Performance Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Performance Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 300 391
Rank change year-on-year +36 +91 -31
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 85 163 248
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.67% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.75% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 127 195
10th Percentile £363 £413 £384
25th Percentile £425 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £597
90th Percentile £630 £600 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £498 £535
% change year-on-year +0.50% -7.01% +18.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

Performance Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Testing.

Performance Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Performance Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (17.65%) Confluence
2 3 (3.53%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.18%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (1.18%) GemFire
4 1 (1.18%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 7 (8.24%) Trello
2 4 (4.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.18%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 31 (36.47%) Azure
2 24 (28.24%) AWS
3 14 (16.47%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.41%) PaaS
4 8 (9.41%) SaaS
5 7 (8.24%) GCP
5 7 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (8.24%) Miro
6 6 (7.06%) BlazeMeter
6 6 (7.06%) BrowserStack
6 6 (7.06%) Firebase
7 5 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 5 (5.88%) Slack
8 4 (4.71%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.71%) Twilio
9 3 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.53%) Serverless
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) CTI
1 4 (4.71%) VoIP
2 2 (2.35%) Internet
3 1 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.53%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (2.35%) Big Data
3 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.35%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (2.35%) Power BI
4 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.18%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.18%) MySQL
4 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (30.59%) JMeter
2 19 (22.35%) JIRA
3 15 (17.65%) Jenkins
4 14 (16.47%) Selenium
5 12 (14.12%) Cypress.io
5 12 (14.12%) Postman
6 11 (12.94%) SpecFlow
7 9 (10.59%) Visual Studio
8 7 (8.24%) GitLab
8 7 (8.24%) WebDriver
9 6 (7.06%) Appium
9 6 (7.06%) Git
9 6 (7.06%) LoadRunner
10 4 (4.71%) Cucumber
11 3 (3.53%) NUnit
12 2 (2.35%) JUnit
12 2 (2.35%) NeoLoad
12 2 (2.35%) REST Assured
12 2 (2.35%) TestComplete
12 2 (2.35%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 15 (17.65%) Finance
3 9 (10.59%) Telecoms
4 7 (8.24%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.71%) Retail
7 3 (3.53%) Electronics
7 3 (3.53%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.53%) Marketing
8 2 (2.35%) Back Office
8 2 (2.35%) Legal
9 1 (1.18%) Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (24.71%) Senior
2 13 (15.29%) Analyst
2 13 (15.29%) Test Engineer
3 10 (11.76%) Performance Engineer
3 10 (11.76%) Test Analyst
3 10 (11.76%) Tester
4 8 (9.41%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (9.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Performance Test Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Developer
6 6 (7.06%) Release Manager
7 5 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Lead
7 5 (5.88%) QA Tester
7 5 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Senior Test Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Test Manager
8 4 (4.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.12%) .NET
2 10 (11.76%) Middleware
3 8 (9.41%) AngularJS
4 7 (8.24%) Web Services
5 6 (7.06%) WebdriverIO
6 5 (5.88%) .NET Framework
6 5 (5.88%) Playwright
7 4 (4.71%) XML
8 3 (3.53%) Gherkin
8 3 (3.53%) GraphQL
8 3 (3.53%) Kafka
8 3 (3.53%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (2.35%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.35%) Django
9 2 (2.35%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 2 (2.35%) REST
9 2 (2.35%) Spark Streaming
10 1 (1.18%) ADO
10 1 (1.18%) JSON
10 1 (1.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.71%) IVR
1 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
1 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.53%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.35%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.35%) Replication
4 1 (1.18%) Contactless
4 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.18%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.88%) Windows
2 3 (3.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (65.88%) Test Automation
2 45 (52.94%) Agile
3 31 (36.47%) DevOps
4 21 (24.71%) CI/CD
5 18 (21.18%) Scrum
5 18 (21.18%) Test Strategy
6 15 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
6 15 (17.65%) Test Management
7 11 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (11.76%) Analytics
8 10 (11.76%) API Testing
8 10 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (11.76%) Migration
8 10 (11.76%) Software Testing
8 10 (11.76%) Waterfall
9 9 (10.59%) Functional Testing
9 9 (10.59%) Manual Testing
9 9 (10.59%) Operational Acceptance Testing
9 9 (10.59%) SDLC
9 9 (10.59%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 18 (21.18%) C#
2 15 (17.65%) SQL
3 11 (12.94%) Java
3 11 (12.94%) JavaScript
4 10 (11.76%) Python
5 4 (4.71%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.53%) C++
6 3 (3.53%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.53%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.35%) Scala
7 2 (2.35%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.18%) Bicep
8 1 (1.18%) C
Qualifications
1 24 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 21 (24.71%) SC Cleared
3 15 (17.65%) Degree
4 7 (8.24%) ISTQB
5 6 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.71%) ISEB
7 4 (4.71%) Master's Degree
7 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.00%) QA
2 5 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.71%) GDPR
3 4 (4.71%) HIPAA
3 4 (4.71%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.18%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 10 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.71%) Ansible
3 3 (3.53%) Grafana
3 3 (3.53%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.35%) Kibana
5 1 (1.18%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) Dynatrace
2 8 (9.41%) Oracle
2 8 (9.41%) Splunk
3 6 (7.06%) Google
4 4 (4.71%) Avaya
4 4 (4.71%) Cisco
4 4 (4.71%) Genesys
4 4 (4.71%) SAP
5 1 (1.18%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.18%) HP