Performance Tester Contract Job Trends

Performance Tester
UK

The median Performance Tester daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 550 591
Rank change year-on-year -15 +41 +184
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Tester 5 7 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.019% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.021% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 26
10th Percentile £416 £383 £400
25th Percentile £438 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £430
Median % change year-on-year - +10.47% -18.10%
75th Percentile £509 £547 £577
90th Percentile £526 £583 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £403 £519 £425
% change year-on-year -22.41% +22.06% -12.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 32,191 33,474 43,775
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 92.85% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,427 20,165 29,691
10th Percentile £278 £300 £293
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £649
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,886 1,246 1,552
10th Percentile £14.16 £15.22 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% -19.82% +60.06%
75th Percentile £54.56 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +87.50%

Performance Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Performance Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Performance Tester job vacancy trend in the UK

Performance Tester
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in the UK

Performance Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in the UK

Performance Tester
Top 6 Contract Job 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 18 November 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
England -36 4 £500 +5.26% 6
London +9 3 £513 - 2
Work from Home +7 2 £475 +1.33% 1
UK excluding London -24 1 £403 -22.41% 4
North of England - 1 £403 -
Yorkshire - 1 £403 -

Performance Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 November 2025, Performance Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Performance Tester in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Gatling
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Docker
2 3 (60.00%) Grafana
2 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) JMeter
3 2 (40.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Scala
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS

Performance Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Gatling
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Gradle
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Video on Demand
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Scalability Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (20.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) New Relic
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk