Performance Testing Contracts in the South West

Performance Testing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Performance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 165 158
Rank change year-on-year +29 -7 -23
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 16 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.51% 0.25% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.28% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 12
10th Percentile £444 £433 £414
25th Percentile £500 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £464
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +18.60% +5.40%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £491
90th Percentile £600 £643 £501
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Performance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,623 3,261 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.82% 89.56% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,401 2,333
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 341 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the South West

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the South West

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the South West

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the South West

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Bristol +23 5 £580 +36.47% 2
Gloucestershire +6 4 £588 -2.08% 1
Devon - 4 £513 -
Wiltshire -3 2 £500 -20.00% 1
Somerset +3 1 £600 +14.29% 2
Performance Testing
England

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

Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (25.00%) Git
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
1 4 (25.00%) NUnit
1 4 (25.00%) Postman
1 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) JMeter
3 2 (12.50%) JUnit
3 2 (12.50%) LoadRunner
3 2 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Senior
2 8 (50.00%) Test Engineer
3 7 (43.75%) Senior Test Engineer
4 6 (37.50%) Architect
5 4 (25.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 4 (25.00%) Technical Architect
5 4 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Senior Performance Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) SEO Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Test Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
7 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
1 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (18.75%) GraphQL
2 3 (18.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
1 8 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 7 (43.75%) Non-Functional Testing
3 6 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (37.50%) Manual Testing
3 6 (37.50%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 5 (31.25%) Security Testing
5 4 (25.00%) BDD
5 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Functional Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Kanban
5 4 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Scrum
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (25.00%) TDD
5 4 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (25.00%) Test Management
5 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (25.00%) Python
1 4 (25.00%) SQL
1 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) SAP