Performance Testing Contracts in Scotland

Performance Testing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 108 123 150
Rank change year-on-year +15 +27 +10
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 8 6 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.49% 0.27% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.31% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 12
10th Percentile £334 - £364
25th Percentile £384 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £550 £424
Median % change year-on-year -20.68% +29.79% +22.83%
75th Percentile £478 £638 £488
90th Percentile £491 £649 -
UK median daily rate £448 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in Scotland

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in Scotland

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Scotland

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in Scotland

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +6 6 £448 +19.33% 4
Edinburgh +3 1 - - 2
Performance Testing
UK

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) BrowserStack
2 1 (12.50%) Datadog
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
2 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (25.00%) MariaDB
3 2 (25.00%) MySQL
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Gatling
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Back Office
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Core Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Spring
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) React
3 2 (25.00%) Kafka
4 1 (12.50%) Ext JS
4 1 (12.50%) J2EE
4 1 (12.50%) Node.js
4 1 (12.50%) Playwright
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) Community of Practice
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
2 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
2 3 (37.50%) Micro Frontends
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Operational Stability
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 3 (37.50%) Dynatrace
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft