Performance Testing Contracts in Glasgow

Performance Testing
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 63 67
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 16 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 2.20% 0.43% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 0.48% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £340 - £419
25th Percentile £400 - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £575 - £488
90th Percentile £635 - -
Scotland median daily rate £481 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.75% +5.26% -1.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 665 620 778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.35% 89.86% 92.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 439 522
10th Percentile £300 £249 £343
25th Percentile £363 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £578
90th Percentile £589 £650 £675
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 28
10th Percentile £15.01 £15.19 £11.78
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.11 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.64 £21.92 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.98% +51.19% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.42 £48.66 £29.75
90th Percentile £29.34 £62.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.69 £18.33
% change year-on-year +7.02% +1.98% -7.68%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in Glasgow

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Performance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Glasgow over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Glasgow

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) BlazeMeter
2 4 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
1 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) NoSQL
2 10 (62.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (56.25%) MongoDB
4 4 (25.00%) Big Data
4 4 (25.00%) Redis
5 1 (6.25%) CockroachDB
5 1 (6.25%) NewSQL
5 1 (6.25%) OLTP
5 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) JUnit
2 4 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) Mockito
3 1 (6.25%) TestComplete
3 1 (6.25%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (56.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
1 6 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Java Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Python Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Python Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Core Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Database Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) J2EE Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) React Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) Spring
2 9 (56.25%) CSS
2 9 (56.25%) React
3 8 (50.00%) Kafka
4 7 (43.75%) AngularJS
5 5 (31.25%) OAuth
6 4 (25.00%) FastAPI
6 4 (25.00%) Flask
6 4 (25.00%) Hugging Face
6 4 (25.00%) LangChain
6 4 (25.00%) LangGraph
6 4 (25.00%) Loki
6 4 (25.00%) OAuth2
6 4 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (25.00%) PyTorch
6 4 (25.00%) RESTful
6 4 (25.00%) TensorFlow
7 1 (6.25%) Ext JS
7 1 (6.25%) OpenID
7 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Algorithms
2 4 (25.00%) AI Agents
2 4 (25.00%) Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 13 (81.25%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 13 (81.25%) Machine Learning
2 13 (81.25%) Microservices
2 13 (81.25%) Software Engineering
2 13 (81.25%) Unit Testing
3 9 (56.25%) Community of Practice
3 9 (56.25%) Continuous Delivery
3 9 (56.25%) Micro Frontends
3 9 (56.25%) SDLC
3 9 (56.25%) Visualisation
4 8 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (50.00%) Front End Development
4 8 (50.00%) Operational Stability
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
6 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
2 9 (56.25%) TypeScript
3 6 (37.50%) SQL
4 5 (31.25%) Python
5 1 (6.25%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) ISEB
3 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Systems Management
1 13 (81.25%) Grafana
2 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 4 (25.00%) Kustomize
3 4 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Dynatrace
1 9 (56.25%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle