Performance Testing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Performance Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Performance Testing over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 620 566
Rank change year-on-year +105 -54 -146
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 64 143 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.19% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.23% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 57 95 81
10th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £36,600
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +65.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £83,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - £72,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +38.10% -16.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,721 61,614 54,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.53% 82.28% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 17,560 42,296 28,644
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in the UK excluding London

Performance Testing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
South East +93 34 £82,500 +73.68% 36
Wales +43 7 £52,562 +16.80% 4
Midlands +40 7 £44,750 -10.50% 17
South West +108 5 £40,000 -33.33% 11
North of England -3 5 £60,000 +20.00% 25
Scotland +99 4 £80,000 +45.45% 5
East Midlands +38 4 £45,000 -30.77% 10
North West -21 4 £75,000 +66.67% 10
West Midlands +36 3 £39,750 -20.50% 6
Yorkshire +38 1 £59,800 -1.16% 12
Northern Ireland - 1 £45,000 - 7
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 - 2
Performance Testing
UK

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (64.06%) Azure
2 36 (56.25%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (46.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 30 (46.88%) Azure Service Bus
3 30 (46.88%) SonarCloud
4 12 (18.75%) AWS
5 5 (7.81%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (3.13%) BrowserStack
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub
6 2 (3.13%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.56%) GCP
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.56%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) BGP
1 2 (3.13%) Firewall
1 2 (3.13%) Internet
1 2 (3.13%) OSPF
1 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (46.88%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (9.38%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.25%) Big Data
4 3 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.13%) MySQL
5 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.56%) Power BI
6 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (60.94%) Git
2 30 (46.88%) MSBuild
2 30 (46.88%) Octopus Deploy
2 30 (46.88%) Team Foundation Server
2 30 (46.88%) Visual Studio
3 16 (25.00%) JMeter
4 15 (23.44%) Selenium
5 10 (15.63%) Jenkins
6 7 (10.94%) JUnit
6 7 (10.94%) REST Assured
7 6 (9.38%) Cypress.io
7 6 (9.38%) LoadRunner
8 5 (7.81%) Cucumber
8 5 (7.81%) Postman
9 4 (6.25%) Appium
9 4 (6.25%) WebDriver
10 3 (4.69%) Maven
10 3 (4.69%) Mocha
10 3 (4.69%) TestNG
10 3 (4.69%) webpack
General
1 25 (39.06%) Retail
2 15 (23.44%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Finance
4 8 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.13%) Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Law
7 1 (1.56%) Advertising
7 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (46.88%) Architect
1 30 (46.88%) Technical Architect
2 9 (14.06%) Lead
3 8 (12.50%) Analyst
3 8 (12.50%) Developer
4 6 (9.38%) QA Automation Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) QA Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Test Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.25%) QA Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) QA Leader
6 4 (6.25%) Test Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (4.69%) Performance Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Performance Test Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Test Leader
8 2 (3.13%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) QA Test Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (59.38%) CSS
2 36 (56.25%) REST
3 35 (54.69%) HTML
4 31 (48.44%) .NET
4 31 (48.44%) XML
5 30 (46.88%) ASP.NET
5 30 (46.88%) Bootstrap
5 30 (46.88%) gRPC
5 30 (46.88%) JSON
6 8 (12.50%) React
7 7 (10.94%) AngularJS
8 6 (9.38%) Playwright
8 6 (9.38%) Spring
9 5 (7.81%) Kafka
10 4 (6.25%) Jest
10 4 (6.25%) SOAP
11 3 (4.69%) Spring Boot
12 2 (3.13%) Sass
12 2 (3.13%) Swagger
12 2 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.13%) Cybercrime
2 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
2 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.69%) Linux
1 3 (4.69%) Unix
2 1 (1.56%) Android
2 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (70.31%) DevOps
2 38 (59.38%) Microservices
3 35 (54.69%) Code Quality
4 34 (53.13%) Event-Driven
5 32 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 31 (48.44%) Performance Optimisation
6 31 (48.44%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (46.88%) API Integration
7 30 (46.88%) Data Encryption
7 30 (46.88%) Design Patterns
7 30 (46.88%) MVC
8 25 (39.06%) Technical Leadership
9 23 (35.94%) Agile
10 19 (29.69%) Test Automation
11 18 (28.13%) CI/CD
12 11 (17.19%) Test Scripting
13 10 (15.63%) Regression Testing
13 10 (15.63%) Software Testing
14 9 (14.06%) SDLC
15 8 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 48 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 41 (64.06%) SQL
3 34 (53.13%) C#
4 14 (21.88%) Java
5 10 (15.63%) TypeScript
6 9 (14.06%) Python
7 6 (9.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) ISTQB
2 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified Developer
2 2 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (46.88%) GDPR
2 18 (28.13%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
System Software
1 35 (54.69%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.38%) Grafana
3 2 (3.13%) Iperf
3 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (4.69%) Dynatrace
1 3 (4.69%) Splunk
2 2 (3.13%) Databricks
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle
2 2 (3.13%) SolarWinds
2 2 (3.13%) VMware
3 1 (1.56%) CyberSource
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft