Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Performance Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 109 134
Rank change year-on-year +2 +25 +38
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 12 20 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.69% 0.95% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 1.03% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 10
10th Percentile £373 £318 £268
25th Percentile £413 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £482 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.03% -12.49% -18.48%
75th Percentile £606 £559 £600
90th Percentile £653 £634 £640
Central London median daily rate £525 £482 £538
% change year-on-year +9.03% -10.42% -20.37%

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 1,647 1,941 2,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.17% 91.90% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 1,225 1,883
10th Percentile £321 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £701
90th Percentile £764 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 16
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +8.00% -41.52%
75th Percentile £56.75 £82.19 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.07% +34.62% -38.10%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Testing

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 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the City of London

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Testing

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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SPSS
1 1 (8.33%) Stata
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP CRM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JMeter
1 4 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) LoadRunner
2 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) Postman
3 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Back Office
4 1 (8.33%) Billing
4 1 (8.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) Analyst
1 2 (16.67%) Consultant
1 2 (16.67%) Senior
1 2 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) CRM Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) DBA
2 1 (8.33%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
2 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) SAP CRM Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Tester
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server DBA
2 1 (8.33%) Test Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) Gherkin
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) JSON
1 2 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (8.33%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) Playwright
2 1 (8.33%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (8.33%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (8.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Derivative
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) Regression Testing
4 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 5 (41.67%) Scrum
4 5 (41.67%) Test Scripting
4 5 (41.67%) Test Strategy
5 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (33.33%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) API Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
7 2 (16.67%) BDD
7 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (16.67%) CRM
7 2 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Migration
7 2 (16.67%) SDET
7 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) ABAP
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe
2 1 (8.33%) HP
2 1 (8.33%) SAP