Performance Testing Contracts in England

Performance Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Performance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 400 393
Rank change year-on-year +89 -7 +30
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 229 253 441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.58% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 170 337
10th Percentile £361 £413 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £594 £592 £645
90th Percentile £630 £676 £788
UK median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £81.68 -
25th Percentile - £83.06 £77.50
Median hourly rate - £85.75 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.19% +220.00%
75th Percentile - £88.06 £82.50
90th Percentile - £89.23 -
UK median hourly rate - £85.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year - +351.32% -24.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Performance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
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 Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +73 148 £500 - 24
South East +26 27 £444 -12.65% 19
South West +19 18 £588 +2.17% 7
Midlands +19 17 £363 -14.71% 5
East Midlands +26 13 £363 -9.38% 2
North of England +28 6 £495 -5.71% 13
North West +20 5 £495 -13.91% 7
West Midlands +14 4 £375 -19.18% 3
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 4
East of England +8 1 £513 +4.59% 5
Performance Testing
UK

Performance Testing
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 36 (15.72%) Confluence
2 12 (5.24%) Apache
3 11 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (2.62%) SharePoint
6 5 (2.18%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.44%) GemFire
7 1 (0.44%) IIS
7 1 (0.44%) JBoss
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.31%) Windchill
3 2 (0.87%) Mingle
4 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.31%) Endur
1 3 (1.31%) ENOVIA
1 3 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.31%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (27.51%) Azure
2 46 (20.09%) AWS
3 37 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (5.68%) Slack
5 11 (4.80%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.93%) BlazeMeter
6 9 (3.93%) BrowserStack
6 9 (3.93%) Firebase
7 8 (3.49%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (3.49%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 7 (3.06%) GCP
9 6 (2.62%) Serverless
10 5 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.18%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (2.18%) Tricentis Tosca
11 4 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (1.75%) Twilio
12 3 (1.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.80%) BGP
1 11 (4.80%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (4.80%) MPLS
1 11 (4.80%) VPN
2 10 (4.37%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (1.75%) CTI
3 4 (1.75%) Internet
3 4 (1.75%) VoIP
4 3 (1.31%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.31%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.55%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (5.24%) NoSQL
4 11 (4.80%) MongoDB
5 10 (4.37%) Oracle Database
6 5 (2.18%) Oracle Database 11g
7 4 (1.75%) MySQL
8 3 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.31%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.31%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (1.31%) Power BI
8 3 (1.31%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.87%) KDB
10 1 (0.44%) Big Data
10 1 (0.44%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.44%) DB2
10 1 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 62 (27.07%) JIRA
2 51 (22.27%) JMeter
3 34 (14.85%) Jenkins
4 29 (12.66%) Selenium
5 28 (12.23%) Visual Studio
6 26 (11.35%) Postman
7 25 (10.92%) SpecFlow
8 22 (9.61%) GitLab
8 22 (9.61%) LoadRunner
9 21 (9.17%) Cypress.io
10 19 (8.30%) WebDriver
11 14 (6.11%) Appium
11 14 (6.11%) Git
12 12 (5.24%) Cucumber
13 11 (4.80%) Robot Framework
13 11 (4.80%) TestRail
14 9 (3.93%) NeoLoad
15 8 (3.49%) NUnit
16 7 (3.06%) Team Foundation Server
17 6 (2.62%) JUnit
General
1 69 (30.13%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.66%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (10.92%) Finance
4 18 (7.86%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.99%) Back Office
6 13 (5.68%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.80%) Banking
8 9 (3.93%) Legal
9 8 (3.49%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.62%) Law
11 5 (2.18%) Retail
12 4 (1.75%) Electronics
12 4 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.75%) Marketing
12 4 (1.75%) Wholesale Banking
13 2 (0.87%) Front Office
13 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.44%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 44 (19.21%) Senior
2 37 (16.16%) Analyst
2 37 (16.16%) Test Engineer
3 34 (14.85%) Tester
4 31 (13.54%) Test Analyst
5 26 (11.35%) Lead
6 20 (8.73%) Developer
6 20 (8.73%) Test Leader
7 17 (7.42%) Senior Analyst
7 17 (7.42%) Senior Test Analyst
8 16 (6.99%) Performance Engineer
9 14 (6.11%) Architect
9 14 (6.11%) Release Manager
10 12 (5.24%) Senior Test Engineer
11 11 (4.80%) Network Engineer
11 11 (4.80%) QA Engineer
12 10 (4.37%) Performance Test Engineer
12 10 (4.37%) Performance Test Leader
12 10 (4.37%) Performance Tester
12 10 (4.37%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.10%) .NET
2 22 (9.61%) AngularJS
3 16 (6.99%) Middleware
3 16 (6.99%) REST
4 15 (6.55%) XML
5 12 (5.24%) .NET Framework
6 11 (4.80%) NETCONF
6 11 (4.80%) Playwright
6 11 (4.80%) RESTCONF
6 11 (4.80%) SOAP
6 11 (4.80%) WebdriverIO
7 10 (4.37%) YANG
8 9 (3.93%) Kafka
9 7 (3.06%) GraphQL
9 7 (3.06%) Web Services
10 5 (2.18%) LDAP
10 5 (2.18%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (1.75%) ADO
11 4 (1.75%) JSON
11 4 (1.75%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.49%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.06%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (2.18%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.75%) CMDB
4 4 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.75%) Hedge funds
4 4 (1.75%) IVR
4 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.75%) Replication
5 3 (1.31%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.31%) NHS
5 3 (1.31%) PACS
6 2 (0.87%) Derivative
7 1 (0.44%) Contactless
7 1 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.44%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.93%) Linux
2 6 (2.62%) Windows
3 4 (1.75%) Unix
4 3 (1.31%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (58.52%) Test Automation
2 100 (43.67%) Agile
3 61 (26.64%) DevOps
4 58 (25.33%) CI/CD
5 53 (23.14%) Scrum
6 52 (22.71%) Test Strategy
7 48 (20.96%) Non-Functional Testing
8 41 (17.90%) Software Testing
9 39 (17.03%) Functional Testing
10 31 (13.54%) Manual Testing
10 31 (13.54%) Regression Testing
11 30 (13.10%) Waterfall
12 29 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
13 28 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
14 27 (11.79%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (11.35%) Integration Testing
16 25 (10.92%) Security Testing
17 24 (10.48%) Operational Acceptance Testing
17 24 (10.48%) Scenario Testing
17 24 (10.48%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.83%) C#
2 42 (18.34%) SQL
3 36 (15.72%) Python
4 35 (15.28%) Java
5 21 (9.17%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.11%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.80%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.37%) C++
9 7 (3.06%) Scala
10 6 (2.62%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.75%) C
12 3 (1.31%) Swift
13 2 (0.87%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.44%) Bicep
14 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.44%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 48 (20.96%) Security Cleared
2 39 (17.03%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.66%) Degree
4 16 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.68%) ISTQB
6 10 (4.37%) Master's Degree
7 9 (3.93%) ISEB
8 6 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.18%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.75%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.31%) CCNA
11 3 (1.31%) CCNP
11 3 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (20.96%) QA
2 16 (6.99%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.75%) GDPR
3 4 (1.75%) HIPAA
3 4 (1.75%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.75%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.31%) HL7
5 2 (0.87%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (8.30%) Docker
2 12 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.44%) GridGain
3 1 (0.44%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.80%) Grafana
3 9 (3.93%) Ansible
3 9 (3.93%) Kibana
4 5 (2.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.44%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.44%) Terraform
5 1 (0.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 47 (20.52%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.04%) Oracle
3 8 (3.49%) Splunk
4 7 (3.06%) CA Agile Central
5 6 (2.62%) Google
5 6 (2.62%) HP
6 5 (2.18%) iManage
6 5 (2.18%) Intapp
6 5 (2.18%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.18%) SAP
7 4 (1.75%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.75%) Avaya
7 4 (1.75%) Cisco
7 4 (1.75%) Genesys
7 4 (1.75%) IBM
7 4 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.31%) PTC
8 3 (1.31%) Siemens
9 2 (0.87%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.87%) VMware