Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Central London

Performance Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 111 148
Rank change year-on-year -5 +37 +34
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 11 19 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.56% 0.82% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.89% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 12
10th Percentile £363 £425 £288
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.98% -20.37%
75th Percentile £616 £574 £600
90th Percentile £659 £638 £634
London median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -6.82%

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 1,831 2,137 2,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.85% 92.11% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 1,382 2,004
10th Percentile £319 £375 £357
25th Percentile £419 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £773 £787 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 27 17
10th Percentile £18.96 £17.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.56 £16.61
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%
75th Percentile £50.75 £42.00 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £110.50 £59.30
London median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year -9.29% -11.21% +8.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Central London

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Performance Testing

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 18 September 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 +3 11 £550 +10.00% 8
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 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SPSS
1 1 (9.09%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (9.09%) SAP CRM
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub
2 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JMeter
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) LoadRunner
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) Postman
3 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
3 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Back Office
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
4 1 (9.09%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) Consultant
1 2 (18.18%) Senior
1 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) DBA
2 1 (9.09%) Developer
2 1 (9.09%) QA Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) SAP CRM Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Tester
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (9.09%) Software Developer
2 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) SQL DBA
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (9.09%) Test Consultant
2 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
1 1 (9.09%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 1 (9.09%) Unreal Engine
1 1 (9.09%) Web Services
1 1 (9.09%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 1 (9.09%) Derivative
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
1 7 (63.64%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) Regression Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
3 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
5 3 (27.27%) API Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) CRM
6 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
6 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) ABAP
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Adobe
2 1 (9.09%) HP
2 1 (9.09%) SAP