Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Performance Testing
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.91% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £509 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £697 - -
90th Percentile £744 - -
East of England median daily rate £425 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +6.25% +6.67% -25.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 192 143 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 87.27% 86.67% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 72 155
10th Percentile £313 £213 £350
25th Percentile £413 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £584 £675 £550
90th Percentile £638 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £490 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 18 4
10th Percentile £25.15 £24.98 £51.63
25th Percentile £37.50 £30.20 £52.19
Median hourly rate £71.00 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.24% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £90.75 £59.69 £58.88
90th Percentile £91.50 £71.60 £61.35
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +36.36% -1.12%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

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

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Bedfordshire

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic