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 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 67 101
Rank change year-on-year +2 +34 +24
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.77% 0.36% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.43% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £465 £523 £350
25th Percentile £478 £556 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +47.06% -
75th Percentile £523 £647 £469
90th Percentile £536 £653 £480
Scotland median daily rate £481 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -12.50% +15.79% -3.80%

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 612 702 1,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.30% 84.99% 91.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 388 700
10th Percentile £307 £209 £213
25th Percentile £413 £349 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £540 £538
90th Percentile £597 £640 £600
Scotland median daily rate £468 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.89% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 4
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.21 £21.59
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.00 £34.23
Median hourly rate £17.87 £17.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -63.16% +111.58%
75th Percentile £41.44 £23.89 £55.94
90th Percentile £62.38 £36.62 £59.88
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year +2.09% +3.49% -29.50%

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 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Datadog
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) GIS
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) SailPoint Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (20.00%) Flask
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) LangChain
1 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) SailPoint
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) SCADA
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) BDD
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Resilience Testing
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) BeanShell
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk