Performance Testing Contracts in the West Midlands

Performance Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 120 171
Rank change year-on-year +23 +51 -20
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 17 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.90% 0.15% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.18% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £309 - -
25th Percentile £337 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.73% +10.00% +31.06%
75th Percentile £449 - £550
90th Percentile £555 - £575
England median daily rate £475 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -10.88% -3.09% +13.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,572 1,667 3,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.13% 84.71% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 988 1,128 2,161
10th Percentile £244 £263 £281
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £583
90th Percentile £716 £713 £655
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 53 48
10th Percentile £14.70 £16.02 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.75 £14.36
Median hourly rate £26.13 £27.50 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +55.28% +15.53%
75th Percentile £34.47 £50.00 £20.24
90th Percentile £51.00 £67.50 £32.58
England median hourly rate £37.25 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.29% +27.14% +67.36%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the West Midlands

Performance Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Performance Testing in the West Midlands

Performance Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Testing in the West Midlands

Performance Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Testing in the West Midlands

Performance Testing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Birmingham +22 16 £355 -35.45%
Warwickshire - 1 £600 -
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 12 (70.59%) VoIP
2 9 (52.94%) DHCP
2 9 (52.94%) DNS
2 9 (52.94%) INAP
2 9 (52.94%) RTP
3 6 (35.29%) Intelligent Network
4 3 (17.65%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) JMeter
1 12 (70.59%) Locust
1 12 (70.59%) Robot Framework
1 12 (70.59%) Selenium
1 12 (70.59%) TestCafe
2 1 (5.88%) TestNG
General
1 15 (88.24%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.88%) Law
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Engineering Specialist
1 7 (41.18%) QA Specialist
2 4 (23.53%) Telecoms Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Telecoms Test Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Test Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) QA Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Telecoms Manager
4 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.88%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Test Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Testing Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) LDAP
1 9 (52.94%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Linux
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) CentOS
2 9 (52.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 9 (52.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Test Automation
2 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
3 9 (52.94%) Build Automation
3 9 (52.94%) ITIL
4 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Microservices
6 3 (17.65%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (17.65%) Product Strategy
6 3 (17.65%) Regression Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Resilience Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Robotic Process Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Scalability Testing
6 3 (17.65%) SIEM
6 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Test Management
6 3 (17.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (70.59%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (70.59%) Ansible
1 12 (70.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Dialogic
1 9 (52.94%) Metaswitch
2 1 (5.88%) SAP