Performance Testing Contracts in Manchester

Performance Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 68 92 116
Rank change year-on-year +24 +24 +17
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 11 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.30% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 2
10th Percentile £364 £466 £544
25th Percentile £396 £470 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £495 £558
Median % change year-on-year -19.19% -11.21% +36.81%
75th Percentile £419 £518 £566
90th Percentile £481 - £572
North West median daily rate £413 £495 £558
% change year-on-year -16.67% -11.21% +30.87%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in Manchester

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in Manchester

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Manchester

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in Manchester

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (9.09%) CICS
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) MySQL
2 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Selenium
2 4 (36.36%) JMeter
2 4 (36.36%) LoadRunner
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
4 1 (9.09%) Appium
4 1 (9.09%) Postman
4 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Aviation
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) QA Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Software Tester
1 4 (36.36%) Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Node.js
1 2 (18.18%) Playwright
2 1 (9.09%) Chai
2 1 (9.09%) ISPF
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
1 10 (90.91%) Test Strategy
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 8 (72.73%) Validation
4 6 (54.55%) End-to-End Testing
5 5 (45.45%) Data Validation
5 5 (45.45%) DevOps
5 5 (45.45%) System Integration Testing
5 5 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (36.36%) Integration Testing
6 4 (36.36%) Manual Testing
6 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (36.36%) Process Improvement
6 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
6 4 (36.36%) System Testing
7 3 (27.27%) API Testing
7 3 (27.27%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
7 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (27.27%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) ISTQB
2 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
2 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Databricks
1 3 (27.27%) Informatica
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
1 3 (27.27%) Talend
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft