The first table below looks at the demand for the Performance Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Performance Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Tester
Rank 788 757 768
Rank change year-on-year
-31 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Performance Tester 53 109 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.052% 0.096% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.101% 0.074%
Number of salaries quoted 38 95 59
Average salary £42,500 £47,500 £44,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.52% +7.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,850 £40,700 £33,600
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £65,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-8.33% +12.50%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95490 107493 111049
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.41% 94.82% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 80297 92843 94497
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,925 £27,500 £26,250
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Performance Tester
UK

Performance Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Performance Tester across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Performance Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Tester
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Performance Tester across the England region.

England Performance Tester Salary Trend

Performance Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Performance Tester across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Performance Tester Salary Histogram

Performance Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tester within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Yorkshire +18 16 £38,000 +1.33%
London +4 15 £53,750 +2.38%
North West -10 8 £42,500 -5.55%
East of England +5 7 - -
South East -2 4 £45,000 -10.00%
South West -2 3 £55,000 +37.50%
Performance Tester
UK

Performance Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Performance Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Performance Tester in their job title.

1 85 (84.16%) Performance Testing
2 55 (54.46%) LoadRunner
3 49 (48.51%) Finance
4 33 (32.67%) HP
5 27 (26.73%) Java
6 24 (23.76%) QA
7 22 (21.78%) Load Testing
8 21 (20.79%) Software Testing
8 21 (20.79%) Oracle
9 19 (18.81%) SQL
9 19 (18.81%) IBM
10 18 (17.82%) Linux
11 16 (15.84%) Telecoms
11 16 (15.84%) HTTP
12 15 (14.85%) Internet
12 15 (14.85%) Benchmarking
12 15 (14.85%) Windows
12 15 (14.85%) WebSphere
12 15 (14.85%) User Stories
13 14 (13.86%) ISEB
13 14 (13.86%) E-Commerce
14 13 (12.87%) Banking
14 13 (12.87%) Stress Testing
14 13 (12.87%) Test Management
14 13 (12.87%) Test Scripting
15 12 (11.88%) TMap
15 12 (11.88%) Retail
15 12 (11.88%) Business Analysis
15 12 (11.88%) UNIX
15 12 (11.88%) WebSphere Application Server

Performance Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Performance Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Performance Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (14.85%) WebSphere
2 11 (10.89%) J2EE
3 8 (7.921%) Servlets
4 6 (5.941%) Web Services
4 6 (5.941%) XML
5 5 (4.950%) Middleware
6 4 (3.960%) soapUI
7 3 (2.970%) WAP
7 3 (2.970%) HTML
7 3 (2.970%) JSON
8 2 (1.980%) .NET
9 1 (0.990%) SOAP
9 1 (0.990%) LAMP
9 1 (0.990%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 12 (11.88%) WebSphere Application Server
2 11 (10.89%) Tomcat
3 4 (3.960%) Tuxedo
4 1 (0.990%) Rendezvous
4 1 (0.990%) Apache
4 1 (0.990%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 4 (3.960%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.950%) SAP FI
1 5 (4.950%) SAP FI/CO
1 5 (4.950%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.84%) HTTP
2 15 (14.85%) Internet
3 11 (10.89%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.990%) LAN
4 1 (0.990%) WAN
4 1 (0.990%) SAN
4 1 (0.990%) Firewall
4 1 (0.990%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.89%) DB2
2 2 (1.980%) Big Data
3 1 (0.990%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.990%) MySQL
3 1 (0.990%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 55 (54.46%) LoadRunner
2 7 (6.931%) WebDriver
3 6 (5.941%) JMeter
4 5 (4.950%) SilkPerformer
5 4 (3.960%) Rational Performance Tester
5 4 (3.960%) WebLOAD
6 3 (2.970%) Selenium
6 3 (2.970%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.970%) Hudson
6 3 (2.970%) JUnit
7 2 (1.980%) QuickTest Pro
7 2 (1.980%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.990%) Visual Studio Team System
8 1 (0.990%) ProC
8 1 (0.990%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.990%) JIRA
General
1 49 (48.51%) Finance
2 16 (15.84%) Telecoms
3 13 (12.87%) Banking
4 12 (11.88%) Retail
5 8 (7.921%) Manufacturing
5 8 (7.921%) Games
6 3 (2.970%) Legal
6 3 (2.970%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.941%) Mainframe
2 2 (1.980%) Client/Server
2 2 (1.980%) Open Source
3 1 (0.990%) Replication
3 1 (0.990%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.82%) Linux
2 15 (14.85%) Windows
3 12 (11.88%) UNIX
4 11 (10.89%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (84.16%) Performance Testing
2 22 (21.78%) Load Testing
3 21 (20.79%) Software Testing
4 15 (14.85%) Benchmarking
4 15 (14.85%) User Stories
5 14 (13.86%) E-Commerce
6 13 (12.87%) Stress Testing
6 13 (12.87%) Test Management
6 13 (12.87%) Test Scripting
7 12 (11.88%) TMap
7 12 (11.88%) Business Analysis
8 11 (10.89%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (7.921%) Test Strategy
9 8 (7.921%) Data Analysis
10 7 (6.931%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (6.931%) Automated Testing
10 7 (6.931%) Non-Functional Testing
11 4 (3.960%) Configuration Management
11 4 (3.960%) Root Cause Analysis
12 3 (2.970%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (26.73%) Java
2 19 (18.81%) SQL
3 11 (10.89%) Perl
4 6 (5.941%) C#
5 3 (2.970%) C++
5 3 (2.970%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.980%) C
7 1 (0.990%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.990%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.990%) VBScript
7 1 (0.990%) VB
7 1 (0.990%) PHP
7 1 (0.990%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.990%) RPG
7 1 (0.990%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (13.86%) ISEB
2 9 (8.911%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.990%) Degree
3 1 (0.990%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (23.76%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.990%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.990%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (8.911%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.990%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 33 (32.67%) HP
2 21 (20.79%) Oracle
3 19 (18.81%) IBM
4 11 (10.89%) JBoss
4 11 (10.89%) Sun
5 9 (8.911%) SAP
6 6 (5.941%) Microsoft
7 5 (4.950%) Citrix
8 3 (2.970%) Borland
9 2 (1.980%) Progress
10 1 (0.990%) Compuware
10 1 (0.990%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.990%) VMware
10 1 (0.990%) OPNET
East London
At least three years' performance software testing experience. oExperience must be within a UNIX/Linux environment oCandidates with good performance testing experience outside of a Financial Services environment...
Aston Carter
Salary: £65000 - £80000 per annum + annual bonus + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
West London
Qualified to ISEB/ISTQB Foundation level - Software testing... - Extensive experience testing under UNIX/Linux... - Experience of scripting (eg Bash, Perl, Python)... - Experience with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and...
OpenBet Technology
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 10 May 2013
Chiswick, West London, United Kingdom
OpenBet are currently recruiting for a Performance Tester (ISEB/ISTQB, Tester, SOAP, Unix/Linux)... - Extensive experience testing under UNIX/Linux... - Experience of scripting (eg Bash, Perl, Python)... - Experience...
OpenBet
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013