Performance Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Performance Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 253 307 378
Rank change year-on-year +54 +71 -14
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 92 164 248
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.67% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.75% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 124 193
10th Percentile £363 £413 £383
25th Percentile £444 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.26% - +16.92%
75th Percentile £600 £528 £575
90th Percentile £629 £600 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,882 21,904 40,173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.65% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 15,514 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 507 533
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.58 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.06 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +37.60% +58.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Performance Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Testing.

Performance Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Performance Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (16.30%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.26%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.09%) GemFire
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Trello
2 4 (4.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.09%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.78%) Azure
2 28 (30.43%) AWS
3 14 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (8.70%) PaaS
4 8 (8.70%) SaaS
5 7 (7.61%) GCP
5 7 (7.61%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (7.61%) Miro
6 6 (6.52%) BlazeMeter
6 6 (6.52%) BrowserStack
6 6 (6.52%) Firebase
7 5 (5.43%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (5.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 5 (5.43%) Slack
8 4 (4.35%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.35%) Twilio
9 3 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.26%) Serverless
10 2 (2.17%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) CTI
1 4 (4.35%) VoIP
2 2 (2.17%) Internet
3 1 (1.09%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.61%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.26%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.26%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (2.17%) Big Data
3 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.17%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (2.17%) Power BI
4 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.09%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.09%) MySQL
4 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (28.26%) JMeter
2 22 (23.91%) JIRA
3 16 (17.39%) Jenkins
4 15 (16.30%) Cypress.io
4 15 (16.30%) Selenium
5 12 (13.04%) Postman
6 11 (11.96%) SpecFlow
7 10 (10.87%) Visual Studio
8 7 (7.61%) GitLab
8 7 (7.61%) WebDriver
9 6 (6.52%) Appium
9 6 (6.52%) Git
9 6 (6.52%) LoadRunner
10 5 (5.43%) Cucumber
11 3 (3.26%) NUnit
12 2 (2.17%) JUnit
12 2 (2.17%) NeoLoad
12 2 (2.17%) REST Assured
12 2 (2.17%) TestComplete
12 2 (2.17%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.48%) Finance
3 10 (10.87%) Telecoms
4 7 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.35%) Electronics
6 4 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.35%) Marketing
6 4 (4.35%) Retail
7 2 (2.17%) Back Office
7 2 (2.17%) Legal
8 1 (1.09%) Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (26.09%) Senior
2 16 (17.39%) Test Engineer
3 13 (14.13%) Analyst
4 12 (13.04%) Tester
5 10 (10.87%) Performance Engineer
5 10 (10.87%) Test Analyst
6 8 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Performance Test Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Developer
8 6 (6.52%) Release Manager
8 6 (6.52%) Senior Test Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Automation Tester
9 5 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Lead
9 5 (5.43%) QA Tester
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (5.43%) Senior Test Analyst
9 5 (5.43%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.13%) .NET
2 10 (10.87%) Middleware
3 8 (8.70%) AngularJS
4 7 (7.61%) Web Services
5 6 (6.52%) .NET Framework
5 6 (6.52%) Playwright
5 6 (6.52%) WebdriverIO
6 4 (4.35%) XML
7 3 (3.26%) Gherkin
7 3 (3.26%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.26%) Kafka
7 3 (3.26%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (2.17%) ASP.NET
8 2 (2.17%) Django
8 2 (2.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 2 (2.17%) REST
8 2 (2.17%) Spark Streaming
9 1 (1.09%) JSON
9 1 (1.09%) SOAP
9 1 (1.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.35%) IVR
1 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
1 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.26%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.17%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.17%) Replication
4 1 (1.09%) Contactless
4 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.09%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.43%) Windows
2 3 (3.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.22%) Test Automation
2 45 (48.91%) Agile
3 32 (34.78%) DevOps
4 23 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 20 (21.74%) Test Strategy
6 19 (20.65%) Non-Functional Testing
7 18 (19.57%) Scrum
7 18 (19.57%) Test Management
8 15 (16.30%) API Testing
9 14 (15.22%) Functional Testing
10 13 (14.13%) Software Testing
11 11 (11.96%) Manual Testing
11 11 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (10.87%) Analytics
12 10 (10.87%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (10.87%) Migration
12 10 (10.87%) Project Management
12 10 (10.87%) Waterfall
13 9 (9.78%) Operational Acceptance Testing
13 9 (9.78%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.74%) C#
2 15 (16.30%) SQL
3 14 (15.22%) Java
3 14 (15.22%) JavaScript
4 13 (14.13%) Python
5 4 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.26%) C++
6 3 (3.26%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.17%) Scala
7 2 (2.17%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.09%) Bicep
8 1 (1.09%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 15 (16.30%) Degree
4 9 (9.78%) ISTQB
5 6 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 4 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.35%) ISEB
7 4 (4.35%) Master's Degree
7 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.74%) QA
2 7 (7.61%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.35%) GDPR
3 4 (4.35%) HIPAA
3 4 (4.35%) PCI DSS
3 4 (4.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 4 (4.35%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 10 (10.87%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.35%) Ansible
3 3 (3.26%) Grafana
3 3 (3.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.17%) Kibana
5 1 (1.09%) HP ALM
5 1 (1.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.70%) Dynatrace
2 8 (8.70%) Oracle
2 8 (8.70%) Splunk
3 6 (6.52%) Google
4 5 (5.43%) SAP
5 4 (4.35%) Avaya
5 4 (4.35%) Cisco
5 4 (4.35%) Genesys
6 1 (1.09%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.09%) HP