Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in East London

Performance Testing
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 22 35
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in East London 3.03% 0.94% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 1.05% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -
75th Percentile - £438 £488
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £500 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.07% -5.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 95 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 90.91% 89.62% 91.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 80 211
10th Percentile £190 £384 £350
25th Percentile £416 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -10.87% +15.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £650
90th Percentile £913 £662 £770
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £21.67 - £13.96
25th Percentile £23.33 - £14.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £18.93
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.81%
75th Percentile £45.20 - £35.12
90th Percentile £75.86 - £38.28
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.35%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in East London

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Performance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the East London region over the 6 months to 17 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tower Hamlets - 3 £450 -
Performance Testing
London

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) QA Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft