Performance Testing Contracts in the South East

Performance Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 201 232
Rank change year-on-year +32 +31 -35
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 30 23 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.54% 0.39% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.44% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 26
10th Percentile £392 £412 £367
25th Percentile £413 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £509 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +1.75% +21.27%
75th Percentile £608 £521 £575
90th Percentile £623 £571 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,713 5,219 6,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.93% 89.44% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,620 4,694
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% +1.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 220 289
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.15 £16.11
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -12.62%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.15 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.08 £62.37
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the South East

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the South East

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the South East

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the South East

Performance Testing
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 Performance Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 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
Thames Valley +18 22 £531 +4.17% 3
Berkshire +3 21 £531 +5.41% 2
M4 Corridor - 2 £510 -
West Sussex - 2 £550 -
Buckinghamshire +29 1 - - 1
Hampshire +1 1 £438 +4.17% 2
Surrey - 1 £360 - 1
East Sussex - 1 £300 -
Performance Testing
England

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

Application Platforms
1 12 (40.00%) Apache
2 11 (36.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) IIS
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.00%) GitHub
4 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (6.67%) OpenShift
4 2 (6.67%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) BGP
1 11 (36.67%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (36.67%) MPLS
1 11 (36.67%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (36.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 11 (36.67%) NoSQL
2 11 (36.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) GitLab
1 11 (36.67%) JIRA
1 11 (36.67%) Robot Framework
1 11 (36.67%) TestRail
2 4 (13.33%) JMeter
3 3 (10.00%) LoadRunner
4 2 (6.67%) Git
5 1 (3.33%) Appium
5 1 (3.33%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (3.33%) Selenium
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Test Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Tester
4 4 (13.33%) Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Performance Tester
5 2 (6.67%) C# Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Performance Tester
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Tester
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Test Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Test Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Performance Test Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms Tester
6 1 (3.33%) Test Automation Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Test Practitioner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (36.67%) NETCONF
1 11 (36.67%) REST
1 11 (36.67%) RESTCONF
1 11 (36.67%) SOAP
1 11 (36.67%) YANG
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.33%) .NET
3 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.33%) CSS
3 1 (3.33%) HTML
3 1 (3.33%) jQuery
3 1 (3.33%) Node.js
3 1 (3.33%) React
3 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) CMDB
1 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
1 3 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Test Automation
2 17 (56.67%) Agile
3 14 (46.67%) Scrum
4 13 (43.33%) Containerisation
4 13 (43.33%) Integration Testing
4 13 (43.33%) Regression Testing
4 13 (43.33%) Security Testing
5 12 (40.00%) CI/CD
6 11 (36.67%) Unit Testing
6 11 (36.67%) Workflow
7 9 (30.00%) DevOps
8 4 (13.33%) Scenario Testing
9 3 (10.00%) Functional Testing
9 3 (10.00%) Manual Testing
9 3 (10.00%) Microservices
9 3 (10.00%) Refactoring
9 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
9 3 (10.00%) Test Scripting
9 3 (10.00%) Validation
9 3 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) SQL
2 12 (40.00%) Python
3 7 (23.33%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Java
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.33%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (36.67%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.33%) Terminal Services
2 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.33%) HP
4 1 (3.33%) Micro Focus
4 1 (3.33%) OpenText
4 1 (3.33%) VMware