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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 114 150
Rank change year-on-year +8 +36 +13
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 19 6 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.09% 0.31% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.36% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 6
10th Percentile £370 - £369
25th Percentile £409 £363 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +15.79% -3.80%
75th Percentile £553 £638 £488
90th Percentile £605 £649 -
UK median daily rate £453 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -9.40% +1.01% -10.00%

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 1,595 1,659 2,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.82% 86.95% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 1,026 1,621
10th Percentile £263 £208 £250
25th Percentile £370 £357 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £662 £626
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 59 56
10th Percentile £16.59 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.25 £13.15
Median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +6.90% -47.64%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £28.19 £54.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -5 15 £450 +20.00% 5
Edinburgh +10 4 £500 -20.00% 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 9 (47.37%) BlazeMeter
2 4 (21.05%) OpenShift
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
4 1 (5.26%) Datadog
4 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Internet
1 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
1 1 (5.26%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) NoSQL
2 10 (52.63%) Apache Cassandra
3 9 (47.37%) MongoDB
4 4 (21.05%) Redis
5 3 (15.79%) Big Data
6 1 (5.26%) CockroachDB
6 1 (5.26%) GIS
6 1 (5.26%) NewSQL
6 1 (5.26%) OLTP
6 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) JUnit
2 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.79%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.26%) LoadRunner
4 1 (5.26%) Mockito
4 1 (5.26%) TestComplete
4 1 (5.26%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (47.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Developer
1 6 (31.58%) Java Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (21.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Java Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Core Java Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Python Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) J2EE Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) React Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (52.63%) Spring
2 9 (47.37%) CSS
2 9 (47.37%) React
3 8 (42.11%) Kafka
4 7 (36.84%) AngularJS
5 5 (26.32%) OAuth
6 4 (21.05%) FastAPI
6 4 (21.05%) Flask
6 4 (21.05%) LangChain
6 4 (21.05%) LangGraph
6 4 (21.05%) OAuth2
6 4 (21.05%) PyTorch
6 4 (21.05%) RESTful
6 4 (21.05%) TensorFlow
7 3 (15.79%) Hugging Face
7 3 (15.79%) Loki
7 3 (15.79%) OpenTelemetry
8 1 (5.26%) Ext JS
8 1 (5.26%) REST
8 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Algorithms
2 4 (21.05%) AI Agents
3 3 (15.79%) Private Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Cloud Native
5 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (5.26%) N-Tier
5 1 (5.26%) SCADA
5 1 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Agile
2 13 (68.42%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 13 (68.42%) Machine Learning
2 13 (68.42%) Microservices
2 13 (68.42%) Unit Testing
3 12 (63.16%) Software Engineering
4 10 (52.63%) SDLC
5 9 (47.37%) Community of Practice
5 9 (47.37%) Continuous Delivery
5 9 (47.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (47.37%) Micro Frontends
5 9 (47.37%) Visualisation
6 8 (42.11%) Front End Development
6 8 (42.11%) Operational Stability
7 7 (36.84%) Test Automation
8 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
8 5 (26.32%) DevOps
8 5 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (21.05%) ModelOps
Programming Languages
1 10 (52.63%) Java
2 9 (47.37%) JavaScript
2 9 (47.37%) TypeScript
3 6 (31.58%) SQL
4 5 (26.32%) Python
5 1 (5.26%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) ISEB
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 13 (68.42%) Grafana
2 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (21.05%) Kustomize
3 4 (21.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Splunk
2 9 (47.37%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle