Hybrid/Remote Performance Testing Contract Job Trends

Performance Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 219 257
Rank change year-on-year -33 +38 +37
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 99 79 87
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.78% 0.82% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.89% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 68 61
10th Percentile £366 £300 £363
25th Percentile £415 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £495 £615
90th Percentile £633 £608 £630
UK median daily rate £469 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +4.22% -10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £21.09 - -
25th Percentile £23.85 - -
Median hourly rate £25.38 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £25.38 - -

All Process & 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 11,348 8,850 12,894
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.09% 91.44% 87.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,269 6,025 8,688
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -2.38% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £634 £638
90th Percentile £725 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 602 221 574
10th Percentile £17.66 £13.78 £14.91
25th Percentile £32.44 £18.50 £23.81
Median hourly rate £57.50 £36.00 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year +59.72% -15.79% -18.57%
75th Percentile £71.91 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.50 £74.35
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.21 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.56% -25.45% +4.20%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Testing and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Performance Testing job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Performance Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Performance Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Performance Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Performance Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (12.12%) Confluence
2 5 (5.05%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Pulsar
3 1 (1.01%) CMS
3 1 (1.01%) Headless CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.01%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.01%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.01%) SAP HR
1 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (31.31%) AWS
2 29 (29.29%) Azure
3 18 (18.18%) GitHub
4 12 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (12.12%) GCP
5 11 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (8.08%) BrowserStack
7 4 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Copilot
7 4 (4.04%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.03%) BlazeMeter
8 3 (3.03%) Figma
8 3 (3.03%) Slack
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.02%) OCI
9 2 (2.02%) SaaS
10 1 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.03%) Firewall
2 1 (1.01%) BGP
2 1 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.01%) MPLS
2 1 (1.01%) Multicast
2 1 (1.01%) OSPF
2 1 (1.01%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.01%) VLAN
2 1 (1.01%) VPN
2 1 (1.01%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.06%) Pentaho
3 4 (4.04%) Oracle Database
4 3 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.01%) Power BI
6 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 36 (36.36%) JMeter
2 24 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 23 (23.23%) GitLab
3 23 (23.23%) Selenium
4 16 (16.16%) Cucumber
5 15 (15.15%) JIRA
5 15 (15.15%) Postman
6 13 (13.13%) Gatling
7 11 (11.11%) REST Assured
8 10 (10.10%) Cypress.io
8 10 (10.10%) Git
8 10 (10.10%) JUnit
8 10 (10.10%) WebDriver
9 6 (6.06%) LoadRunner
10 3 (3.03%) Serenity BDD
10 3 (3.03%) TestNG
11 2 (2.02%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (2.02%) Newman
11 2 (2.02%) Pa11y
12 1 (1.01%) Locust
General
1 32 (32.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.19%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.10%) Finance
5 3 (3.03%) Banking
5 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.03%) Local Government
6 2 (2.02%) Aviation
6 2 (2.02%) Military
7 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Legal
7 1 (1.01%) Legal Technology
7 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Retail
7 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (37.37%) Tester
2 16 (16.16%) Lead
2 16 (16.16%) Test Engineer
3 13 (13.13%) Senior
4 10 (10.10%) Data Engineer
5 8 (8.08%) Senior Tester
5 8 (8.08%) Test Automation Engineer
5 8 (8.08%) Test Leader
6 6 (6.06%) Automation Tester
6 6 (6.06%) Consultant
6 6 (6.06%) Performance Tester
6 6 (6.06%) Senior Automation Tester
7 5 (5.05%) QA Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Architect
8 4 (4.04%) Developer
8 4 (4.04%) Performance Test Leader
9 3 (3.03%) Lead Consultant
9 3 (3.03%) QA Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) Quality Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) User Experience Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.15%) Playwright
2 12 (12.12%) REST
3 10 (10.10%) Spring
4 8 (8.08%) WireMock
5 6 (6.06%) React
5 6 (6.06%) Swagger
6 5 (5.05%) Spring Boot
7 4 (4.04%) Kafka
8 3 (3.03%) .NET
8 3 (3.03%) Gherkin
8 3 (3.03%) Vitest
8 3 (3.03%) Web Services
9 2 (2.02%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.02%) GraphQL
9 2 (2.02%) Middleware
9 2 (2.02%) OAuth
9 2 (2.02%) OpenID
9 2 (2.02%) RESTful
9 2 (2.02%) Spring Cloud
10 1 (1.01%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.07%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (4.04%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.04%) NHS
5 3 (3.03%) Housing Association
6 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.01%) Animation
7 1 (1.01%) Chip and PIN
7 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.01%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.02%) Linux
1 2 (2.02%) Mac OS
1 2 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.01%) Android
2 1 (1.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (65.66%) Test Automation
2 44 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 33 (33.33%) Agile
4 28 (28.28%) DevOps
4 28 (28.28%) Test Strategy
5 27 (27.27%) Validation
6 18 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
6 18 (18.18%) Observability
7 17 (17.17%) Microservices
8 15 (15.15%) BDD
8 15 (15.15%) Scrum
9 14 (14.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (13.13%) API Testing
10 13 (13.13%) Containerisation
10 13 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (13.13%) Load Testing
11 12 (12.12%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 12 (12.12%) TDD
12 11 (11.11%) Component Testing
12 11 (11.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.19%) Python
2 18 (18.18%) SQL
3 13 (13.13%) TypeScript
4 11 (11.11%) Java
5 9 (9.09%) Bash
5 9 (9.09%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.07%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.03%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.02%) Bicep
8 2 (2.02%) Ruby
9 1 (1.01%) C
9 1 (1.01%) C#
9 1 (1.01%) Groovy
9 1 (1.01%) Scala
9 1 (1.01%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 48 (48.48%) Security Cleared
2 46 (46.46%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.05%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.05%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.02%) Degree
5 2 (2.02%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.02%) PMP
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.01%) BC Cleared
6 1 (1.01%) CCIE
6 1 (1.01%) CCNP
6 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.01%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (25.25%) QA
2 20 (20.20%) Accessibility
3 8 (8.08%) WCAG
4 2 (2.02%) FATCA
5 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.01%) GRC
5 1 (1.01%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.01%) NCSC
5 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (13.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 1 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (18.18%) Grafana
1 18 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 17 (17.17%) Prometheus
3 8 (8.08%) Ansible
4 2 (2.02%) Terraform
5 1 (1.01%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.01%) Consul
5 1 (1.01%) Iperf
5 1 (1.01%) Istio
5 1 (1.01%) linkerd
5 1 (1.01%) Nmap
5 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (15.15%) Oracle
2 9 (9.09%) Informatica
3 8 (8.08%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.07%) Talend
5 4 (4.04%) Google
5 4 (4.04%) Tagetik
6 3 (3.03%) IBM
6 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.03%) Splunk
7 2 (2.02%) Cisco
7 2 (2.02%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.02%) New Relic
7 2 (2.02%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.02%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.02%) SAP
7 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.01%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.01%) Confluent
8 1 (1.01%) Denodo
8 1 (1.01%) Okta