Rational Performance Tester Contracts

IBM Rational Performance Tester (RPT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Rational Performance Tester skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Rational Performance Tester over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 709 854
Rank change year-on-year +112 +145 -155
Contract jobs citing Rational Performance Tester 3 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.012% 0.010%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.058% 0.079% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile £423 £443 £350
25th Percentile £431 £463 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £480 £461
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +4.14% +14.16%
75th Percentile £466 £495 £518
90th Percentile £475 - £530
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £388

All Development Application Skills
UK

Rational Performance Tester is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,155 8,870 15,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.94% 15.02% 17.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,466 6,241 11,267
10th Percentile £355 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £461 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.56%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 241 210
10th Percentile £33.20 £44.64 £37.22
25th Percentile £46.38 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +16.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £62.25
90th Percentile £80.90 £80.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%

Rational Performance Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Rational Performance Tester in the UK

Rational Performance Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Rational Performance Tester in the UK

Rational Performance Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Rational Performance Tester in the UK

Rational Performance Tester
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Rational Performance Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +116 3 £445 -7.23%
London +109 3 £445 -7.23%
Work from Home +122 1 £445 -7.23%

Rational Performance Tester
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Appium
1 3 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Test Assurance
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Compatibility Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft