Performance Testing Job Trends in Southampton

Performance Testing
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Southampton 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45,748 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,578 - -
75th Percentile £49,408 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £75,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +30.43% -11.54% +73.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 499 284 715
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 76.18% 90.45% 82.00%
Number of salaries quoted 367 219 614
10th Percentile £30,750 £29,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +12.90% -7.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £73,750 £72,500
Hampshire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -7.41%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Southampton

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in Southampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Performance Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Snyk
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft