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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 156 163
Rank change year-on-year +47 +7 -20
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 17 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.78% 0.42% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.45% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 21
10th Percentile £426 £468 £405
25th Percentile £445 £531 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.03% +19.10% -
75th Percentile £625 £678 £625
90th Percentile - £733 £788
Central London median daily rate £500 £601 £503
% change year-on-year -16.74% +19.50% -8.64%

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 1,982 3,305 3,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.59% 91.53% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,403 2,228 2,947
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £676
90th Percentile £825 £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 11 26 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.08 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

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 6 May 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:

Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (23.53%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) Serverless
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.88%) Azure API Management
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) GCP
6 1 (5.88%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) CTI
1 1 (5.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) KDB
3 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) SpecFlow
2 7 (41.18%) Selenium
3 4 (23.53%) WebDriver
4 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
4 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
4 3 (17.65%) JMeter
4 3 (17.65%) REST Assured
4 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
5 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
5 2 (11.76%) Postman
5 2 (11.76%) TeamCity
6 1 (5.88%) Git
6 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Banking
2 2 (11.76%) Front Office
2 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Back Office
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Test Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Test Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) C++ Developer
4 2 (11.76%) C++/Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Developer Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Analyst Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Market Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Market Data Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Market Data Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.88%) Gherkin
3 1 (5.88%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) Playwright
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
3 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) IVR
1 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Test Automation
2 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 7 (41.18%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) API Testing
4 6 (35.29%) Test Strategy
5 5 (29.41%) ETRM
6 3 (17.65%) Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (17.65%) Scrum
6 3 (17.65%) TDD
7 2 (11.76%) API Management
7 2 (11.76%) BDD
7 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.76%) Load Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Microservices
7 2 (11.76%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (11.76%) SDET
7 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
8 1 (5.88%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) C#
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.76%) C++
5 2 (11.76%) Python
6 1 (5.88%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (5.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Avaya
2 1 (5.88%) Cisco
2 1 (5.88%) Genesys
2 1 (5.88%) Google