Performance Testing Contracts in England

Performance Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Performance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 328 396
Rank change year-on-year -3 +68 +6
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 152 228 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.61% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.72% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 169 164
10th Percentile £313 £362 £411
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £588
90th Percentile £666 £630 £683
UK median daily rate £450 £513 £495
% change year-on-year -12.20% +3.54% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £81.68
25th Percentile - £36.25 £83.06
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £85.75
Median % change year-on-year - -56.27% +7.19%
75th Percentile - £38.75 £88.06
90th Percentile - - £89.23
UK median hourly rate - £37.50 £85.75
% change year-on-year - -56.27% +351.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Performance Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23,097 31,886 42,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.37% 85.51% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,895 20,662 29,650
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,130 2,322 1,532
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.66 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.17
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +2.56% +44.74%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.53
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.70 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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 27 June 2025.

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 27 June 2025. 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 -23 87 £443 -13.56% 88
Midlands +17 19 £475 +31.03% 10
South East +42 18 £500 +17.65% 29
West Midlands +29 18 £475 -20.83% 8
North of England +19 18 £466 +5.31% 30
North West +23 12 £455 -6.19% 10
Yorkshire +2 6 £500 - 17
East of England - 6 £320 - 15
South West +25 2 £478 -17.67% 6
East Midlands -8 1 £391 +7.86% 2
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 10 (6.58%) Confluence
2 4 (2.63%) NetWeaver
2 4 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.32%) IIS
4 2 (1.32%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.66%) Apache
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.66%) CICS
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.66%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.66%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.66%) SPSS
1 1 (0.66%) Stata
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.32%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.32%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (1.32%) Shopify
3 1 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.66%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.66%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.66%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.66%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.66%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 44 (28.95%) Azure
2 31 (20.39%) AWS
3 23 (15.13%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (11.84%) GitHub
5 14 (9.21%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (5.92%) GCP
7 6 (3.95%) Azure AKS
7 6 (3.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 6 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (3.95%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.63%) BrowserStack
8 4 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.63%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.97%) Cloud Run
9 3 (1.97%) Datadog
9 3 (1.97%) dbt
9 3 (1.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.97%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.61%) HTTP
2 6 (3.95%) DNS
3 2 (1.32%) DSL
3 2 (1.32%) Firewall
3 2 (1.32%) Multicast
3 2 (1.32%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.66%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (0.66%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.66%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.66%) Internet
4 1 (0.66%) Intranet
4 1 (0.66%) LAN
4 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.66%) VoIP
4 1 (0.66%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (1.97%) Apache Iceberg
4 3 (1.97%) Delta Lake
4 3 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.32%) MySQL
5 2 (1.32%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.32%) Parquet
5 2 (1.32%) Star Schema
5 2 (1.32%) Tableau
6 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.66%) Big Data
6 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.66%) Power BI
6 1 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (30.92%) JMeter
2 34 (22.37%) JIRA
3 30 (19.74%) Selenium
4 28 (18.42%) Jenkins
5 25 (16.45%) LoadRunner
6 16 (10.53%) Postman
6 16 (10.53%) REST Assured
7 13 (8.55%) Gatling
7 13 (8.55%) Git
8 12 (7.89%) GitLab
9 11 (7.24%) Cypress.io
10 9 (5.92%) Appium
11 8 (5.26%) CircleCI
11 8 (5.26%) Cucumber
12 6 (3.95%) NeoLoad
13 5 (3.29%) TestNG
14 4 (2.63%) JUnit
14 4 (2.63%) SpecFlow
14 4 (2.63%) TeamCity
14 4 (2.63%) Travis CI
General
1 65 (42.76%) Social Skills
2 39 (25.66%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (17.11%) Finance
4 8 (5.26%) Banking
5 5 (3.29%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.29%) Retail
6 4 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.97%) Billing
7 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.32%) Front Office
8 2 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.32%) Marketing
8 2 (1.32%) Military
8 2 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Aviation
9 1 (0.66%) Back Office
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
9 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (26.32%) Tester
2 21 (13.82%) Senior
3 20 (13.16%) Test Engineer
4 17 (11.18%) Developer
5 14 (9.21%) Test Manager
6 10 (6.58%) Analyst
6 10 (6.58%) Lead
6 10 (6.58%) QA Engineer
7 8 (5.26%) Consultant
8 7 (4.61%) Automation Tester
8 7 (4.61%) Test Analyst
9 6 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Performance Tester
9 6 (3.95%) Software Developer
9 6 (3.95%) Software Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Software Tester
9 6 (3.95%) Test Leader
10 5 (3.29%) Java Developer
10 5 (3.29%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.53%) Playwright
2 15 (9.87%) REST
3 8 (5.26%) Node.js
3 8 (5.26%) Web Services
4 6 (3.95%) Kafka
4 6 (3.95%) Middleware
4 6 (3.95%) OAuth
4 6 (3.95%) OAuth2
4 6 (3.95%) OpenID
4 6 (3.95%) RESTful
4 6 (3.95%) SOAP
5 5 (3.29%) PySpark
5 5 (3.29%) SAP PI
5 5 (3.29%) XML
6 4 (2.63%) .NET
6 4 (2.63%) EDI
6 4 (2.63%) IDoc
6 4 (2.63%) JDBC
6 4 (2.63%) JMS
6 4 (2.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.58%) Product Ownership
1 10 (6.58%) SCADA
2 9 (5.92%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.29%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.97%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.32%) Equities
6 2 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.32%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.32%) Online Banking
6 2 (1.32%) Replication
7 1 (0.66%) Derivative
7 1 (0.66%) FMCG
7 1 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.66%) Life Science
7 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.66%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.92%) Linux
2 3 (1.97%) Unix
2 3 (1.97%) Windows
3 1 (0.66%) AIX
3 1 (0.66%) Android
3 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.66%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 64 (42.11%) Agile
3 59 (38.82%) CI/CD
4 54 (35.53%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (34.87%) DevOps
6 46 (30.26%) Test Strategy
7 37 (24.34%) Test Scripting
8 28 (18.42%) User Acceptance Testing
9 27 (17.76%) Scrum
10 26 (17.11%) Regression Testing
11 25 (16.45%) API Testing
11 25 (16.45%) End-to-End Testing
11 25 (16.45%) Software Testing
12 24 (15.79%) Integration Testing
13 23 (15.13%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (13.82%) Security Testing
15 20 (13.16%) Non-Functional Testing
16 19 (12.50%) Validation
17 18 (11.84%) System Integration Testing
18 16 (10.53%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 45 (29.61%) Java
2 42 (27.63%) Python
3 29 (19.08%) JavaScript
4 28 (18.42%) SQL
5 25 (16.45%) C#
6 10 (6.58%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.61%) ABAP
7 7 (4.61%) Bash
8 5 (3.29%) C++
8 5 (3.29%) PHP
8 5 (3.29%) Ruby
9 4 (2.63%) Scala
10 3 (1.97%) Groovy
11 2 (1.32%) C
11 2 (1.32%) RPG
12 1 (0.66%) Ada
12 1 (0.66%) JCL
12 1 (0.66%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.66%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (23.03%) Security Cleared
2 32 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.21%) ISTQB
4 12 (7.89%) Degree
5 9 (5.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.29%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (3.29%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.97%) CEH
7 3 (1.97%) CISSP
8 1 (0.66%) CCNA
8 1 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.66%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.66%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (37.50%) QA
2 6 (3.95%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.97%) WCAG
4 2 (1.32%) GDPR
4 2 (1.32%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.66%) GxP
5 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Firmware
2 1 (0.66%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 15 (9.87%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.58%) Terraform
3 6 (3.95%) Ansible
3 6 (3.95%) Perfmon
4 5 (3.29%) Kibana
5 3 (1.97%) Grafana
5 3 (1.97%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.97%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.97%) Puppet
6 2 (1.32%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.32%) Salt
7 1 (0.66%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.66%) CA Wily
7 1 (0.66%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.66%) Iperf
7 1 (0.66%) OPNET
Vendors
1 18 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.21%) SAP
3 9 (5.92%) Dynatrace
4 8 (5.26%) New Relic
5 7 (4.61%) Oracle
6 4 (2.63%) HP
6 4 (2.63%) Splunk
7 3 (1.97%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.97%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.97%) UiPath
8 2 (1.32%) Adobe
8 2 (1.32%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.32%) Cisco
8 2 (1.32%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.32%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.32%) Sitecore
8 2 (1.32%) Sybase
8 2 (1.32%) Workday
9 1 (0.66%) F5
9 1 (0.66%) SolarWinds
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