Performance Testing Contracts in Hertfordshire

Performance Testing
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 72 69
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -10
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 3 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.37% 0.48% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.55% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £501 £445
25th Percentile £506 £548 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £650 £495
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +31.31% -
75th Percentile £519 £700 £519
90th Percentile - £715 £523
East of England median daily rate £513 £650 £485
% change year-on-year -21.15% +34.02% +34.72%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 741 722 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 90.59% 86.57% 87.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 386 408
10th Percentile £250 £250 £204
25th Percentile £325 £371 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% +6.47% -2.06%
75th Percentile £600 £676 £625
90th Percentile £708 £784 £688
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 161 84
10th Percentile £38.12 £31.45 £20.30
25th Percentile £40.00 £53.75 £39.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £50.43
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +28.90% +12.06%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.50 -
East of England median hourly rate £39.78 £25.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year +59.10% +61.29% -11.43%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in Hertfordshire

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in Hertfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in Hertfordshire

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in Hertfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in Hertfordshire

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Watford - 2 - -
St Albans - 1 £513 -
Performance Testing
East of England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) ETL Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP