Performance Testing Contracts in the West Midlands

Performance Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Performance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance 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 80 107 127
Rank change year-on-year +27 +20 +14
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 17 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.26% 0.21% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 0.24% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 7
10th Percentile £410 £355 £419
25th Percentile £455 £363 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% -25.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £388 -
90th Percentile £530 £395 £530
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Performance 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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the West Midlands

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the West Midlands

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the West Midlands

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the West Midlands

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region 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
Birmingham +24 8 £483 +20.75% 1
Warwickshire +7 6 £488 -
Coventry +9 2 £488 +39.29% 1
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) GitHub
1 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.88%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) JIRA
2 6 (35.29%) JMeter
3 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 5 (29.41%) Selenium
4 3 (17.65%) Git
4 3 (17.65%) GitLab
4 3 (17.65%) Postman
4 3 (17.65%) REST Assured
4 3 (17.65%) TestNG
4 3 (17.65%) Travis CI
5 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
5 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
5 2 (11.76%) LoadRunner
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Tester
2 2 (11.76%) QA Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Performance Tester
3 1 (5.88%) QA Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) QA Tester
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Manager
3 1 (5.88%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Test Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Test Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) Gherkin
1 2 (11.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (35.29%) SCADA
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Functional Testing
1 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Network Monitoring
3 6 (35.29%) Systems Engineering
3 6 (35.29%) Test Scripting
4 5 (29.41%) API Testing
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) Non-Functional Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Regression Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Security Testing
4 5 (29.41%) SIEM
4 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (17.65%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (17.65%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (17.65%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Bash
1 3 (17.65%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) CEH
1 3 (17.65%) CISSP
1 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (17.65%) Degree
1 3 (17.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (52.94%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Kibana
1 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Micro Focus
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle
1 1 (5.88%) SAP