Performance Testing Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Performance Testing
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 78 38
Rank change year-on-year +11 -40 +28
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 3 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.39% 0.12% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.13% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46,073 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,148 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.26% -27.47% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £48,222 £68,125
90th Percentile - - £68,500
North East median annual salary £60,000 £47,148 £65,000
% change year-on-year +27.26% -27.47% +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 638 746 321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.62% 86.34% 93.04%
Number of salaries quoted 453 361 270
10th Percentile £25,300 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £36,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £52,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.09% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60,750 £66,000 £63,563
90th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £77,500
North East median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Performance Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
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 Testing within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 2 £60,000 - 1
Wallsend - 1 - -
Performance Testing
North East

Performance Testing
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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Appium
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
1 2 (66.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) BDD
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) QA Automation
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Task-Oriented
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft