Performance Testing Contracts in Birmingham

Performance Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 42 66 72
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +21
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 8 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.53% 0.13% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 0.16% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £476 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.75% -20.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £528 - -
90th Percentile £609 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £483 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +28.80% -25.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in Birmingham

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in Birmingham

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Birmingham

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JMeter
2 4 (50.00%) Selenium
3 3 (37.50%) JIRA
4 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (25.00%) Git
4 2 (25.00%) GitLab
4 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (25.00%) LoadRunner
4 2 (25.00%) Postman
4 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (25.00%) TestNG
4 2 (25.00%) Travis CI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) QA Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Tester
3 1 (12.50%) QA Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Manager
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 4 (50.00%) SIEM
3 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (37.50%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Test Management
4 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (25.00%) Compatibility Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (25.00%) Product Strategy
5 2 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Bash
1 2 (25.00%) C#
1 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CEH
1 2 (25.00%) CISSP
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kibana
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Micro Focus
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) SAP