Performance Testing Contracts in the North West

Performance Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 102 133 154
Rank change year-on-year +31 +21 +5
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 18 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.91% 0.15% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.17% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 2
10th Percentile £331 £466 £544
25th Percentile £394 £470 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £495 £558
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -11.21% +30.87%
75th Percentile £463 £518 £566
90th Percentile £546 - £572
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the North West

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the North West

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the North West

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the North West

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +24 11 £400 -19.19% 8
Cheshire - 3 £360 - 2
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (22.22%) NetWeaver
2 1 (5.56%) CICS
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (16.67%) MySQL
2 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Selenium
2 4 (22.22%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) JMeter
2 4 (22.22%) LoadRunner
3 2 (11.11%) REST Assured
4 1 (5.56%) Appium
4 1 (5.56%) Postman
4 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.56%) Aviation
5 1 (5.56%) Marketing
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Tester
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Integration Developer
2 4 (22.22%) QA Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) SAP Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Software Tester
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) EDI
1 4 (22.22%) IDoc
1 4 (22.22%) JDBC
1 4 (22.22%) JMS
1 4 (22.22%) Middleware
1 4 (22.22%) REST
1 4 (22.22%) SAP PI
1 4 (22.22%) SOAP
1 4 (22.22%) XML
1 4 (22.22%) XSLT
2 2 (11.11%) Node.js
2 2 (11.11%) Playwright
3 1 (5.56%) Chai
3 1 (5.56%) ISPF
3 1 (5.56%) Kafka
3 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Legacy Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 10 (55.56%) Test Strategy
2 10 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
3 9 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
4 8 (44.44%) End-to-End Testing
4 8 (44.44%) Validation
5 6 (33.33%) Agile
5 6 (33.33%) Integration Testing
5 6 (33.33%) Manual Testing
5 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (27.78%) Data Validation
6 5 (27.78%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) SDLC
7 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
7 4 (22.22%) Process Improvement
7 4 (22.22%) Scrum
7 4 (22.22%) Software Testing
7 4 (22.22%) System Testing
8 3 (16.67%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (22.22%) ABAP
4 3 (16.67%) Python
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.56%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) ISTQB
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
2 3 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) HP ALM
2 1 (5.56%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) SAP
2 3 (16.67%) Databricks
2 3 (16.67%) Informatica
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Talend
3 2 (11.11%) HP
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft