Performance Testing Jobs in the Midlands

Performance Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 249 279 318
Rank change year-on-year +30 +39 -24
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 7 32 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.099% 0.27% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.33% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6 32 7
10th Percentile £35,625 £28,975 £48,500
25th Percentile £40,125 £47,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -9.09% +20.22%
75th Percentile £45,000 £62,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £45,625 £71,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £53,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +40.19% -17.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,455 9,638 9,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.37% 82.40% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,664 7,121 4,618
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £34,834 £38,362
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,425 £75,000 £78,325
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the Midlands

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Performance Testing in the Midlands

Performance Testing
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Midlands +32 5 £43,500 -13.00% 14
East Midlands +37 2 £45,000 -30.77% 13
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JMeter
2 3 (42.86%) LoadRunner
3 2 (28.57%) Postman
4 1 (14.29%) Appium
4 1 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (14.29%) Selenium
4 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
4 1 (14.29%) TestRail
4 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
4 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Playwright
2 2 (28.57%) Swagger
3 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (14.29%) Educational Technology
1 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Android
1 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Software Testing
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Regression Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Test Scripting
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Case Management
5 1 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (14.29%) Personalization
5 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
5 1 (14.29%) SDET
5 1 (14.29%) Smoke Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (14.29%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Pega