Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Performance Testing
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 80 94
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 +20
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.29% 0.26% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.32% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £397 £518 £401
25th Percentile £440 £525 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +33.33% -26.67%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £509
90th Percentile £698 £583 £564
South East median daily rate £500 £438 £600
% change year-on-year +14.29% -27.08% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 900 933 1,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.37% 80.02% 88.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 616 671
10th Percentile £325 £360 £300
25th Percentile £450 £460 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £566 £530
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% +6.84% +0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £638
90th Percentile £650 £706 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £520
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.92% +1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 63 96
10th Percentile £16.17 £26.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £51.96
Median % change year-on-year -70.41% +34.72% +15.47%
75th Percentile £26.33 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £50.00 - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.05 £52.10
% change year-on-year -64.32% +11.41% +43.47%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Hampshire over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Hampshire

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Performance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Winchester - 1 £725 -
Farnborough - 1 £385 - 6
Performance Testing
South East

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) HP UFT
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Katalon Studio
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Epics
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware