Performance Testing Contracts in England

Performance Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 402 407
Rank change year-on-year +76 +5 +25
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 229 248 433
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.53% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.59% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 172 333
10th Percentile £363 £410 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +18.28%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £645
90th Percentile £630 £699 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £495 £545
% change year-on-year +1.01% -9.17% +21.45%
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% +80.10%
75th Percentile - £88.06 £82.50
90th Percentile - £89.23 -
UK median hourly rate - £85.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year - +351.32% -57.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +53 154 £500 - 27
South East +18 23 £438 -14.22% 10
South West +15 20 £584 +11.19% 8
Midlands +19 13 £363 -27.50% 5
East Midlands +16 12 £363 -14.71% 2
North of England +16 7 £475 +1.33% 14
North West +17 4 £485 -1.77% 9
North East +10 2 £368 - 2
West Midlands +12 1 £600 +20.00% 3
Yorkshire +10 1 - - 3
East of England +2 1 £513 +4.59% 2
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 36 (15.72%) Confluence
2 9 (3.93%) Apache
3 8 (3.49%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (2.62%) SharePoint
5 5 (2.18%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.44%) GemFire
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.31%) Windchill
3 2 (0.87%) Mingle
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Endur
1 3 (1.31%) ENOVIA
1 3 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.31%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (28.38%) Azure
2 45 (19.65%) AWS
3 37 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (5.68%) Slack
5 11 (4.80%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.93%) BlazeMeter
6 9 (3.93%) BrowserStack
6 9 (3.93%) Firebase
7 8 (3.49%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (3.49%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 7 (3.06%) GCP
9 6 (2.62%) Serverless
10 5 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.18%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.18%) Tricentis Tosca
11 4 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.75%) Twilio
12 3 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (1.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.49%) BGP
1 8 (3.49%) Ethernet VPN
1 8 (3.49%) MPLS
1 8 (3.49%) VPN
2 7 (3.06%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (1.75%) CTI
3 4 (1.75%) Internet
3 4 (1.75%) VoIP
4 3 (1.31%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.31%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.99%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.37%) Oracle Database
4 9 (3.93%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.49%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.18%) Oracle Database 11g
6 5 (2.18%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.75%) MySQL
8 3 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.31%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.31%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (1.31%) Power BI
9 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.87%) KDB
10 1 (0.44%) Big Data
10 1 (0.44%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.44%) DB2
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 60 (26.20%) JMeter
2 56 (24.45%) JIRA
3 36 (15.72%) Selenium
4 33 (14.41%) Jenkins
5 30 (13.10%) LoadRunner
6 29 (12.66%) Visual Studio
7 27 (11.79%) SpecFlow
8 26 (11.35%) Postman
9 22 (9.61%) GitLab
10 19 (8.30%) WebDriver
11 18 (7.86%) Cypress.io
12 16 (6.99%) Git
13 15 (6.55%) Cucumber
14 14 (6.11%) Appium
15 9 (3.93%) JUnit
15 9 (3.93%) NeoLoad
16 8 (3.49%) NUnit
16 8 (3.49%) Robot Framework
16 8 (3.49%) TestRail
17 7 (3.06%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 69 (30.13%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (10.92%) Finance
4 18 (7.86%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.42%) Back Office
5 17 (7.42%) Banking
6 12 (5.24%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.93%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.93%) Legal
8 7 (3.06%) Law
9 5 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.18%) Retail
10 4 (1.75%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (1.31%) Electronics
11 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.31%) Marketing
12 2 (0.87%) Front Office
13 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 47 (20.52%) Senior
2 39 (17.03%) Analyst
3 35 (15.28%) Tester
4 33 (14.41%) Test Analyst
4 33 (14.41%) Test Engineer
5 29 (12.66%) Lead
6 23 (10.04%) Test Leader
7 21 (9.17%) Developer
8 19 (8.30%) Performance Engineer
8 19 (8.30%) Senior Analyst
8 19 (8.30%) Senior Test Analyst
9 14 (6.11%) Release Manager
10 12 (5.24%) Performance Test Engineer
10 12 (5.24%) Performance Test Leader
10 12 (5.24%) QA Engineer
10 12 (5.24%) Senior Test Engineer
11 11 (4.80%) Architect
12 10 (4.37%) Test Automation Engineer
13 9 (3.93%) Automation Tester
13 9 (3.93%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.54%) .NET
2 22 (9.61%) AngularJS
3 17 (7.42%) Middleware
4 15 (6.55%) XML
5 14 (6.11%) REST
6 12 (5.24%) .NET Framework
7 11 (4.80%) Playwright
7 11 (4.80%) WebdriverIO
8 9 (3.93%) Kafka
9 8 (3.49%) NETCONF
9 8 (3.49%) RESTCONF
9 8 (3.49%) SOAP
10 7 (3.06%) GraphQL
10 7 (3.06%) Web Services
10 7 (3.06%) YANG
11 6 (2.62%) Gherkin
12 5 (2.18%) LDAP
12 5 (2.18%) Oracle Fusion
13 4 (1.75%) ADO
13 4 (1.75%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.49%) Management Information System
2 7 (3.06%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.18%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.75%) Hedge funds
4 4 (1.75%) IVR
4 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.75%) Replication
5 3 (1.31%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.31%) NHS
5 3 (1.31%) PACS
6 2 (0.87%) Derivative
7 1 (0.44%) CMDB
7 1 (0.44%) Contactless
7 1 (0.44%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.44%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.49%) Linux
2 6 (2.62%) Windows
3 4 (1.75%) Unix
4 3 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (60.26%) Test Automation
2 111 (48.47%) Agile
3 62 (27.07%) DevOps
4 61 (26.64%) CI/CD
5 56 (24.45%) Scrum
6 52 (22.71%) Test Strategy
7 49 (21.40%) Non-Functional Testing
8 40 (17.47%) Software Testing
9 39 (17.03%) Functional Testing
10 36 (15.72%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (14.85%) Waterfall
12 32 (13.97%) Continuous Integration
13 30 (13.10%) Regression Testing
13 30 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (12.66%) Manual Testing
15 26 (11.35%) BDD
15 26 (11.35%) Test Planning
16 25 (10.92%) Test Scripting
17 24 (10.48%) Operational Acceptance Testing
18 22 (9.61%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.71%) C#
2 43 (18.78%) Java
3 39 (17.03%) SQL
4 33 (14.41%) Python
5 22 (9.61%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.55%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.80%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.37%) C++
9 9 (3.93%) Scala
10 6 (2.62%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.75%) C
12 3 (1.31%) Swift
13 1 (0.44%) Bash
13 1 (0.44%) Bicep
13 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (20.52%) Security Cleared
2 39 (17.03%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.10%) Degree
4 17 (7.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.24%) ISTQB
6 10 (4.37%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.93%) ISEB
8 5 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.31%) CCNA
10 3 (1.31%) CCNP
10 3 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (21.83%) QA
2 15 (6.55%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.75%) GDPR
3 4 (1.75%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.75%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.75%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.31%) HL7
4 3 (1.31%) WCAG
5 2 (0.87%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (7.42%) Docker
2 12 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) GridGain
3 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (13.54%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.24%) Ansible
3 7 (3.06%) Grafana
4 5 (2.18%) Kibana
4 5 (2.18%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.75%) Terraform
6 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.04%) Oracle
3 8 (3.49%) Splunk
4 7 (3.06%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (2.62%) Google
5 6 (2.62%) HP
6 5 (2.18%) iManage
6 5 (2.18%) Intapp
6 5 (2.18%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.18%) SAP
7 4 (1.75%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.75%) Avaya
7 4 (1.75%) Cisco
7 4 (1.75%) Genesys
7 4 (1.75%) IBM
7 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.31%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.31%) PTC
8 3 (1.31%) Siemens
8 3 (1.31%) VMware