Performance Testing Job Trends in Durham

Performance Testing
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Durham 0.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,091 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 - -
75th Percentile £74,066 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £65,039 £47,148 £66,250
% change year-on-year +37.95% -28.83% +47.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Durham

Performance Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 190 199 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 73.64% 71.33% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 97 82 103
10th Percentile £25,087 £32,045 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,000 £45,313 £38,428
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £58,900 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.58% +17.80% +25.00%
75th Percentile £52,500 £70,000 £60,400
90th Percentile £83,344 £80,000 £69,800
North East median annual salary £42,500 £48,387 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.17% -3.23% -

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Performance Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Durham.

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Durham

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in Durham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Performance Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Durham citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Job Locations in Durham

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the Durham region over the 6 months to 25 October 2025. 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
Darlington - 1 £70,079 -
Performance Testing
North East

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Locust
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform