Performance Testing Jobs in England

Performance Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 641 573 485
Rank change year-on-year -68 -88 +16
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 195 390 922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.42% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.44% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 158 208 471
10th Percentile £36,250 £47,125 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £122,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,078 88,196 126,702
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.76% 95.63% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,838 52,122 73,896
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £45,910 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,650 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
London +4 79 £65,000 -13.33% 15
North of England +27 46 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Midlands +38 32 £50,000 -9.09% 9
North West +31 27 £45,000 -25.00% 5
West Midlands +32 23 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Yorkshire +70 19 £60,500 +0.83%
South East -48 19 £47,500 -13.64% 8
South West -31 10 £62,500 +4.17% 10
East Midlands -7 9 £65,000 +4.00% 6
East of England +6 5 £55,000 +15.79% 5
Performance Testing
UK

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (6.15%) Confluence
2 2 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.51%) GemFire
3 1 (0.51%) IIS
3 1 (0.51%) JBoss
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.03%) Trello
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.54%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 57 (29.23%) Azure
2 38 (19.49%) AWS
3 26 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (7.69%) BrowserStack
4 15 (7.69%) GCP
4 15 (7.69%) SaaS
5 10 (5.13%) GitHub
6 6 (3.08%) BlazeMeter
7 4 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.05%) Serverless
8 3 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.54%) PaaS
8 3 (1.54%) Sauce Labs
8 3 (1.54%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.54%) WhatsApp
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.03%) Figma
9 2 (1.03%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.05%) Wireless
2 2 (1.03%) HTTP
2 2 (1.03%) VPN
3 1 (0.51%) Firewall
3 1 (0.51%) Multicast
3 1 (0.51%) SAN
3 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.13%) Relational Database
2 8 (4.10%) NoSQL
3 7 (3.59%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.03%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.03%) Looker
4 2 (1.03%) Redis
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.51%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.51%) Metadata
5 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 60 (30.77%) JMeter
2 53 (27.18%) Selenium
3 38 (19.49%) JIRA
4 26 (13.33%) LoadRunner
5 21 (10.77%) Jenkins
6 17 (8.72%) Git
7 15 (7.69%) Postman
8 14 (7.18%) Cypress.io
9 13 (6.67%) Team Foundation Server
10 12 (6.15%) Cucumber
10 12 (6.15%) JUnit
11 11 (5.64%) Gatling
12 8 (4.10%) Appium
12 8 (4.10%) SpecFlow
13 6 (3.08%) TeamCity
13 6 (3.08%) TestNG
14 5 (2.56%) GitLab
14 5 (2.56%) HP UFT
14 5 (2.56%) MSTest
14 5 (2.56%) NeoLoad
General
1 58 (29.74%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.97%) Finance
3 35 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.18%) Police
5 11 (5.64%) Retail
6 10 (5.13%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.08%) Electronics
9 5 (2.56%) Law
9 5 (2.56%) Local Government
9 5 (2.56%) Marketing
10 4 (2.05%) Automotive
10 4 (2.05%) Banking
10 4 (2.05%) Games
10 4 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.54%) Front Office
11 3 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.54%) Legal
12 2 (1.03%) Billing
12 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (16.92%) Analyst
2 31 (15.90%) Lead
3 25 (12.82%) Test Analyst
4 23 (11.79%) Senior
5 21 (10.77%) Developer
6 19 (9.74%) Test Engineer
7 16 (8.21%) Tester
8 12 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (5.64%) QA Engineer
9 11 (5.64%) Test Leader
10 9 (4.62%) QA Leader
11 7 (3.59%) Performance Tester
12 6 (3.08%) Administrator
12 6 (3.08%) Applications Developer
12 6 (3.08%) DBA
12 6 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (3.08%) Systems Analyst
12 6 (3.08%) Systems Test Analyst
12 6 (3.08%) Web Applications Developer
12 6 (3.08%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.15%) RESTful
2 9 (4.62%) Playwright
3 8 (4.10%) .NET
3 8 (4.10%) REST
3 8 (4.10%) Web Services
4 7 (3.59%) HTML
5 6 (3.08%) .NET Framework
5 6 (3.08%) CSS
5 6 (3.08%) Node.js
6 4 (2.05%) LDAP
6 4 (2.05%) React
7 3 (1.54%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.54%) Kafka
7 3 (1.54%) PySpark
7 3 (1.54%) Sass
7 3 (1.54%) SOAP
7 3 (1.54%) Swagger
8 2 (1.03%) JSON
8 2 (1.03%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.03%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.31%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (9.74%) Mobile App
3 16 (8.21%) Product Ownership
4 14 (7.18%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.59%) Clustering
5 7 (3.59%) Replication
6 6 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (3.08%) PMI
7 5 (2.56%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.05%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.54%) Equities
9 3 (1.54%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.03%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.03%) CUDA
10 2 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.03%) FMCG
10 2 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.51%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.62%) Linux
2 3 (1.54%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.54%) Windows
3 1 (0.51%) AIX
3 1 (0.51%) Android
3 1 (0.51%) Unix
3 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (61.54%) Test Automation
2 91 (46.67%) Agile
3 74 (37.95%) Software Testing
4 55 (28.21%) Test Scripting
5 54 (27.69%) Regression Testing
6 48 (24.62%) DevOps
7 44 (22.56%) Functional Testing
8 43 (22.05%) Test Strategy
9 40 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (18.97%) CI/CD
11 33 (16.92%) Test Management
12 32 (16.41%) Mentoring
13 30 (15.38%) Computer Science
14 25 (12.82%) User Acceptance Testing
15 24 (12.31%) API Testing
16 23 (11.79%) SDLC
17 22 (11.28%) Code Quality
17 22 (11.28%) Performance Monitoring
18 21 (10.77%) Defect Management
19 20 (10.26%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 32 (16.41%) Java
2 29 (14.87%) C#
3 26 (13.33%) Python
4 24 (12.31%) SQL
5 16 (8.21%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.56%) C
6 5 (2.56%) C++
7 4 (2.05%) Bash
7 4 (2.05%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.54%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.54%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.54%) Ruby
9 2 (1.03%) Go
9 2 (1.03%) Swift
10 1 (0.51%) Groovy
10 1 (0.51%) Perl
10 1 (0.51%) PHP
10 1 (0.51%) Scala
10 1 (0.51%) VB
10 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (23.08%) Degree
2 22 (11.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (7.18%) ISTQB
3 14 (7.18%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.59%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.08%) DV Cleared
5 6 (3.08%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.03%) HND
9 2 (1.03%) PhD
10 1 (0.51%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.51%) ISEB
10 1 (0.51%) LPIC
10 1 (0.51%) MCP
10 1 (0.51%) MCSE
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (32.31%) QA
2 13 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.56%) GDPR
4 3 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.03%) PMO
6 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (5.64%) Firmware
2 8 (4.10%) Docker
3 6 (3.08%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) GridGain
4 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.59%) Grafana
2 7 (3.59%) Terraform
3 6 (3.08%) Kibana
4 2 (1.03%) Ansible
4 2 (1.03%) CASB
5 1 (0.51%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.51%) Istio
5 1 (0.51%) Perfmon
5 1 (0.51%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.51%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.64%) Google
3 10 (5.13%) Dynatrace
4 6 (3.08%) Oracle
5 5 (2.56%) Splunk
6 3 (1.54%) Databricks
6 3 (1.54%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.03%) Adobe
7 2 (1.03%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.03%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.03%) IBM
7 2 (1.03%) iManage
7 2 (1.03%) Intapp
8 1 (0.51%) Apple
8 1 (0.51%) Citrix
8 1 (0.51%) EMC
8 1 (0.51%) New Relic
8 1 (0.51%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.51%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.51%) VMware