Performance Testing Contracts in Berkshire

Performance Testing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Performance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 103 104
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 +19
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 4 21 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.34% 1.06% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 1.19% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 6
10th Percentile £400 £413 £427
25th Percentile £428 £416 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £504
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +5.41% -8.36%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £512
90th Percentile £605 £623 £514
South East median daily rate £475 £480 £509
% change year-on-year -1.04% -5.70% +1.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in Berkshire

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in Berkshire

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Berkshire

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in Berkshire

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +16 4 £500 +11.11% 2
Performance Testing
South East

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Programme Test Manager
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTCONF
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) YAML
1 1 (25.00%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) CentOS
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (25.00%) Snow