Performance Testing Job Trends in London

Performance Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 334 368 394
Rank change year-on-year +34 +26 +78
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 40 65 58
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.29% 0.42% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.45% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 27 37 45
10th Percentile £42,750 £49,000 £41,300
25th Percentile £53,875 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £81,250 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £129,500 £99,000 £111,746
England median annual salary £58,750 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.56% +33.33% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,179 14,601 16,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.59% 94.58% 92.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,774 8,034 13,619
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,263 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,250 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,875 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in London

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Performance Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in London

Performance Testing
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Central London +28 3 £43,500 -27.50% 2
East London - 1 £75,000 - 1
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.50%) Confluence
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Chatbot
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (7.50%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Elite 3E
2 2 (5.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) AWS
1 20 (50.00%) Azure
2 11 (27.50%) GCP
3 8 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (12.50%) BrowserStack
4 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.00%) GitHub
5 4 (10.00%) SaaS
6 3 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.50%) Azure App Service
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Functions
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (7.50%) Figma
6 3 (7.50%) Kong
6 3 (7.50%) Power Automate
6 3 (7.50%) PowerApps
6 3 (7.50%) Serverless
7 2 (5.00%) Anthropic Claude
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (7.50%) DynamoDB
3 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.50%) Big Data
5 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.50%) MySQL
5 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) JMeter
2 12 (30.00%) Selenium
3 10 (25.00%) JIRA
4 9 (22.50%) Cucumber
5 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (15.00%) GitLab
6 6 (15.00%) LoadRunner
7 4 (10.00%) Git
7 4 (10.00%) NeoLoad
7 4 (10.00%) Postman
7 4 (10.00%) TestRail
7 4 (10.00%) Visual Studio
8 3 (7.50%) Cypress.io
8 3 (7.50%) REST Assured
8 3 (7.50%) SpecFlow
8 3 (7.50%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (7.50%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (7.50%) WebDriver
9 2 (5.00%) Appium
9 2 (5.00%) Gatling
General
1 15 (37.50%) Finance
2 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Law
4 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.50%) Retail
6 4 (10.00%) Legal
7 3 (7.50%) Banking
7 3 (7.50%) Financial Institution
7 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.50%) Advertising
8 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (30.00%) Senior
2 8 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Lead
4 6 (15.00%) IT Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Senior Manager
6 4 (10.00%) Test Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Test Leader
6 4 (10.00%) Tester
7 3 (7.50%) Development Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) IT Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Java Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior IT Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Java Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Software Development Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Software Manager
7 3 (7.50%) Test Development Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) UI Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) User Experience Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) REST
2 8 (20.00%) Kafka
2 8 (20.00%) React
3 7 (17.50%) .NET
4 6 (15.00%) Playwright
4 6 (15.00%) Swagger
5 5 (12.50%) RESTful
5 5 (12.50%) Vue
6 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
6 3 (7.50%) .NET Framework
6 3 (7.50%) Android Jetpack
6 3 (7.50%) AngularJS
6 3 (7.50%) CSS
6 3 (7.50%) GraphQL
6 3 (7.50%) gRPC
6 3 (7.50%) HTML
6 3 (7.50%) Node.js
6 3 (7.50%) Nuxt
6 3 (7.50%) Spring
6 3 (7.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (17.50%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (17.50%) Mobile App
3 6 (15.00%) Product Ownership
4 5 (12.50%) AI Agents
5 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (7.50%) e-Learning
6 3 (7.50%) Low-Code
6 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
6 3 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (7.50%) Virtual Team
7 2 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (5.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (5.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (70.00%) Test Automation
2 25 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 23 (57.50%) Agile
4 18 (45.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (40.00%) Microservices
6 14 (35.00%) DevOps
7 13 (32.50%) AI
8 12 (30.00%) SDLC
8 12 (30.00%) Test Strategy
9 11 (27.50%) BDD
10 9 (22.50%) Software Testing
11 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (20.00%) Test Management
11 8 (20.00%) User Experience
12 7 (17.50%) Collaborative Culture
12 7 (17.50%) Event-Driven
12 7 (17.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 7 (17.50%) Generative AI
12 7 (17.50%) Observability
12 7 (17.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) Java
1 12 (30.00%) SQL
2 9 (22.50%) JavaScript
2 9 (22.50%) TypeScript
3 8 (20.00%) C#
3 8 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (7.50%) Kotlin
4 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (2.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (27.50%) Degree
1 11 (27.50%) ISTQB
2 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.00%) MCP
4 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.50%) ISEB
5 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (32.50%) QA
2 10 (25.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (10.00%) WCAG
4 3 (7.50%) SEPA
5 2 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.50%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) Grafana
4 1 (2.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Oracle
3 4 (10.00%) Dynatrace
4 3 (7.50%) iManage
4 3 (7.50%) MuleSoft
5 2 (5.00%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (5.00%) OpenAI
5 2 (5.00%) Splunk
6 1 (2.50%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.50%) Micro Focus
6 1 (2.50%) UiPath