Performance Testing Contracts in the North of England

Performance Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 143 180 209
Rank change year-on-year +37 +29 -9
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 23 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.70% 0.10% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 6
10th Percentile £348 £466 £375
25th Percentile £396 £470 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £489 £518 £539
90th Percentile £545 - £558
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the North of England

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the North of England

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the North of England

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the North of England

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +31 18 £413 -16.67% 14
Yorkshire +11 4 £500 - 14
North East - 1 £363 - 5
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (17.39%) NetWeaver
2 1 (4.35%) CICS
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 4 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.04%) MySQL
2 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Selenium
2 6 (26.09%) JMeter
2 6 (26.09%) LoadRunner
3 5 (21.74%) JIRA
4 3 (13.04%) REST Assured
5 1 (4.35%) Appium
5 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.35%) Git
5 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.35%) JUnit
5 1 (4.35%) Postman
5 1 (4.35%) TestRail
5 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.35%) Aviation
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Tester
2 4 (17.39%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Integration Developer
2 4 (17.39%) QA Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) SAP Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Software Tester
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Test Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Performance Tester
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Lead
5 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) QA Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Senior QA Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) EDI
1 4 (17.39%) IDoc
1 4 (17.39%) JDBC
1 4 (17.39%) JMS
1 4 (17.39%) Middleware
1 4 (17.39%) REST
1 4 (17.39%) SAP PI
1 4 (17.39%) SOAP
1 4 (17.39%) XML
1 4 (17.39%) XSLT
2 2 (8.70%) Node.js
2 2 (8.70%) Playwright
3 1 (4.35%) Chai
3 1 (4.35%) ISPF
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.35%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Test Automation
2 12 (52.17%) Test Strategy
3 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 10 (43.48%) User Acceptance Testing
4 9 (39.13%) End-to-End Testing
4 9 (39.13%) System Integration Testing
5 8 (34.78%) Agile
5 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (34.78%) Validation
6 7 (30.43%) DevOps
6 7 (30.43%) Integration Testing
7 6 (26.09%) Manual Testing
7 6 (26.09%) SDLC
8 5 (21.74%) Data Validation
8 5 (21.74%) Migration
9 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
9 4 (17.39%) Regression Testing
9 4 (17.39%) Scrum
9 4 (17.39%) Software Testing
9 4 (17.39%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Java
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) ABAP
3 3 (13.04%) Python
4 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) JCL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) ISTQB
2 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.35%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) QA
2 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) HP ALM
2 1 (4.35%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) SAP
2 3 (13.04%) Databricks
2 3 (13.04%) Informatica
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
2 3 (13.04%) Talend
3 2 (8.70%) HP
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.35%) IBM
4 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft