Performance Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 657 539 469
Rank change year-on-year -118 -70 +10
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 240 505 1,172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.48% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.50% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 175 238 536
10th Percentile £37,101 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,063 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £62,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% +4.58% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £79,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £122,500 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.50% +7.62% +8.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England -66 202 £55,000 -15.38% 55
UK excluding London -95 147 £50,000 -11.50% 42
Work from Home +12 106 £52,500 -16.00% 31
London +11 83 £66,250 -10.17% 18
North of England +44 48 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Midlands +29 32 £50,000 -9.09% 8
North West +34 29 £45,000 -25.00% 5
Scotland -74 27 £52,500 +23.53% 6
West Midlands +42 23 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Yorkshire +72 19 £60,500 +0.83%
South East -41 19 £47,500 -9.52% 9
South West -16 11 £62,500 +4.17% 6
East Midlands -9 9 £65,000 +4.00% 5
Wales -2 5 £45,000 -3.88% 1
East of England -5 5 £55,000 -4.35% 7

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (5.42%) Confluence
2 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.42%) GemFire
3 1 (0.42%) IIS
3 1 (0.42%) JBoss
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.83%) Trello
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 63 (26.25%) Azure
2 60 (25.00%) AWS
3 28 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (11.25%) BlazeMeter
5 16 (6.67%) GCP
6 15 (6.25%) BrowserStack
6 15 (6.25%) SaaS
7 12 (5.00%) GitHub
8 4 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.67%) PaaS
8 4 (1.67%) Serverless
9 3 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.25%) IaaS
9 3 (1.25%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.25%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (1.25%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.25%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.67%) Wireless
2 2 (0.83%) HTTP
2 2 (0.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.42%) DNS
3 1 (0.42%) Firewall
3 1 (0.42%) Multicast
3 1 (0.42%) SAN
3 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.83%) MongoDB
2 23 (9.58%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 16 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 8 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.67%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.83%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.83%) EDMS
6 2 (0.83%) Looker
6 2 (0.83%) Redis
7 1 (0.42%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.42%) Metadata
7 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.42%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 68 (28.33%) JMeter
2 58 (24.17%) Selenium
3 43 (17.92%) JIRA
4 34 (14.17%) JUnit
5 28 (11.67%) LoadRunner
6 24 (10.00%) Jenkins
7 21 (8.75%) Git
8 20 (8.33%) Cypress.io
8 20 (8.33%) Postman
9 14 (5.83%) Cucumber
10 13 (5.42%) Gatling
10 13 (5.42%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (3.75%) SpecFlow
12 8 (3.33%) Appium
12 8 (3.33%) GitLab
13 7 (2.92%) SoapUI
13 7 (2.92%) TeamCity
14 6 (2.50%) TestNG
15 5 (2.08%) HP UFT
15 5 (2.08%) MSTest
General
1 61 (25.42%) Finance
1 61 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 36 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (12.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 27 (11.25%) Banking
4 27 (11.25%) Law
5 21 (8.75%) Private Banking
6 15 (6.25%) Police
7 13 (5.42%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.58%) Retail
9 6 (2.50%) Electronics
9 6 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.50%) Local Government
9 6 (2.50%) Marketing
10 4 (1.67%) Automotive
10 4 (1.67%) Games
10 4 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.67%) Welsh Language
11 3 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.25%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (15.00%) Analyst
1 36 (15.00%) Lead
2 29 (12.08%) Senior
3 28 (11.67%) Test Engineer
4 26 (10.83%) Test Analyst
5 21 (8.75%) Developer
6 18 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 16 (6.67%) Java Engineer
7 16 (6.67%) Tester
8 15 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
8 15 (6.25%) QA Engineer
9 12 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.00%) Test Leader
10 11 (4.58%) QA Leader
11 9 (3.75%) Engineering Manager
12 7 (2.92%) Performance Tester
13 6 (2.50%) Administrator
13 6 (2.50%) Architect
13 6 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (2.50%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.00%) Spring
2 19 (7.92%) Kafka
3 16 (6.67%) REST
4 12 (5.00%) RESTful
5 11 (4.58%) .NET
6 9 (3.75%) Playwright
6 9 (3.75%) Web Services
7 8 (3.33%) SOAP
7 8 (3.33%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.92%) .NET Framework
8 7 (2.92%) HTML
9 6 (2.50%) CSS
9 6 (2.50%) Node.js
10 4 (1.67%) LDAP
10 4 (1.67%) OAuth
10 4 (1.67%) OAuth2
10 4 (1.67%) React
10 4 (1.67%) XML
11 3 (1.25%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (1.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.83%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (7.92%) Mobile App
3 17 (7.08%) Product Ownership
4 15 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.33%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.92%) Clustering
7 7 (2.92%) Replication
8 6 (2.50%) PMI
9 5 (2.08%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.67%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.25%) Equities
11 3 (1.25%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.83%) Algorithms
12 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.83%) CUDA
12 2 (0.83%) FMCG
12 2 (0.83%) Life Science
12 2 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.17%) Linux
2 6 (2.50%) Unix
3 3 (1.25%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) AIX
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (56.67%) Test Automation
2 121 (50.42%) Agile
3 79 (32.92%) Software Testing
4 67 (27.92%) DevOps
5 65 (27.08%) CI/CD
6 60 (25.00%) Test Scripting
7 55 (22.92%) Regression Testing
8 48 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 45 (18.75%) Functional Testing
9 45 (18.75%) Test Strategy
10 39 (16.25%) Mentoring
11 38 (15.83%) SDLC
12 36 (15.00%) Computer Science
12 36 (15.00%) Test Management
13 35 (14.58%) Software Engineering
14 33 (13.75%) Microservices
15 30 (12.50%) API Testing
15 30 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (12.08%) Non-Functional Testing
17 28 (11.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 57 (23.75%) Java
2 38 (15.83%) SQL
3 31 (12.92%) C#
3 31 (12.92%) Python
4 21 (8.75%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.50%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.08%) Bash
6 5 (2.08%) C
6 5 (2.08%) C++
7 4 (1.67%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.25%) Go
8 3 (1.25%) Groovy
8 3 (1.25%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.25%) Ruby
9 2 (0.83%) Scala
9 2 (0.83%) Swift
10 1 (0.42%) Perl
10 1 (0.42%) PHP
10 1 (0.42%) VB
10 1 (0.42%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (19.58%) Degree
2 22 (9.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (7.50%) ISTQB
4 16 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.75%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.50%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.67%) GIAC
9 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.83%) HND
10 2 (0.83%) PhD
11 1 (0.42%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.42%) ISEB
11 1 (0.42%) LPIC
11 1 (0.42%) MCP
11 1 (0.42%) MCSE
11 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (29.17%) QA
2 20 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.08%) GDPR
4 3 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.83%) PMO
5 2 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (4.58%) Firmware
2 9 (3.75%) Docker
3 6 (2.50%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) GridGain
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (13.75%) Grafana
2 22 (9.17%) Terraform
3 12 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.50%) Kibana
5 2 (0.83%) Ansible
5 2 (0.83%) CASB
5 2 (0.83%) Istio
6 1 (0.42%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.42%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.42%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (13.33%) Dynatrace
2 26 (10.83%) Splunk
3 21 (8.75%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.58%) Google
4 11 (4.58%) Oracle
5 4 (1.67%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.25%) Databricks
7 2 (0.83%) Adobe
7 2 (0.83%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.83%) IBM
7 2 (0.83%) iManage
7 2 (0.83%) Intapp
8 1 (0.42%) Apple
8 1 (0.42%) Citrix
8 1 (0.42%) EMC
8 1 (0.42%) Pega
8 1 (0.42%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.42%) VMware