Performance Testing Job Trends in Swansea

Performance Testing
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 11 32
Rank change year-on-year -31 +21 -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 1 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 0.31% 6.82% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 8.82% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,486 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,124 £40,808
Median % change year-on-year -15.21% +22.83% -
75th Percentile £43,750 £53,762 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Wales median annual salary £42,500 £50,124 £40,808
% change year-on-year -15.21% +22.83% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 223 34 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 69.91% 77.27% 78.95%
Number of salaries quoted 149 26 132
10th Percentile £34,250 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,733 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -24.53% +21.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £79,040 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,733 £46,131
% change year-on-year +32.51% -18.20% +11.94%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Swansea

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Performance Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Pa11y
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Development Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby on Rails
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG