Senior Performance Tester Contract Job Trends

Senior Performance Tester
UK

The median Senior Performance Tester daily rate in the UK is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 - 598
Rank change year-on-year - - +155
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Performance Tester 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.007% - 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £341 - -
25th Percentile £394 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.17%
75th Percentile £516 - £444
90th Percentile £529 - £448
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 - £425

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 37,410 28,560 41,523
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.75% 92.90% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,490 17,819 27,326
10th Percentile £306 £290 £275
25th Percentile £406 £406 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.05% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,280 830 2,340
10th Percentile £14.63 £16.25 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.50 £16.45
Median hourly rate £31.76 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% - -10.26%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.31 £60.06
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £35.95
% change year-on-year -7.69% -9.60% +0.84%

Senior Performance Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Senior Performance Tester job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Performance Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Senior Performance Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Performance Tester over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Performance Tester in the UK

Senior Performance Tester
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Performance Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 22 February 2026. 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 - 3 £488 - 2
London - 2 £506 - 2
South East - 1 £313 -
Work from Home - 1 £488 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £313 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 22 February 2026, Senior 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 Senior Performance Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Gatling
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) Gradle
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Kibana
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering

Senior 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 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) Gradle
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Video on Demand
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Stress Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kibana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) AppDynamics
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace