Performance Testing Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Performance Testing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £221 - -
25th Percentile £253 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - -
75th Percentile £400 - -
90th Percentile £411 - -
East of England median daily rate £320 - £400
% change year-on-year - - -20.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 292 359 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.75% 82.91% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 109 231
10th Percentile £205 £205 £225
25th Percentile £350 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £538
90th Percentile £686 £638 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 161 183
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.41 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £60.00 £48.75 £28.50
East of England median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +5.50%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in Cambridgeshire

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in Cambridgeshire

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Cambridgeshire

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in Cambridgeshire

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
Cambridge - 6 £400 - 1
Performance Testing
East of England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (37.50%) WebLogic
1 3 (37.50%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Appium
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 1 (12.50%) Gatling
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JMeter
1 1 (12.50%) JUnit
1 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) TestNG
General
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Test Automation Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Test Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) Middleware
1 3 (37.50%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (37.50%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
2 3 (37.50%) ITSM
2 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (37.50%) Regression Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Test Planning
2 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
2 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) API Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) C++
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) PHP
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Dynatrace
8 Performance Testing jobs in the East of England