Performance Test Leader Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Performance Test Lead
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Performance Test Lead daily rate in Sheffield is £581, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Test Leader 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £516 - -
25th Percentile £539 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - -
75th Percentile £627 - -
90th Percentile £652 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £581 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Sheffield with a recognized job title 973 478 373
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 90.70% 87.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 324 221
10th Percentile £363 £287 £378
25th Percentile £425 £379 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £515
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -9.22% -14.17%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £501
% change year-on-year +7.99% -7.49% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 4 5
10th Percentile - - £20.20
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.10 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.40 £18.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.52% -12.61% +14.38%
75th Percentile £36.61 £18.50 £22.00
90th Percentile - £18.51 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.40 £18.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +76.52% -12.61% +14.38%

Performance Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Performance Test Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Performance Test Leader job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Performance Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Test Leader in Sheffield over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Test Leader in Sheffield

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 28 July 2026, Performance Test Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Sheffield region featuring Performance Test Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Gatling
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (100.00%) NeoLoad
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cypher
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Gatling
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (100.00%) NeoLoad
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Cypher
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow