Performance Tester Contracts

Performance Tester
UK

The median Performance Tester daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 676 791
Rank change year-on-year +91 +115 -156
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Tester 15 40 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.068% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.072% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 31 48
10th Percentile - £413 £403
25th Percentile £413 £438 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £505 £536
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% -5.83% +9.16%
75th Percentile £564 £515 £625
90th Percentile £623 £568 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £458 £513
% change year-on-year -7.10% -10.73% +4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £77.50
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Performance Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Performance Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tester in the UK

Performance Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tester.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tester in the UK

Performance Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tester over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tester in the UK

Performance Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tester.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tester in the UK

Performance Tester
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 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
England +96 12 £444 -11.25% 2
UK excluding London +56 7 £425 -7.10% 2
Work from Home +110 4 £551 +8.51% 3
London +92 4 £444 -11.34% 2
South East +18 4 £425 -11.23%
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £615 - 1
West Midlands - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

Performance Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Performance Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Performance Tester in the job title.

1 14 (93.33%) Performance Testing
2 10 (66.67%) JMeter
3 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (46.67%) LoadRunner
5 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
6 5 (33.33%) Azure
6 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 5 (33.33%) C#
7 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
7 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
7 4 (26.67%) Test Scripting
7 4 (26.67%) Migration
7 4 (26.67%) System Integration Testing
7 4 (26.67%) Defect Management
7 4 (26.67%) Functional Testing
7 4 (26.67%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
8 3 (20.00%) GitHub
8 3 (20.00%) Refactoring
8 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
8 3 (20.00%) Oracle
8 3 (20.00%) Unix
8 3 (20.00%) Validation
9 2 (13.33%) Agile
10 1 (6.67%) TDD
10 1 (6.67%) Python
10 1 (6.67%) HP
10 1 (6.67%) Micro Focus

Performance Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
Development Applications
1 10 (66.67%) JMeter
2 7 (46.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Django
1 1 (6.67%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Performance Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Defect Management
2 4 (26.67%) Functional Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Migration
2 4 (26.67%) Scenario Testing
2 4 (26.67%) System Integration Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (26.67%) Test Scripting
2 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
3 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (20.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 3 (20.00%) Refactoring
3 3 (20.00%) Validation
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
5 1 (6.67%) BDD
5 1 (6.67%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (6.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (6.67%) TDD
5 1 (6.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) HP
2 1 (6.67%) Micro Focus
2 1 (6.67%) OpenText