Performance Testing Contracts in the East Midlands

Performance Testing
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 82 92
Rank change year-on-year +27 +10 -29
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 12 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.55% 0.29% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 0.33% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 6
10th Percentile £346 £357 £313
25th Percentile £356 £359 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £375 £386
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -2.91% -11.71%
75th Percentile £538 £413 £399
90th Percentile - £428 £419
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 605 918 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.27% 88.10% 83.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 691 885
10th Percentile £200 £213 £209
25th Percentile £272 £335 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +2.27% +13.55%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £611
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 74 83
10th Percentile £11.41 £11.80 £9.51
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.32
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.56 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% +0.31% +19.90%
75th Percentile £26.15 £31.50 £26.81
90th Percentile £45.79 £58.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the East Midlands

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the East Midlands

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the East Midlands

Performance Testing
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 Testing within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Leicestershire +17 7 £525 +23.53% 1
Northamptonshire +10 4 £363 +0.69%
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) JMeter
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
1 7 (58.33%) Test Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Test Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) OAT Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) LDAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Test Scripting
2 5 (41.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 5 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (33.33%) System Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 4 (33.33%) Web Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Data Design
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Security Testing
5 1 (8.33%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
5 1 (8.33%) Traceability Matrix
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (33.33%) ISEB
3 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle