Performance Testing Contracts in the North of England

Performance Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 4 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 208 206
Rank change year-on-year +33 -2 -34
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 5 8 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.11% 0.15% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.16% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 41
10th Percentile - £375 £356
25th Percentile £463 £383 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.47% -1.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £518 £538 £588
90th Percentile - £556 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,990 4,952 6,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.44% 90.09% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,404 3,396 4,658
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +3.09% +10.23%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 386 205 257
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.72 £13.50
Median hourly rate £20.77 £26.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.62% +39.47% +6.26%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.09
90th Percentile £63.75 £61.50 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.77 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.99% +47.08% +11.11%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the North of England

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the North of England

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the North of England

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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
North West +12 4 £485 -1.77% 11
Yorkshire +10 1 - - 2
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
2 1 (20.00%) SpeedCurve
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (20.00%) NeoLoad
2 1 (20.00%) Pa11y
2 1 (20.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) iOS Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) iOS Development
1 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Storyboarding
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Active Listening
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Swift
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana