Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Performance Testing
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 40 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 6 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 1.52% 0.67% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 0.75% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £453 - £439
25th Percentile £455 - £608
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 - £615
75th Percentile £475 - £623
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £468 £466 £615
% change year-on-year +0.32% -24.23% +64.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.84 -
Wales median hourly rate - £25.84 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 300 265 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 75.95% 89.23% 81.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 171 226
10th Percentile £214 £188 £147
25th Percentile £304 £258 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £444
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -4.23% -6.58%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -2.94% - -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 26 28
10th Percentile £12.21 - £11.57
25th Percentile £15.96 £20.12 £15.45
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.27
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -10.96% +29.66%
75th Percentile £48.42 £38.13 £54.13
90th Percentile £83.00 £45.00 £86.54
Wales median hourly rate £19.10 £22.50 £25.27
% change year-on-year -15.13% -10.96% +29.66%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in South Wales

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Performance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Performance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cardiff - 6 £468 - 3
Performance Testing
Wales

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) BlazeMeter
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Lead
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Test Leader
1 6 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (66.67%) NHS
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Load Testing
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Model Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Resilience Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix