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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 257 323 384
Rank change year-on-year +66 +61 -48
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 83 69 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.33% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.40% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 49 38
10th Percentile £313 £356 £375
25th Percentile £391 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £495 £483
Median % change year-on-year -8.08% +2.59% +1.58%
75th Percentile £500 £590 £538
90th Percentile £575 £600 £594
UK median daily rate £445 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.95% - -6.54%

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 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 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 30 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 +32 25 £450 -7.22% 95
South East +50 19 £488 +9.86% 136
Midlands +20 19 £475 +31.03% 92
North West +24 18 £413 -14.95% 44
West Midlands +29 17 £475 +26.67% 44
Scotland +11 11 £448 -18.64% 20
Yorkshire +24 6 £500 - 40
South West +34 4 £478 -18.72% 53
East of England +35 3 £228 -55.61% 69
East Midlands 0 2 £326 -10.21% 42
Wales - 2 £460 - 15
North East - 1 £363 - 11
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 5 (6.02%) Confluence
1 5 (6.02%) NetWeaver
2 2 (2.41%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.20%) CICS
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.89%) AWS
2 17 (20.48%) Azure
3 5 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.02%) BlazeMeter
3 5 (6.02%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (6.02%) GCP
3 5 (6.02%) GitHub
4 3 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.41%) SaaS
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.20%) Datadog
6 1 (1.20%) Matillion
6 1 (1.20%) Serverless
6 1 (1.20%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.43%) HTTP
2 2 (2.41%) Internet
3 1 (1.20%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.20%) Firewall
3 1 (1.20%) Intranet
3 1 (1.20%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.20%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.66%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.43%) MongoDB
3 6 (7.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (6.02%) MySQL
4 5 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.41%) MariaDB
6 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.20%) CockroachDB
7 1 (1.20%) NewSQL
7 1 (1.20%) OLTP
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (32.53%) JIRA
2 20 (24.10%) JMeter
3 16 (19.28%) Selenium
4 14 (16.87%) LoadRunner
5 9 (10.84%) Jenkins
5 9 (10.84%) JUnit
6 7 (8.43%) REST Assured
7 6 (7.23%) Git
7 6 (7.23%) GitLab
7 6 (7.23%) Postman
8 5 (6.02%) Cypress.io
8 5 (6.02%) TestNG
9 4 (4.82%) Cucumber
10 3 (3.61%) Gatling
10 3 (3.61%) Travis CI
11 2 (2.41%) Appium
11 2 (2.41%) Introscope
11 2 (2.41%) TestRail
12 1 (1.20%) ClearCase
12 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (37.35%) Social Skills
2 22 (26.51%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.43%) Finance
4 6 (7.23%) Banking
4 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.41%) Retail
8 1 (1.20%) Aviation
8 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.20%) Marketing
8 1 (1.20%) Military
8 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (30.12%) Tester
2 12 (14.46%) Developer
2 12 (14.46%) Test Engineer
3 7 (8.43%) Analyst
4 6 (7.23%) QA Engineer
4 6 (7.23%) Test Manager
5 5 (6.02%) Integration Developer
5 5 (6.02%) Java Developer
5 5 (6.02%) SAP Developer
5 5 (6.02%) Senior
5 5 (6.02%) Software Tester
6 4 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.82%) Test Analyst
7 3 (3.61%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.61%) Performance Test Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) Performance Tester
7 3 (3.61%) QA Tester
7 3 (3.61%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) Spring
1 6 (7.23%) XML
2 5 (6.02%) CSS
2 5 (6.02%) EDI
2 5 (6.02%) IDoc
2 5 (6.02%) JDBC
2 5 (6.02%) JMS
2 5 (6.02%) Middleware
2 5 (6.02%) React
2 5 (6.02%) REST
2 5 (6.02%) SAP PI
2 5 (6.02%) SOAP
2 5 (6.02%) XSLT
3 4 (4.82%) .NET
3 4 (4.82%) AngularJS
3 4 (4.82%) Playwright
3 4 (4.82%) RESTful
3 4 (4.82%) Web Services
4 3 (3.61%) J2EE
4 3 (3.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) SCADA
2 7 (8.43%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.23%) Virtual Team
4 5 (6.02%) Algorithms
4 5 (6.02%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.20%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.20%) FMCG
5 1 (1.20%) Life Science
5 1 (1.20%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.20%) NHS
5 1 (1.20%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.02%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Unix
3 2 (2.41%) AIX
4 1 (1.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (53.01%) Test Automation
2 38 (45.78%) Agile
3 35 (42.17%) CI/CD
4 27 (32.53%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (30.12%) Test Strategy
6 23 (27.71%) Test Scripting
7 20 (24.10%) DevOps
8 17 (20.48%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (18.07%) End-to-End Testing
9 15 (18.07%) Non-Functional Testing
9 15 (18.07%) SDLC
10 14 (16.87%) Functional Testing
10 14 (16.87%) Validation
11 13 (15.66%) Integration Testing
12 12 (14.46%) System Integration Testing
13 11 (13.25%) API Testing
13 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (13.25%) Regression Testing
14 10 (12.05%) Scrum
14 10 (12.05%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (25.30%) Java
2 18 (21.69%) SQL
3 16 (19.28%) Python
4 15 (18.07%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.84%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.02%) ABAP
6 5 (6.02%) C#
7 3 (3.61%) Bash
8 2 (2.41%) C
9 1 (1.20%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (1.20%) JCL
Qualifications
1 18 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.87%) ISTQB
4 8 (9.64%) Degree
5 5 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.82%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.82%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.61%) CEH
7 3 (3.61%) CISSP
7 3 (3.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.20%) CCNA
8 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.20%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.20%) ISEB
8 1 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (36.14%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.61%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) GxP
3 1 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.20%) SLA
3 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (6.02%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Firmware
2 1 (1.20%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (9.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.43%) Grafana
3 3 (3.61%) Kibana
4 2 (2.41%) CA Wily
4 2 (2.41%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.20%) CA Endevor
5 1 (1.20%) Iperf
5 1 (1.20%) OPNET
5 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (10.84%) Splunk
2 8 (9.64%) Oracle
3 7 (8.43%) SAP
4 6 (7.23%) Dynatrace
4 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.61%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.61%) Databricks
5 3 (3.61%) HP
5 3 (3.61%) Informatica
5 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.61%) Talend
6 2 (2.41%) Google
6 2 (2.41%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.41%) VMware
7 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.20%) Micro Focus
7 1 (1.20%) New Relic
7 1 (1.20%) Snow
7 1 (1.20%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.20%) Zscaler