Performance Testing Contracts in Edinburgh

Performance Testing
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 69 106
Rank change year-on-year +3 +37 +19
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 1 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.16% 0.37% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.42% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £523 -
25th Percentile - £556 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +56.25% -30.43%
75th Percentile - £647 £425
90th Percentile - £653 £431
Scotland median daily rate £436 £550 £424
% change year-on-year -20.68% +29.79% +22.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in Edinburgh

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in Edinburgh

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk