Performance Testing Jobs in the South East

Performance Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 323 339
Rank change year-on-year -43 +16 -52
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 19 91 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.11% 0.60% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.64% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8 25 77
10th Percentile £42,200 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £56,563 £58,750 £78,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £65,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,111 14,259 18,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.82% 94.49% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,939 8,272 12,089
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the South East

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Performance Testing in the South East

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in the South East

Performance Testing
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Thames Valley -22 6 £45,000 -12.20% 3
East Sussex +13 5 - -
Hampshire -13 4 £65,000 +73.33% 2
Oxfordshire -7 3 £45,000 -
Berkshire +5 2 - - 2
Middlesex - 2 £47,750 -
West Sussex +15 1 £70,000 +33.33%
Surrey +1 1 £50,000 -9.09% 1
Buckinghamshire -24 1 £45,000 -10.00% 1
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (5.26%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Azure
1 7 (36.84%) GitHub
2 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) SaaS
4 2 (10.53%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (5.26%) Couchbase
1 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) JIRA
2 8 (42.11%) Jenkins
3 6 (31.58%) JMeter
4 5 (26.32%) Selenium
5 4 (21.05%) Cucumber
6 3 (15.79%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (15.79%) JUnit
6 3 (15.79%) LoadRunner
6 3 (15.79%) Postman
6 3 (15.79%) Serenity BDD
7 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
7 2 (10.53%) Cypress.io
7 2 (10.53%) SoapUI
7 2 (10.53%) TestNG
8 1 (5.26%) Git
8 1 (5.26%) Hudson
8 1 (5.26%) Maven
8 1 (5.26%) Protractor
8 1 (5.26%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (5.26%) Travis CI
General
1 12 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Games
2 2 (10.53%) Police
3 1 (5.26%) Electronics
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Test Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Tester
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Automation Tester
4 2 (10.53%) Performance Tester
4 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) QA Test Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Developer in Test
5 1 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Performance Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Performance Test Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) React Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) Web Services
2 5 (26.32%) RESTful
3 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 2 (10.53%) React
3 2 (10.53%) SOAP
4 1 (5.26%) ADO
4 1 (5.26%) Celery
4 1 (5.26%) CSS
4 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) Node.js
4 1 (5.26%) Playwright
4 1 (5.26%) Puppeteer
4 1 (5.26%) REST
4 1 (5.26%) Spring
4 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.26%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Low-Code
2 1 (5.26%) Animation
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Agile
2 12 (63.16%) CI/CD
2 12 (63.16%) DevOps
3 11 (57.89%) Test Automation
4 8 (42.11%) Software Testing
5 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (31.58%) Regression Testing
6 5 (26.32%) Culture Change
6 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
6 5 (26.32%) Line Management
6 5 (26.32%) Scrum
7 4 (21.05%) Sprint Planning
8 3 (15.79%) Application Performance Monitoring
8 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (15.79%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Performance Engineering
8 3 (15.79%) Performance Measurement
8 3 (15.79%) Performance Monitoring
8 3 (15.79%) Regulatory Compliance
8 3 (15.79%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Java
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) C
3 3 (15.79%) Python
4 2 (10.53%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Go
5 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.26%) VB
5 1 (5.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Firmware
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
1 1 (5.26%) Kibana
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Dynatrace
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.26%) Splunk