Performance Testing Contracts in the City of London

Performance Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 138 176
Rank change year-on-year +29 +38 -18
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 18 12 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.85% 0.43% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.48% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 18
10th Percentile £316 £268 £421
25th Percentile £430 £463 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% -15.35% +8.33%
75th Percentile £612 £600 £726
90th Percentile £638 £640 £839
Central London median daily rate £482 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -12.49% -15.35% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,941 2,497 4,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.43% 89.92% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,193 1,754 2,734
10th Percentile £375 £363 £363
25th Percentile £470 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 16 51
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.38 £17.00 £21.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% -35.15% +49.63%
75th Percentile £112.00 £52.63 £58.75
90th Percentile £137.50 £71.25 £78.75
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £43.24
% change year-on-year +6.87% -24.26% +26.25%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the City of London

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the City of London

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the City of London

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the City of London

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (11.11%) CMS
1 2 (11.11%) Headless CMS
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Pipelines
3 2 (11.11%) Contentful
3 2 (11.11%) Tricentis Tosca
3 2 (11.11%) Vercel
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.56%) BlazeMeter
4 1 (5.56%) BrowserStack
4 1 (5.56%) Firebase
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Git
2 4 (22.22%) JMeter
2 4 (22.22%) SpecFlow
3 3 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 2 (11.11%) GitLab
4 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.11%) LoadRunner
4 2 (11.11%) NeoLoad
4 2 (11.11%) Postman
4 2 (11.11%) Selenium
4 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
4 2 (11.11%) WebPageTest
5 1 (5.56%) Appium
5 1 (5.56%) JIRA
5 1 (5.56%) MLflow
5 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Lead
1 5 (27.78%) Test Leader
2 3 (16.67%) Performance Test Leader
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Automation Test Lead
3 2 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) QA Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SharePoint Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software QA Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
1 3 (16.67%) Playwright
1 3 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (11.11%) .NET Core
2 2 (11.11%) Next.js
2 2 (11.11%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.56%) Django
3 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
3 1 (5.56%) Middleware
3 1 (5.56%) ONNX
3 1 (5.56%) PySpark
3 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.56%) SPFx
3 1 (5.56%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
1 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Test Automation
2 9 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) Software Testing
4 4 (22.22%) API Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Functional Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Load Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Scrum
4 4 (22.22%) Test Strategy
5 3 (16.67%) BDD
5 3 (16.67%) Code Quality
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (16.67%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) API Management
6 2 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (11.11%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.11%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (5.56%) Go
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) Scala
3 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (44.44%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) Software Quality Assurance
2 2 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (11.11%) iManage
2 2 (11.11%) Intapp
2 2 (11.11%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.56%) BT
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle