Performance Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

Performance Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Performance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 123 134
Rank change year-on-year +26 +11 +17
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 5 22 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.82% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.94% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 10
10th Percentile £400 £413 £428
25th Percentile £428 £416 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +4.17% -7.27%
75th Percentile £575 £623 £532
90th Percentile £605 £623 £575
South East median daily rate £475 £480 £509
% change year-on-year -1.04% -5.70% +1.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Berkshire +14 4 £500 -5.88% 7
Buckinghamshire +16 1 - - 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (20.00%) MPLS
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTCONF
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) YAML
1 1 (20.00%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) CentOS
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Snow