Performance Testing Contracts in Berkshire

Performance Testing
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 109 124
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 -35
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 22 11 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.08% 0.59% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.65% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 11
10th Percentile £413 £427 £353
25th Percentile £419 £464 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.50% -9.09% +69.23%
75th Percentile £623 £511 £675
90th Percentile - £513 -
South East median daily rate £510 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +0.39% +1.60% +21.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,824 1,695 2,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.54% 91.57% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 1,091 1,395
10th Percentile £213 £350 £273
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% +6.22%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £495
% change year-on-year -0.99% +2.02% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 45 45
10th Percentile £20.17 £18.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £24.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £61.00 £56.89 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year +7.23% +170.24% -2.37%
75th Percentile £72.04 £74.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £87.37 £80.25 £73.80
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £48.08 £22.50
% change year-on-year -6.41% +113.69% -13.46%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 +5 20 £450 -10.00% 1
Wokingham - 2 £623 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (54.55%) Apache
2 11 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 2 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) BGP
1 11 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (50.00%) MPLS
1 11 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (54.55%) MongoDB
2 11 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 11 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) GitLab
1 11 (50.00%) JIRA
1 11 (50.00%) Robot Framework
1 11 (50.00%) TestRail
2 4 (18.18%) LoadRunner
3 3 (13.64%) JMeter
4 2 (9.09%) Git
General
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Network Engineer
1 10 (45.45%) Test Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Tester
3 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Performance Tester
4 2 (9.09%) C# Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (9.09%) LoadRunner Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Performance Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) NETCONF
1 11 (50.00%) REST
1 11 (50.00%) RESTCONF
1 11 (50.00%) SOAP
1 11 (50.00%) YANG
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) CSS
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) jQuery
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) React
2 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Unix
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Test Automation
2 13 (59.09%) Containerisation
2 13 (59.09%) Scrum
3 12 (54.55%) Agile
4 11 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (50.00%) Integration Testing
4 11 (50.00%) Regression Testing
4 11 (50.00%) Security Testing
4 11 (50.00%) Unit Testing
4 11 (50.00%) Workflow
5 4 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Refactoring
5 4 (18.18%) Validation
6 2 (9.09%) Data Protection
6 2 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (9.09%) Microservices
6 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Software Testing
6 2 (9.09%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 12 (54.55%) Python
3 6 (27.27%) C#
4 2 (9.09%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 11 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) HP
3 1 (4.55%) Micro Focus
3 1 (4.55%) OpenText