Performance Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 620 534 430
Rank change year-on-year -86 -104 -45
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 141 227 511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.38% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.39% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 91 86 243
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,875
25th Percentile £42,625 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £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 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,619 57,513 66,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.96% 95.60% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,236 29,661 40,975
10th Percentile £27,250 £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% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 May 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 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
North of England +45 45 £50,000 -16.67% 8
Midlands +20 32 £50,000 -9.09% 6
North West +23 26 £45,000 -18.18% 7
Scotland -60 26 £61,250 +44.12% 4
West Midlands +42 23 £50,000 -9.09% 2
Yorkshire +64 19 £60,500 +0.83% 1
South East -50 19 £47,500 -13.64% 11
South West -31 10 £62,500 +4.17% 7
East Midlands -4 9 £65,000 +4.00% 4
Wales +1 5 £45,000 +11.62% 1
East of England 0 4 £52,500 +10.53% 6
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 4 (2.84%) Confluence
2 2 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.71%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.42%) Trello
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 40 (28.37%) AWS
2 27 (19.15%) BlazeMeter
3 23 (16.31%) Azure
4 15 (10.64%) BrowserStack
5 8 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (5.67%) GCP
5 8 (5.67%) SaaS
6 7 (4.96%) GitHub
7 4 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.13%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (1.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (1.42%) Figma
9 2 (1.42%) Google App Engine
9 2 (1.42%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.42%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) VPN
2 1 (0.71%) Firewall
2 1 (0.71%) Multicast
2 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.60%) MongoDB
1 22 (15.60%) NoSQL
2 16 (11.35%) Apache Cassandra
3 13 (9.22%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.42%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.42%) EDMS
5 2 (1.42%) Looker
5 2 (1.42%) Redis
6 1 (0.71%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (26.95%) JMeter
2 32 (22.70%) Selenium
3 26 (18.44%) JUnit
4 18 (12.77%) Cypress.io
5 16 (11.35%) JIRA
6 15 (10.64%) Git
7 14 (9.93%) LoadRunner
8 12 (8.51%) Jenkins
9 9 (6.38%) Cucumber
10 7 (4.96%) Appium
10 7 (4.96%) Postman
11 6 (4.26%) GitLab
11 6 (4.26%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (3.55%) HP UFT
12 5 (3.55%) MSTest
13 4 (2.84%) TestNG
14 3 (2.13%) Bitbucket Server
14 3 (2.13%) Serenity BDD
14 3 (2.13%) SpecFlow
15 2 (1.42%) Bitbucket
General
1 47 (33.33%) Finance
2 35 (24.82%) Social Skills
3 28 (19.86%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (19.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 22 (15.60%) Law
5 21 (14.89%) Banking
5 21 (14.89%) Private Banking
6 8 (5.67%) Retail
7 6 (4.26%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.13%) Games
9 3 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.13%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.42%) Advertising
10 2 (1.42%) Automotive
10 2 (1.42%) Billing
10 2 (1.42%) Police
11 1 (0.71%) Electronics
11 1 (0.71%) Legal
11 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (12.77%) Lead
1 18 (12.77%) Test Engineer
2 16 (11.35%) Java Engineer
3 15 (10.64%) Developer
3 15 (10.64%) Java Software Engineer
3 15 (10.64%) Software Engineer
4 12 (8.51%) Senior
5 10 (7.09%) Analyst
6 9 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (6.38%) Test Leader
6 9 (6.38%) Tester
7 8 (5.67%) Test Analyst
8 7 (4.96%) QA Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) QA Leader
9 6 (4.26%) Administrator
9 6 (4.26%) DBA
9 6 (4.26%) Engineering Manager
9 6 (4.26%) Software Engineering Manager
9 6 (4.26%) Web Applications Developer
9 6 (4.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.02%) Spring
2 17 (12.06%) Kafka
3 10 (7.09%) RESTful
4 9 (6.38%) Playwright
5 8 (5.67%) REST
5 8 (5.67%) Spring Boot
6 7 (4.96%) Web Services
7 5 (3.55%) CSS
7 5 (3.55%) HTML
8 3 (2.13%) React
8 3 (2.13%) Sass
8 3 (2.13%) SOAP
8 3 (2.13%) Swagger
9 2 (1.42%) Middleware
10 1 (0.71%) ADO
10 1 (0.71%) Gherkin
10 1 (0.71%) HTML5
10 1 (0.71%) LLVM
10 1 (0.71%) Node.js
10 1 (0.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.73%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (12.77%) Mobile App
3 16 (11.35%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 6 (4.26%) Clustering
5 6 (4.26%) PMI
5 6 (4.26%) Replication
6 5 (3.55%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.42%) FMCG
7 2 (1.42%) Life Science
8 1 (0.71%) Animation
8 1 (0.71%) BBC
8 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.71%) FPGA
8 1 (0.71%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.71%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.71%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.55%) Linux
2 2 (1.42%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.71%) Unix
3 1 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (58.16%) Agile
2 80 (56.74%) Test Automation
3 45 (31.91%) CI/CD
4 43 (30.50%) DevOps
4 43 (30.50%) Software Testing
5 40 (28.37%) Test Scripting
6 33 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (21.99%) Computer Science
7 31 (21.99%) SDLC
8 29 (20.57%) Regression Testing
8 29 (20.57%) Test Strategy
9 28 (19.86%) Mentoring
9 28 (19.86%) Test Management
10 27 (19.15%) Functional Testing
11 26 (18.44%) Microservices
12 25 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (16.31%) Software Engineering
14 22 (15.60%) Unit Testing
15 21 (14.89%) Investment Management
15 21 (14.89%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.95%) Java
2 21 (14.89%) SQL
3 18 (12.77%) C#
4 15 (10.64%) Python
5 14 (9.93%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.13%) C
6 3 (2.13%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.42%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.42%) Swift
7 2 (1.42%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.71%) Bash
8 1 (0.71%) Go
8 1 (0.71%) Groovy
8 1 (0.71%) VB
8 1 (0.71%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (19.15%) Degree
2 20 (14.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.09%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.38%) ISTQB
5 6 (4.26%) PMI Certification
5 6 (4.26%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.55%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.42%) HND
9 1 (0.71%) ISEB
9 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (25.53%) QA
2 2 (1.42%) GDPR
2 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (2.84%) Docker
2 3 (2.13%) Firmware
3 1 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (19.86%) Grafana
2 21 (14.89%) Terraform
3 6 (4.26%) Kibana
3 6 (4.26%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.42%) Ansible
Vendors
1 24 (17.02%) Dynatrace
2 22 (15.60%) Splunk
3 12 (8.51%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.84%) Oracle
5 3 (2.13%) Google
6 2 (1.42%) Adobe
7 1 (0.71%) Apple
7 1 (0.71%) EMC
7 1 (0.71%) IBM
7 1 (0.71%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.71%) Red Hat