Performance Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Performance Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 310 379
Rank change year-on-year +50 +69 -30
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 86 164 255
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.56% 0.64% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.71% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 125 193
10th Percentile £363 £410 £381
25th Percentile £445 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - +13.10%
75th Percentile £619 £512 £550
90th Percentile £625 £588 £693
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Performance Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Testing.

Performance Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Performance Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (12.79%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.16%) GemFire
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (1.16%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (8.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 26 (30.23%) Azure
2 24 (27.91%) AWS
3 14 (16.28%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.30%) PaaS
4 8 (9.30%) SaaS
5 7 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (8.14%) Miro
6 5 (5.81%) GitHub
6 5 (5.81%) Slack
7 4 (4.65%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.65%) Serverless
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.49%) BlazeMeter
8 3 (3.49%) BrowserStack
8 3 (3.49%) Firebase
8 3 (3.49%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.33%) Google Analytics
9 2 (2.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) Internet
2 1 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.33%) Big Data
2 2 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.33%) Power BI
3 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.16%) MySQL
3 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (26.74%) JMeter
2 18 (20.93%) JIRA
3 15 (17.44%) Selenium
4 14 (16.28%) LoadRunner
5 12 (13.95%) Jenkins
5 12 (13.95%) SpecFlow
6 11 (12.79%) Cypress.io
6 11 (12.79%) Visual Studio
7 8 (9.30%) Postman
7 8 (9.30%) WebDriver
8 5 (5.81%) Cucumber
8 5 (5.81%) Git
9 4 (4.65%) Appium
10 3 (3.49%) GitLab
10 3 (3.49%) NUnit
11 2 (2.33%) JUnit
11 2 (2.33%) REST Assured
11 2 (2.33%) TestComplete
11 2 (2.33%) Zephyr
12 1 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (17.44%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.28%) Finance
3 11 (12.79%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.98%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.81%) Electronics
6 5 (5.81%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.81%) Marketing
7 2 (2.33%) Back Office
7 2 (2.33%) Banking
7 2 (2.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.16%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (26.74%) Senior
2 15 (17.44%) Analyst
3 14 (16.28%) Test Engineer
4 12 (13.95%) Test Analyst
5 11 (12.79%) Performance Engineer
6 10 (11.63%) Tester
7 7 (8.14%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (8.14%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Performance Test Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Release Manager
8 6 (6.98%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (6.98%) Senior Test Analyst
8 6 (6.98%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Developer
9 5 (5.81%) Test Manager
10 4 (4.65%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (4.65%) Lead
10 4 (4.65%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (4.65%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.95%) .NET
2 8 (9.30%) AngularJS
3 7 (8.14%) Playwright
4 6 (6.98%) .NET Framework
5 5 (5.81%) Web Services
6 4 (4.65%) XML
7 3 (3.49%) Gherkin
7 3 (3.49%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.49%) Kafka
7 3 (3.49%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (3.49%) WebdriverIO
8 2 (2.33%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.33%) Django
8 2 (2.33%) Java EE
8 2 (2.33%) Middleware
8 2 (2.33%) Spark Streaming
9 1 (1.16%) ADO
9 1 (1.16%) JSON
9 1 (1.16%) REST
9 1 (1.16%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.49%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.33%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.16%) Contactless
4 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.16%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.14%) Windows
2 5 (5.81%) Unix
3 3 (3.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (63.95%) Test Automation
2 35 (40.70%) Agile
3 28 (32.56%) DevOps
4 20 (23.26%) CI/CD
4 20 (23.26%) Test Strategy
5 15 (17.44%) Scrum
6 14 (16.28%) API Testing
6 14 (16.28%) Test Management
7 13 (15.12%) Non-Functional Testing
8 12 (13.95%) Functional Testing
8 12 (13.95%) Software Testing
9 11 (12.79%) Configuration Management
10 10 (11.63%) Manual Testing
10 10 (11.63%) Scenario Testing
10 10 (11.63%) SDLC
10 10 (11.63%) Waterfall
11 9 (10.47%) Operational Acceptance Testing
11 9 (10.47%) Validation
12 8 (9.30%) Security Testing
12 8 (9.30%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 20 (23.26%) C#
2 15 (17.44%) Java
3 14 (16.28%) SQL
4 11 (12.79%) Python
5 9 (10.47%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.65%) TypeScript
7 3 (3.49%) C++
7 3 (3.49%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.33%) Scala
9 1 (1.16%) Bicep
9 1 (1.16%) C
9 1 (1.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (38.37%) Security Cleared
2 29 (33.72%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.95%) Degree
4 9 (10.47%) ISTQB
5 5 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.65%) ISEB
7 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.77%) QA
2 8 (9.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (4.65%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.65%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.16%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 9 (10.47%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.65%) Ansible
3 3 (3.49%) Grafana
3 3 (3.49%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.16%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.16%) Kibana
4 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.63%) Oracle
2 10 (11.63%) Splunk
3 9 (10.47%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.81%) SAP
5 3 (3.49%) Google
5 3 (3.49%) HP
6 2 (2.33%) Adobe
6 2 (2.33%) Omniture
7 1 (1.16%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.16%) IBM
7 1 (1.16%) Micro Focus
7 1 (1.16%) OpenText