Performance Testing Contracts in the East of England

Performance Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Performance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 - 112
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 9 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.71% - 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% - 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £221 - -
25th Percentile £253 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.63%
75th Percentile £400 - £488
90th Percentile £411 - £501
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,113 1,342 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.19% 83.88% 87.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 522 965
10th Percentile £200 £200 £226
25th Percentile £364 £311 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £704
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 499 355
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.98 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%
75th Percentile £65.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.80 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the East of England

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the East of England

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the East of England

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the East of England

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 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
Cambridgeshire - 8 £320 - 4
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (33.33%) WebLogic
1 3 (33.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JMeter
1 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
2 1 (11.11%) Appium
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) Gatling
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) NeoLoad
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) TestNG
General
1 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
1 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Test Automation Manager
1 3 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) .NET
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) Middleware
1 3 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (22.22%) Playwright
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) SCADA
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) FMCG
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
1 4 (44.44%) Non-Functional Testing
1 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (33.33%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 3 (33.33%) ITSM
2 3 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Test Planning
2 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C
1 3 (33.33%) C#
1 3 (33.33%) C++
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) GxP
2 1 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) SAP