Performance Testing Job Trends in the South West

Performance Testing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 177 209
Rank change year-on-year -1 +32 +37
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 4 5 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.078% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile - £52,401 £41,400
25th Percentile £40,000 £53,459 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,445 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.55% -7.01% +23.81%
75th Percentile £52,500 £70,959 £117,236
90th Percentile £57,000 £74,134 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -4.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,650 3,558 4,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 71.58% 85.65% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,502 1,781 3,194
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,627
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in the South West

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Performance Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in the South West

Performance Testing
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Devon - 2 £40,000 - 3
Somerset - 1 £50,000 - 2
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Gatling
1 3 (75.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Locust
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) TestRail
2 2 (50.00%) Zephyr
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Test Management
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) SDET
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle