Performance Testing Jobs in England

Performance Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 621 565 491
Rank change year-on-year -56 -74 -15
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 202 421 884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.45% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.47% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 162 221 451
10th Percentile £36,375 £46,250 £41,501
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,438 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £122,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -14.40% +4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,956 89,282 125,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.89% 95.65% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,883 52,696 73,771
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in England

Performance Testing
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 Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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
London +22 83 £66,250 -10.17% 20
North of England +36 48 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Midlands +28 32 £50,000 -9.09% 9
North West +29 29 £45,000 -25.00% 5
West Midlands +43 23 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Yorkshire +74 19 £60,500 +0.83%
South East -43 19 £47,500 -9.52% 10
South West -38 11 £62,500 +4.17% 6
East Midlands -12 9 £65,000 +4.00% 6
East of England +5 5 £55,000 -18.52% 7
Performance Testing
UK

Performance Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (5.94%) Confluence
2 2 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.50%) GemFire
3 1 (0.50%) IIS
3 1 (0.50%) JBoss
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.99%) Trello
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 59 (29.21%) Azure
2 38 (18.81%) AWS
3 28 (13.86%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (7.92%) GCP
5 15 (7.43%) BrowserStack
5 15 (7.43%) SaaS
6 12 (5.94%) GitHub
7 6 (2.97%) BlazeMeter
8 4 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.98%) PaaS
8 4 (1.98%) Serverless
9 3 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.49%) IaaS
9 3 (1.49%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.49%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (1.49%) Tricentis Tosca
9 3 (1.49%) WhatsApp
10 2 (0.99%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.98%) Wireless
2 2 (0.99%) HTTP
2 2 (0.99%) VPN
3 1 (0.50%) DNS
3 1 (0.50%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) Multicast
3 1 (0.50%) SAN
3 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.95%) Relational Database
2 8 (3.96%) NoSQL
2 8 (3.96%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.47%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.99%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.99%) Looker
4 2 (0.99%) Redis
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.50%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.50%) Metadata
5 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 62 (30.69%) JMeter
2 55 (27.23%) Selenium
3 38 (18.81%) JIRA
4 27 (13.37%) LoadRunner
5 23 (11.39%) Jenkins
6 18 (8.91%) Git
7 16 (7.92%) Postman
8 15 (7.43%) Cypress.io
9 13 (6.44%) Gatling
9 13 (6.44%) JUnit
9 13 (6.44%) Team Foundation Server
10 12 (5.94%) Cucumber
11 9 (4.46%) SpecFlow
12 8 (3.96%) Appium
13 7 (3.47%) TeamCity
14 6 (2.97%) TestNG
15 5 (2.48%) GitLab
15 5 (2.48%) HP UFT
15 5 (2.48%) MSTest
15 5 (2.48%) NeoLoad
General
1 60 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.31%) Finance
3 35 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.93%) Police
5 11 (5.45%) Retail
6 10 (4.95%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.97%) Banking
8 6 (2.97%) Electronics
9 5 (2.48%) Law
9 5 (2.48%) Local Government
9 5 (2.48%) Marketing
10 4 (1.98%) Automotive
10 4 (1.98%) Games
10 4 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.49%) Front Office
11 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.49%) Legal
12 2 (0.99%) Billing
12 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (16.34%) Analyst
1 33 (16.34%) Lead
2 25 (12.38%) Senior
2 25 (12.38%) Test Analyst
3 21 (10.40%) Developer
4 20 (9.90%) Test Engineer
5 16 (7.92%) Tester
6 13 (6.44%) QA Engineer
7 12 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (5.94%) Test Leader
8 10 (4.95%) QA Leader
9 7 (3.47%) Performance Tester
10 6 (2.97%) Administrator
10 6 (2.97%) Applications Developer
10 6 (2.97%) DBA
10 6 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (2.97%) Systems Analyst
10 6 (2.97%) Systems Test Analyst
10 6 (2.97%) Web Applications Developer
10 6 (2.97%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.94%) RESTful
2 10 (4.95%) .NET
3 9 (4.46%) Playwright
3 9 (4.46%) REST
4 8 (3.96%) Web Services
5 7 (3.47%) .NET Framework
5 7 (3.47%) HTML
6 6 (2.97%) CSS
6 6 (2.97%) Node.js
7 4 (1.98%) Kafka
7 4 (1.98%) LDAP
7 4 (1.98%) React
8 3 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.49%) PySpark
8 3 (1.49%) Sass
8 3 (1.49%) SOAP
8 3 (1.49%) Swagger
9 2 (0.99%) HTML5
9 2 (0.99%) JSON
9 2 (0.99%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.88%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (9.41%) Mobile App
3 16 (7.92%) Product Ownership
4 15 (7.43%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.47%) Clustering
5 7 (3.47%) Replication
6 6 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.97%) PMI
7 5 (2.48%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.98%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.49%) Equities
9 3 (1.49%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.99%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.99%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.99%) CUDA
10 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.99%) FMCG
10 2 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.46%) Linux
2 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.49%) Windows
3 1 (0.50%) AIX
3 1 (0.50%) Android
3 1 (0.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (61.88%) Test Automation
2 93 (46.04%) Agile
3 75 (37.13%) Software Testing
4 56 (27.72%) Test Scripting
5 55 (27.23%) Regression Testing
6 51 (25.25%) DevOps
7 45 (22.28%) Functional Testing
8 44 (21.78%) Test Strategy
9 42 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (19.80%) CI/CD
11 34 (16.83%) Mentoring
12 33 (16.34%) Test Management
13 30 (14.85%) Computer Science
14 25 (12.38%) API Testing
14 25 (12.38%) User Acceptance Testing
15 24 (11.88%) SDLC
16 23 (11.39%) Code Quality
17 22 (10.89%) Defect Management
17 22 (10.89%) Performance Monitoring
18 21 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.83%) Java
2 30 (14.85%) C#
3 28 (13.86%) Python
4 26 (12.87%) SQL
5 18 (8.91%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.48%) Bash
6 5 (2.48%) C
6 5 (2.48%) C++
7 4 (1.98%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.98%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.49%) Go
8 3 (1.49%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.49%) Ruby
9 2 (0.99%) Groovy
9 2 (0.99%) Scala
9 2 (0.99%) Swift
10 1 (0.50%) Perl
10 1 (0.50%) PHP
10 1 (0.50%) VB
10 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (22.28%) Degree
2 22 (10.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.43%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.93%) ISTQB
5 8 (3.96%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.97%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.48%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.99%) HND
10 2 (0.99%) PhD
11 1 (0.50%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.50%) ISEB
11 1 (0.50%) LPIC
11 1 (0.50%) MCP
11 1 (0.50%) MCSE
11 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (32.67%) QA
2 15 (7.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.48%) GDPR
4 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.99%) PMO
5 2 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (5.45%) Firmware
2 9 (4.46%) Docker
3 6 (2.97%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.50%) GridGain
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.47%) Grafana
2 7 (3.47%) Terraform
3 6 (2.97%) Kibana
4 2 (0.99%) Ansible
4 2 (0.99%) CASB
4 2 (0.99%) Istio
5 1 (0.50%) HP SiteScope
5 1 (0.50%) Perfmon
5 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (9.90%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.45%) Dynatrace
2 11 (5.45%) Google
3 6 (2.97%) Oracle
4 5 (2.48%) Splunk
5 3 (1.49%) Databricks
5 3 (1.49%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.99%) Adobe
6 2 (0.99%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.99%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (0.99%) IBM
6 2 (0.99%) iManage
6 2 (0.99%) Intapp
7 1 (0.50%) Apple
7 1 (0.50%) Citrix
7 1 (0.50%) EMC
7 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.50%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.50%) VMware