Scalability Testing Contracts

Scalability Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Scalability Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scalability Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 573 714
Rank change year-on-year +56 +141 +124
Contract jobs citing Scalability Testing 3 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.021% 0.007%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.024% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £510 £373
25th Percentile £313 £525 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -43.48% +35.29% +11.84%
75th Percentile £338 £638 £469
90th Percentile - £649 £488
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Scalability 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Scalability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scalability Testing in the UK

Scalability Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scalability Testing in the UK

Scalability Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scalability Testing in the UK

Scalability Testing
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scalability Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +61 3 £325 -48.00% 1
England +54 3 £325 -42.22% 1
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
South West - 1 £325 -

Scalability 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Gatling
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Product Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Resilience Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) New Relic
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk