Performance Testing Jobs with Work from Home Options

Performance Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 502 396
Rank change year-on-year +17 -106 -18
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 100 168 589
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.41% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.42% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 85 125 344
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £88,911 £90,000
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,884 39,545 66,696
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 23,455 27,516 41,159
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Performance Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Testing.

Performance Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Performance Testing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) GemFire
2 1 (1.00%) JBoss
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.00%) Azure
2 32 (32.00%) AWS
3 19 (19.00%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (12.00%) BrowserStack
5 7 (7.00%) GCP
6 6 (6.00%) SaaS
7 4 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.00%) GitHub
8 3 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.00%) BlazeMeter
8 3 (3.00%) Sauce Labs
8 3 (3.00%) Serverless
9 2 (2.00%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (2.00%) Figma
9 2 (2.00%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.00%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.00%) WhatsApp
10 1 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.00%) Wireless
2 1 (1.00%) Firewall
2 1 (1.00%) Multicast
2 1 (1.00%) SAN
2 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (7.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.00%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.00%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.00%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (32.00%) Selenium
2 29 (29.00%) JMeter
3 20 (20.00%) JIRA
4 13 (13.00%) Postman
5 11 (11.00%) Cucumber
6 10 (10.00%) Cypress.io
6 10 (10.00%) Git
6 10 (10.00%) Jenkins
7 8 (8.00%) JUnit
8 7 (7.00%) SoapUI
8 7 (7.00%) SpecFlow
8 7 (7.00%) TestRail
9 6 (6.00%) Appium
9 6 (6.00%) LoadRunner
9 6 (6.00%) TestNG
10 5 (5.00%) Gatling
10 5 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (4.00%) TeamCity
12 3 (3.00%) GitLab
13 2 (2.00%) MSTest
General
1 30 (30.00%) Finance
2 17 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.00%) Police
4 12 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.00%) Retail
6 6 (6.00%) Electronics
6 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (6.00%) Local Government
7 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.00%) Welsh Language
8 3 (3.00%) Banking
8 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Automotive
9 2 (2.00%) Billing
9 2 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (2.00%) Law
9 2 (2.00%) Legal
9 2 (2.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (26.00%) Analyst
2 19 (19.00%) Test Analyst
3 18 (18.00%) Senior
4 16 (16.00%) Lead
5 9 (9.00%) Test Engineer
6 7 (7.00%) QA Leader
7 6 (6.00%) Administrator
7 6 (6.00%) DBA
7 6 (6.00%) Systems Analyst
7 6 (6.00%) Systems Test Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) Automation Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) Developer
8 5 (5.00%) QA Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) QA Automation Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) SaaS Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) Senior Automation Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) Senior QA Analyst
8 5 (5.00%) Test Manager
8 5 (5.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.00%) .NET
1 6 (6.00%) RESTful
2 5 (5.00%) SOAP
3 4 (4.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (4.00%) LDAP
3 4 (4.00%) Node.js
3 4 (4.00%) OAuth
3 4 (4.00%) OAuth2
3 4 (4.00%) Playwright
3 4 (4.00%) REST
3 4 (4.00%) XML
4 3 (3.00%) CSS
4 3 (3.00%) HTML
4 3 (3.00%) Sass
4 3 (3.00%) Swagger
4 3 (3.00%) Web Services
5 2 (2.00%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.00%) Middleware
5 2 (2.00%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (9.00%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (7.00%) Replication
4 6 (6.00%) Clustering
4 6 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.00%) PMI
5 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.00%) CUDA
5 2 (2.00%) FMCG
5 2 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.00%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.00%) Animation
6 1 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.00%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) Unix
2 2 (2.00%) Linux
2 2 (2.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (51.00%) Test Automation
2 44 (44.00%) Agile
3 34 (34.00%) Software Testing
4 28 (28.00%) Regression Testing
5 26 (26.00%) Test Scripting
6 25 (25.00%) DevOps
7 21 (21.00%) Mentoring
8 20 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (19.00%) Functional Testing
10 16 (16.00%) Coaching
11 15 (15.00%) Non-Functional Testing
12 14 (14.00%) CI/CD
12 14 (14.00%) Defect Management
13 13 (13.00%) Code Quality
13 13 (13.00%) Compatibility Testing
13 13 (13.00%) Fintech
13 13 (13.00%) Manual Testing
13 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (13.00%) Scrum
14 12 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.00%) SQL
2 14 (14.00%) C#
2 14 (14.00%) Java
3 11 (11.00%) Python
4 6 (6.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (4.00%) C
5 4 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.00%) Bash
6 2 (2.00%) C++
6 2 (2.00%) Go
6 2 (2.00%) Groovy
6 2 (2.00%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.00%) Ruby
7 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.00%) Scala
7 1 (1.00%) VB
7 1 (1.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (21.00%) Degree
2 13 (13.00%) ISTQB
3 6 (6.00%) PMI Certification
3 6 (6.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.00%) GIAC
5 3 (3.00%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.00%) PhD
7 1 (1.00%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.00%) ISEB
7 1 (1.00%) LPIC
7 1 (1.00%) MCP
7 1 (1.00%) MCSE
7 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (37.00%) QA
2 11 (11.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.00%) GDPR
3 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.00%) PMO
4 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (9.00%) Firmware
2 6 (6.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.00%) Docker
3 1 (1.00%) GridGain
3 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (11.00%) Grafana
2 6 (6.00%) Kibana
3 2 (2.00%) CASB
4 1 (1.00%) Istio
4 1 (1.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.00%) Oracle
3 5 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.00%) Google
4 3 (3.00%) Splunk
5 2 (2.00%) Adobe
6 1 (1.00%) IBM
6 1 (1.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.00%) Pega
6 1 (1.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.00%) VMware