Performance Tester Job Trends in the South East

Performance Tester
England > South East

The median Performance Tester salary in the South East is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 - 351
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Performance Tester 3 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.018% - 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% - 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 - -
England median annual salary £50,000 £56,250 £24,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +134.38% -57.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the South East with a recognized job title 16,332 7,944 13,033
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.28% 89.53% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,568 4,427 8,726
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,573
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Performance Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Performance Tester' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Performance Tester job vacancy trend in the South East

Performance Tester
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in the South East.

Salary distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in the South East

Performance Tester
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tester within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Surrey - 3 £50,000 -
Performance Tester
England

Performance Tester Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 16 August 2026, Performance Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Performance Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) Gatling
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
1 3 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)

Performance Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Gatling
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
1 3 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Runbook
1 3 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (100.00%) Dynatrace