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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 321 403
Rank change year-on-year +6 +82 -12
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 160 226 252
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.62% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.72% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 163 171
10th Percentile £313 £363 £413
25th Percentile £380 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £594 £600
90th Percentile £663 £630 £700
UK median daily rate £445 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.95% - -6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £81.68
25th Percentile - - £83.06
Median hourly rate - - £85.75
75th Percentile - - £88.06
90th Percentile - - £89.23
UK median hourly rate - - £85.75
% change year-on-year - - +351.32%

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 21,854 31,539 42,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.29% 85.92% 90.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,225 20,657 30,069
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 952 2,292 1,514
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
Median % change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 May 2025.

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 29 May 2025. 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 -2 88 £438 -12.50% 82
North of England +28 25 £450 -9.09% 96
South East +35 19 £488 +9.86% 129
Midlands +15 19 £475 +31.03% 81
North West +18 18 £413 -16.67% 42
West Midlands +28 17 £475 +26.67% 39
Yorkshire +15 6 £500 - 42
South West +31 4 £478 -18.72% 48
East of England +33 3 £228 -55.61% 57
East Midlands -3 2 £326 -10.21% 36
North East - 1 £363 - 12
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 9 (5.63%) Confluence
2 4 (2.50%) NetWeaver
2 4 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.25%) IIS
4 2 (1.25%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.63%) Apache
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.63%) CICS
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.63%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.63%) SPSS
1 1 (0.63%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.25%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.25%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (1.25%) Shopify
3 1 (0.63%) iTrent
3 1 (0.63%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.63%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.63%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.63%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.63%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.63%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 52 (32.50%) Azure
2 34 (21.25%) AWS
3 22 (13.75%) GitHub
4 20 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (11.25%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (6.88%) GCP
7 9 (5.63%) Azure AKS
7 9 (5.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 9 (5.63%) Azure Service Bus
7 9 (5.63%) Entra ID
8 6 (3.75%) BrowserStack
9 4 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.88%) Cloud Run
10 3 (1.88%) Datadog
10 3 (1.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (1.88%) SaaS
10 3 (1.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 3 (1.88%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.63%) DNS
2 8 (5.00%) HTTP
3 2 (1.25%) DSL
3 2 (1.25%) Firewall
3 2 (1.25%) Multicast
3 2 (1.25%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.63%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.63%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.63%) Intranet
4 1 (0.63%) LAN
4 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.63%) VoIP
4 1 (0.63%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.13%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.38%) MySQL
4 6 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (1.88%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (1.88%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.25%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.25%) Parquet
7 2 (1.25%) Power BI
7 2 (1.25%) Star Schema
7 2 (1.25%) Tableau
8 1 (0.63%) Big Data
8 1 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.63%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 50 (31.25%) JMeter
2 35 (21.88%) JIRA
3 32 (20.00%) Selenium
4 31 (19.38%) Jenkins
5 28 (17.50%) LoadRunner
6 20 (12.50%) Postman
7 19 (11.88%) REST Assured
8 15 (9.38%) Cypress.io
8 15 (9.38%) Git
9 13 (8.13%) Gatling
10 12 (7.50%) Appium
10 12 (7.50%) GitLab
11 10 (6.25%) Cucumber
12 8 (5.00%) CircleCI
13 7 (4.38%) NeoLoad
14 6 (3.75%) JUnit
15 5 (3.13%) SoapUI
15 5 (3.13%) TestNG
15 5 (3.13%) WebDriver
16 4 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 67 (41.88%) Social Skills
2 40 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (19.38%) Finance
4 10 (6.25%) Banking
5 6 (3.75%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.13%) Retail
7 4 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.88%) Billing
8 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.25%) Front Office
9 2 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.25%) Marketing
9 2 (1.25%) Military
9 2 (1.25%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.63%) Aviation
10 1 (0.63%) Legal
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (27.50%) Tester
2 25 (15.63%) Test Engineer
3 22 (13.75%) Senior
4 18 (11.25%) Developer
5 13 (8.13%) QA Engineer
6 11 (6.88%) Analyst
7 9 (5.63%) Test Manager
8 8 (5.00%) Lead
8 8 (5.00%) Software Engineer
8 8 (5.00%) Test Analyst
9 7 (4.38%) Consultant
9 7 (4.38%) Python Engineer
9 7 (4.38%) Software Developer
9 7 (4.38%) Software Tester
10 6 (3.75%) Developer in Test
10 6 (3.75%) Performance Tester
10 6 (3.75%) Senior Test Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.13%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.63%) REST
2 14 (8.75%) Playwright
3 9 (5.63%) OAuth
3 9 (5.63%) OAuth2
3 9 (5.63%) OpenID
3 9 (5.63%) RESTful
4 8 (5.00%) Kafka
5 7 (4.38%) Web Services
6 6 (3.75%) Node.js
7 5 (3.13%) Gherkin
7 5 (3.13%) NumPy
7 5 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (3.13%) Pandas
7 5 (3.13%) PySpark
7 5 (3.13%) SAP PI
7 5 (3.13%) XML
8 4 (2.50%) .NET
8 4 (2.50%) JDBC
8 4 (2.50%) SOAP
8 4 (2.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.00%) Product Ownership
1 8 (5.00%) SCADA
2 7 (4.38%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.25%) Equities
6 2 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.25%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.25%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.25%) Replication
7 1 (0.63%) FMCG
7 1 (0.63%) Life Science
7 1 (0.63%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.63%) NHS
7 1 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.00%) Linux
2 3 (1.88%) Unix
2 3 (1.88%) Windows
3 2 (1.25%) AIX
4 1 (0.63%) Android
4 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (66.25%) Test Automation
2 72 (45.00%) Agile
3 69 (43.13%) CI/CD
4 60 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (35.00%) DevOps
6 46 (28.75%) Test Strategy
7 38 (23.75%) Test Scripting
8 28 (17.50%) API Testing
8 28 (17.50%) End-to-End Testing
9 27 (16.88%) Software Testing
10 26 (16.25%) Scrum
11 25 (15.63%) Integration Testing
12 24 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
12 24 (15.00%) Validation
13 23 (14.38%) Regression Testing
14 20 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (11.88%) Non-Functional Testing
15 19 (11.88%) Security Testing
16 18 (11.25%) Functional Testing
16 18 (11.25%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 53 (33.13%) Python
2 49 (30.63%) Java
3 35 (21.88%) SQL
4 34 (21.25%) JavaScript
5 26 (16.25%) C#
6 11 (6.88%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.38%) ABAP
7 7 (4.38%) Bash
8 5 (3.13%) Ruby
9 4 (2.50%) C++
9 4 (2.50%) PHP
9 4 (2.50%) Scala
10 3 (1.88%) Groovy
11 2 (1.25%) C
11 2 (1.25%) RPG
12 1 (0.63%) Ada
12 1 (0.63%) JCL
12 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.63%) R
12 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 34 (21.25%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.38%) ISTQB
4 14 (8.75%) Degree
5 11 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.88%) CEH
7 3 (1.88%) CISSP
8 2 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.63%) CCNA
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.63%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (37.50%) QA
2 7 (4.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.88%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.25%) GDPR
5 2 (1.25%) WCAG
6 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.63%) GxP
6 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Firmware
2 1 (0.63%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (11.25%) Kubernetes
2 13 (8.13%) Terraform
3 6 (3.75%) Ansible
3 6 (3.75%) Perfmon
4 5 (3.13%) Kibana
5 3 (1.88%) Grafana
5 3 (1.88%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.88%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.88%) Puppet
6 2 (1.25%) CA Wily
6 2 (1.25%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.25%) Salt
7 1 (0.63%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.63%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.63%) Iperf
7 1 (0.63%) OPNET
Vendors
1 18 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.75%) SAP
3 12 (7.50%) Oracle
4 8 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.00%) New Relic
5 6 (3.75%) Databricks
6 5 (3.13%) Informatica
6 5 (3.13%) Splunk
6 5 (3.13%) Talend
7 4 (2.50%) AppDynamics
7 4 (2.50%) HP
8 3 (1.88%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.25%) Adobe
9 2 (1.25%) Cisco
9 2 (1.25%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.25%) Google
9 2 (1.25%) Sitecore
9 2 (1.25%) Sybase
9 2 (1.25%) VMware