Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Performance Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 40 71
Rank change year-on-year -34 +31 +7
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 7 17 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.81% 3.15% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 3.49% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £410 £316 -
25th Percentile - £353 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £385 £400
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% -3.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £483 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £455 £385 £375
% change year-on-year +18.12% +2.67% -25.00%

All Process & 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 743 487 628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.00% 90.35% 82.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 343 408
10th Percentile £263 £200 £246
25th Percentile £402 £381 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £455
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +12.64% -9.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 13 44
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.62 £13.20
25th Percentile £16.05 £14.70 £17.75
Median hourly rate £17.69 £22.50 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% -17.43% +88.74%
75th Percentile £24.29 £30.68 £48.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £48.14 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.76 £18.63 £23.00
% change year-on-year +16.83% -19.02% +29.80%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Confluence
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GitHub
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) JMeter
2 5 (71.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (71.43%) Selenium
3 4 (57.14%) Cucumber
3 4 (57.14%) GitLab
3 4 (57.14%) JIRA
3 4 (57.14%) JUnit
4 3 (42.86%) Git
4 3 (42.86%) WebDriver
5 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
5 2 (28.57%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
6 1 (14.29%) Gatling
6 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
6 1 (14.29%) Postman
6 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
6 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Automation Tester
1 4 (57.14%) Tester
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Automation Tester
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Tester
2 3 (42.86%) Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Integration Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Spring
2 3 (42.86%) WireMock
3 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
3 1 (14.29%) JDBC
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) ODBC
3 1 (14.29%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) BDD
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Load Testing
1 5 (71.43%) Stress Testing
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Observability
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (57.14%) TDD
2 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Data Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Component Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Grafana
1 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk