Performance Testing Contracts in Central London

Performance Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 116 156
Rank change year-on-year +1 +40 +10
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 14 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.70% 0.70% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.77% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 13
10th Percentile £422 £434 £473
25th Percentile £431 £450 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £500 £601
Median % change year-on-year -9.75% -16.74% +11.72%
75th Percentile £531 £625 £675
90th Percentile £604 - £728
London median daily rate £438 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% - -13.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
City of London +6 14 £451 -13.01% 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) IIS
3 1 (7.14%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (7.14%) SAP CRM
2 1 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) GitHub
3 5 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Azure AKS
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (21.43%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
6 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (14.29%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 1 (7.14%) AWS
7 1 (7.14%) AWS Control Tower
7 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
7 1 (7.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) HTTP
3 1 (7.14%) Intranet
3 1 (7.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) MySQL
2 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Iceberg
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JMeter
2 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) LoadRunner
2 3 (21.43%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) Postman
3 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
3 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.14%) Travis CI
4 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Billing
4 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.14%) Advertising
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Tester
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Software Tester
2 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Configuration Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) CRM Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Developer in Test
3 1 (7.14%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) SAP CRM Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) SAP Tester
3 1 (7.14%) SharePoint Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Kafka
1 3 (21.43%) NumPy
1 3 (21.43%) OAuth
1 3 (21.43%) OAuth2
1 3 (21.43%) OpenID
1 3 (21.43%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (21.43%) Pandas
2 2 (14.29%) ADO
2 2 (14.29%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (14.29%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) WebSockets
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Test Automation
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Integration Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 3 (21.43%) API Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) CRM
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Quantitative Finance
4 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) SDLC
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) C#
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 2 (14.29%) Java
6 1 (7.14%) ABAP
6 1 (7.14%) Bash
6 1 (7.14%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Workday
3 1 (7.14%) BT
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) TOWER Software