Performance Testing Jobs in England

Performance Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Performance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Performance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 587 652 608
Rank change year-on-year +65 -44 -120
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 96 192 324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.26% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 76 156 189
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £45,750
25th Percentile £50,438 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.62% -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile - £80,625 £135,693
UK median annual salary £70,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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 +90 47 £57,500 -6.59% 93
South East +103 33 £82,500 +73.68% 147
Midlands +35 7 £44,750 -10.50% 98
North of England 0 5 £60,000 +23.08% 115
South West +113 4 £40,000 -33.33% 58
East Midlands +34 4 £45,000 -30.77% 43
North West -22 4 £75,000 +66.67% 49
West Midlands +44 3 £39,750 -20.50% 48
Yorkshire +44 1 £59,800 -1.16% 52
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 4 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.13%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 53 (55.21%) Azure
2 43 (44.79%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (30.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 29 (30.21%) Azure Service Bus
3 29 (30.21%) SonarCloud
4 15 (15.63%) AWS
5 6 (6.25%) GCP
5 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (4.17%) SaaS
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.08%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (2.08%) BrowserStack
7 2 (2.08%) GitHub
7 2 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.08%) Serverless
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.04%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.04%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.04%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.33%) Big Data
4 6 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.25%) Power BI
5 5 (5.21%) MySQL
5 5 (5.21%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.17%) Delta Lake
6 4 (4.17%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.04%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 44 (45.83%) Git
2 33 (34.38%) Selenium
3 31 (32.29%) JMeter
4 29 (30.21%) MSBuild
4 29 (30.21%) Octopus Deploy
4 29 (30.21%) Team Foundation Server
4 29 (30.21%) Visual Studio
5 19 (19.79%) Postman
6 17 (17.71%) Jenkins
7 16 (16.67%) Cypress.io
8 12 (12.50%) Gatling
8 12 (12.50%) JIRA
8 12 (12.50%) LoadRunner
8 12 (12.50%) REST Assured
9 10 (10.42%) JUnit
10 9 (9.38%) TestRail
11 7 (7.29%) Locust
12 6 (6.25%) GitLab
12 6 (6.25%) TestNG
13 5 (5.21%) Cucumber
General
1 30 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.00%) Retail
3 17 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (15.63%) Finance
5 6 (6.25%) Banking
6 5 (5.21%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Private Banking
7 3 (3.13%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.08%) Games
8 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.08%) Law
8 2 (2.08%) Marketing
9 1 (1.04%) Advertising
9 1 (1.04%) iGaming
9 1 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (31.25%) Architect
2 29 (30.21%) Technical Architect
3 14 (14.58%) Lead
4 12 (12.50%) Analyst
5 10 (10.42%) Senior
6 9 (9.38%) Developer
7 8 (8.33%) QA Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Test Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Test Analyst
8 7 (7.29%) Test Manager
9 6 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (5.21%) Tester
11 4 (4.17%) QA Analyst
12 3 (3.13%) Quality Analyst
12 3 (3.13%) Senior Developer
12 3 (3.13%) Software Developer
12 3 (3.13%) Software Engineer
12 3 (3.13%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (42.71%) REST
2 34 (35.42%) CSS
2 34 (35.42%) HTML
3 31 (32.29%) JSON
4 30 (31.25%) XML
5 29 (30.21%) .NET
5 29 (30.21%) ASP.NET
5 29 (30.21%) Bootstrap
5 29 (30.21%) gRPC
6 9 (9.38%) React
7 8 (8.33%) AngularJS
7 8 (8.33%) Kafka
7 8 (8.33%) Playwright
7 8 (8.33%) pytest
7 8 (8.33%) RESTful
8 5 (5.21%) Jest
8 5 (5.21%) Node.js
9 4 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (4.17%) SOAP
9 4 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.08%) Cybercrime
2 2 (2.08%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.04%) Derivative
3 1 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.04%) Equities
3 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.04%) Mobile Games
3 1 (1.04%) NHS
3 1 (1.04%) Online Games
3 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.04%) Sports Betting
3 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.04%) Android
1 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (54.17%) DevOps
2 48 (50.00%) Agile
3 47 (48.96%) Test Automation
4 46 (47.92%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (43.75%) Code Quality
5 42 (43.75%) Microservices
6 36 (37.50%) Event-Driven
7 34 (35.42%) Software Testing
8 33 (34.38%) CI/CD
9 30 (31.25%) API Integration
9 30 (31.25%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 30 (31.25%) Performance Optimisation
9 30 (31.25%) Technical Leadership
10 29 (30.21%) Data Encryption
10 29 (30.21%) Design Patterns
10 29 (30.21%) MVC
11 27 (28.13%) Security Testing
12 26 (27.08%) Test Strategy
13 20 (20.83%) Manual Testing
13 20 (20.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 57 (59.38%) SQL
2 51 (53.13%) JavaScript
3 35 (36.46%) C#
4 24 (25.00%) Python
5 19 (19.79%) Java
6 9 (9.38%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.21%) Scala
8 2 (2.08%) Ruby
9 1 (1.04%) Bash
9 1 (1.04%) Go
9 1 (1.04%) Groovy
9 1 (1.04%) PHP
9 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (23.96%) ISTQB
2 11 (11.46%) SC Cleared
2 11 (11.46%) Security Cleared
3 9 (9.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 6 (6.25%) Degree
5 5 (5.21%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.17%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.13%) CISSP
7 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.13%) ISEB
8 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (1.04%) ISEB Practitioner
9 1 (1.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.04%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (30.21%) GDPR
1 29 (30.21%) QA
2 5 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 41 (42.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.25%) Terraform
3 5 (5.21%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.04%) Grafana
4 1 (1.04%) Kibana
4 1 (1.04%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (6.25%) Databricks
2 2 (2.08%) Google
2 2 (2.08%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.04%) CyberSource
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle
3 1 (1.04%) Sitecore
3 1 (1.04%) Splunk