Performance Testing Jobs in the North West

Performance Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 265 287
Rank change year-on-year -28 +22 +12
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 7 27 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.087% 0.27% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.091% 0.33% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 7 22 3
10th Percentile £41,625 £33,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £43,313 £36,250 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £52,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £95,000 - £65,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +42.86% -19.23% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,691 8,218 7,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.87% 82.39% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 3,994 6,229 3,894
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,500
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the North West

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Performance Testing in the North West

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in the North West

Performance Testing
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Manchester +37 4 £66,625 +48.06% 11
Merseyside +31 1 £60,000 +33.33% 2
Cheshire +5 1 £45,000 - 1
Lancashire - 1 £55,000 - 5
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
2 3 (42.86%) JMeter
3 2 (28.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (28.57%) Cypress.io
3 2 (28.57%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) LoadRunner
3 2 (28.57%) NeoLoad
3 2 (28.57%) Postman
3 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
3 2 (28.57%) TestRail
3 2 (28.57%) WebDriver
4 1 (14.29%) JUnit
4 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
4 1 (14.29%) TestNG
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) QA Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) NumPy
1 2 (28.57%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) WSDL
2 1 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) XSD
2 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
4 2 (28.57%) Defect Tracking
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Management
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
5 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes