Performance Testing Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Performance Testing
South East > Oxfordshire

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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 110
Rank change year-on-year - - -9
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Oxfordshire 0.17% - 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% - 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £53,000 - -
25th Percentile £53,750 - £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 - £45,000
75th Percentile £61,250 - £47,500
90th Percentile £62,000 - -
South East median annual salary £68,750 £82,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +65.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 793 572 1,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 67.95% 92.86% 81.39%
Number of salaries quoted 583 339 1,092
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £49,995
Median % change year-on-year - +10.01% -0.01%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,500 £73,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Performance Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 12 April 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
Oxford - 1 £60,000 - 1
Performance Testing
South East

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Polyspace
1 1 (50.00%) VectorCAST
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) IEC 61508
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 26262
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware