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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 172 190
Rank change year-on-year +35 +18 +36
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 19 27 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.65% 0.48% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.58% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 9
10th Percentile £375 £372 £410
25th Percentile £380 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £444 £508
Median % change year-on-year +9.86% -12.65% -6.57%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £538
90th Percentile £615 £612 £575
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -9.09%

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 2,668 4,666 4,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.34% 83.55% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,716 2,714 3,430
10th Percentile £250 £255 £249
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +1.95% +0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 446 214
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.23 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +127.79%
75th Percentile £62.37 £62.50 £64.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.93 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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
Thames Valley +24 7 £500 +11.11% 45
Hampshire +43 6 £438 -13.58% 19
Berkshire +18 6 £500 +11.11% 29
Surrey +19 5 £475 +31.94% 12
Buckinghamshire +13 1 - - 10
Kent - 1 £210 - 8
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 (5.26%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) AWS
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Stack
2 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) Intranet
1 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) JMeter
3 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.26%) JUnit
3 1 (5.26%) Selenium
3 1 (5.26%) TestRail
General
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Tester
2 4 (21.05%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Test Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) QA Tester
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior QA Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.26%) QA Leader
5 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Test Programme Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Test Automation
2 10 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (47.37%) Agile
4 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
4 7 (36.84%) Test Scripting
5 6 (31.58%) DevOps
5 6 (31.58%) End-to-End Testing
5 6 (31.58%) Test Strategy
6 5 (26.32%) Non-Functional Testing
6 5 (26.32%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (26.32%) Test Management
6 5 (26.32%) Validation
7 4 (21.05%) Analytical Thinking
7 4 (21.05%) High Availability
7 4 (21.05%) Load Testing
7 4 (21.05%) Risk Analysis
7 4 (21.05%) Security Testing
7 4 (21.05%) User Stories
7 4 (21.05%) Verification and Validation
8 3 (15.79%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Python
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 10 (52.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (21.05%) AWS Certification
3 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
4 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (10.53%) Degree
4 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
5 1 (5.26%) CCNA
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.26%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (57.89%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Iperf
Vendors
1 1 (5.26%) BT
1 1 (5.26%) Juniper
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
1 1 (5.26%) Snow
1 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds