Performance Test Leader Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Performance Test Lead
Central London > City of London

The median Performance Test Lead daily rate in the City of 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 145 - 127
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Test Leader 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.044% - 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% - 0.10%
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 - - -
Central London median daily rate £488 - £604

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,130 1,654 1,960
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 93.87% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,440 1,113 1,239
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 15
10th Percentile - £17.35 £16.49
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +4.91% -23.94%
75th Percentile £34.51 £53.50 £85.63
90th Percentile £61.25 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.07 £28.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.30% -19.57% -

Performance Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of 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 the City of London.

Performance Test Leader job vacancy trend in the City of London

Performance Test Leader
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Test Leader job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Test Leader job vacancies in the City of London

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 City of 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 the City of 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