Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Performance Testing
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.14% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £483 £375
% change year-on-year -2.90% +28.80% -19.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69 58 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 78.41% 86.57% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 32 62
10th Percentile £182 £140 £208
25th Percentile £300 £150 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -21.05%
75th Percentile £442 £491 £459
90th Percentile £575 £549 £524
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 8
10th Percentile - £12.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £13.10 £14.40 £15.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £17.62 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.07% -55.95% +60.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £19.93 £51.25
90th Percentile - £25.52 £56.13
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £18.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +88.83% -20.00% +18.42%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £463 -
Performance Testing
West Midlands

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft