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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 350 410 412
Rank change year-on-year +60 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing Performance Testing 260 297 545
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.53% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.60% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 202 416
10th Percentile £360 £413 £399
25th Percentile £425 £463 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £545
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -9.17% +21.11%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £638 £675 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +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% -55.73%
75th Percentile - £88.06 £21.00
90th Percentile - £89.23 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -55.29%

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 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 15 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 9 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 +80 227 £500 - 68
London +53 152 £500 - 26
Work from Home +43 86 £503 +5.95% 32
UK excluding London +54 71 £500 +5.26% 48
South East +18 23 £438 -14.22% 10
South West +25 20 £584 +11.19% 8
Midlands +25 14 £363 -27.50% 6
East Midlands +21 12 £363 -14.71% 2
North of England +24 7 £475 +1.33% 12
Scotland +36 6 £550 +15.79% 6
North West +15 4 £485 -1.77% 8
North East +14 2 £368 - 2
West Midlands +8 2 £475 -5.00% 4
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 2
East of England -1 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 (14.62%) Confluence
2 9 (3.46%) Apache
2 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.92%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.38%) GemFire
5 1 (0.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 8 (3.08%) Chatbot
2 7 (2.69%) Trello
3 3 (1.15%) Windchill
4 2 (0.77%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Endur
1 3 (1.15%) ENOVIA
1 3 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.15%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.38%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (30.00%) Azure
2 56 (21.54%) AWS
3 40 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (5.38%) Slack
5 12 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (4.62%) GCP
6 11 (4.23%) Entra ID
7 10 (3.85%) BrowserStack
7 10 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (3.46%) BlazeMeter
8 9 (3.46%) Firebase
9 8 (3.08%) PaaS
9 8 (3.08%) SaaS
9 8 (3.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 8 (3.08%) Twilio
10 7 (2.69%) Miro
10 7 (2.69%) Serverless
11 6 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.92%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.08%) BGP
1 8 (3.08%) CTI
1 8 (3.08%) Ethernet VPN
1 8 (3.08%) MPLS
1 8 (3.08%) VoIP
1 8 (3.08%) VPN
2 7 (2.69%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (2.31%) Internet
4 3 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.15%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (3.85%) Oracle Database
4 9 (3.46%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.08%) MongoDB
6 5 (1.92%) MySQL
6 5 (1.92%) Oracle Database 11g
6 5 (1.92%) Power BI
6 5 (1.92%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.54%) Big Data
8 3 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.15%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.15%) Oracle Database 12c
9 2 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.77%) KDB
10 1 (0.38%) DB2
10 1 (0.38%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 67 (25.77%) JMeter
2 60 (23.08%) JIRA
3 44 (16.92%) Selenium
4 35 (13.46%) LoadRunner
5 34 (13.08%) Jenkins
6 30 (11.54%) Visual Studio
7 28 (10.77%) Postman
7 28 (10.77%) SpecFlow
8 23 (8.85%) GitLab
9 22 (8.46%) Cypress.io
10 21 (8.08%) WebDriver
11 18 (6.92%) Git
12 16 (6.15%) Cucumber
13 14 (5.38%) Appium
14 9 (3.46%) NeoLoad
15 8 (3.08%) JUnit
15 8 (3.08%) NUnit
15 8 (3.08%) Robot Framework
15 8 (3.08%) TestRail
16 7 (2.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 76 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (11.92%) Finance
4 19 (7.31%) Banking
4 19 (7.31%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.54%) Back Office
5 17 (6.54%) Telecoms
6 11 (4.23%) Legal
7 9 (3.46%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.46%) Retail
8 7 (2.69%) Law
9 5 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.54%) Wholesale Banking
11 3 (1.15%) Electronics
11 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.15%) Marketing
12 2 (0.77%) Front Office
13 1 (0.38%) Local Government
13 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (19.62%) Senior
2 43 (16.54%) Analyst
3 39 (15.00%) Tester
4 37 (14.23%) Test Analyst
5 34 (13.08%) Lead
5 34 (13.08%) Test Engineer
6 25 (9.62%) Test Leader
7 22 (8.46%) Developer
8 19 (7.31%) Performance Engineer
8 19 (7.31%) Senior Analyst
8 19 (7.31%) Senior Test Analyst
9 15 (5.77%) Architect
9 15 (5.77%) Release Manager
10 13 (5.00%) QA Engineer
11 12 (4.62%) Automation Tester
11 12 (4.62%) Performance Test Engineer
11 12 (4.62%) Performance Test Leader
11 12 (4.62%) Senior Test Engineer
11 12 (4.62%) Test Manager
12 11 (4.23%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.31%) .NET
2 22 (8.46%) AngularJS
3 21 (8.08%) Middleware
4 15 (5.77%) REST
4 15 (5.77%) XML
5 14 (5.38%) Playwright
6 13 (5.00%) WebdriverIO
7 12 (4.62%) .NET Framework
7 12 (4.62%) Web Services
8 9 (3.46%) Kafka
8 9 (3.46%) SOAP
9 8 (3.08%) NETCONF
9 8 (3.08%) RESTCONF
10 7 (2.69%) Gherkin
10 7 (2.69%) GraphQL
10 7 (2.69%) YANG
11 5 (1.92%) ADO
11 5 (1.92%) JSON
11 5 (1.92%) LDAP
11 5 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.62%) Management Information System
2 8 (3.08%) IVR
2 8 (3.08%) Product Ownership
3 5 (1.92%) Mobile App
4 4 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.54%) Hedge funds
4 4 (1.54%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.54%) Replication
5 3 (1.15%) Algorithms
5 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.15%) NHS
5 3 (1.15%) PACS
5 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.77%) Derivative
7 1 (0.38%) CMDB
7 1 (0.38%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.38%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.38%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.85%) Windows
2 9 (3.46%) Linux
3 4 (1.54%) Unix
4 3 (1.15%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Android
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 126 (48.46%) Agile
3 77 (29.62%) DevOps
4 65 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 60 (23.08%) Test Strategy
6 56 (21.54%) Scrum
7 53 (20.38%) Non-Functional Testing
8 44 (16.92%) Functional Testing
9 43 (16.54%) Software Testing
10 38 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (14.62%) Waterfall
11 37 (14.23%) Stakeholder Management
12 36 (13.85%) Regression Testing
13 34 (13.08%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (12.31%) Test Scripting
15 29 (11.15%) Manual Testing
15 29 (11.15%) Operational Acceptance Testing
16 28 (10.77%) BDD
17 26 (10.00%) Test Planning
18 25 (9.62%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (20.00%) C#
2 43 (16.54%) Java
2 43 (16.54%) SQL
3 33 (12.69%) Python
4 25 (9.62%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.38%) PowerShell
6 11 (4.23%) TypeScript
7 10 (3.85%) C++
8 9 (3.46%) Scala
9 6 (2.31%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.54%) C
11 3 (1.15%) Swift
12 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.38%) Bicep
13 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.38%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 53 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 43 (16.54%) Degree
4 23 (8.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (6.15%) Master's Degree
6 13 (5.00%) ISTQB
7 10 (3.85%) ISEB
8 9 (3.46%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (3.08%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.54%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.15%) CCNA
12 3 (1.15%) CCNP
12 3 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (19.62%) QA
2 17 (6.54%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.08%) GDPR
3 8 (3.08%) HIPAA
3 8 (3.08%) PCI DSS
3 8 (3.08%) SOC 2
4 3 (1.15%) HL7
4 3 (1.15%) WCAG
5 2 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 16 (6.15%) Docker
2 12 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.38%) GridGain
3 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (13.08%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.00%) Ansible
3 8 (3.08%) Grafana
4 7 (2.69%) Kibana
5 6 (2.31%) Terraform
6 5 (1.92%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.38%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 57 (21.92%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.23%) Oracle
3 14 (5.38%) Splunk
4 11 (4.23%) Google
5 10 (3.85%) Dynatrace
6 8 (3.08%) Avaya
6 8 (3.08%) Cisco
6 8 (3.08%) Genesys
7 7 (2.69%) CA Agile Central
8 6 (2.31%) HP
8 6 (2.31%) SAP
9 5 (1.92%) iManage
9 5 (1.92%) Intapp
9 5 (1.92%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.54%) AppDynamics
10 4 (1.54%) IBM
10 4 (1.54%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.15%) PTC
11 3 (1.15%) Siemens
11 3 (1.15%) VMware