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 15 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 371 332
Rank change year-on-year +40 -39 +8
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 70 59 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.26% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.29% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 34 137
10th Percentile £356 £383 £358
25th Percentile £410 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% +1.58% +7.95%
75th Percentile £590 £538 £575
90th Percentile £600 £619 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £495 £545
% change year-on-year +1.01% -9.17% +21.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £85.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year - +351.32% -57.23%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 15 June 2024.

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 15 June 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
South East +18 23 £438 -14.22% 10
South West +15 20 £584 +11.19% 8
Midlands +19 13 £363 -27.50% 5
East Midlands +16 12 £363 -14.71% 2
North of England +16 7 £475 +1.33% 14
Scotland +46 6 £550 +15.79% 7
North West +17 4 £485 -1.77% 9
North East +10 2 £368 - 2
West Midlands +12 1 £600 +20.00% 3
Yorkshire +10 1 - - 3
East of England +2 1 £513 +4.59% 2
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 7 (10.00%) Apache
2 6 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (5.71%) Confluence
4 1 (1.43%) IIS
4 1 (1.43%) JBoss
4 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.43%) Azure
2 11 (15.71%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (12.86%) AWS
4 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.43%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.43%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.43%) GCP
5 1 (1.43%) GitHub
5 1 (1.43%) PaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Serverless
5 1 (1.43%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) BGP
1 6 (8.57%) Ethernet VPN
1 6 (8.57%) MPLS
1 6 (8.57%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (8.57%) VPN
2 1 (1.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 7 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.57%) Oracle Database
3 3 (4.29%) Big Data
4 2 (2.86%) MySQL
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.43%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.43%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (32.86%) JMeter
2 13 (18.57%) JIRA
3 11 (15.71%) Selenium
4 10 (14.29%) Git
5 9 (12.86%) GitLab
6 8 (11.43%) LoadRunner
7 7 (10.00%) Postman
8 6 (8.57%) NUnit
8 6 (8.57%) Robot Framework
8 6 (8.57%) TestRail
8 6 (8.57%) Visual Studio
9 4 (5.71%) Cucumber
10 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
10 3 (4.29%) JUnit
11 2 (2.86%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.86%) Maven
12 1 (1.43%) IntelliJ
12 1 (1.43%) Oracle APEX
12 1 (1.43%) TestComplete
12 1 (1.43%) WebDriver
General
1 23 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 15 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (11.43%) Finance
4 7 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.71%) Banking
6 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.43%) Electronics
8 1 (1.43%) Law
8 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (28.57%) Senior
1 20 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 10 (14.29%) Analyst
2 10 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
2 10 (14.29%) Test Analyst
2 10 (14.29%) Tester
3 8 (11.43%) Performance Engineer
4 7 (10.00%) Lead
5 6 (8.57%) Developer
5 6 (8.57%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 6 (8.57%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Network Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Performance Test Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Architect
7 4 (5.71%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) Oracle Analyst
7 4 (5.71%) Performance Tester
7 4 (5.71%) Senior Performance Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) .NET
2 7 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 6 (8.57%) NETCONF
3 6 (8.57%) REST
3 6 (8.57%) RESTCONF
3 6 (8.57%) SOAP
3 6 (8.57%) YANG
4 5 (7.14%) GraphQL
4 5 (7.14%) Playwright
5 4 (5.71%) LDAP
6 3 (4.29%) Gherkin
6 3 (4.29%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (4.29%) RESTful
7 2 (2.86%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 2 (2.86%) React
8 1 (1.43%) Middleware
8 1 (1.43%) Node.js
8 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.43%) Web Services
8 1 (1.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.29%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.86%) Replication
4 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.43%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.29%) Linux
2 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Windows
3 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (55.71%) Test Automation
2 38 (54.29%) Agile
3 23 (32.86%) Scrum
4 20 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 19 (27.14%) DevOps
5 19 (27.14%) Security Testing
5 19 (27.14%) Test Scripting
6 15 (21.43%) Test Strategy
7 14 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
8 13 (18.57%) Manual Testing
8 13 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (17.14%) Regression Testing
9 12 (17.14%) Scenario Testing
10 11 (15.71%) Integration Testing
10 11 (15.71%) Software Testing
11 10 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (14.29%) Waterfall
12 9 (12.86%) Computer Science
12 9 (12.86%) Load Testing
12 9 (12.86%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (25.71%) SQL
2 16 (22.86%) Python
3 12 (17.14%) Java
4 10 (14.29%) C#
5 8 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 7 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.86%) Scala
7 2 (2.86%) Swift
8 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.71%) Degree
2 11 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.86%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (11.43%) ISTQB
5 7 (10.00%) Master's Degree
6 5 (7.14%) ISEB
7 4 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) QA
2 6 (8.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (15.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (10.00%) Ansible
2 6 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.71%) Terraform
4 2 (2.86%) Grafana
4 2 (2.86%) Kibana
5 1 (1.43%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (18.57%) Oracle
2 9 (12.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.71%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.86%) SAP
4 2 (2.86%) VMware
5 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.43%) Fujitsu
5 1 (1.43%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) HP
5 1 (1.43%) Splunk