Performance Test Leader Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Performance Test Lead
England > Yorkshire

The median Performance Test Lead daily rate in Yorkshire is £581, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Test Leader 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.070% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £516 - -
25th Percentile £539 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - -
75th Percentile £627 - -
90th Percentile £652 - -
England median daily rate £581 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +16.25% -16.67% +11.63%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,632 1,348 1,439
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 93.48% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,601 862 922
10th Percentile £318 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £579
90th Percentile £669 £613 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 54 55
10th Percentile £16.62 £16.73 £12.18
25th Percentile £22.18 £18.16 £15.20
Median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.40% +10.70% +0.29%
75th Percentile £34.83 £26.16 £33.75
90th Percentile £44.13 £81.25 £48.75
England median hourly rate £45.25 £26.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.05% -38.84% -1.71%

Performance Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Performance Test Leader job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Performance Test Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Test Leader job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Test Leader job vacancies in Yorkshire

Performance Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Test Leader in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Test Leader in Yorkshire

Performance Test Leader
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Test Leader within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 July 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
South Yorkshire - 2 £581 - 1
Performance Test Leader
England

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 28 July 2026, Performance Test Leader 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 across the Yorkshire region featuring Performance Test Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Gatling
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (100.00%) NeoLoad
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cypher
2 1 (50.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Gatling
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (100.00%) NeoLoad
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Cypher
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow