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 19 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 195 227
Rank change year-on-year +18 +32 -25
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 23 20 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.40% 0.35% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.40% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 27
10th Percentile £368 £409 £356
25th Percentile £413 £410 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% -7.27% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £631
90th Percentile £616 £575 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +18.28%

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 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 19 June 2024.

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 19 June 2024. 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
Thames Valley +12 15 £438 -18.60% 3
Berkshire -2 15 £438 -
West Sussex - 4 £550 - 1
Hampshire -11 2 £506 +20.54%
East Sussex - 1 £300 -
Surrey - 1 £360 - 1
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 7 (30.43%) Apache
2 6 (26.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.35%) IIS
3 1 (4.35%) JBoss
3 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (52.17%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) BGP
1 6 (26.09%) Ethernet VPN
1 6 (26.09%) MPLS
1 6 (26.09%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (26.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) MongoDB
1 7 (30.43%) NoSQL
1 7 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.35%) Couchbase
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) GitLab
1 6 (26.09%) JIRA
1 6 (26.09%) JMeter
1 6 (26.09%) Robot Framework
1 6 (26.09%) TestRail
2 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
2 3 (13.04%) Selenium
3 2 (8.70%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) Maven
4 1 (4.35%) Appium
4 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Senior
1 6 (26.09%) Test Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Network Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Tester
4 3 (13.04%) Performance Tester
4 3 (13.04%) Test Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Database Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Migration Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Migration Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Database Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Performance Tester
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Tester
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) NETCONF
1 6 (26.09%) REST
1 6 (26.09%) RESTCONF
1 6 (26.09%) SOAP
1 6 (26.09%) YANG
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (8.70%) Gherkin
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) jQuery
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) Node.js
4 1 (4.35%) React
4 1 (4.35%) Spring
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) Vert.x
4 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Replication
2 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Test Automation
2 15 (65.22%) Agile
3 10 (43.48%) DevOps
4 9 (39.13%) Integration Testing
4 9 (39.13%) Security Testing
5 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
5 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
5 8 (34.78%) Scrum
6 7 (30.43%) Regression Testing
6 7 (30.43%) Unit Testing
7 6 (26.09%) Migration
7 6 (26.09%) Workflow
8 5 (21.74%) Functional Testing
9 4 (17.39%) Microservices
10 3 (13.04%) ERP
10 3 (13.04%) Event-Driven
10 3 (13.04%) Manual Testing
10 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
10 3 (13.04%) Software Testing
10 3 (13.04%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
1 9 (39.13%) SQL
2 6 (26.09%) C#
3 4 (17.39%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Terminal Services
2 1 (4.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) Kibana
2 1 (4.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 4 (17.39%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) Fujitsu
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) VMware