Performance Testing Contracts in the South East

Performance Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 141 174 199
Rank change year-on-year +33 +25 +31
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 18 31 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.60% 0.56% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.66% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 12
10th Percentile £341 £392 £412
25th Percentile £375 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £509
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -5.70% +1.70%
75th Percentile £525 £608 £521
90th Percentile £650 £623 £571
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the South East

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the South East

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the South East

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the South East

Performance Testing
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 Testing within the South East 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
Hampshire +31 6 £438 - 8
Surrey +22 6 £475 +31.94% 5
Thames Valley +26 5 £500 -5.88% 11
Berkshire +14 4 £500 -5.88% 7
Buckinghamshire +16 1 - - 3
Kent - 1 £210 - 2
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.11%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) BGP
1 1 (5.56%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) Intranet
1 1 (5.56%) MPLS
1 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
1 1 (5.56%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (22.22%) JMeter
3 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.56%) GitLab
4 1 (5.56%) JUnit
4 1 (5.56%) Mocha
4 1 (5.56%) Selenium
4 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.56%) TestRail
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Tester
2 3 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) QA Tester
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Network Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) JSON
1 1 (5.56%) NETCONF
1 1 (5.56%) Playwright
1 1 (5.56%) REST
1 1 (5.56%) RESTCONF
1 1 (5.56%) SOAP
1 1 (5.56%) WebdriverIO
1 1 (5.56%) XML
1 1 (5.56%) YAML
1 1 (5.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) CentOS
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Agile
2 10 (55.56%) Test Automation
3 8 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (38.89%) Test Strategy
5 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 5 (27.78%) Non-Functional Testing
6 5 (27.78%) Security Testing
6 5 (27.78%) Test Management
6 5 (27.78%) User Stories
7 4 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (22.22%) DevOps
7 4 (22.22%) Exploratory Testing
7 4 (22.22%) Software Testing
7 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
8 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
8 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
8 3 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
8 3 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) C#
1 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
2 2 (11.11%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 3 (16.67%) Degree
5 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (5.56%) CCNA
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (50.00%) QA
2 3 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Iperf
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) BT
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco
1 1 (5.56%) Juniper
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
1 1 (5.56%) Snow
1 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds