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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 406 408
Rank change year-on-year +69 +2 +39
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 252 300 547
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.54% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.60% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 203 414
10th Percentile £360 £413 £398
25th Percentile £425 £463 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £536
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -7.69% +19.17%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £638 £675 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £483 £475
% change year-on-year +2.59% +1.58% +7.95%
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% -47.22%
75th Percentile - £88.06 £21.00
90th Percentile - £89.23 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -17.39%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 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
England +61 220 £500 - 70
London +64 148 £500 - 28
Work from Home +39 85 £500 +5.26% 29
UK excluding London +45 68 £495 +2.59% 47
South East +14 26 £444 -11.95% 9
Midlands +29 16 £363 -27.50% 6
South West +13 14 £588 +11.90% 8
East Midlands +21 12 £363 -14.71% 3
Scotland +35 6 £550 +15.79% 7
North of England +19 5 £485 +3.47% 12
North West +23 4 £485 -1.77% 10
West Midlands +12 4 £375 -25.00% 3
Yorkshire +13 1 - - 1
East of England +2 1 £513 +4.59% 3

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 38 (15.08%) Confluence
2 10 (3.97%) Apache
3 9 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (3.17%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) GemFire
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) JBoss
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (3.17%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.78%) Trello
3 3 (1.19%) Windchill
4 2 (0.79%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Endur
1 3 (1.19%) ENOVIA
1 3 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.19%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.40%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (30.95%) Azure
2 55 (21.83%) AWS
3 40 (15.87%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.56%) Slack
5 12 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (4.76%) GCP
6 11 (4.37%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.97%) BrowserStack
7 10 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.57%) BlazeMeter
8 9 (3.57%) Firebase
8 9 (3.57%) PaaS
9 8 (3.17%) SaaS
9 8 (3.17%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 8 (3.17%) Twilio
10 7 (2.78%) Miro
10 7 (2.78%) Serverless
11 6 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.98%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.57%) BGP
1 9 (3.57%) Ethernet VPN
1 9 (3.57%) MPLS
1 9 (3.57%) VPN
2 8 (3.17%) CTI
2 8 (3.17%) Radio Access Network
2 8 (3.17%) VoIP
3 6 (2.38%) Internet
4 3 (1.19%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.19%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.97%) NoSQL
3 10 (3.97%) Oracle Database
4 9 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.98%) MySQL
5 5 (1.98%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (1.98%) Power BI
6 4 (1.59%) Big Data
6 4 (1.59%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.19%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.19%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.79%) KDB
9 1 (0.40%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.40%) DB2
9 1 (0.40%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 61 (24.21%) JIRA
1 61 (24.21%) JMeter
2 42 (16.67%) Selenium
3 34 (13.49%) Jenkins
4 29 (11.51%) LoadRunner
4 29 (11.51%) Visual Studio
5 28 (11.11%) Postman
6 27 (10.71%) SpecFlow
7 22 (8.73%) Cypress.io
8 21 (8.33%) GitLab
8 21 (8.33%) WebDriver
9 17 (6.75%) Git
10 16 (6.35%) Cucumber
11 14 (5.56%) Appium
12 9 (3.57%) NeoLoad
12 9 (3.57%) Robot Framework
12 9 (3.57%) TestRail
13 8 (3.17%) NUnit
14 7 (2.78%) JUnit
14 7 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 71 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (11.11%) Finance
4 18 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.75%) Telecoms
6 16 (6.35%) Back Office
7 15 (5.95%) Banking
8 11 (4.37%) Legal
9 9 (3.57%) Investment Banking
9 9 (3.57%) Retail
10 6 (2.38%) Law
11 4 (1.59%) Wholesale Banking
12 3 (1.19%) Electronics
12 3 (1.19%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.19%) Marketing
13 2 (0.79%) Front Office
13 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Local Government
14 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 48 (19.05%) Senior
2 43 (17.06%) Analyst
3 37 (14.68%) Test Analyst
4 36 (14.29%) Tester
5 33 (13.10%) Test Engineer
6 32 (12.70%) Lead
7 23 (9.13%) Test Leader
8 22 (8.73%) Developer
9 19 (7.54%) Senior Analyst
9 19 (7.54%) Senior Test Analyst
10 16 (6.35%) Architect
10 16 (6.35%) Performance Engineer
11 15 (5.95%) Release Manager
12 12 (4.76%) Test Manager
13 11 (4.37%) Performance Test Leader
13 11 (4.37%) Performance Tester
13 11 (4.37%) QA Engineer
13 11 (4.37%) Test Automation Engineer
14 10 (3.97%) Performance Test Engineer
14 10 (3.97%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.30%) .NET
2 22 (8.73%) AngularJS
3 20 (7.94%) Middleware
4 15 (5.95%) REST
4 15 (5.95%) XML
5 13 (5.16%) Playwright
5 13 (5.16%) WebdriverIO
6 12 (4.76%) .NET Framework
6 12 (4.76%) Web Services
7 10 (3.97%) SOAP
8 9 (3.57%) Kafka
8 9 (3.57%) NETCONF
8 9 (3.57%) RESTCONF
9 8 (3.17%) YANG
10 7 (2.78%) Gherkin
10 7 (2.78%) GraphQL
11 5 (1.98%) ADO
11 5 (1.98%) JSON
11 5 (1.98%) LDAP
11 5 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.37%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.17%) IVR
4 5 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (1.98%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.59%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.59%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.59%) Replication
6 3 (1.19%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.19%) NHS
6 3 (1.19%) PACS
6 3 (1.19%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Derivative
8 1 (0.40%) CMDB
8 1 (0.40%) Contactless
8 1 (0.40%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.40%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.97%) Linux
1 10 (3.97%) Windows
2 4 (1.59%) Unix
3 3 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (59.52%) Test Automation
2 117 (46.43%) Agile
3 76 (30.16%) DevOps
4 60 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 56 (22.22%) Test Strategy
6 52 (20.63%) Non-Functional Testing
7 51 (20.24%) Scrum
8 44 (17.46%) Functional Testing
9 41 (16.27%) Software Testing
10 36 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 36 (14.29%) Waterfall
11 34 (13.49%) Regression Testing
12 32 (12.70%) Problem-Solving
13 30 (11.90%) Manual Testing
14 29 (11.51%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (11.51%) Operational Acceptance Testing
15 27 (10.71%) Test Scripting
16 26 (10.32%) BDD
17 25 (9.92%) Integration Testing
18 24 (9.52%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (19.44%) C#
2 44 (17.46%) SQL
3 37 (14.68%) Java
4 34 (13.49%) Python
5 25 (9.92%) JavaScript
6 14 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.37%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.97%) C++
9 7 (2.78%) Scala
10 6 (2.38%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.59%) C
12 3 (1.19%) Swift
12 3 (1.19%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.40%) Bicep
13 1 (0.40%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 50 (19.84%) Security Cleared
2 43 (17.06%) SC Cleared
3 42 (16.67%) Degree
4 22 (8.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.35%) Master's Degree
6 12 (4.76%) ISTQB
7 10 (3.97%) ISEB
8 9 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.17%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.19%) CCNA
11 3 (1.19%) CCNP
11 3 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (17.86%) QA
2 16 (6.35%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.17%) GDPR
3 8 (3.17%) HIPAA
3 8 (3.17%) PCI DSS
3 8 (3.17%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.19%) HL7
5 2 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (6.75%) Docker
2 12 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) GridGain
3 1 (0.40%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (13.49%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.37%) Grafana
3 10 (3.97%) Ansible
3 10 (3.97%) Kibana
4 5 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.19%) Terraform
6 1 (0.40%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.13%) Oracle
3 14 (5.56%) Splunk
4 11 (4.37%) Google
5 9 (3.57%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.17%) Avaya
6 8 (3.17%) Cisco
6 8 (3.17%) Genesys
7 7 (2.78%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (2.38%) HP
9 5 (1.98%) iManage
9 5 (1.98%) Intapp
9 5 (1.98%) OpenAI
9 5 (1.98%) SAP
10 4 (1.59%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.59%) IBM
10 4 (1.59%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.19%) PTC
11 3 (1.19%) Siemens
12 2 (0.79%) VMware