Performance Test Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Performance Test Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Performance Test Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £360, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Test Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - -
England median daily rate £360 £468 £450
% change year-on-year -22.99% +3.89% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East Midlands with a recognized job title 688 712 819
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.58% 94.56% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 467 608
10th Percentile £200 £220 £213
25th Percentile £323 £355 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £449 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% -5.47% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £555 £602
90th Percentile £621 £621 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 59 41
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.64 £11.83
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.14 £13.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% +14.29% +6.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £46.33 £53.75
90th Percentile £30.30 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -43.94% +7.14% +63.55%

Performance Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Performance Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Test Engineer in the East Midlands

Performance Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Test Engineer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Performance Test Engineer in the East Midlands

Performance Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Test Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 August 2025. 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
Northamptonshire - 2 £360 -
Performance Test Engineer
England

Performance Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 15 August 2025, Performance Test Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Performance Test Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) New Relic
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

Performance Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) New Relic
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft