Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Performance Testing
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 1.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £495 - -
25th Percentile £498 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £423 £750 £438
% change year-on-year -43.67% +71.43% -9.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Basingstoke

Performance Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 264 148 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 84.08% 88.10% 87.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 127 67
10th Percentile £463 £404 £232
25th Percentile £500 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £610
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.56% +13.75%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £684 £738
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 14
10th Percentile £12.18 £28.15 £15.56
25th Percentile - £29.13 £17.88
Median hourly rate £17.00 £31.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.03% +0.80% +76.21%
75th Percentile - £34.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £17.37 £35.25 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £58.25
% change year-on-year -40.83% -39.91% +37.33%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Performance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) IPv4
1 4 (100.00%) IPv6
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) VLAN
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Network Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Designer
1 3 (75.00%) Senior Network Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Network Design
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Network Management
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNA
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) JNCIS
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIA
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) KVM
1 1 (25.00%) RHEV
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) F5
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper
1 4 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) VMware