Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Performance Testing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 104 108
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +8
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 9 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.64% 0.51% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.57% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 8
10th Percentile £402 - £561
25th Percentile £475 - £607
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £615
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -26.83% +11.82%
75th Percentile £550 £472 £623
90th Percentile - £511 -
South East median daily rate £423 £438 £600
% change year-on-year -3.43% -27.08% +9.09%

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 1,256 1,410 1,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.52% 89.75% 91.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 773 969
10th Percentile £306 £316 £213
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £620
90th Percentile £650 £692 £699
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 45 70
10th Percentile £14.75 £22.85 £24.33
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.25 £48.40
Median hourly rate £38.86 £58.38 £61.45
Median % change year-on-year -33.43% -5.00% +22.90%
75th Percentile £78.75 £64.73 £67.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.19 £76.47
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £54.68 £52.50
% change year-on-year -59.77% +4.15% +20.69%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Berkshire

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Performance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Performance Testing

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 2 December 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 +22 8 £525 - 1
Wokingham - 1 - -
Performance Testing
South East

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 2 (22.22%) NUnit
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
General
1 6 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Automation Tester
4 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Tester
5 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
1 8 (88.89%) End-to-End Testing
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Test Scripting
2 7 (77.78%) Validation
3 6 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 6 (66.67%) High Availability
3 6 (66.67%) Load Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (66.67%) Risk Analysis
3 6 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (66.67%) Verification and Validation
4 2 (22.22%) API Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Case Management
5 1 (11.11%) Defect Management
5 1 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco