Performance Tester Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Performance Tester
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Performance Tester salary in Tyne and Wear is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 March 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Performance Tester 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.092% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median annual salary £47,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 1,055 475 1,034
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.61% 96.94% 97.27%
Number of salaries quoted 809 240 896
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,875 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,655 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +10.85% -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,640 £70,000 £65,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,875 £76,011
North East median annual salary £47,500 £54,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -13.24% +15.26% -5.00%

Performance Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Performance Tester job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Performance Tester
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in Tyne and Wear.

Salary distribution trend for Performance Tester job vacancies in Tyne and Wear

Performance Tester
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tester within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 5 March 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £47,500 -
Performance Tester
North East

Performance Tester Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 5 March 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Performance Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scalability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

Performance Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scalability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace