Performance Testing Contracts in the City of London

Performance Testing
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 158 168
Rank change year-on-year +47 +10 -31
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 16 14 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.72% 0.38% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.42% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 23
10th Percentile £432 £468 £397
25th Percentile £459 £531 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.03% +13.68% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £678 £653
90th Percentile - £733 £775
Central London median daily rate £500 £601 £538
% change year-on-year -16.74% +11.72% -2.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 3,357 3,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.82% 91.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,258 2,945
10th Percentile £358 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 40
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £23.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.00
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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 26 April 2024.

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
1 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Serverless
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) KDB
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 6 (37.50%) Selenium
3 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
3 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (18.75%) REST Assured
3 3 (18.75%) WebDriver
4 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (12.50%) JMeter
4 2 (12.50%) Postman
4 2 (12.50%) TeamCity
4 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
5 1 (6.25%) Git
5 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (12.50%) Banking
1 2 (12.50%) Front Office
1 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Back Office
2 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
3 2 (12.50%) C++ Developer
3 2 (12.50%) C++/Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Developer Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Analyst Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Market Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Market Data Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Market Data Developer
3 2 (12.50%) QA Specialist
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
3 1 (6.25%) Playwright
3 1 (6.25%) REST
3 1 (6.25%) XML
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Test Strategy
4 6 (37.50%) API Testing
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) Agile
5 5 (31.25%) ETRM
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) TDD
7 2 (12.50%) Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) API Management
7 2 (12.50%) BDD
7 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Microservices
7 2 (12.50%) SDET
7 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
8 1 (6.25%) Code Quality
8 1 (6.25%) Integration Patterns
8 1 (6.25%) QA Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) C#
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 2 (12.50%) C++
5 2 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.25%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft