Performance Testing Jobs

Performance Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 677 608 441
Rank change year-on-year -69 -167 +38
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 239 349 1,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.38% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.39% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 173 194 600
10th Percentile £37,101 £41,475 £41,725
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,063 £47,500
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 £81,000 £135,693 £87,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £58,750 £53,750
% change year-on-year -14.89% +9.30% +7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90,509 88,622 165,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.69% 95.42% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,528 53,835 83,218
10th Percentile £29,750 £33,950 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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% +8.81%

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 11 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 11 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 -27 204 £53,000 -17.83% 68
UK excluding London -83 144 £50,000 -14.89% 48
Work from Home -13 96 £50,000 -20.00% 31
London +19 85 £60,000 -14.29% 26
North of England +23 48 £50,000 -16.67% 12
Midlands +5 34 £50,000 -20.00% 5
North West +4 29 £45,000 -18.18% 8
West Midlands +8 24 £50,000 -4.76% 3
Scotland -57 24 £55,000 +29.41% 6
Yorkshire +43 19 £60,500 +0.83% 2
South East -64 18 £47,500 -11.63% 11
East Midlands -28 10 £65,000 -1.89% 2
South West -33 10 £61,250 +2.08% 9
Wales -2 5 £45,000 +11.62%
East of England -14 5 £52,500 - 2

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 16 (6.69%) Confluence
2 3 (1.26%) WildFly
3 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.84%) JBoss
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.42%) GemFire
4 1 (0.42%) IIS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.84%) Trello
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (3.35%) Ripple
2 3 (1.26%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 68 (28.45%) AWS
2 60 (25.10%) Azure
3 23 (9.62%) GCP
4 20 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (7.95%) BlazeMeter
6 15 (6.28%) BrowserStack
6 15 (6.28%) SaaS
7 9 (3.77%) GitHub
8 6 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.67%) Serverless
10 3 (1.26%) PaaS
10 3 (1.26%) Sauce Labs
10 3 (1.26%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (1.26%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.84%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.67%) Wireless
2 2 (0.84%) HTTP
2 2 (0.84%) VPN
3 1 (0.42%) Firewall
3 1 (0.42%) Multicast
3 1 (0.42%) SAN
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.46%) MongoDB
2 24 (10.04%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.28%) Apache Cassandra
4 10 (4.18%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.93%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.67%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.84%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.84%) Couchbase
7 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.84%) EDMS
7 2 (0.84%) Looker
7 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.84%) Redis
8 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.42%) Metadata
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 66 (27.62%) JMeter
2 62 (25.94%) Selenium
3 45 (18.83%) JIRA
4 31 (12.97%) JUnit
5 27 (11.30%) LoadRunner
6 24 (10.04%) Git
7 20 (8.37%) Cucumber
7 20 (8.37%) Cypress.io
8 16 (6.69%) Jenkins
9 14 (5.86%) Postman
10 13 (5.44%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (4.60%) TestNG
12 10 (4.18%) Appium
13 8 (3.35%) GitLab
13 8 (3.35%) SoapUI
14 7 (2.93%) Gatling
14 7 (2.93%) TestRail
15 5 (2.09%) HP UFT
15 5 (2.09%) MSTest
15 5 (2.09%) NeoLoad
General
1 60 (25.10%) Finance
2 57 (23.85%) Social Skills
3 36 (15.06%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.72%) Banking
5 27 (11.30%) Law
6 23 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (6.69%) Public Sector
8 15 (6.28%) Police
9 14 (5.86%) Legal
10 13 (5.44%) Private Banking
11 9 (3.77%) Financial Institution
11 9 (3.77%) Retail
12 6 (2.51%) Electronics
12 6 (2.51%) Local Government
12 6 (2.51%) Marketing
13 4 (1.67%) Advertising
13 4 (1.67%) Automotive
13 4 (1.67%) Games
13 4 (1.67%) Welsh Language
14 3 (1.26%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 41 (17.15%) Analyst
2 37 (15.48%) Senior
3 35 (14.64%) Lead
4 33 (13.81%) Test Engineer
5 31 (12.97%) Test Analyst
6 25 (10.46%) Software Engineer
7 23 (9.62%) Developer
8 17 (7.11%) Java Engineer
8 17 (7.11%) Tester
9 15 (6.28%) Java Software Engineer
10 14 (5.86%) QA Engineer
11 12 (5.02%) Test Leader
12 10 (4.18%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (4.18%) QA Leader
12 10 (4.18%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (3.77%) Test Automation Engineer
14 8 (3.35%) Performance Tester
15 7 (2.93%) Java Developer
15 7 (2.93%) Senior Developer
16 6 (2.51%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.30%) Spring
2 16 (6.69%) Kafka
3 12 (5.02%) React
4 11 (4.60%) RESTful
4 11 (4.60%) SOAP
5 9 (3.77%) Playwright
5 9 (3.77%) Web Services
6 8 (3.35%) HTML
6 8 (3.35%) REST
7 7 (2.93%) CSS
8 6 (2.51%) .NET
8 6 (2.51%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.67%) ADO
9 4 (1.67%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.67%) LDAP
9 4 (1.67%) Node.js
9 4 (1.67%) OAuth
9 4 (1.67%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.67%) XML
10 3 (1.26%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.30%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (8.79%) Mobile App
3 16 (6.69%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (3.35%) Blockchain
5 8 (3.35%) NFT
6 7 (2.93%) Clustering
6 7 (2.93%) Replication
7 6 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.51%) PMI
8 4 (1.67%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.26%) Equities
9 3 (1.26%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.84%) CUDA
10 2 (0.84%) FMCG
10 2 (0.84%) Life Science
10 2 (0.84%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.84%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.44%) Linux
2 6 (2.51%) Unix
3 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.84%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) AIX
4 1 (0.42%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (58.58%) Test Automation
2 119 (49.79%) Agile
3 82 (34.31%) Software Testing
4 58 (24.27%) Test Scripting
5 57 (23.85%) Regression Testing
6 55 (23.01%) DevOps
7 49 (20.50%) Functional Testing
8 47 (19.67%) CI/CD
9 46 (19.25%) Test Strategy
10 45 (18.83%) Mentoring
11 42 (17.57%) Computer Science
12 40 (16.74%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (16.74%) Test Management
13 33 (13.81%) SDLC
13 33 (13.81%) Software Engineering
14 32 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (12.13%) Non-Functional Testing
15 29 (12.13%) User Acceptance Testing
16 28 (11.72%) API Testing
16 28 (11.72%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 60 (25.10%) Java
2 33 (13.81%) Python
3 31 (12.97%) SQL
4 29 (12.13%) JavaScript
5 28 (11.72%) C#
6 8 (3.35%) Rust
6 8 (3.35%) Solidity
7 7 (2.93%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.09%) C
8 5 (2.09%) C++
9 4 (1.67%) Bash
9 4 (1.67%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.26%) Go
10 3 (1.26%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.84%) Groovy
12 1 (0.42%) Perl
12 1 (0.42%) Scala
12 1 (0.42%) Swift
12 1 (0.42%) VB
12 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (21.34%) Degree
2 26 (10.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (7.95%) ISTQB
4 18 (7.53%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.93%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.51%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.67%) GIAC
10 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.84%) HND
11 2 (0.84%) PhD
12 1 (0.42%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.42%) ISEB
12 1 (0.42%) LPIC
12 1 (0.42%) MCP
12 1 (0.42%) MCSE
12 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (28.45%) QA
2 16 (6.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.09%) GDPR
4 4 (1.67%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.84%) PMO
6 1 (0.42%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (6.28%) Docker
2 11 (4.60%) Firmware
3 6 (2.51%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) GridGain
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (10.88%) Grafana
2 22 (9.21%) Terraform
3 18 (7.53%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.93%) Kibana
5 2 (0.84%) Ansible
5 2 (0.84%) CASB
6 1 (0.42%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.42%) Istio
6 1 (0.42%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (9.21%) Dynatrace
2 20 (8.37%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.53%) Splunk
4 13 (5.44%) Oracle
5 11 (4.60%) Google
6 5 (2.09%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.26%) Databricks
8 2 (0.84%) Adobe
8 2 (0.84%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.84%) IBM
8 2 (0.84%) iManage
8 2 (0.84%) Intapp
8 2 (0.84%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.42%) Citrix
9 1 (0.42%) CyberTech
9 1 (0.42%) EMC
9 1 (0.42%) Pega
9 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.42%) VMware