Performance Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Performance Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 90 117 151
Rank change year-on-year +27 +34 +19
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 21 16 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.10% 0.58% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.71% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 11
10th Percentile £299 £350 £363
25th Percentile £391 £354 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £363 £428
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -15.30% -0.93%
75th Percentile £500 £469 £500
90th Percentile £515 £538 £550
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the Midlands

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the Midlands

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the Midlands

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the Midlands

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West Midlands +27 17 £483 +28.80% 15
East Midlands +2 4 £371 +2.21% 13
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (14.29%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) GCP
2 2 (9.52%) GitHub
2 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) JIRA
2 6 (28.57%) JMeter
3 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
3 5 (23.81%) Selenium
4 4 (19.05%) LoadRunner
5 3 (14.29%) Git
5 3 (14.29%) GitLab
5 3 (14.29%) Postman
5 3 (14.29%) REST Assured
5 3 (14.29%) TestNG
5 3 (14.29%) Travis CI
6 2 (9.52%) Cucumber
6 2 (9.52%) Cypress.io
6 2 (9.52%) Introscope
General
1 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Banking
2 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Tester
2 4 (19.05%) Test Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) QA Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Telecoms Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Test Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Performance Tester
4 1 (4.76%) QA Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) QA Tester
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Manager
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Test Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) .NET
2 2 (9.52%) Gherkin
2 2 (9.52%) HTML
2 2 (9.52%) J2EE
2 2 (9.52%) RESTful
2 2 (9.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (28.57%) SCADA
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) AIX
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Agile
1 10 (47.62%) Test Scripting
2 9 (42.86%) Functional Testing
2 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 6 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
4 6 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) API Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Regression Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Security Testing
5 5 (23.81%) SIEM
5 5 (23.81%) Test Strategy
5 5 (23.81%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (19.05%) DevOps
6 4 (19.05%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Scrum
7 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (9.52%) C
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
3 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) CEH
1 3 (14.29%) CISSP
1 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
1 3 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (42.86%) QA
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Kibana
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) AppDynamics
3 2 (9.52%) Google
3 2 (9.52%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) HP
4 1 (4.76%) Micro Focus
4 1 (4.76%) SAP