Performance Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Performance Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 131 145
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 -9
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 20 19 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.76% 0.67% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.73% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 15
10th Percentile - £428 £377
25th Percentile £413 £501 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -7.27% +37.50%
75th Percentile £620 £532 £656
90th Percentile £625 £575 £675
South East median daily rate £450 £509 £538
% change year-on-year -11.59% -5.30% +26.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 2,613 3,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.94% 91.78% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 1,814 2,089
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 63 84
10th Percentile £14.09 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £64.57 £66.21 £24.06
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £64.46
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the Thames Valley

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the Thames Valley

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the Thames Valley

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the Thames Valley

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Berkshire -4 19 £450 -10.71% 3
Buckinghamshire +25 1 - - 1
Performance Testing
South East

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (60.00%) Apache
2 11 (55.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) BGP
1 11 (55.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (55.00%) MPLS
1 11 (55.00%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (55.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) MongoDB
2 11 (55.00%) NoSQL
2 11 (55.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) GitLab
1 11 (55.00%) JIRA
1 11 (55.00%) Robot Framework
1 11 (55.00%) TestRail
2 3 (15.00%) JMeter
3 2 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 10 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Tester
3 3 (15.00%) Performance Tester
4 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Performance Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Test Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) NETCONF
1 11 (55.00%) REST
1 11 (55.00%) RESTCONF
1 11 (55.00%) SOAP
1 11 (55.00%) YANG
2 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) jQuery
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 13 (65.00%) Agile
2 13 (65.00%) Containerisation
2 13 (65.00%) Scrum
3 12 (60.00%) Regression Testing
4 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
4 11 (55.00%) Integration Testing
4 11 (55.00%) Security Testing
4 11 (55.00%) Unit Testing
4 11 (55.00%) Workflow
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 2 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
7 2 (10.00%) Microservices
7 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 2 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) User Stories
8 1 (5.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 1 (5.00%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) SQL
2 12 (60.00%) Python
3 6 (30.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.00%) HP
2 1 (5.00%) Micro Focus
2 1 (5.00%) OpenText
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle