Performance Test Leader Contracts in England

Performance Test Lead
UK > England

The median Performance Test Lead daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 635 772
Rank change year-on-year +94 +137 -125
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Test Leader 10 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.004% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.004% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £470 - £355
25th Percentile £481 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -4.26%
75th Percentile £544 - £478
90th Percentile £570 - £484
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -2.27% +22.22% -4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Performance Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Performance Test Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Test Leader in England

Performance Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Test Leader in England.

Daily rate trend for Performance Test Leader in England

Performance Test Leader
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London - 8 £538 - 2
Midlands +23 1 - -
North West - 1 £475 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £475 -
Performance Test Leader
UK

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Performance Test Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Performance Test Leader in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 7 (70.00%) Test Strategy
3 6 (60.00%) Defect Management
3 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (60.00%) Functional Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 6 (60.00%) LoadRunner
4 5 (50.00%) NeoLoad
4 5 (50.00%) Azure
4 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (40.00%) OpenAI
5 4 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 4 (40.00%) Tricentis Tosca
5 4 (40.00%) Intapp
5 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (40.00%) iManage
5 4 (40.00%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (40.00%) IT Strategy
5 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (40.00%) Coaching
5 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (40.00%) Project Management
5 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
5 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (40.00%) QA
5 4 (40.00%) Finance
5 4 (40.00%) Law

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Tricentis Tosca
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DB2
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) LoadRunner
2 5 (50.00%) NeoLoad
3 3 (30.00%) JMeter
4 1 (10.00%) Gatling
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Law
2 4 (40.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 7 (70.00%) Test Strategy
3 6 (60.00%) Defect Management
3 6 (60.00%) Functional Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Coaching
4 4 (40.00%) IT Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Project Management
4 4 (40.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (20.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C#
1 2 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) CA Agile Central
1 4 (40.00%) iManage
1 4 (40.00%) Intapp
1 4 (40.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) HP
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk