Performance Tester Contract Job Trends in the South East

Performance Tester
England > South East

The median Performance Tester daily rate in the South East is £313, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 228 - 182
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Tester 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.074% - 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% - 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £286 - -
25th Percentile £294 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.92%
75th Percentile £319 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £418 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -9.24% -3.16% +2.70%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 6,243 3,220 4,482
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 90.50% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,681 2,084 2,760
10th Percentile £303 £206 £250
25th Percentile £425 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.10% +3.20%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £635
90th Percentile £714 £663 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 751 268 372
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £16.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -56.15% +16.18%
75th Percentile £73.25 £57.50 £72.69
90th Percentile £86.61 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.23 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.48% -43.94% +8.04%

Performance Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Performance Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Performance Tester job vacancy trend in the South East

Performance Tester
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in the South East

Performance Tester
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in the South East

Performance Tester
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tester within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Surrey - 3 £313 -
Berkshire - 2 - - 1
Thames Valley - 2 - - 1
Performance Tester
England

Performance Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 16 August 2026, Performance Tester 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 South East region featuring Performance Tester in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 5 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 5 (100.00%) JMeter
1 5 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (60.00%) Gatling
3 3 (60.00%) Grafana
3 3 (60.00%) HTTP
3 3 (60.00%) Kibana
3 3 (60.00%) Programme Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Runbook
3 3 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) NeoLoad
4 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Volume Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps

Performance Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JMeter
1 5 (100.00%) LoadRunner
2 3 (60.00%) Gatling
3 2 (40.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Programme Delivery
3 3 (60.00%) Runbook
3 3 (60.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Volume Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (20.00%) Validation
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
1 3 (60.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 5 (100.00%) Dynatrace