Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in London

Performance Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 259 320
Rank change year-on-year -34 +61 +93
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 71 136 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.84% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.95% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 88 109
10th Percentile £352 £347 £410
25th Percentile £405 £420 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £641 £683
England median daily rate £453 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.17% -2.40% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £81.68
25th Percentile - £36.25 £83.06
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £85.75
Median % change year-on-year - -56.27% -
75th Percentile - £38.75 £88.06
90th Percentile - - £89.23
England median hourly rate - £37.50 £85.75
% change year-on-year - -56.27% +68.14%

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 12,278 14,368 19,832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.49% 89.16% 90.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,102 9,540 14,376
10th Percentile £330 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 177 228
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.11
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.19
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% -6.67% +5.63%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.00 £62.81
90th Percentile £63.75 £75.00 £76.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.06
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.39% +51.91%

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
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in London over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in London

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

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 22 September 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 -4 11 £525 +7.58% 7
South London - 1 £475 - 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 2 (2.82%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) Apache
2 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.41%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.41%) NetWeaver
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) SPSS
1 1 (1.41%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.82%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.41%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) Azure
2 12 (16.90%) AWS
2 12 (16.90%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.45%) GitHub
4 5 (7.04%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (7.04%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (7.04%) Serverless
5 4 (5.63%) IaaS
6 3 (4.23%) BlazeMeter
6 3 (4.23%) GCP
6 3 (4.23%) PaaS
6 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.82%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.82%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.82%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.82%) SaaS
7 2 (2.82%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (2.82%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Cognitive Search
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) Network Security
2 2 (2.82%) Internet
3 1 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.23%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.41%) Big Data
4 1 (1.41%) DB2
4 1 (1.41%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.41%) MySQL
4 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.41%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (32.39%) Selenium
2 20 (28.17%) JMeter
3 13 (18.31%) Cucumber
4 11 (15.49%) Jenkins
4 11 (15.49%) Postman
5 10 (14.08%) LoadRunner
6 9 (12.68%) JIRA
6 9 (12.68%) REST Assured
7 8 (11.27%) Git
8 7 (9.86%) Gatling
8 7 (9.86%) JUnit
9 6 (8.45%) GitLab
9 6 (8.45%) Locust
10 5 (7.04%) Cypress.io
10 5 (7.04%) Eclipse
10 5 (7.04%) Zephyr
11 4 (5.63%) Maven
12 2 (2.82%) Subversion
12 2 (2.82%) TeamCity
12 2 (2.82%) TestNG
General
1 27 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.76%) Finance
3 12 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (15.49%) Banking
5 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.23%) Back Office
7 3 (4.23%) Billing
8 2 (2.82%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.82%) Front Office
8 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.82%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.41%) Games
9 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Marketing
9 1 (1.41%) Retail
9 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (16.90%) Tester
2 10 (14.08%) Developer
3 8 (11.27%) QA Engineer
4 7 (9.86%) Lead
4 7 (9.86%) Senior
4 7 (9.86%) Test Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Automation Tester
6 4 (5.63%) Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.63%) Senior QA Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Software Developer
6 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Test Analyst
6 4 (5.63%) Test Manager
7 3 (4.23%) Consultant
7 3 (4.23%) DBA
7 3 (4.23%) Developer in Test
7 3 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Performance Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.49%) Playwright
2 9 (12.68%) REST
2 9 (12.68%) Web Services
3 7 (9.86%) RESTful
4 5 (7.04%) pytest
4 5 (7.04%) SOAP
5 4 (5.63%) HTML
5 4 (5.63%) Spring Boot
6 3 (4.23%) Gherkin
6 3 (4.23%) Middleware
6 3 (4.23%) WireMock
7 2 (2.82%) ADO
7 2 (2.82%) CSS
7 2 (2.82%) JSON
7 2 (2.82%) Node.js
7 2 (2.82%) RAML
7 2 (2.82%) Spring
8 1 (1.41%) .NET
8 1 (1.41%) JDBC
8 1 (1.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.45%) Distributed Systems
1 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.63%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.63%) Reinsurance
3 3 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.23%) Replication
4 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.82%) Equities
4 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.41%) Derivative
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.41%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.41%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.86%) Linux
2 3 (4.23%) Unix
2 3 (4.23%) Windows
2 3 (4.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.41%) AIX
3 1 (1.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (67.61%) Test Automation
2 33 (46.48%) CI/CD
3 31 (43.66%) Agile
4 27 (38.03%) DevOps
5 26 (36.62%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (33.80%) Test Strategy
7 18 (25.35%) API Testing
8 17 (23.94%) Software Testing
9 16 (22.54%) Test Scripting
10 14 (19.72%) Regression Testing
11 13 (18.31%) Scrum
12 11 (15.49%) Microservices
12 11 (15.49%) SDET
13 10 (14.08%) Artificial Intelligence
13 10 (14.08%) Integration Testing
14 9 (12.68%) Continuous Integration
14 9 (12.68%) Validation
15 8 (11.27%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 8 (11.27%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.99%) Java
2 15 (21.13%) Python
3 11 (15.49%) SQL
4 10 (14.08%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.27%) C#
6 4 (5.63%) ABAP
6 4 (5.63%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.82%) Bash
7 2 (2.82%) Groovy
8 1 (1.41%) Ada
8 1 (1.41%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.41%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.41%) R
8 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.41%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 13 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.08%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (7.04%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.82%) Degree
5 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (46.48%) QA
2 7 (9.86%) Accessibility
3 5 (7.04%) WCAG
4 3 (4.23%) GDPR
5 1 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (11.27%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.04%) Terraform
3 2 (2.82%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.41%) Grafana
4 1 (1.41%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.41%) Kibana
4 1 (1.41%) Perfmon
4 1 (1.41%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.63%) SAP
2 4 (5.63%) UiPath
3 3 (4.23%) HP
3 3 (4.23%) Oracle
4 2 (2.82%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.82%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.82%) Google
4 2 (2.82%) New Relic
4 2 (2.82%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.82%) Sybase
5 1 (1.41%) Adobe
5 1 (1.41%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.41%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.41%) Databricks
5 1 (1.41%) IBM
5 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.41%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.41%) Pega