Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Performance Testing
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 13 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £415 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 - -
75th Percentile £472 - -
90th Percentile £491 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £483 £375
% change year-on-year -2.85% +28.80% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59.25 - -
Median hourly rate £59.50 - -
75th Percentile £59.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £59.50 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 517 140 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 83.79% 94.59% 59.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 85 43
10th Percentile £352 £310 £310
25th Percentile £408 £406 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £477 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% +19.25% -25.79%
75th Percentile £515 £537 £500
90th Percentile £559 £551 £520
West Midlands median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 2 8
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile £25.15 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +331.03% +16.89% -81.05%
75th Percentile £53.75 - £11.32
90th Percentile £60.37 - £14.26
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.24 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +51.33% -20.00% +26.98%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Telford - 13 £464 - 3
Performance Testing
West Midlands

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) Pentaho
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) Component Testing
1 13 (100.00%) ETL
2 12 (92.31%) Test Automation
3 10 (76.92%) Scrum
4 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 2 (15.38%) ETL Development
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (7.69%) Data Development
5 1 (7.69%) Data Integration
5 1 (7.69%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (7.69%) Data Virtualisation
5 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (84.62%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) FATCA
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Oracle
2 10 (76.92%) Talend
3 6 (46.15%) Informatica
4 2 (15.38%) Denodo
5 1 (7.69%) Infor
5 1 (7.69%) Sage