Performance Test Leader Contracts

Performance Test Lead
UK

The median Performance Test Lead daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 713 847
Rank change year-on-year +135 +134 -178
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Test Leader 8 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.005% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.005% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £513 - £385
25th Percentile £531 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +22.22% -4.76%
75th Percentile £584 - £477
90th Percentile £586 - £487
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £450
% change year-on-year - +22.22% +11.46%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

Performance Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Performance Test Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Test Leader in the UK

Performance Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Test Leader in the UK

Performance Test Leader
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Test Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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 +120 7 £538 -2.27% 2
London - 6 £538 - 2
Work from Home +125 1 £580 - 1
UK excluding London +69 1 - -
Midlands +35 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Performance Test Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Performance Test Leader in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Test Strategy
3 6 (75.00%) LoadRunner
3 6 (75.00%) Defect Management
4 5 (62.50%) Functional Testing
4 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
5 4 (50.00%) Finance
5 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
6 3 (37.50%) OpenAI
6 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
6 3 (37.50%) IT Strategy
6 3 (37.50%) Strategic Thinking
6 3 (37.50%) Tricentis Tosca
6 3 (37.50%) Intapp
6 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (37.50%) iManage
6 3 (37.50%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (37.50%) Coaching
6 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (37.50%) Law
6 3 (37.50%) Legal
6 3 (37.50%) Migration
6 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (37.50%) Project Management
6 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
6 3 (37.50%) JMeter
6 3 (37.50%) Azure
6 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Tricentis Tosca
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) LoadRunner
2 3 (37.50%) JMeter
2 3 (37.50%) NeoLoad
3 1 (12.50%) Gatling
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Law
2 3 (37.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Test Strategy
3 6 (75.00%) Defect Management
4 5 (62.50%) Functional Testing
4 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
5 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (37.50%) Coaching
5 3 (37.50%) IT Strategy
5 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 3 (37.50%) Migration
5 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (37.50%) Project Management
5 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
5 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
5 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (37.50%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) CA Agile Central
1 3 (37.50%) iManage
1 3 (37.50%) Intapp
1 3 (37.50%) OpenAI
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk