The first table below looks at the demand for the Performance Tester role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. 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 21 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Tester
Rank 800 769 771
Rank change year-on-year
-31 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Performance Tester 60 118 100
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.055% 0.097% 0.082%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.103% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 46 102 74
Average salary £42,500 £46,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.60% +3.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,750 £37,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102582 114838 114977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 85352 98508 97090
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
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
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Performance Tester Salary Trend

Performance Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Performance Tester over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Performance Tester Salary Histogram

Performance Tester
Top 28 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 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
England -43 55 £42,500 -8.60%
Yorkshire +11 18 £38,000 +1.33%
West Yorkshire +9 18 £38,000 +1.33%
Leeds +4 18 £38,000 +1.33%
London -12 15 £51,250 -2.38%
North West -22 8 £42,500 -5.55%
East of England +9 6 £50,000 +42.85%
Cheshire -6 6 £42,500 -5.55%
Watford +17 5 - -
Hertfordshire +7 5 - -
City of London +1 5 £55,000 +4.76%
South West -4 4 £44,000 +23.07%
South East -11 4 £45,000 -10.00%
Knutsford - 4 £42,500 -
Berkshire +8 3 - -
Scotland -9 3 £45,000 +5.88%
Edinburgh - 3 £45,000 -
Wiltshire +8 2 £33,000 -5.71%
Swindon +1 2 £33,000 -5.71%
Bournemouth - 2 £55,000 -
Manchester - 2 £42,500 -
Dorset - 2 £55,000 -
Northern Ireland - 1 £40,000 -
Norfolk - 1 £50,000 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £45,000 -
Milton Keynes - 1 £45,000 -
Belfast - 1 £40,000 -
County Antrim - 1 £40,000 -

Performance Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 91 (84.26%) Performance Testing
2 64 (59.26%) LoadRunner
3 46 (42.59%) Finance
4 38 (35.19%) HP
5 30 (27.78%) Java
6 24 (22.22%) QA
7 22 (20.37%) Load Testing
8 20 (18.52%) Software Testing
9 19 (17.59%) Oracle
10 17 (15.74%) SQL
10 17 (15.74%) IBM
10 17 (15.74%) WebSphere
10 17 (15.74%) Telecoms
11 15 (13.89%) ISEB
11 15 (13.89%) Benchmarking
11 15 (13.89%) Linux
11 15 (13.89%) User Stories
12 14 (12.96%) Windows
12 14 (12.96%) HTTP
12 14 (12.96%) Banking
13 13 (12.04%) Internet
13 13 (12.04%) Test Management
14 12 (11.11%) Test Scripting
14 12 (11.11%) Stress Testing
14 12 (11.11%) TMap
14 12 (11.11%) UNIX
14 12 (11.11%) E-Commerce
14 12 (11.11%) Business Analysis
15 11 (10.19%) Retail
15 11 (10.19%) Disaster Recovery

Performance Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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 17 (15.74%) WebSphere
2 9 (8.333%) J2EE
3 7 (6.481%) Servlets
4 6 (5.556%) Web Services
4 6 (5.556%) XML
5 4 (3.704%) soapUI
6 3 (2.778%) JSON
6 3 (2.778%) WAP
6 3 (2.778%) Middleware
6 3 (2.778%) HTML
7 2 (1.852%) .NET
8 1 (0.926%) Apache Flex
8 1 (0.926%) LAMP
8 1 (0.926%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 10 (9.259%) WebSphere Application Server
2 9 (8.333%) Tomcat
3 4 (3.704%) Tuxedo
4 1 (0.926%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.704%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.630%) SAP FI/CO
1 5 (4.630%) SAP CO
1 5 (4.630%) SAP FI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.96%) HTTP
2 13 (12.04%) Internet
3 9 (8.333%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.926%) BSS
4 1 (0.926%) Firewall
4 1 (0.926%) LAN
4 1 (0.926%) WAN
4 1 (0.926%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.333%) DB2
2 2 (1.852%) Big Data
3 1 (0.926%) MySQL
3 1 (0.926%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 64 (59.26%) LoadRunner
2 7 (6.481%) WebDriver
2 7 (6.481%) JMeter
3 5 (4.630%) SilkPerformer
4 4 (3.704%) Selenium
4 4 (3.704%) WebLOAD
4 4 (3.704%) Rational Performance Tester
5 3 (2.778%) QuickTest Pro
5 3 (2.778%) JUnit
5 3 (2.778%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.778%) Hudson
6 2 (1.852%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.926%) JIRA
7 1 (0.926%) Rational Robot
7 1 (0.926%) ProC
7 1 (0.926%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.926%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.926%) TestComplete
General
1 46 (42.59%) Finance
2 17 (15.74%) Telecoms
3 14 (12.96%) Banking
4 11 (10.19%) Retail
5 8 (7.407%) Games
6 6 (5.556%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.778%) Legal
7 3 (2.778%) Publishing
8 1 (0.926%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.926%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.556%) Mainframe
2 2 (1.852%) Open Source
2 2 (1.852%) Client/Server
3 1 (0.926%) Clustering
3 1 (0.926%) Replication
3 1 (0.926%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.89%) Linux
2 14 (12.96%) Windows
3 12 (11.11%) UNIX
4 9 (8.333%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (84.26%) Performance Testing
2 22 (20.37%) Load Testing
3 20 (18.52%) Software Testing
4 15 (13.89%) Benchmarking
4 15 (13.89%) User Stories
5 13 (12.04%) Test Management
6 12 (11.11%) Test Scripting
6 12 (11.11%) Stress Testing
6 12 (11.11%) TMap
6 12 (11.11%) E-Commerce
6 12 (11.11%) Business Analysis
7 11 (10.19%) Disaster Recovery
8 8 (7.407%) Test Strategy
8 8 (7.407%) Non-Functional Testing
9 7 (6.481%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (6.481%) Automated Testing
9 7 (6.481%) Data Analysis
10 5 (4.630%) SOA
11 4 (3.704%) BDD
11 4 (3.704%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.78%) Java
2 17 (15.74%) SQL
3 9 (8.333%) Perl
4 7 (6.481%) C#
5 3 (2.778%) C++
5 3 (2.778%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.852%) VBScript
6 2 (1.852%) C
7 1 (0.926%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.926%) Python
7 1 (0.926%) VB
7 1 (0.926%) PHP
7 1 (0.926%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.926%) RPG
Qualifications
1 15 (13.89%) ISEB
2 9 (8.333%) ISTQB
3 5 (4.630%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.630%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.926%) Degree
4 1 (0.926%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.926%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.926%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (10.19%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.926%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 38 (35.19%) HP
2 19 (17.59%) Oracle
3 17 (15.74%) IBM
4 9 (8.333%) SAP
4 9 (8.333%) JBoss
4 9 (8.333%) Sun
5 6 (5.556%) Microsoft
6 5 (4.630%) Citrix
7 3 (2.778%) Borland
8 2 (1.852%) Progress
9 1 (0.926%) VMware
9 1 (0.926%) OPNET
9 1 (0.926%) Compuware
Cheshire
The environment is currently Java, and candidates would ideally have exposure to the following: Jmeter SoapUI LoadUI Experience required: 2 years working within a structured performance test environment...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 16 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: 20 May 2013