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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 638 562 493
Rank change year-on-year -76 -69 -12
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 201 434 863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.46% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.48% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 159 228 444
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £73,125 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £122,500 £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
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 72,744 90,073 124,893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.99% 95.66% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 53,833 53,069 73,904
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,320
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
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 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +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 23 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 23 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 +9 84 £67,500 -6.83% 22
North of England +32 48 £50,000 -16.67% 7
Midlands +40 31 £50,000 -9.09% 9
North West +26 29 £45,000 -25.00% 5
West Midlands +46 23 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Yorkshire +64 19 £60,500 +0.83% 2
South East -58 18 £45,000 -14.29% 10
South West -31 11 £62,500 +4.17% 6
East Midlands -7 8 £65,000 +4.00% 6
East of England +12 5 £55,000 -18.52% 6
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 (5.97%) Confluence
2 2 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.50%) GemFire
3 1 (0.50%) IIS
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.00%) Trello
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 59 (29.35%) Azure
2 37 (18.41%) AWS
3 29 (14.43%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (8.46%) GCP
5 15 (7.46%) BrowserStack
5 15 (7.46%) SaaS
6 12 (5.97%) GitHub
7 6 (2.99%) BlazeMeter
8 5 (2.49%) PaaS
9 4 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.99%) IaaS
9 4 (1.99%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.99%) Serverless
10 3 (1.49%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.49%) Sauce Labs
10 3 (1.49%) WhatsApp
11 2 (1.00%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) Wireless
2 2 (1.00%) DNS
2 2 (1.00%) HTTP
2 2 (1.00%) VPN
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 (4.98%) Relational Database
2 9 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.48%) MongoDB
3 7 (3.48%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.00%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.00%) Looker
4 2 (1.00%) Power BI
4 2 (1.00%) Redis
5 1 (0.50%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 61 (30.35%) JMeter
2 55 (27.36%) Selenium
3 38 (18.91%) JIRA
4 27 (13.43%) LoadRunner
5 22 (10.95%) Jenkins
6 17 (8.46%) Git
7 16 (7.96%) Postman
8 15 (7.46%) Cypress.io
9 14 (6.97%) Gatling
10 13 (6.47%) JUnit
10 13 (6.47%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (5.47%) Cucumber
12 9 (4.48%) SpecFlow
13 8 (3.98%) Appium
14 7 (3.48%) TeamCity
15 6 (2.99%) TestNG
16 5 (2.49%) HP UFT
16 5 (2.49%) MSTest
16 5 (2.49%) TestRail
17 4 (1.99%) Serenity BDD
General
1 59 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 40 (19.90%) Finance
3 35 (17.41%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.97%) Police
5 11 (5.47%) Retail
6 10 (4.98%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.48%) Banking
9 6 (2.99%) Electronics
10 5 (2.49%) Local Government
10 5 (2.49%) Marketing
11 4 (1.99%) Automotive
11 4 (1.99%) Games
11 4 (1.99%) Law
11 4 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.49%) Front Office
12 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.49%) Legal
13 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (16.42%) Analyst
2 32 (15.92%) Lead
3 26 (12.94%) Senior
4 25 (12.44%) Test Analyst
5 20 (9.95%) Developer
5 20 (9.95%) Test Engineer
6 16 (7.96%) Tester
7 12 (5.97%) QA Engineer
7 12 (5.97%) Test Leader
8 11 (5.47%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) QA Leader
10 7 (3.48%) Performance Tester
11 6 (2.99%) Administrator
11 6 (2.99%) Applications Developer
11 6 (2.99%) DBA
11 6 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (2.99%) Systems Analyst
11 6 (2.99%) Systems Test Analyst
11 6 (2.99%) Web Applications Developer
11 6 (2.99%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.97%) RESTful
2 11 (5.47%) .NET
3 9 (4.48%) Playwright
3 9 (4.48%) REST
4 8 (3.98%) Web Services
5 7 (3.48%) .NET Framework
5 7 (3.48%) HTML
6 6 (2.99%) CSS
6 6 (2.99%) Node.js
7 4 (1.99%) LDAP
7 4 (1.99%) React
8 3 (1.49%) ARM Templates
8 3 (1.49%) Azure Blueprints
8 3 (1.49%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.49%) Kafka
8 3 (1.49%) PySpark
8 3 (1.49%) Sass
8 3 (1.49%) SOAP
8 3 (1.49%) Swagger
9 2 (1.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 24 (11.94%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (9.45%) Mobile App
3 16 (7.96%) Product Ownership
4 15 (7.46%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (3.48%) Clustering
5 7 (3.48%) Replication
6 6 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.99%) PMI
7 5 (2.49%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.99%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.49%) Equities
9 3 (1.49%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.00%) CUDA
10 2 (1.00%) FMCG
10 2 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.48%) 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
1 124 (61.69%) Test Automation
2 93 (46.27%) Agile
3 73 (36.32%) Software Testing
4 55 (27.36%) Regression Testing
4 55 (27.36%) Test Scripting
5 51 (25.37%) DevOps
6 45 (22.39%) Functional Testing
7 43 (21.39%) Test Strategy
8 42 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (19.40%) CI/CD
10 35 (17.41%) Mentoring
11 33 (16.42%) Test Management
12 30 (14.93%) Computer Science
13 25 (12.44%) API Testing
13 25 (12.44%) User Acceptance Testing
14 24 (11.94%) Code Quality
14 24 (11.94%) SDLC
15 22 (10.95%) Performance Monitoring
16 21 (10.45%) Defect Management
17 20 (9.95%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.92%) Java
2 30 (14.93%) C#
3 29 (14.43%) Python
4 27 (13.43%) SQL
5 19 (9.45%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.99%) Bash
7 5 (2.49%) C
7 5 (2.49%) C++
7 5 (2.49%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.99%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.49%) Go
9 3 (1.49%) Groovy
9 3 (1.49%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.49%) Ruby
9 3 (1.49%) Scala
10 2 (1.00%) Bicep
10 2 (1.00%) Swift
11 1 (0.50%) Perl
11 1 (0.50%) VB
11 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (22.39%) Degree
2 22 (10.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (7.46%) Security Cleared
4 14 (6.97%) ISTQB
5 8 (3.98%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.99%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.49%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.00%) HND
10 2 (1.00%) 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 65 (32.34%) QA
2 16 (7.96%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.49%) GDPR
4 3 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.49%) SLA
5 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.00%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (5.47%) Firmware
2 9 (4.48%) Docker
3 6 (2.99%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.50%) GridGain
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (5.97%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.99%) Grafana
2 6 (2.99%) Terraform
3 5 (2.49%) Kibana
4 3 (1.49%) Istio
5 2 (1.00%) Ansible
5 2 (1.00%) CASB
6 1 (0.50%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.50%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.97%) Dynatrace
3 11 (5.47%) Google
4 5 (2.49%) Oracle
5 4 (1.99%) Splunk
6 3 (1.49%) Databricks
7 2 (1.00%) Adobe
7 2 (1.00%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.00%) IBM
7 2 (1.00%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.50%) Apple
8 1 (0.50%) Citrix
8 1 (0.50%) EMC
8 1 (0.50%) iManage
8 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.50%) New Relic
8 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.50%) VMware
8 1 (0.50%) WooCommerce