Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Performance Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 64 70
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +35
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.83% 0.15% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.18% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £323 - -
25th Percentile £356 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £420 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -30.00% +15.66%
75th Percentile £419 - £650
90th Percentile £498 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £375 £420 £600
% change year-on-year -10.71% -30.00% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 558 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.90% 86.38% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 349 579
10th Percentile £302 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £575 £573 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 20 6
10th Percentile - £15.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.25 £18.14 £18.74
Median hourly rate £19.63 £32.50 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -39.62% +54.71% -2.29%
75th Percentile £26.13 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.63 £97.18 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £30.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -26.20% +57.89% -11.63%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Leeds

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Leeds over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Leeds

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 4 (66.67%) Tester
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Automation Tester
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Tester
4 1 (16.67%) Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (16.67%) Lead Test Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
4 1 (16.67%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) Community of Practice
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Line Management
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Service Design
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk