Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Performance Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 78 99
Rank change year-on-year -5 +21 +37
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 4 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.39% 0.43% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.49% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 4
10th Percentile £358 £489 £520
25th Percentile £385 £528 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £588 £594
Median % change year-on-year -24.26% -1.05% +3.26%
75th Percentile £518 £641 £652
90th Percentile £567 £646 £666
North West median daily rate £445 £588 £517
% change year-on-year -24.26% +13.75% -8.18%

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 928 1,020 1,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 90.27% 87.18% 87.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 586 1,060
10th Percentile £300 £313 £270
25th Percentile £386 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £593
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 35 61
10th Percentile £16.35 £16.34 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £26.93 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -7.43%
75th Percentile £33.00 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +41.19%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Manchester

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Manchester

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (75.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Gatling
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Tester
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
3 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Playwright
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) Puppeteer
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) API Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana