Senior Performance Tester Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Performance Tester
England > London

The median Senior Performance Tester daily rate in London is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026.

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

 6 months to
22 Feb 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 - 393
Rank change year-on-year - - +131
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Performance Tester 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.013% - 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £484 - -
25th Percentile £489 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.18%
75th Percentile £527 - -
90th Percentile £533 - -
England median daily rate £488 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -15.17%

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 14,421 12,638 17,188
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 93.60% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,637 8,209 12,405
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £787
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 143 338
10th Percentile £18.03 £21.22 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £34.38 £37.00 £28.88
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% +28.14% -17.50%
75th Percentile £59.93 £53.75 £48.70
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.68 £66.30
England median hourly rate £33.17 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.86% +2.86% -12.50%

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 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 22 February 2026, 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 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript

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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Video on Demand
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
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