Performance Testing Contracts

Performance Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 403 411
Rank change year-on-year +61 +8 +28
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 259 315 531
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.54% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.61% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 216 400
10th Percentile £361 £412 £383
25th Percentile £425 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -0.55% +11.17%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £638 £675 £759
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £81.68 -
25th Percentile - £83.06 £17.00
Median hourly rate - £85.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +351.32% -24.00%
75th Percentile - £88.06 £21.00
90th Percentile - £89.23 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England +81 227 £500 - 53
London +70 143 £500 - 17
Work from Home +39 90 £510 +7.26% 30
UK excluding London +56 78 £500 +5.26% 42
South East +23 30 £450 -11.59% 10
South West +22 18 £588 +2.17% 7
Midlands +30 16 £363 -15.01% 5
East Midlands +29 12 £363 -3.33% 3
Scotland +33 6 £550 +29.79% 4
North of England +32 6 £495 -5.71% 8
North West +21 5 £495 -13.91% 7
West Midlands +9 4 £375 -19.18% 2
East of England +12 2 £513 +4.59% 6
Yorkshire +12 1 - - 1

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 35 (13.51%) Confluence
2 14 (5.41%) Apache
3 12 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (3.47%) SharePoint
5 6 (2.32%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) GemFire
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) JBoss
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 8 (3.09%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.70%) Trello
3 3 (1.16%) Windchill
4 2 (0.77%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.16%) Endur
1 3 (1.16%) ENOVIA
1 3 (1.16%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.16%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.39%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 77 (29.73%) Azure
2 60 (23.17%) AWS
3 40 (15.44%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.41%) Slack
5 12 (4.63%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (4.25%) Entra ID
6 11 (4.25%) GCP
7 10 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.47%) PaaS
8 9 (3.47%) Serverless
9 8 (3.09%) BrowserStack
9 8 (3.09%) SaaS
9 8 (3.09%) Twilio
10 7 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.70%) BlazeMeter
10 7 (2.70%) Firebase
10 7 (2.70%) Miro
11 6 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.32%) Power Platform
11 6 (2.32%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.63%) BGP
1 12 (4.63%) Ethernet VPN
1 12 (4.63%) MPLS
1 12 (4.63%) VPN
2 11 (4.25%) Radio Access Network
3 8 (3.09%) CTI
3 8 (3.09%) VoIP
4 6 (2.32%) Internet
5 3 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (1.16%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.18%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (5.02%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.63%) MongoDB
5 9 (3.47%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.93%) Big Data
6 5 (1.93%) MySQL
6 5 (1.93%) Oracle Database 11g
6 5 (1.93%) Power BI
7 3 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.16%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.16%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (1.16%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.77%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.77%) KDB
9 1 (0.39%) DB2
9 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.39%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 65 (25.10%) JIRA
2 57 (22.01%) JMeter
3 39 (15.06%) Selenium
4 32 (12.36%) Jenkins
5 31 (11.97%) Visual Studio
6 30 (11.58%) LoadRunner
7 26 (10.04%) SpecFlow
8 24 (9.27%) Postman
9 22 (8.49%) WebDriver
10 21 (8.11%) Cypress.io
11 20 (7.72%) GitLab
12 16 (6.18%) Git
13 15 (5.79%) Cucumber
14 13 (5.02%) Appium
14 13 (5.02%) TestRail
15 12 (4.63%) Robot Framework
16 9 (3.47%) NeoLoad
17 8 (3.09%) NUnit
18 7 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
19 5 (1.93%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 77 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (11.97%) Finance
4 19 (7.34%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.56%) Telecoms
6 16 (6.18%) Back Office
7 11 (4.25%) Banking
7 11 (4.25%) Legal
8 9 (3.47%) Retail
9 7 (2.70%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.32%) Law
11 4 (1.54%) Electronics
11 4 (1.54%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.54%) Marketing
11 4 (1.54%) Wholesale Banking
12 2 (0.77%) Front Office
12 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Local Government
13 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (19.31%) Senior
2 40 (15.44%) Analyst
3 37 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 37 (14.29%) Tester
4 35 (13.51%) Test Analyst
5 32 (12.36%) Lead
6 23 (8.88%) Test Leader
7 20 (7.72%) Developer
8 18 (6.95%) Architect
8 18 (6.95%) Senior Analyst
8 18 (6.95%) Senior Test Analyst
9 16 (6.18%) Performance Engineer
10 15 (5.79%) Release Manager
11 13 (5.02%) Test Manager
12 12 (4.63%) Network Engineer
12 12 (4.63%) Senior Test Engineer
13 11 (4.25%) Performance Test Leader
13 11 (4.25%) Performance Tester
13 11 (4.25%) QA Engineer
14 10 (3.86%) Performance Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.36%) .NET
2 22 (8.49%) AngularJS
3 18 (6.95%) REST
4 16 (6.18%) Middleware
5 15 (5.79%) Playwright
5 15 (5.79%) XML
6 13 (5.02%) .NET Framework
7 12 (4.63%) NETCONF
7 12 (4.63%) RESTCONF
7 12 (4.63%) SOAP
7 12 (4.63%) Web Services
8 11 (4.25%) YANG
9 10 (3.86%) WebdriverIO
10 9 (3.47%) Kafka
11 7 (2.70%) GraphQL
12 5 (1.93%) ADO
12 5 (1.93%) Gherkin
12 5 (1.93%) JSON
12 5 (1.93%) LDAP
12 5 (1.93%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.25%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.47%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.09%) IVR
4 5 (1.93%) CMDB
4 5 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (1.93%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.54%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.54%) Replication
6 3 (1.16%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.16%) NHS
6 3 (1.16%) PACS
6 3 (1.16%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.77%) Derivative
8 1 (0.39%) Contactless
8 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.39%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.39%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.25%) Linux
2 10 (3.86%) Windows
3 6 (2.32%) Unix
4 3 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Android
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (57.92%) Test Automation
2 113 (43.63%) Agile
3 74 (28.57%) DevOps
4 63 (24.32%) CI/CD
4 63 (24.32%) Test Strategy
5 54 (20.85%) Scrum
6 47 (18.15%) Non-Functional Testing
7 45 (17.37%) Software Testing
8 44 (16.99%) Functional Testing
9 37 (14.29%) Regression Testing
9 37 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 34 (13.13%) Waterfall
11 33 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (12.36%) Integration Testing
13 30 (11.58%) Manual Testing
14 29 (11.20%) Operational Acceptance Testing
14 29 (11.20%) Security Testing
15 26 (10.04%) Continuous Integration
15 26 (10.04%) SDLC
16 25 (9.65%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 51 (19.69%) C#
2 47 (18.15%) SQL
3 38 (14.67%) Python
4 37 (14.29%) Java
5 20 (7.72%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.41%) PowerShell
7 10 (3.86%) C++
7 10 (3.86%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.70%) Scala
8 7 (2.70%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.54%) C
10 3 (1.16%) Swift
11 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.39%) Bicep
12 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.39%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 57 (22.01%) Security Cleared
2 47 (18.15%) SC Cleared
3 43 (16.60%) Degree
4 22 (8.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.18%) Master's Degree
6 15 (5.79%) ISTQB
7 10 (3.86%) ISEB
8 9 (3.47%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.09%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.16%) CCNA
11 3 (1.16%) CCNP
11 3 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.16%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (18.53%) QA
2 19 (7.34%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.09%) GDPR
3 8 (3.09%) HIPAA
3 8 (3.09%) PCI DSS
3 8 (3.09%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.16%) HL7
5 2 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.77%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (7.72%) Docker
2 12 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) GridGain
3 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (13.13%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.25%) Grafana
3 10 (3.86%) Ansible
3 10 (3.86%) Kibana
4 5 (1.93%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.16%) Terraform
6 1 (0.39%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.39%) vRealize
Vendors
1 58 (22.39%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.27%) Oracle
3 14 (5.41%) Splunk
4 10 (3.86%) Google
5 9 (3.47%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.09%) Avaya
6 8 (3.09%) Cisco
6 8 (3.09%) Genesys
6 8 (3.09%) HP
7 7 (2.70%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (2.32%) SAP
9 5 (1.93%) IBM
9 5 (1.93%) iManage
9 5 (1.93%) Intapp
9 5 (1.93%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.54%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.54%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.16%) PTC
11 3 (1.16%) Siemens
12 2 (0.77%) VMware