Performance Testing Contracts in London

Performance Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Performance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 261 321
Rank change year-on-year +5 +60 +32
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 97 131 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.77% 0.73% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.83% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 96 128
10th Percentile £318 £398 £446
25th Percentile £371 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £506 £625 £650
90th Percentile £661 £638 £738
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £81.68
25th Percentile - - £83.06
Median hourly rate - - £85.75
75th Percentile - - £88.06
90th Percentile - - £89.23
England median hourly rate - - £85.75
% change year-on-year - - +7.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in London

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in London

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in London

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in London

Performance Testing
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 Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +1 14 £451 -9.75% 2
West London +15 5 £341 -40.28% 6
East London +14 1 £210 -55.08% 1
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
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 4 (4.12%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.09%) Confluence
3 2 (2.06%) IIS
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.03%) Apache
4 1 (1.03%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.03%) NetWeaver
4 1 (1.03%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.06%) SAP Hybris
1 2 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.06%) Shopify
2 1 (1.03%) iTrent
2 1 (1.03%) SAP BPC
2 1 (1.03%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.03%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.03%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.03%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 35 (36.08%) Azure
2 22 (22.68%) AWS
3 16 (16.49%) GitHub
4 14 (14.43%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (14.43%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (9.28%) Azure AKS
5 9 (9.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (9.28%) Azure Service Bus
5 9 (9.28%) BrowserStack
5 9 (9.28%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.15%) GCP
7 4 (4.12%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.09%) Datadog
8 3 (3.09%) dbt
8 3 (3.09%) SaaS
8 3 (3.09%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.06%) BigCommerce
9 2 (2.06%) Cloud Run
9 2 (2.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.28%) DNS
2 3 (3.09%) Ethernet VPN
2 3 (3.09%) HTTP
2 3 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (3.09%) Wireless
3 2 (2.06%) 802.11
3 2 (2.06%) BGP
3 2 (2.06%) Bluetooth
3 2 (2.06%) Broadband
3 2 (2.06%) DOCSIS
3 2 (2.06%) DSL
3 2 (2.06%) MPLS
3 2 (2.06%) Multicast
3 2 (2.06%) VPN
3 2 (2.06%) ZigBee
4 1 (1.03%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.03%) LAN
4 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.03%) VoIP
4 1 (1.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.34%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.15%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.12%) MySQL
3 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (3.09%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (3.09%) Data Lake
4 3 (3.09%) Delta Lake
4 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.06%) Parquet
5 2 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.06%) Power BI
5 2 (2.06%) Star Schema
5 2 (2.06%) Tableau
6 1 (1.03%) Big Data
6 1 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.03%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 34 (35.05%) JMeter
2 23 (23.71%) Jenkins
3 18 (18.56%) Selenium
4 16 (16.49%) Postman
5 15 (15.46%) LoadRunner
6 13 (13.40%) Appium
6 13 (13.40%) Cypress.io
7 11 (11.34%) REST Assured
8 10 (10.31%) Gatling
8 10 (10.31%) Git
8 10 (10.31%) GitLab
9 9 (9.28%) JIRA
10 8 (8.25%) SoapUI
11 7 (7.22%) CircleCI
12 6 (6.19%) Cucumber
12 6 (6.19%) NeoLoad
13 5 (5.15%) WebDriver
14 4 (4.12%) Serenity BDD
14 4 (4.12%) SpecFlow
14 4 (4.12%) TeamCity
General
1 40 (41.24%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.71%) Finance
3 16 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.12%) Banking
4 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.09%) Billing
6 2 (2.06%) Front Office
6 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.06%) Marketing
6 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.06%) Retail
7 1 (1.03%) Advertising
7 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.03%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Legal
7 1 (1.03%) Military
7 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (24.74%) Tester
2 18 (18.56%) Test Engineer
3 17 (17.53%) Senior
4 14 (14.43%) Developer
5 8 (8.25%) Lead
6 7 (7.22%) Python Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) Software Developer
6 7 (7.22%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Automation Tester
7 6 (6.19%) Consultant
7 6 (6.19%) Developer in Test
7 6 (6.19%) Senior Test Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Test Leader
8 5 (5.15%) Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Performance Consultant
8 5 (5.15%) Performance Test Consultant
8 5 (5.15%) QA Engineer
8 5 (5.15%) Test Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Test Consultant
9 4 (4.12%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.49%) REST
2 10 (10.31%) Kafka
3 9 (9.28%) OAuth
3 9 (9.28%) OAuth2
3 9 (9.28%) OpenID
3 9 (9.28%) Playwright
4 8 (8.25%) PySpark
5 5 (5.15%) NumPy
5 5 (5.15%) OpenTelemetry
5 5 (5.15%) Pandas
5 5 (5.15%) RESTful
6 4 (4.12%) JSON
6 4 (4.12%) Node.js
6 4 (4.12%) Play Framework
6 4 (4.12%) pytest
7 3 (3.09%) Jest
7 3 (3.09%) SOAP
7 3 (3.09%) XML
7 3 (3.09%) YAML
8 2 (2.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.06%) Equities
3 2 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.06%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (2.06%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.03%) IoT
4 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.03%) Smart Home
4 1 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.25%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Windows
3 2 (2.06%) CentOS
3 2 (2.06%) Unix
4 1 (1.03%) Android
4 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (76.29%) Test Automation
2 49 (50.52%) Agile
3 42 (43.30%) CI/CD
4 38 (39.18%) DevOps
5 32 (32.99%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (23.71%) API Testing
7 20 (20.62%) Scrum
7 20 (20.62%) Software Testing
8 18 (18.56%) Test Strategy
9 15 (15.46%) Integration Testing
9 15 (15.46%) Software Engineering
9 15 (15.46%) Test Scripting
10 13 (13.40%) Defect Management
11 12 (12.37%) Containerisation
11 12 (12.37%) End-to-End Testing
11 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (11.34%) Microservices
12 11 (11.34%) Regression Testing
12 11 (11.34%) Security Testing
13 10 (10.31%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 38 (39.18%) Python
2 34 (35.05%) Java
3 28 (28.87%) JavaScript
4 22 (22.68%) C#
5 20 (20.62%) SQL
6 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.15%) Ruby
8 4 (4.12%) Bash
8 4 (4.12%) C++
8 4 (4.12%) PHP
8 4 (4.12%) Scala
9 3 (3.09%) Groovy
10 2 (2.06%) ABAP
10 2 (2.06%) RPG
11 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (21.65%) SC Cleared
1 21 (21.65%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.28%) Degree
3 7 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.06%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.03%) CCNA
5 1 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.03%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (27.84%) QA
2 6 (6.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.03%) DICOM
5 1 (1.03%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (4.12%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (15.46%) Kubernetes
2 12 (12.37%) Terraform
3 6 (6.19%) Ansible
3 6 (6.19%) Perfmon
4 3 (3.09%) Progress Chef
4 3 (3.09%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.09%) Puppet
5 2 (2.06%) Grafana
5 2 (2.06%) Kibana
5 2 (2.06%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (12.37%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.22%) Dynatrace
2 7 (7.22%) New Relic
2 7 (7.22%) SAP
3 6 (6.19%) Oracle
4 4 (4.12%) Cisco
5 3 (3.09%) Databricks
5 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.09%) StreamSets
6 2 (2.06%) Adobe
6 2 (2.06%) Informatica
6 2 (2.06%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.06%) Splunk
6 2 (2.06%) Sybase
6 2 (2.06%) Talend
6 2 (2.06%) Workday
7 1 (1.03%) BT
7 1 (1.03%) F5
7 1 (1.03%) HP
7 1 (1.03%) TOWER Software