Performance Tester Contract Job Trends in London

Performance Tester
England > London

The median Performance Tester daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 348 390
Rank change year-on-year -35 +42 +144
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Tester 2 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.014% 0.022% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.023% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile £513 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £436
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.90%
75th Percentile £538 - £487
90th Percentile - - £605
England median daily rate £464 - £436
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 13,118 12,952 16,920
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.49% 93.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,690 8,338 12,206
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 140 237
10th Percentile £17.93 £19.99 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.50 £23.80 £20.02
Median hourly rate £32.48 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.21% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £61.50 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £70.80
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% -19.54% +24.29%

Performance Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Performance Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Performance Tester job vacancy trend in London

Performance Tester
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in London

Performance Tester
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in London

Performance Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, Performance Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Performance Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Gatling
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) HP

Performance Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Video on Demand
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Chaos Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scalability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk