Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Performance Testing
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.42% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £725 £363 £363
% change year-on-year +100.00% - -14.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 189 137 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 79.41% 84.57% 79.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 76 90
10th Percentile £163 £313 £324
25th Percentile £199 £410 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +8.11% -15.91%
75th Percentile £538 £546 £600
90th Percentile £681 £581 £732
East Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £445
% change year-on-year - -4.49% -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 4 10
10th Percentile £12.95 £14.79 £10.35
25th Percentile £14.96 £14.99 £14.72
Median hourly rate £16.35 £23.80 £16.36
Median % change year-on-year -31.30% +45.52% +43.46%
75th Percentile £16.75 £54.56 £18.56
90th Percentile £17.87 £92.03 £26.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £23.34 £17.61
% change year-on-year -22.88% +32.58% +4.60%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 8 February 2026. 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
Nottingham - 1 - -
Performance Testing
East Midlands

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA