Performance Testing Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Performance Testing
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 30 27
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +30
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 2.70% 0.97% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 1.06% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile - £334 -
25th Percentile £425 £346 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £368 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.09% - -
75th Percentile £500 £389 -
90th Percentile £535 £402 -
North East median daily rate £445 £368 -
% change year-on-year +21.09% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 227 189 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 87.64% 91.75% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 79 103
10th Percentile £185 £323 £350
25th Percentile £366 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -7.22% -8.49%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £600
90th Percentile £638 £664 £718
North East median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.89% - -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 7
10th Percentile £13.83 £13.75 £16.40
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £18.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -5.13% +39.29%
75th Percentile £20.63 £50.00 £26.13
90th Percentile £34.46 £70.00 £32.70
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +14.29%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Performance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 16 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Tyne and Wear

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -4 6 £450 +22.45% 3
Performance Testing
North East

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (85.71%) REST Assured
3 4 (57.14%) Selenium
4 2 (28.57%) JMeter
5 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
5 1 (14.29%) Gatling
5 1 (14.29%) JIRA
5 1 (14.29%) Postman
5 1 (14.29%) TestRail
General
1 7 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) REST
2 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
2 5 (71.43%) WireMock
3 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
3 1 (14.29%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) API Testing
1 7 (100.00%) BDD
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) TDD
3 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
3 5 (71.43%) Microservices
3 5 (71.43%) Security Testing
4 4 (57.14%) Functional Testing
4 4 (57.14%) Integration Testing
4 4 (57.14%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (28.57%) QA Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
6 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
6 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
2 3 (42.86%) QA
2 3 (42.86%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker