Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Reading

Performance Testing
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 87 75
Rank change year-on-year +19 -12 +14
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 8 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.14% 0.37% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.41% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £402 - £607
25th Percentile £475 £513 £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £615
Median % change year-on-year - -14.63% +11.82%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £623
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £450 £615
% change year-on-year +16.67% -26.83% +11.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 641 983 963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.31% 90.85% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 551 628
10th Percentile £337 £330 £213
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £609 £650 £615
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 11 17
10th Percentile £14.75 £29.00 £41.24
25th Percentile £16.66 £49.38 £59.89
Median hourly rate £58.00 £60.46 £63.29
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -4.48% -2.63%
75th Percentile £82.25 £67.21 £65.25
90th Percentile £96.75 £74.87 £66.96
Berkshire median hourly rate £37.28 £59.00 £61.45
% change year-on-year -36.81% -3.98% +21.68%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Reading

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Reading over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Reading

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) NUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
5 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) Playwright
1 1 (12.50%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 7 (87.50%) DevOps
1 7 (87.50%) End-to-End Testing
1 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
1 7 (87.50%) Test Scripting
1 7 (87.50%) Validation
2 6 (75.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 6 (75.00%) High Availability
2 6 (75.00%) Load Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) Risk Analysis
2 6 (75.00%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (12.50%) API Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Case Management
3 1 (12.50%) Defect Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco