Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Performance Testing
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 2.35% - 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.94% - 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £455 - £186
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 - £188
75th Percentile £475 - £189
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £468 - £615

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 204 160 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 80.00% 88.40% 78.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 132 154
10th Percentile £233 £200 £165
25th Percentile £293 £262 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £431 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £504 £550 £548
90th Percentile £650 £650 £614
South Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £444
% change year-on-year -2.94% -4.23% -6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile - - £13.00
25th Percentile - £21.25 £14.88
Median hourly rate £12.21 £24.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.65% +34.72% +23.71%
75th Percentile £19.08 £34.06 £35.88
90th Percentile £20.60 £45.88 £46.60
South Wales median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.27
% change year-on-year -2.22% -10.96% +29.66%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) BlazeMeter
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Lead
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Test Leader
1 6 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (66.67%) NHS
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Load Testing
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Model Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Resilience Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix