Performance Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Performance Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 228 260 314
Rank change year-on-year +32 +54 +74
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 76 85 166
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 0.55% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.63% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 69 123
10th Percentile £331 £378 £411
25th Percentile £380 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £498 £619 £514
90th Percentile £614 £625 £588
UK median daily rate £448 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.50% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Performance Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 5 (6.58%) NetWeaver
2 1 (1.32%) Apache
2 1 (1.32%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (38.16%) Azure
2 21 (27.63%) AWS
3 19 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (15.79%) GitHub
5 9 (11.84%) BrowserStack
6 7 (9.21%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (6.58%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (6.58%) GCP
8 4 (5.26%) Serverless
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.95%) OCI
10 2 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.63%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.63%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 2 (2.63%) Sauce Labs
11 1 (1.32%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) HTTP
2 1 (1.32%) 802.11
2 1 (1.32%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.32%) Bluetooth
2 1 (1.32%) Broadband
2 1 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.32%) DNS
2 1 (1.32%) DOCSIS
2 1 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.32%) Firewall
2 1 (1.32%) LAN
2 1 (1.32%) Multicast
2 1 (1.32%) VXLAN
2 1 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.32%) Wireless
2 1 (1.32%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.32%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.95%) Oracle Database
3 2 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.32%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.32%) MySQL
4 1 (1.32%) Parquet
4 1 (1.32%) Power BI
4 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.32%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (31.58%) JMeter
2 17 (22.37%) Cypress.io
3 15 (19.74%) Jenkins
4 14 (18.42%) JIRA
4 14 (18.42%) Postman
5 12 (15.79%) LoadRunner
6 11 (14.47%) Appium
6 11 (14.47%) REST Assured
7 10 (13.16%) Gatling
7 10 (13.16%) GitLab
7 10 (13.16%) Selenium
8 7 (9.21%) Git
9 5 (6.58%) CircleCI
9 5 (6.58%) NeoLoad
9 5 (6.58%) NUnit
9 5 (6.58%) SoapUI
9 5 (6.58%) SpecFlow
10 4 (5.26%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (2.63%) TestRail
11 2 (2.63%) Travis CI
General
1 28 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.47%) Finance
3 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.26%) Banking
5 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Advertising
6 1 (1.32%) Back Office
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
6 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.32%) Marketing
6 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (38.16%) Tester
2 15 (19.74%) Senior
2 15 (19.74%) Test Engineer
3 14 (18.42%) Developer
4 8 (10.53%) Automation Tester
4 8 (10.53%) Consultant
4 8 (10.53%) Lead
5 5 (6.58%) Integration Developer
5 5 (6.58%) Performance Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Performance Test Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) SAP Developer
5 5 (6.58%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) .NET Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Performance Test Consultant
6 4 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
6 4 (5.26%) Senior Tester
6 4 (5.26%) Software Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Software Test Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Test Consultant
6 4 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.37%) Playwright
2 11 (14.47%) REST
3 8 (10.53%) RESTful
4 6 (7.89%) .NET
5 5 (6.58%) EDI
5 5 (6.58%) IDoc
5 5 (6.58%) JDBC
5 5 (6.58%) JMS
5 5 (6.58%) Middleware
5 5 (6.58%) OAuth
5 5 (6.58%) OpenID
5 5 (6.58%) SAP PI
5 5 (6.58%) SOAP
5 5 (6.58%) XML
5 5 (6.58%) XSLT
6 4 (5.26%) .NET Core
6 4 (5.26%) ARM Templates
6 4 (5.26%) ASP.NET
6 4 (5.26%) Node.js
6 4 (5.26%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
1 6 (7.89%) SCADA
1 6 (7.89%) Virtual Team
2 5 (6.58%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.32%) Derivative
5 1 (1.32%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.32%) IoT
5 1 (1.32%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (1.32%) AIX
2 1 (1.32%) Unix
2 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (68.42%) Agile
2 41 (53.95%) Test Automation
3 38 (50.00%) DevOps
4 32 (42.11%) CI/CD
5 26 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (25.00%) Test Strategy
7 16 (21.05%) Scrum
7 16 (21.05%) Test Scripting
8 15 (19.74%) Microservices
9 14 (18.42%) API Testing
9 14 (18.42%) Software Testing
9 14 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (15.79%) Containerisation
10 12 (15.79%) Defect Management
10 12 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (14.47%) Integration Testing
11 11 (14.47%) Test Management
12 10 (13.16%) Functional Testing
12 10 (13.16%) Security Testing
12 10 (13.16%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.89%) JavaScript
2 24 (31.58%) Java
3 19 (25.00%) Python
4 16 (21.05%) C#
5 12 (15.79%) SQL
5 12 (15.79%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.58%) ABAP
6 5 (6.58%) Ruby
7 4 (5.26%) Bash
7 4 (5.26%) C++
7 4 (5.26%) PHP
7 4 (5.26%) Scala
8 1 (1.32%) C
8 1 (1.32%) Groovy
8 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.11%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) Degree
4 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (5.26%) ISTQB
6 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.32%) CEH
7 1 (1.32%) CISSP
7 1 (1.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.32%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (32.89%) QA
2 10 (13.16%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.63%) WCAG
4 1 (1.32%) GDPR
4 1 (1.32%) ISO 13485
4 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (11.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.53%) Terraform
3 6 (7.89%) Perfmon
4 4 (5.26%) Ansible
5 3 (3.95%) Grafana
5 3 (3.95%) Kibana
5 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.32%) CA Wily
6 1 (1.32%) HP ALM
6 1 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) Oracle
2 9 (11.84%) SAP
3 7 (9.21%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.58%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.26%) New Relic
6 2 (2.63%) HP
6 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.63%) Splunk
7 1 (1.32%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.32%) Calypso
7 1 (1.32%) Cisco
7 1 (1.32%) F5
7 1 (1.32%) Google
7 1 (1.32%) Micro Focus
7 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.32%) Snow
7 1 (1.32%) TOWER Software
7 1 (1.32%) VMware