Performance Test Leader Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Performance Test Lead
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Performance Test Lead daily rate in South Yorkshire is £581, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Test Leader 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £516 - -
25th Percentile £539 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - -
75th Percentile £627 - -
90th Percentile £652 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £581 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,063 531 419
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.48% 90.61% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 361 259
10th Percentile £358 £285 £245
25th Percentile £425 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £501
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -7.49% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £580
90th Percentile £669 £625 £625
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 4 6
10th Percentile £25.41 - £16.75
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.10 £20.13
Median hourly rate £32.40 £18.35 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.52% -12.61% +14.38%
75th Percentile £35.23 £18.50 £21.88
90th Percentile £36.61 £18.51 £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £20.00
% change year-on-year +16.40% +10.70% +0.29%

Performance Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Performance Test Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Performance Test Leader job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Performance Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Test Leader in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Test Leader in South Yorkshire

Performance Test Leader
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Test Leader within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
Sheffield - 2 £581 - 1
Performance Test Leader
Yorkshire

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 28 July 2026, Performance Test Leader 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 Yorkshire region featuring Performance Test Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Gatling
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (100.00%) NeoLoad
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cypher
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Gatling
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (100.00%) NeoLoad
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Cypher
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow