Performance Testing Contracts in the City of London

Performance Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 105 111 163
Rank change year-on-year +6 +52 -1
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 14 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.80% 0.73% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.80% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 12
10th Percentile £422 £432 £468
25th Percentile £431 £459 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £519 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.01% -17.03% +13.68%
75th Percentile £531 £625 £678
90th Percentile £604 - £733
Central London median daily rate £451 £500 £601
% change year-on-year -9.75% -16.74% +11.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the City of London

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the City of London

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the City of London

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the City of London

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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