Performance Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Performance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Performance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 637 558 417
Rank change year-on-year -79 -141 -30
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 143 172 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.31% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.33% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 99 81 266
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,600 £37,188
25th Percentile £43,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +11.63% +7.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Performance Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,702 52,760 72,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.77% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,767 28,367 41,386
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +12 48 £50,000 -16.67% 13
Midlands -7 35 £50,000 -20.00% 6
North West 0 29 £45,000 -18.18% 8
West Midlands +12 25 £50,000 -4.76% 4
Scotland -63 23 £55,000 +29.41% 5
Yorkshire +51 19 £60,500 +0.83% 3
South East -66 17 £47,500 -13.64% 10
East Midlands -21 10 £65,000 -1.89% 2
South West -44 10 £61,250 +2.08% 9
Wales -1 5 £45,000 +11.62%
East of England -17 5 £52,500 - 2
Performance Testing
UK

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 6 (4.20%) Confluence
2 3 (2.10%) WildFly
3 2 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.40%) JBoss
4 1 (0.70%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.40%) Trello
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.27%) AWS
2 26 (18.18%) Azure
3 18 (12.59%) BlazeMeter
4 15 (10.49%) BrowserStack
5 9 (6.29%) SaaS
6 8 (5.59%) GCP
6 8 (5.59%) GitHub
7 7 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.10%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (1.40%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (1.40%) Figma
10 2 (1.40%) Google App Engine
10 2 (1.40%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.40%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.70%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) VPN
2 1 (0.70%) Firewall
2 1 (0.70%) Multicast
2 1 (0.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.69%) NoSQL
2 20 (13.99%) MongoDB
3 14 (9.79%) Apache Cassandra
4 7 (4.90%) Relational Database
4 7 (4.90%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.40%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.40%) Couchbase
5 2 (1.40%) EDMS
5 2 (1.40%) Looker
5 2 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (30.77%) JMeter
2 41 (28.67%) Selenium
3 21 (14.69%) JUnit
4 19 (13.29%) Cypress.io
4 19 (13.29%) Git
5 15 (10.49%) JIRA
5 15 (10.49%) LoadRunner
6 13 (9.09%) Cucumber
6 13 (9.09%) Jenkins
7 7 (4.90%) Appium
7 7 (4.90%) Postman
7 7 (4.90%) TestNG
8 6 (4.20%) GitLab
8 6 (4.20%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (3.50%) HP UFT
9 5 (3.50%) MSTest
10 3 (2.10%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (2.10%) Serenity BDD
10 3 (2.10%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.40%) SoapUI
General
1 40 (27.97%) Finance
2 31 (21.68%) Social Skills
3 28 (19.58%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 16 (11.19%) Banking
6 13 (9.09%) Law
7 12 (8.39%) Private Banking
8 6 (4.20%) Retail
9 4 (2.80%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.10%) Advertising
10 3 (2.10%) Games
10 3 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.40%) Automotive
11 2 (1.40%) Billing
11 2 (1.40%) Police
12 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.70%) Legal
12 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (16.78%) Test Engineer
2 21 (14.69%) Lead
3 19 (13.29%) Senior
4 17 (11.89%) Developer
5 16 (11.19%) Java Engineer
6 14 (9.79%) Analyst
6 14 (9.79%) Java Software Engineer
6 14 (9.79%) Software Engineer
7 12 (8.39%) Test Analyst
8 11 (7.69%) Test Leader
9 10 (6.99%) Tester
10 9 (6.29%) QA Engineer
10 9 (6.29%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) QA Leader
12 6 (4.20%) Administrator
12 6 (4.20%) Applications Developer
12 6 (4.20%) DBA
12 6 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) Web Applications Developer
12 6 (4.20%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.59%) Spring
2 15 (10.49%) Kafka
3 10 (6.99%) RESTful
4 9 (6.29%) Playwright
5 8 (5.59%) Web Services
6 7 (4.90%) SOAP
7 6 (4.20%) CSS
7 6 (4.20%) HTML
7 6 (4.20%) REST
7 6 (4.20%) Spring Boot
8 4 (2.80%) ADO
9 3 (2.10%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.10%) Java EE
9 3 (2.10%) OpenJDK
9 3 (2.10%) React
9 3 (2.10%) Sass
9 3 (2.10%) Swagger
10 2 (1.40%) .NET
10 2 (1.40%) Node.js
10 2 (1.40%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (12.59%) Mobile App
3 16 (11.19%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.20%) Clustering
4 6 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (4.20%) PMI
4 6 (4.20%) Replication
5 2 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.40%) FMCG
5 2 (1.40%) Life Science
6 1 (0.70%) Animation
6 1 (0.70%) BBC
6 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.70%) FPGA
6 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.70%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.70%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.90%) Linux
2 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.70%) Unix
2 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (60.84%) Test Automation
2 74 (51.75%) Agile
3 51 (35.66%) Software Testing
4 39 (27.27%) Test Scripting
5 37 (25.87%) DevOps
6 34 (23.78%) CI/CD
7 31 (21.68%) Functional Testing
7 31 (21.68%) Mentoring
7 31 (21.68%) Test Strategy
8 30 (20.98%) Regression Testing
8 30 (20.98%) Test Management
9 28 (19.58%) Computer Science
9 28 (19.58%) SDLC
10 26 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (16.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (14.69%) Test Planning
13 20 (13.99%) Microservices
14 19 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (11.89%) Performance Monitoring
16 16 (11.19%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (23.78%) Java
2 21 (14.69%) C#
3 17 (11.89%) SQL
4 16 (11.19%) JavaScript
4 16 (11.19%) Python
5 3 (2.10%) C
5 3 (2.10%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.10%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.40%) Go
7 1 (0.70%) Bash
7 1 (0.70%) Groovy
7 1 (0.70%) Swift
7 1 (0.70%) VB
7 1 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (20.98%) Degree
2 23 (16.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (9.79%) Security Cleared
4 11 (7.69%) ISTQB
5 6 (4.20%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.20%) PMI Certification
5 6 (4.20%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.50%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.40%) HND
8 1 (0.70%) ISEB
8 1 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (25.87%) QA
2 2 (1.40%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.40%) GDPR
2 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (2.80%) Docker
2 3 (2.10%) Firmware
3 1 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (13.99%) Grafana
2 19 (13.29%) Terraform
3 7 (4.90%) Kibana
3 7 (4.90%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (10.49%) Dynatrace
2 14 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 14 (9.79%) Splunk
3 5 (3.50%) Oracle
4 3 (2.10%) Google
5 2 (1.40%) Adobe
5 2 (1.40%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.70%) CyberTech
6 1 (0.70%) EMC
6 1 (0.70%) IBM
6 1 (0.70%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.70%) OpenAI