Performance Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 256 319 387
Rank change year-on-year +63 +68 -26
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 80 80 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.45% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 58 51
10th Percentile £318 £356 £375
25th Percentile £386 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £510 £490
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +4.08% +3.16%
75th Percentile £500 £594 £539
90th Percentile £599 £623 £638
UK median daily rate £448 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +37 23 £450 -9.09% 32
Midlands +27 21 £475 +31.03% 31
South East +33 18 £475 -1.04% 51
North West +31 18 £413 -16.67% 14
West Midlands +27 17 £483 +28.80% 15
Scotland +15 8 £436 -20.68% 7
South West +36 7 £505 -14.04% 18
Yorkshire +11 4 £500 - 13
East Midlands +2 4 £371 +2.21% 13
Wales +1 2 £460 -25.28% 13
East of England +28 1 - - 22
North East - 1 £363 - 5
Performance Testing
UK

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (7.50%) NetWeaver
2 5 (6.25%) Confluence
3 2 (2.50%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.25%) Appian
4 1 (1.25%) CICS
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.00%) Azure
2 14 (17.50%) AWS
3 8 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.50%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (7.50%) GCP
5 4 (5.00%) GitHub
6 3 (3.75%) BlazeMeter
6 3 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.50%) SaaS
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.25%) BrowserStack
8 1 (1.25%) Datadog
8 1 (1.25%) Matillion
8 1 (1.25%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.25%) Serverless
8 1 (1.25%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (1.25%) BGP
2 1 (1.25%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.25%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) Intranet
2 1 (1.25%) MPLS
2 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.25%) VPN
2 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.25%) NoSQL
2 6 (7.50%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.25%) MySQL
4 4 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.75%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.50%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 25 (31.25%) JIRA
2 20 (25.00%) JMeter
3 16 (20.00%) Selenium
4 13 (16.25%) LoadRunner
5 7 (8.75%) Jenkins
6 6 (7.50%) Git
6 6 (7.50%) REST Assured
7 5 (6.25%) JUnit
7 5 (6.25%) Postman
8 4 (5.00%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.00%) Cypress.io
8 4 (5.00%) GitLab
9 3 (3.75%) TestNG
9 3 (3.75%) TestRail
9 3 (3.75%) Travis CI
10 2 (2.50%) Gatling
10 2 (2.50%) Introscope
11 1 (1.25%) Appium
11 1 (1.25%) NUnit
11 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 29 (36.25%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.75%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.50%) Banking
4 6 (7.50%) Finance
5 4 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.50%) Retail
7 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.25%) Aviation
8 1 (1.25%) Back Office
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
8 1 (1.25%) Military
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Tester
2 12 (15.00%) Test Engineer
3 11 (13.75%) Developer
4 8 (10.00%) Analyst
5 7 (8.75%) QA Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Integration Developer
6 6 (7.50%) SAP Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior
7 5 (6.25%) Test Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Test Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Software Tester
9 3 (3.75%) Java Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Lead
9 3 (3.75%) Performance Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Performance Test Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Performance Tester
9 3 (3.75%) QA Tester
10 2 (2.50%) Data Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) REST
1 7 (8.75%) SOAP
1 7 (8.75%) XML
2 6 (7.50%) .NET
2 6 (7.50%) EDI
2 6 (7.50%) IDoc
2 6 (7.50%) JDBC
2 6 (7.50%) JMS
2 6 (7.50%) Middleware
2 6 (7.50%) SAP PI
2 6 (7.50%) XSLT
3 5 (6.25%) Playwright
4 4 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.00%) Gherkin
4 4 (5.00%) Spring
5 3 (3.75%) CSS
5 3 (3.75%) J2EE
5 3 (3.75%) Kafka
5 3 (3.75%) Node.js
5 3 (3.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Virtual Team
2 6 (7.50%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (7.50%) SCADA
3 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.25%) FMCG
4 1 (1.25%) Life Science
4 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.25%) NHS
4 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Linux
1 3 (3.75%) Unix
2 2 (2.50%) AIX
3 1 (1.25%) CentOS
3 1 (1.25%) Windows
3 1 (1.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (52.50%) Test Automation
2 41 (51.25%) Agile
3 30 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 26 (32.50%) Test Strategy
5 24 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (26.25%) User Acceptance Testing
7 19 (23.75%) DevOps
7 19 (23.75%) Test Scripting
8 18 (22.50%) Non-Functional Testing
9 16 (20.00%) Integration Testing
10 15 (18.75%) Functional Testing
11 14 (17.50%) SDLC
11 14 (17.50%) System Integration Testing
12 13 (16.25%) Regression Testing
12 13 (16.25%) Scrum
12 13 (16.25%) Test Management
13 12 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
14 11 (13.75%) Security Testing
14 11 (13.75%) Validation
15 10 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.25%) Java
2 16 (20.00%) SQL
3 13 (16.25%) JavaScript
3 13 (16.25%) Python
4 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.50%) ABAP
5 6 (7.50%) C#
6 3 (3.75%) Bash
7 2 (2.50%) C
8 1 (1.25%) JCL
Qualifications
1 16 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.25%) ISTQB
2 13 (16.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.00%) Degree
4 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.75%) CEH
6 3 (3.75%) CISSP
7 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.25%) CCNA
8 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.25%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (35.00%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) GxP
3 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (7.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Firmware
2 1 (1.25%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Grafana
3 3 (3.75%) Kibana
4 2 (2.50%) CA Wily
4 2 (2.50%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.25%) CA Endevor
5 1 (1.25%) Iperf
5 1 (1.25%) OPNET
5 1 (1.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Oracle
2 8 (10.00%) SAP
3 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.75%) Splunk
4 4 (5.00%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.75%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.75%) Databricks
5 3 (3.75%) HP
5 3 (3.75%) Informatica
5 3 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.75%) Talend
6 2 (2.50%) Google
6 2 (2.50%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.50%) VMware
7 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.25%) BT
7 1 (1.25%) Juniper
7 1 (1.25%) New Relic
7 1 (1.25%) Snow
7 1 (1.25%) SolarWinds