Performance Testing Contracts in Central London

Performance Testing
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Performance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Testing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 160 174
Rank change year-on-year +41 +14 -21
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 18 16 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.75% 0.42% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.46% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 23
10th Percentile £426 £473 £405
25th Percentile £450 £538 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £601 £480
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% +25.10% -12.73%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £656
90th Percentile - £728 £788
London median daily rate £500 £500 £575
% change year-on-year - -13.04% +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Performance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,185 3,446 4,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.59% 91.36% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,558 2,330 3,170
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.39% +9.48%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 29 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.20 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.50 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £53.75 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in Central London

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in Central London

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Central London

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in Central London

Performance Testing
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 Testing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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 +48 17 £519 -17.03% 1
West End of London - 1 £450 -
Camden - 1 £450 -
Performance Testing
London

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) AWS
2 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (16.67%) Serverless
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) CTI
1 1 (5.56%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (5.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) KDB
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) SpecFlow
2 7 (38.89%) Selenium
3 4 (22.22%) JMeter
3 4 (22.22%) WebDriver
4 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 3 (16.67%) REST Assured
4 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio
5 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
5 2 (11.11%) Postman
5 2 (11.11%) TeamCity
6 1 (5.56%) Git
6 1 (5.56%) LoadRunner
6 1 (5.56%) NeoLoad
6 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Front Office
2 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Back Office
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Test Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) C++ Developer
4 2 (11.11%) C++/Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Developer Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Analyst Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Market Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Market Data Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Market Data Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
3 1 (5.56%) Middleware
3 1 (5.56%) Playwright
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) Web Services
3 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) IVR
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 7 (38.89%) API Testing
3 7 (38.89%) Test Strategy
4 5 (27.78%) ETRM
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 3 (16.67%) TDD
6 2 (11.11%) API Management
6 2 (11.11%) BDD
6 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 2 (11.11%) Load Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Microservices
6 2 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (11.11%) SDET
6 2 (11.11%) Software Testing
7 1 (5.56%) Conversational UI
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) C#
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) C++
4 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.11%) Python
6 1 (5.56%) Bicep
6 1 (5.56%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.56%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) AppDynamics
2 1 (5.56%) Avaya
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco
2 1 (5.56%) Genesys
2 1 (5.56%) Google
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk