Performance Tester Jobs in England

Performance Tester
UK > England

The median Performance Tester salary in England is £46,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 689 831 909
Rank change year-on-year +142 +78 +212
Permanent jobs requiring a Performance Tester 2 8 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.004% 0.009% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.010% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 13
10th Percentile £45,125 £44,500 £54,000
25th Percentile £45,313 £65,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.93% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £47,813 £75,000 -
90th Percentile £48,375 - -
UK median annual salary £46,250 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -33.93% +7.69% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 44,402 81,024 81,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.75% 94.51% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 24,215 60,436 51,956
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Performance Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Performance Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tester in England

Performance Tester
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Performance Tester in England

Performance Tester
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
London +100 1 £47,500 -32.14%
Midlands +66 1 £45,000 +87.50%
West Midlands - 1 £45,000 -
Performance Tester
UK

Performance Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Performance Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Performance Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Pega
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing

Performance Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (50.00%) Locust
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) Code Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SFIA
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Pega
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk