Performance Testing Jobs

Performance Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 679 604 439
Rank change year-on-year -75 -165 +47
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 233 370 1,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.39% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.41% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 170 198 612
10th Percentile £37,015 £41,775 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,125 £135,693 £89,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +10.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing.

Salary trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -60 195 £53,500 -17.69% 71
UK excluding London -72 143 £50,000 -13.04% 48
Work from Home -5 98 £51,250 -18.00% 30
London +33 80 £61,556 -12.06% 28
North of England +33 46 £50,000 -16.67% 12
Midlands +14 32 £50,000 -20.00% 6
North West +17 27 £45,000 -18.18% 10
Scotland -58 27 £55,000 +29.41% 7
West Midlands +6 23 £50,000 -4.76% 3
Yorkshire +49 19 £60,500 +0.83% 1
South East -54 19 £47,500 -13.64% 9
East Midlands -11 9 £65,000 -1.89% 3
South West -31 9 £60,000 - 9
Wales -5 5 £45,000 +11.62%
East of England -9 5 £52,500 - 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 14 (6.01%) Confluence
2 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.86%) JBoss
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) GemFire
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.43%) WildFly
3 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.86%) Trello
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.29%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.86%) Ripple
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 63 (27.04%) AWS
2 59 (25.32%) Azure
3 25 (10.73%) BlazeMeter
4 22 (9.44%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (7.30%) GCP
6 15 (6.44%) BrowserStack
7 14 (6.01%) SaaS
8 9 (3.86%) GitHub
9 6 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.72%) Serverless
11 3 (1.29%) PaaS
11 3 (1.29%) Sauce Labs
11 3 (1.29%) Tricentis Tosca
11 3 (1.29%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.86%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.86%) Figma
12 2 (0.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.72%) Wireless
2 2 (0.86%) HTTP
2 2 (0.86%) VPN
3 1 (0.43%) Firewall
3 1 (0.43%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) SAN
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.16%) MongoDB
2 25 (10.73%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.30%) Apache Cassandra
4 14 (6.01%) Relational Database
5 6 (2.58%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.72%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.86%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.86%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.86%) EDMS
7 2 (0.86%) Looker
7 2 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.86%) Redis
8 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.43%) Metadata
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 65 (27.90%) JMeter
2 58 (24.89%) Selenium
3 43 (18.45%) JIRA
4 35 (15.02%) JUnit
5 27 (11.59%) LoadRunner
6 22 (9.44%) Git
7 20 (8.58%) Cypress.io
8 18 (7.73%) Cucumber
9 17 (7.30%) Jenkins
10 15 (6.44%) Postman
11 13 (5.58%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (4.29%) Appium
13 9 (3.86%) TestNG
14 8 (3.43%) Gatling
14 8 (3.43%) GitLab
14 8 (3.43%) SoapUI
15 7 (3.00%) TestRail
16 5 (2.15%) HP UFT
16 5 (2.15%) MSTest
16 5 (2.15%) NeoLoad
General
1 59 (25.32%) Finance
2 57 (24.46%) Social Skills
3 36 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (12.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (11.59%) Banking
5 27 (11.59%) Law
6 19 (8.15%) Private Banking
7 16 (6.87%) Public Sector
8 15 (6.44%) Police
9 9 (3.86%) Retail
10 8 (3.43%) Legal
11 7 (3.00%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.58%) Electronics
12 6 (2.58%) Local Government
12 6 (2.58%) Marketing
13 4 (1.72%) Automotive
13 4 (1.72%) Games
13 4 (1.72%) Welsh Language
14 3 (1.29%) Advertising
14 3 (1.29%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 38 (16.31%) Analyst
2 33 (14.16%) Lead
3 30 (12.88%) Senior
4 29 (12.45%) Test Engineer
5 28 (12.02%) Test Analyst
6 23 (9.87%) Developer
7 21 (9.01%) Software Engineer
8 19 (8.15%) Java Engineer
9 17 (7.30%) Java Software Engineer
9 17 (7.30%) Tester
10 14 (6.01%) QA Engineer
11 11 (4.72%) Test Leader
12 10 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.29%) QA Leader
13 8 (3.43%) Performance Tester
14 7 (3.00%) Java Developer
14 7 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (3.00%) Test Automation Engineer
15 6 (2.58%) Senior Test Engineer
15 6 (2.58%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (11.16%) Spring
2 18 (7.73%) Kafka
3 12 (5.15%) RESTful
4 11 (4.72%) REST
5 9 (3.86%) Playwright
5 9 (3.86%) SOAP
5 9 (3.86%) Web Services
6 8 (3.43%) HTML
6 8 (3.43%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.00%) CSS
8 6 (2.58%) React
9 5 (2.15%) .NET
10 4 (1.72%) LDAP
10 4 (1.72%) OAuth
10 4 (1.72%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.72%) XML
11 3 (1.29%) Gherkin
11 3 (1.29%) Node.js
11 3 (1.29%) Sass
11 3 (1.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.16%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (9.01%) Mobile App
3 16 (6.87%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.00%) Clustering
5 7 (3.00%) Replication
6 6 (2.58%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.58%) PMI
7 4 (1.72%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.29%) Equities
8 3 (1.29%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.29%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.86%) CUDA
9 2 (0.86%) FMCG
9 2 (0.86%) Life Science
9 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.86%) NFT
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.72%) Linux
2 6 (2.58%) Unix
3 3 (1.29%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.86%) Windows
5 1 (0.43%) AIX
5 1 (0.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (57.08%) Test Automation
2 117 (50.21%) Agile
3 77 (33.05%) Software Testing
4 59 (25.32%) DevOps
5 58 (24.89%) Test Scripting
6 56 (24.03%) Regression Testing
7 55 (23.61%) CI/CD
8 46 (19.74%) Functional Testing
9 44 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (18.88%) Test Strategy
10 41 (17.60%) Mentoring
11 39 (16.74%) Computer Science
12 38 (16.31%) Test Management
13 37 (15.88%) SDLC
14 33 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (14.16%) Software Engineering
15 31 (13.30%) Microservices
16 29 (12.45%) Non-Functional Testing
17 28 (12.02%) User Acceptance Testing
18 27 (11.59%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 59 (25.32%) Java
2 35 (15.02%) SQL
3 32 (13.73%) Python
4 27 (11.59%) C#
5 22 (9.44%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.58%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.15%) C
7 5 (2.15%) C++
8 4 (1.72%) Bash
8 4 (1.72%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.29%) Go
9 3 (1.29%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.86%) Groovy
10 2 (0.86%) Rust
10 2 (0.86%) Solidity
10 2 (0.86%) Swift
11 1 (0.43%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) Scala
11 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 50 (21.46%) Degree
2 25 (10.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (7.73%) ISTQB
4 15 (6.44%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.00%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.00%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.58%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.72%) GIAC
9 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.86%) HND
10 2 (0.86%) PhD
11 1 (0.43%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.43%) ISEB
11 1 (0.43%) LPIC
11 1 (0.43%) MCP
11 1 (0.43%) MCSE
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (28.76%) QA
2 17 (7.30%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.15%) GDPR
4 4 (1.72%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.86%) PMO
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (4.72%) Firmware
2 9 (3.86%) Docker
3 6 (2.58%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) GridGain
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (13.73%) Grafana
2 23 (9.87%) Terraform
3 11 (4.72%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.00%) Kibana
5 2 (0.86%) Ansible
5 2 (0.86%) CASB
6 1 (0.43%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.43%) Istio
6 1 (0.43%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (12.02%) Dynatrace
2 24 (10.30%) Splunk
3 19 (8.15%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.58%) Oracle
5 11 (4.72%) Google
6 4 (1.72%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.29%) Databricks
8 2 (0.86%) Adobe
8 2 (0.86%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.86%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.86%) IBM
8 2 (0.86%) iManage
8 2 (0.86%) Intapp
8 2 (0.86%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.43%) Apple
9 1 (0.43%) Citrix
9 1 (0.43%) EMC
9 1 (0.43%) Pega
9 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.43%) VMware