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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 405 400
Rank change year-on-year +81 -5 +24
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 227 252 428
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.52% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.57% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 175 325
10th Percentile £363 £416 £398
25th Percentile £425 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% +13.16%
75th Percentile £595 £596 £645
90th Percentile £630 £675 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.50% -0.55% +11.17%
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 31,798 44,069 63,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 30,926 45,337
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,559 1,731
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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 11 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 11 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 +70 143 £500 - 18
South East +23 30 £450 -11.59% 10
South West +22 18 £588 +2.17% 7
Midlands +30 16 £363 -15.01% 5
East Midlands +29 12 £363 -3.33% 3
North of England +32 6 £495 -5.71% 8
North West +21 5 £495 -13.91% 7
West Midlands +9 4 £375 -19.18% 2
East of England +12 2 £513 +4.59% 6
Yorkshire +12 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 33 (14.54%) Confluence
2 14 (6.17%) Apache
3 12 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (2.64%) Apache Spark
5 6 (2.64%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.44%) GemFire
6 1 (0.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.32%) Windchill
3 2 (0.88%) Mingle
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.32%) Endur
1 3 (1.32%) ENOVIA
1 3 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.32%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 65 (28.63%) Azure
2 48 (21.15%) AWS
3 38 (16.74%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (5.73%) Slack
5 11 (4.85%) Entra ID
6 8 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (3.52%) Serverless
7 7 (3.08%) BlazeMeter
7 7 (3.08%) BrowserStack
7 7 (3.08%) Firebase
8 6 (2.64%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.64%) GCP
8 6 (2.64%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 5 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.20%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.20%) Tricentis Tosca
10 4 (1.76%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.76%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (1.76%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.76%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.29%) BGP
1 12 (5.29%) Ethernet VPN
1 12 (5.29%) MPLS
1 12 (5.29%) VPN
2 11 (4.85%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (1.76%) CTI
3 4 (1.76%) Internet
3 4 (1.76%) VoIP
4 3 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.32%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.73%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.29%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.96%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.20%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (1.76%) MySQL
8 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.32%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.32%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (1.32%) Power BI
8 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.88%) Big Data
9 2 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.88%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.88%) KDB
10 1 (0.44%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.44%) DB2
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 61 (26.87%) JIRA
2 49 (21.59%) JMeter
3 31 (13.66%) Jenkins
4 29 (12.78%) Selenium
4 29 (12.78%) Visual Studio
5 25 (11.01%) SpecFlow
6 24 (10.57%) LoadRunner
7 23 (10.13%) Postman
8 20 (8.81%) WebDriver
9 19 (8.37%) GitLab
10 17 (7.49%) Cypress.io
11 14 (6.17%) Git
12 13 (5.73%) Appium
12 13 (5.73%) Cucumber
12 13 (5.73%) TestRail
13 12 (5.29%) Robot Framework
14 9 (3.96%) NeoLoad
15 8 (3.52%) NUnit
16 7 (3.08%) Team Foundation Server
17 5 (2.20%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 71 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (11.01%) Finance
4 18 (7.93%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.05%) Back Office
6 13 (5.73%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.96%) Banking
7 9 (3.96%) Legal
8 7 (3.08%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.64%) Law
10 5 (2.20%) Retail
11 4 (1.76%) Electronics
11 4 (1.76%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.76%) Marketing
11 4 (1.76%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Front Office
12 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 45 (19.82%) Senior
2 37 (16.30%) Test Engineer
3 36 (15.86%) Analyst
4 33 (14.54%) Tester
5 31 (13.66%) Test Analyst
6 26 (11.45%) Lead
7 20 (8.81%) Test Leader
8 19 (8.37%) Developer
9 18 (7.93%) Senior Analyst
9 18 (7.93%) Senior Test Analyst
10 16 (7.05%) Performance Engineer
11 14 (6.17%) Architect
11 14 (6.17%) Release Manager
12 12 (5.29%) Network Engineer
12 12 (5.29%) Senior Test Engineer
13 10 (4.41%) Performance Test Engineer
13 10 (4.41%) Performance Test Leader
13 10 (4.41%) Performance Tester
13 10 (4.41%) QA Engineer
13 10 (4.41%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.22%) .NET
2 22 (9.69%) AngularJS
3 18 (7.93%) REST
4 15 (6.61%) XML
5 12 (5.29%) .NET Framework
5 12 (5.29%) Middleware
5 12 (5.29%) NETCONF
5 12 (5.29%) Playwright
5 12 (5.29%) RESTCONF
5 12 (5.29%) SOAP
6 11 (4.85%) YANG
7 9 (3.96%) Kafka
8 8 (3.52%) WebdriverIO
9 7 (3.08%) GraphQL
9 7 (3.08%) Web Services
10 5 (2.20%) LDAP
10 5 (2.20%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (1.76%) Gherkin
11 4 (1.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 4 (1.76%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.52%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.20%) CMDB
3 5 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (2.20%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.76%) Hedge funds
4 4 (1.76%) IVR
4 4 (1.76%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.76%) Replication
5 3 (1.32%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.32%) NHS
5 3 (1.32%) PACS
6 2 (0.88%) Derivative
7 1 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.44%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.44%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.41%) Linux
2 6 (2.64%) Unix
2 6 (2.64%) Windows
3 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.44%) Android
4 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (57.71%) Test Automation
2 99 (43.61%) Agile
3 60 (26.43%) DevOps
4 57 (25.11%) CI/CD
5 55 (24.23%) Test Strategy
6 54 (23.79%) Scrum
7 44 (19.38%) Non-Functional Testing
8 41 (18.06%) Software Testing
9 39 (17.18%) Functional Testing
10 31 (13.66%) Regression Testing
11 30 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (12.78%) Manual Testing
12 29 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (12.78%) Waterfall
13 27 (11.89%) Integration Testing
14 26 (11.45%) Security Testing
15 24 (10.57%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (10.57%) Operational Acceptance Testing
15 24 (10.57%) SDLC
16 22 (9.69%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (22.03%) C#
2 44 (19.38%) SQL
3 38 (16.74%) Python
4 36 (15.86%) Java
5 17 (7.49%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.17%) PowerShell
7 10 (4.41%) C++
7 10 (4.41%) TypeScript
8 7 (3.08%) Scala
8 7 (3.08%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.76%) C
10 3 (1.32%) Swift
11 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.44%) Bicep
12 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.44%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 50 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 40 (17.62%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.22%) Degree
4 16 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.73%) ISTQB
6 10 (4.41%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.96%) ISEB
8 6 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.20%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.76%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.32%) CCNA
11 3 (1.32%) CCNP
11 3 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.32%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (20.70%) QA
2 17 (7.49%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.76%) GDPR
3 4 (1.76%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.76%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.76%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.32%) HL7
5 2 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (8.81%) Docker
2 12 (5.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) GridGain
3 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (13.22%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.85%) Grafana
3 9 (3.96%) Ansible
3 9 (3.96%) Kibana
4 5 (2.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.44%) Terraform
5 1 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 46 (20.26%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.13%) Oracle
3 8 (3.52%) HP
3 8 (3.52%) Splunk
4 7 (3.08%) CA Agile Central
5 5 (2.20%) Google
5 5 (2.20%) IBM
5 5 (2.20%) iManage
5 5 (2.20%) Intapp
5 5 (2.20%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.20%) SAP
6 4 (1.76%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.76%) Avaya
6 4 (1.76%) Cisco
6 4 (1.76%) Genesys
6 4 (1.76%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.32%) PTC
7 3 (1.32%) Siemens
8 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.88%) VMware