Performance Test Leader Contract Job Trends in England

Performance Test Lead
UK > England

The median Performance Test Lead daily rate in England is £581, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 511 529
Rank change year-on-year -111 +18 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Test Leader 3 1 18
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.007% 0.004% 0.052%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.004% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £516 - £489
25th Percentile £539 £475 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -16.67% +11.63%
75th Percentile £627 £525 £607
90th Percentile £652 - £618
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +11.63%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 41,736 25,175 31,921
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 91.76% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,423 16,354 21,069
10th Percentile £328 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,036 1,281 2,006
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.42 £17.79 £19.25
Median hourly rate £45.25 £26.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.05% -38.84% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +72.96% -40.16% -2.97%

Performance Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Performance Test Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Performance Test Leader job vacancy trend in England

Performance Test Leader
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Test Leader job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Test Leader job vacancies in England

Performance Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Test Leader in England over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Test Leader in England

Performance Test Leader
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Performance Test Leader job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Performance Test Leader job vacancies in England

Performance Test Leader
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Test Leader within the England region over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. 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
North of England - 2 £581 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £581 - 1
South East - 1 - -
Performance Test Leader
UK

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 July 2026, Performance Test Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Performance Test Leader in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
1 3 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (100.00%) NeoLoad
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Gatling
2 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Volume Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
1 3 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (100.00%) NeoLoad
2 2 (66.67%) Gatling
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 1 (33.33%) Billing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Volume Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Database Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Cypher
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) AppDynamics
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow