Senior Performance Tester Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Performance Tester
England > London

The median Senior Performance Tester daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Performance Tester 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.007% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 - -

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 13,052 14,572 18,284
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 93.66% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,666 9,460 13,218
10th Percentile £338 £338 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.77%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £504 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 154 212
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.65 £36.31
Median % change year-on-year -24.97% +0.95% +3.73%
75th Percentile £53.75 £54.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.32 £80.75 £73.54
England median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.08% -16.67% +38.46%

Senior Performance Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Senior Performance Tester job vacancy trend in London

Senior Performance Tester
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Senior Performance Tester Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 2 December 2025, Senior 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 Senior Performance Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala

Senior 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 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Video on Demand
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus