Performance Testing Contracts

Performance Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Testing over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 413 402
Rank change year-on-year +73 -11 +27
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 254 298 548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.53% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.59% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 199 415
10th Percentile £360 £413 £398
25th Percentile £425 £463 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% +18.89%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £638 £683 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £483 £475
% change year-on-year +2.59% +1.58% +7.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £81.68 -
25th Percentile - £83.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate - £85.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +351.32% -24.00%
75th Percentile - £88.06 £21.00
90th Percentile - £89.23 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 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 +69 222 £500 - 60
London +51 148 £500 - 18
Work from Home +43 86 £503 +5.95% 27
UK excluding London +63 69 £495 +2.59% 45
South East +11 27 £444 -12.65% 10
Midlands +26 16 £363 -21.62% 4
South West +15 14 £588 +11.90% 8
East Midlands +19 12 £363 -9.38% 2
Scotland +31 6 £550 +15.79% 4
North of England +26 5 £485 +3.47% 13
North West +25 4 £485 -1.77% 9
West Midlands +14 4 £375 -25.00% 2
Yorkshire +9 1 - - 3
East of England +5 1 £513 +4.59% 3

Performance Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 38 (14.96%) Confluence
2 11 (4.33%) Apache
3 10 (3.94%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (3.15%) SharePoint
6 5 (1.97%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.39%) GemFire
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) JBoss
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (3.15%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.76%) Trello
3 3 (1.18%) Windchill
4 2 (0.79%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Endur
1 3 (1.18%) ENOVIA
1 3 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.18%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (30.71%) Azure
2 55 (21.65%) AWS
3 40 (15.75%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.51%) Slack
5 12 (4.72%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (4.72%) GCP
6 11 (4.33%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.94%) BrowserStack
7 10 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.54%) BlazeMeter
8 9 (3.54%) Firebase
8 9 (3.54%) PaaS
9 8 (3.15%) SaaS
9 8 (3.15%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 8 (3.15%) Twilio
10 7 (2.76%) Miro
10 7 (2.76%) Serverless
11 6 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.97%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.94%) BGP
1 10 (3.94%) Ethernet VPN
1 10 (3.94%) MPLS
1 10 (3.94%) VPN
2 9 (3.54%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (3.15%) CTI
3 8 (3.15%) VoIP
4 6 (2.36%) Internet
5 3 (1.18%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.18%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.91%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.12%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (4.33%) NoSQL
4 10 (3.94%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.54%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.97%) MySQL
6 5 (1.97%) Oracle Database 11g
6 5 (1.97%) Power BI
7 4 (1.57%) Big Data
8 3 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.18%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.18%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.79%) KDB
10 1 (0.39%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.39%) DB2
10 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (24.41%) JIRA
2 61 (24.02%) JMeter
3 42 (16.54%) Selenium
4 34 (13.39%) Jenkins
5 29 (11.42%) Visual Studio
6 28 (11.02%) LoadRunner
6 28 (11.02%) Postman
7 27 (10.63%) SpecFlow
8 22 (8.66%) Cypress.io
8 22 (8.66%) GitLab
9 21 (8.27%) WebDriver
10 17 (6.69%) Git
11 16 (6.30%) Cucumber
12 14 (5.51%) Appium
13 10 (3.94%) Robot Framework
13 10 (3.94%) TestRail
14 9 (3.54%) NeoLoad
15 8 (3.15%) NUnit
16 7 (2.76%) Team Foundation Server
17 6 (2.36%) JUnit
General
1 73 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.60%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (10.63%) Finance
4 18 (7.09%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.69%) Telecoms
6 16 (6.30%) Back Office
7 14 (5.51%) Banking
8 11 (4.33%) Legal
9 9 (3.54%) Investment Banking
9 9 (3.54%) Retail
10 6 (2.36%) Law
11 4 (1.57%) Wholesale Banking
12 3 (1.18%) Electronics
12 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.18%) Marketing
13 2 (0.79%) Front Office
13 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Local Government
14 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (19.29%) Senior
2 42 (16.54%) Analyst
3 36 (14.17%) Test Analyst
3 36 (14.17%) Tester
4 35 (13.78%) Test Engineer
5 32 (12.60%) Lead
6 23 (9.06%) Test Leader
7 21 (8.27%) Developer
8 19 (7.48%) Senior Analyst
8 19 (7.48%) Senior Test Analyst
9 16 (6.30%) Architect
9 16 (6.30%) Performance Engineer
10 15 (5.91%) Release Manager
11 12 (4.72%) Test Manager
12 11 (4.33%) Performance Test Leader
12 11 (4.33%) Performance Tester
12 11 (4.33%) QA Engineer
12 11 (4.33%) Senior Test Engineer
12 11 (4.33%) Test Automation Engineer
13 10 (3.94%) Performance Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.20%) .NET
2 22 (8.66%) AngularJS
3 20 (7.87%) Middleware
4 16 (6.30%) REST
5 15 (5.91%) XML
6 13 (5.12%) Playwright
6 13 (5.12%) WebdriverIO
7 12 (4.72%) .NET Framework
7 12 (4.72%) Web Services
8 11 (4.33%) SOAP
9 10 (3.94%) NETCONF
9 10 (3.94%) RESTCONF
10 9 (3.54%) Kafka
10 9 (3.54%) YANG
11 7 (2.76%) Gherkin
11 7 (2.76%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.97%) ADO
12 5 (1.97%) JSON
12 5 (1.97%) LDAP
12 5 (1.97%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.33%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.54%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.15%) IVR
4 5 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (1.97%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.57%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.57%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.57%) Replication
6 3 (1.18%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.18%) CMDB
6 3 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.18%) NHS
6 3 (1.18%) PACS
6 3 (1.18%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Derivative
8 1 (0.39%) Contactless
8 1 (0.39%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.39%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.94%) Linux
1 10 (3.94%) Windows
2 4 (1.57%) Unix
3 3 (1.18%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (59.45%) Test Automation
2 117 (46.06%) Agile
3 75 (29.53%) DevOps
4 62 (24.41%) CI/CD
5 56 (22.05%) Test Strategy
6 52 (20.47%) Non-Functional Testing
6 52 (20.47%) Scrum
7 45 (17.72%) Functional Testing
8 41 (16.14%) Software Testing
9 36 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 35 (13.78%) Regression Testing
10 35 (13.78%) Waterfall
11 32 (12.60%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (11.42%) Continuous Integration
12 29 (11.42%) Manual Testing
12 29 (11.42%) Operational Acceptance Testing
13 26 (10.24%) Integration Testing
13 26 (10.24%) Test Scripting
14 25 (9.84%) Security Testing
14 25 (9.84%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (19.29%) C#
2 45 (17.72%) SQL
3 36 (14.17%) Java
4 35 (13.78%) Python
5 25 (9.84%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.51%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.33%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.94%) C++
9 7 (2.76%) Scala
10 6 (2.36%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.57%) C
12 3 (1.18%) Swift
12 3 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.39%) Bicep
13 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.39%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 51 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 44 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 42 (16.54%) Degree
4 22 (8.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.30%) Master's Degree
6 12 (4.72%) ISTQB
7 10 (3.94%) ISEB
8 9 (3.54%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.15%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.18%) CCNA
11 3 (1.18%) CCNP
11 3 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.72%) QA
2 16 (6.30%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.15%) GDPR
3 8 (3.15%) HIPAA
3 8 (3.15%) PCI DSS
3 8 (3.15%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.18%) HL7
5 2 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (7.09%) Docker
2 12 (4.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) GridGain
3 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (13.39%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.33%) Grafana
3 10 (3.94%) Ansible
3 10 (3.94%) Kibana
4 5 (1.97%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.18%) Terraform
6 1 (0.39%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (22.44%) Microsoft
2 22 (8.66%) Oracle
3 14 (5.51%) Splunk
4 11 (4.33%) Google
5 9 (3.54%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.15%) Avaya
6 8 (3.15%) Cisco
6 8 (3.15%) Genesys
7 7 (2.76%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (2.36%) HP
9 5 (1.97%) iManage
9 5 (1.97%) Intapp
9 5 (1.97%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.97%) SAP
10 4 (1.57%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.57%) IBM
10 4 (1.57%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.18%) PTC
11 3 (1.18%) Siemens
12 2 (0.79%) VMware