Performance Testing Contracts in England

Performance Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 409 406
Rank change year-on-year +75 -3 +17
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 219 256 437
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.59% 0.51% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.57% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 177 329
10th Percentile £362 £417 £393
25th Percentile £425 £463 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £630 £711 £790
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £81.68 -
25th Percentile - £83.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate - £85.75 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.19% +220.00%
75th Percentile - £88.06 £82.50
90th Percentile - £89.23 -
UK median hourly rate - £85.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year - +351.32% -24.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
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 Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
London +75 134 £500 - 16
South East +27 31 £480 -5.70% 11
South West +31 17 £588 +6.82% 9
Midlands +31 16 £363 -15.30% 8
East Midlands +28 12 £363 -3.33% 6
North of England +23 5 £495 -5.71% 7
North West +29 4 £495 -13.91% 5
West Midlands +12 4 £375 -25.00% 2
East of England +9 3 £513 -21.15% 6
Yorkshire +15 1 - - 1
Performance Testing
UK

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 31 (14.16%) Confluence
2 16 (7.31%) Apache
3 13 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.20%) Apache Spark
5 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (2.28%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.46%) GemFire
7 1 (0.46%) IIS
7 1 (0.46%) JBoss
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Windchill
2 2 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.91%) Mingle
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Endur
1 3 (1.37%) ENOVIA
1 3 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.37%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (26.94%) Azure
2 45 (20.55%) AWS
3 36 (16.44%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (5.94%) Slack
5 11 (5.02%) Entra ID
6 9 (4.11%) Serverless
7 7 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.74%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (2.74%) GitHub
9 5 (2.28%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.28%) BlazeMeter
9 5 (2.28%) BrowserStack
9 5 (2.28%) Firebase
10 4 (1.83%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.83%) GCP
10 4 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.83%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 4 (1.83%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.94%) BGP
1 13 (5.94%) Ethernet VPN
1 13 (5.94%) MPLS
1 13 (5.94%) VPN
2 12 (5.48%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (1.83%) Internet
4 3 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.37%) VSAT
5 2 (0.91%) CTI
5 2 (0.91%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.85%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.39%) NoSQL
2 14 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.94%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.83%) MySQL
4 4 (1.83%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.37%) Big Data
5 3 (1.37%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.37%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.37%) Power BI
5 3 (1.37%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.91%) KDB
7 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.46%) DB2
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (27.40%) JIRA
2 47 (21.46%) JMeter
3 29 (13.24%) Jenkins
4 27 (12.33%) Selenium
5 26 (11.87%) LoadRunner
5 26 (11.87%) Visual Studio
6 25 (11.42%) SpecFlow
7 18 (8.22%) GitLab
7 18 (8.22%) Postman
7 18 (8.22%) WebDriver
8 15 (6.85%) Cypress.io
9 14 (6.39%) Git
9 14 (6.39%) TestRail
10 13 (5.94%) Cucumber
10 13 (5.94%) Robot Framework
11 9 (4.11%) Appium
12 7 (3.20%) NeoLoad
12 7 (3.20%) NUnit
12 7 (3.20%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (1.83%) JUnit
General
1 64 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (10.05%) Finance
4 20 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.39%) Back Office
6 12 (5.48%) Telecoms
7 9 (4.11%) Banking
8 7 (3.20%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.20%) Legal
9 5 (2.28%) Electronics
9 5 (2.28%) Law
9 5 (2.28%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.28%) Marketing
10 4 (1.83%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (1.37%) Retail
12 2 (0.91%) Front Office
12 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (17.81%) Senior
2 36 (16.44%) Test Engineer
3 34 (15.53%) Analyst
4 33 (15.07%) Tester
5 29 (13.24%) Test Analyst
6 23 (10.50%) Lead
7 19 (8.68%) Developer
7 19 (8.68%) Test Leader
8 17 (7.76%) Performance Engineer
9 16 (7.31%) Senior Analyst
9 16 (7.31%) Senior Test Analyst
10 14 (6.39%) Release Manager
11 13 (5.94%) Network Engineer
12 12 (5.48%) Architect
12 12 (5.48%) Performance Tester
13 11 (5.02%) Senior Test Engineer
14 10 (4.57%) QA Engineer
15 9 (4.11%) Performance Test Engineer
15 9 (4.11%) Test Automation Engineer
15 9 (4.11%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.79%) .NET
2 21 (9.59%) AngularJS
3 20 (9.13%) REST
4 15 (6.85%) XML
5 13 (5.94%) NETCONF
5 13 (5.94%) RESTCONF
5 13 (5.94%) SOAP
6 12 (5.48%) .NET Framework
6 12 (5.48%) YANG
7 11 (5.02%) Playwright
8 9 (4.11%) Kafka
9 8 (3.65%) Middleware
10 7 (3.20%) Web Services
11 6 (2.74%) GraphQL
11 6 (2.74%) WebdriverIO
12 5 (2.28%) LDAP
12 5 (2.28%) Oracle Fusion
13 4 (1.83%) ADO
13 4 (1.83%) JSON
13 4 (1.83%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (2.74%) Management Information System
1 6 (2.74%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.28%) CMDB
2 5 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (1.83%) Hedge funds
3 4 (1.83%) Mobile App
3 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.37%) Algorithms
4 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.37%) NHS
4 3 (1.37%) PACS
5 2 (0.91%) Derivative
5 2 (0.91%) IVR
6 1 (0.46%) Contactless
6 1 (0.46%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.46%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.46%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.02%) Linux
1 11 (5.02%) Unix
2 8 (3.65%) Windows
3 3 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (56.16%) Test Automation
2 89 (40.64%) Agile
3 55 (25.11%) CI/CD
3 55 (25.11%) DevOps
4 52 (23.74%) Scrum
5 50 (22.83%) Test Strategy
6 37 (16.89%) Non-Functional Testing
7 35 (15.98%) Functional Testing
8 34 (15.53%) Software Testing
9 32 (14.61%) Regression Testing
10 28 (12.79%) Integration Testing
11 27 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (11.87%) Security Testing
12 26 (11.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (11.87%) Waterfall
13 24 (10.96%) Operational Acceptance Testing
14 23 (10.50%) Manual Testing
14 23 (10.50%) Scenario Testing
15 22 (10.05%) SDLC
16 19 (8.68%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 47 (21.46%) C#
2 45 (20.55%) SQL
3 39 (17.81%) Python
4 37 (16.89%) Java
5 14 (6.39%) JavaScript
5 14 (6.39%) PowerShell
6 10 (4.57%) C++
7 9 (4.11%) TypeScript
8 8 (3.65%) Scala
9 7 (3.20%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.83%) C
11 3 (1.37%) Swift
12 2 (0.91%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.46%) Bicep
13 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.46%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 54 (24.66%) Security Cleared
2 44 (20.09%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.33%) Degree
4 14 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.94%) ISTQB
6 9 (4.11%) ISEB
7 8 (3.65%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.37%) CCNA
9 3 (1.37%) CCNP
9 3 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (20.09%) QA
2 16 (7.31%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.37%) HL7
4 2 (0.91%) GDPR
4 2 (0.91%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.91%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.91%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (9.13%) Docker
2 12 (5.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.46%) GridGain
4 1 (0.46%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (13.70%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.02%) Grafana
3 9 (4.11%) Ansible
3 9 (4.11%) Kibana
4 5 (2.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.46%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.46%) Terraform
5 1 (0.46%) vRealize
Vendors
1 39 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.05%) Oracle
3 10 (4.57%) Splunk
4 8 (3.65%) HP
5 6 (2.74%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (2.74%) SAP
6 5 (2.28%) Google
7 4 (1.83%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.83%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.83%) iManage
7 4 (1.83%) Intapp
7 4 (1.83%) OpenAI
7 4 (1.83%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.37%) IBM
8 3 (1.37%) Micro Focus
8 3 (1.37%) OpenText
8 3 (1.37%) PTC
8 3 (1.37%) Siemens
9 2 (0.91%) Cisco
9 2 (0.91%) VMware