Performance Test Engineer Contracts in London

Performance Test Engineer
England > London

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Performance Test Engineer daily rate in London.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 380 492
Rank change year-on-year +31 +112 +100
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Test Engineer 4 11 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.062% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.066% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +9.09%
England median daily rate £525 £501 £475
% change year-on-year +4.79% +5.47% +11.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) JMeter
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) SAP
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab

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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JMeter
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Gatling
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (25.00%) JProfiler
3 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (25.00%) Toad
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (25.00%) JVM Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk