Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Performance Testing
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 42 51
Rank change year-on-year -44 +9 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 6 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.78% 0.90% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.97% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £349 - -
25th Percentile £355 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -39.17% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £396 - £450
90th Percentile £439 - £465
Yorkshire median daily rate £374 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -37.75% +41.18% -2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 733 308 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.69% 91.94% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 178 260
10th Percentile £316 £213 £375
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £515 £539
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% -4.41% +2.62%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £625
90th Percentile £638 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.05% -4.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 6
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.25
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.31
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £29.38
90th Percentile - £21.05 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.78% +5.58% +1.48%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Performance Testing
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 Testing within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Sheffield -44 6 £365 -39.17% 3
Performance Testing
Yorkshire

Performance Testing
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 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) npm
3 1 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (83.33%) JIRA
1 5 (83.33%) Postman
2 4 (66.67%) Selenium
3 2 (33.33%) Babel
3 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 2 (33.33%) SonarQube
3 2 (33.33%) TestRail
3 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 2 (33.33%) webpack
4 1 (16.67%) JUnit
4 1 (16.67%) Maven
4 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
4 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) React Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) LDAP
2 3 (50.00%) OpenID
2 3 (50.00%) SailPoint
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) Bootstrap
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) CSS3
3 2 (33.33%) DOM
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 2 (33.33%) Jest
3 2 (33.33%) lodash
3 2 (33.33%) React
3 2 (33.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) TDD
4 3 (50.00%) API Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (50.00%) ETL
4 3 (50.00%) GitOps
4 3 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
5 2 (33.33%) Atomic Design
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
5 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
5 2 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
5 2 (33.33%) Story Points
5 2 (33.33%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) PHP
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics