.22%) OpenText
9 3 (1.22%) PTC
9 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.22%) Siemens
10 2 (0.82%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.82%) VMware