Performance Test Engineer Contracts in London

Performance Test Engineer
England > London

The median Performance Test Engineer daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 482 594
Rank change year-on-year +96 +112 -117
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Test Engineer 11 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.063% 0.011% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.012% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 2
10th Percentile £381 £420 £403
25th Percentile £410 £431 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £512 £534 £419
90th Percentile £513 £585 £423
England median daily rate £501 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +5.47% +11.76% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,380 25,121 37,063
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,833 18,239 27,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 285 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.25 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.24% +1.43% +7.89%
75th Percentile £45.18 £62.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%

Performance Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Performance Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Test Engineer in London

Performance Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Test Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Test Engineer in London

Performance Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Test Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Test Engineer in London

Performance Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Test Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +46 1 £501 -18.20%
Performance Test Engineer
England

Performance Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Performance Test Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Performance Test Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) JMeter
2 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
3 8 (72.73%) JIRA
3 8 (72.73%) Java
3 8 (72.73%) Python
3 8 (72.73%) Confluence
3 8 (72.73%) Grafana
3 8 (72.73%) Prometheus
3 8 (72.73%) Shell Script
4 6 (54.55%) Performance Testing
5 5 (45.45%) AWS
5 5 (45.45%) LDAP
5 5 (45.45%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
6 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
7 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (27.27%) Ansible
8 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
8 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
8 2 (18.18%) Azure
9 1 (9.09%) Law
9 1 (9.09%) Migration
9 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
9 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (9.09%) System Integration Testing
9 1 (9.09%) Defect Management
9 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
9 1 (9.09%) Auto-Scaling
9 1 (9.09%) Functional Testing
9 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity

Performance Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (72.73%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
Development Applications
1 11 (100.00%) JMeter
2 8 (72.73%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
4 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) LDAP
2 1 (9.09%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 6 (54.55%) Performance Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (9.09%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (9.09%) Defect Management
5 1 (9.09%) Functional Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (9.09%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
1 8 (72.73%) Python
1 8 (72.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Grafana
1 8 (72.73%) Prometheus
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible