Senior Performance Tester Contract Job Trends in the South East

Senior Performance Tester
England > South East

The median Senior Performance Tester daily rate in the South East is £313, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 - 207
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Performance Tester 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.021% - 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% - 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £306 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - £425
75th Percentile £319 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £488 - £425
% change year-on-year - - -15.17%

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 4,352 2,934 5,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 92.85% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,795 1,837 3,163
10th Percentile £263 £245 £205
25th Percentile £403 £400 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £603 £608
90th Percentile £688 £663 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 382 107 405
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.32 £24.18 £18.20
Median hourly rate £29.81 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.87% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £69.43 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.49 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £33.17 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.23% - -12.50%

Senior Performance Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Senior Performance Tester job vacancy trend in the South East

Senior Performance Tester
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Senior 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 Senior Performance Tester within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 February 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 - 1 £313 -
Senior Performance Tester
England

Senior Performance Tester Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 21 February 2026, Senior 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 Senior Performance Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)

Senior 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace