Performance Test Leader Contract Job Trends in Central London

Performance Test Lead
London > Central London

The median Performance Test Lead daily rate in Central London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 - 128
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Test Leader 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.040% - 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% - 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £604
75th Percentile £494 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £488 £500 £602
% change year-on-year -2.50% -16.94% +25.42%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Central London with a recognized job title 2,347 1,815 2,166
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 93.22% 94.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,592 1,232 1,399
10th Percentile £355 £315 £363
25th Percentile £455 £422 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £781
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 29 25
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.51 £20.33
25th Percentile £18.88 £22.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.07 £28.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% -19.57% -
75th Percentile £54.00 £43.75 £42.25
90th Percentile £84.63 £64.11 £119.50
London median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -6.27%

Performance Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Performance Test Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Performance Test Leader job vacancy trend in Central London

Performance Test Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Test Leader job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Test Leader job vacancies in Central London

Performance Test Leader
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Test Leader within the Central London region over the 6 months to 17 September 2026. 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
City of London - 1 £488 -
Performance Test Leader
London

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 17 September 2026, Performance Test Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Performance Test Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Volume Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk