Performance Testing Jobs in South Wales

Performance Testing
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 96 90
Rank change year-on-year +34 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 4 4 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.47% 0.27% 1.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.35% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £47,900 - £32,067
25th Percentile £49,625 - £34,223
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £40,315
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% +11.62% -32.24%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £48,908
90th Percentile £73,500 - £52,563
Wales median annual salary £50,124 £45,000 £40,315
% change year-on-year +11.39% +11.62% -32.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 699 1,150 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 82.82% 78.07% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 445 746 558
10th Percentile £23,504 £28,290 £27,405
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,700 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,221 £47,500 £45,498
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +4.40% -9.00%
75th Percentile £66,750 £61,250 £62,988
90th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.78% - -5.26%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in South Wales

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in South Wales.

Salary trend for Performance Testing in South Wales

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in South Wales over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in South Wales

Performance Testing
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 17 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
Cardiff +30 3 £65,000 +44.44% 5
Newport - 1 £48,500 - 1
Performance Testing
Wales

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) JMeter
1 3 (75.00%) REST Assured
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Appium
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
2 2 (50.00%) Maven
2 2 (50.00%) TestNG
3 1 (25.00%) NUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) API Testing
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Network Design
4 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) Groovy
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Iperf
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (25.00%) VMware