Performance Testing Contracts in Berkshire

Performance Testing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 105 118
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 -9
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 15 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.77% 0.45% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.88% 0.50% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 13
10th Percentile - - £365
25th Percentile £413 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.89%
75th Percentile £586 - £675
90th Percentile £626 - -
South East median daily rate £438 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -14.22% -7.27% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,714 1,594 2,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 87.54% 89.60% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 995 1,321
10th Percentile £258 £339 £275
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% +5.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £710 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 51 39
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.31 £25.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £60.53 £63.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +200.00% -2.33%
75th Percentile £71.75 £74.90 £34.95
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £70.68
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in Berkshire

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in Berkshire

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in Berkshire

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in Berkshire

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
Reading -11 11 £425 -
Wokingham - 2 £623 -
Bracknell - 2 - -
Performance Testing
South East

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 7 (46.67%) Apache
2 6 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) BGP
1 6 (40.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 6 (40.00%) MPLS
1 6 (40.00%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) MongoDB
2 6 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 6 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) GitLab
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
1 6 (40.00%) Robot Framework
1 6 (40.00%) TestRail
2 4 (26.67%) JMeter
3 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Maven
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Senior
1 5 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Tester
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Performance Tester
4 2 (13.33%) Database Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Migration Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Migration Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Database Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Performance Tester
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) NETCONF
1 6 (40.00%) REST
1 6 (40.00%) RESTCONF
1 6 (40.00%) SOAP
1 6 (40.00%) YANG
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) jQuery
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Containerisation
3 7 (46.67%) Scrum
4 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Integration Testing
4 6 (40.00%) Regression Testing
4 6 (40.00%) Security Testing
4 6 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 6 (40.00%) Workflow
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Full Stack Development
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Project Management
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Traceability Matrix
6 2 (13.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
1 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (6.67%) Fujitsu
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft