Performance Testing Jobs

Performance Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 649 565
Rank change year-on-year +85 -84 -111
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 120 239 488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.24% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.28% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 98 174 233
10th Percentile £43,725 £37,101 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,938 £45,000 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £53,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.15% -15.87% +5.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile - £85,000 £119,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £50,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +65.00% -11.50% +7.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,641 84,574 99,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.26% 86.00% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 26,531 59,798 58,397
10th Percentile £30,580 £29,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing.

Salary trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +93 104 £80,000 +45.45% 197
UK excluding London +131 71 £82,500 +65.00% 172
Work from Home +127 52 £82,500 +57.14% 69
London +68 46 £57,500 -11.54% 58
South East +133 39 £82,500 +73.68% 51
North of England +45 9 £50,000 - 35
Wales +44 9 £50,124 +11.39% 11
Midlands +36 7 £44,750 -10.50% 31
North West +11 7 £45,000 - 15
West Midlands +33 5 £43,500 -13.00% 15
Scotland +105 4 £80,000 +52.38% 6
South West +106 2 £52,945 -15.29% 16
Yorkshire +53 2 £59,800 -1.16% 14
East Midlands +42 2 £45,000 -30.77% 13
East of England +54 1 £40,000 -27.27% 23

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.33%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.33%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.67%) iTrent
2 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.83%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.83%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 66 (55.00%) Azure
2 51 (42.50%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (29.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 35 (29.17%) Azure Service Bus
3 35 (29.17%) SonarCloud
4 22 (18.33%) AWS
5 8 (6.67%) GCP
5 8 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.00%) SaaS
7 5 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (3.33%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.67%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.67%) GitHub
9 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.67%) Serverless
10 1 (0.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.67%) BGP
1 2 (1.67%) Firewall
1 2 (1.67%) OSPF
1 2 (1.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.67%) VLAN
2 1 (0.83%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (32.50%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 8 (6.67%) Power BI
4 7 (5.83%) Big Data
5 5 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (3.33%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (2.50%) MySQL
7 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.83%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
9 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 50 (41.67%) Git
2 44 (36.67%) JMeter
3 40 (33.33%) Selenium
4 36 (30.00%) Visual Studio
5 35 (29.17%) MSBuild
5 35 (29.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 35 (29.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 22 (18.33%) Postman
7 20 (16.67%) Cypress.io
8 18 (15.00%) Jenkins
8 18 (15.00%) JUnit
9 15 (12.50%) REST Assured
10 12 (10.00%) JIRA
11 11 (9.17%) Gatling
11 11 (9.17%) LoadRunner
11 11 (9.17%) TestNG
12 9 (7.50%) TestRail
13 7 (5.83%) Appium
13 7 (5.83%) Cucumber
13 7 (5.83%) GitLab
General
1 35 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 26 (21.67%) Retail
3 24 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.33%) Finance
5 9 (7.50%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.17%) Games
8 4 (3.33%) Banking
9 3 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.50%) Private Banking
9 3 (2.50%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.67%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.67%) iGaming
10 2 (1.67%) Marketing
10 2 (1.67%) Publishing
11 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (30.00%) Architect
2 35 (29.17%) Technical Architect
3 18 (15.00%) Lead
4 16 (13.33%) Test Engineer
5 14 (11.67%) Analyst
6 13 (10.83%) QA Engineer
6 13 (10.83%) Senior
7 12 (10.00%) Developer
8 9 (7.50%) QA Automation Engineer
9 8 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (6.67%) Java Developer
9 8 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (5.83%) Test Analyst
10 7 (5.83%) Test Manager
10 7 (5.83%) Tester
11 6 (5.00%) Quality Analyst
12 5 (4.17%) Test Automation Engineer
13 4 (3.33%) Performance Engineer
13 4 (3.33%) QA Test Engineer
13 4 (3.33%) Senior Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (40.83%) REST
2 44 (36.67%) CSS
3 41 (34.17%) HTML
4 37 (30.83%) JSON
5 35 (29.17%) .NET
5 35 (29.17%) ASP.NET
5 35 (29.17%) Bootstrap
5 35 (29.17%) gRPC
5 35 (29.17%) XML
6 11 (9.17%) Playwright
6 11 (9.17%) React
7 8 (6.67%) AngularJS
7 8 (6.67%) Kafka
7 8 (6.67%) RESTful
8 7 (5.83%) pytest
9 5 (4.17%) Jest
9 5 (4.17%) Node.js
9 5 (4.17%) Spring
10 4 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.67%) Cybercrime
4 2 (1.67%) Mobile Games
4 2 (1.67%) Online Games
4 2 (1.67%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.67%) Sports Betting
5 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.83%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.83%) NHS
5 1 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Linux
2 4 (3.33%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) Android
3 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (52.50%) DevOps
2 58 (48.33%) Test Automation
3 55 (45.83%) Agile
4 50 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (40.83%) Code Quality
5 49 (40.83%) Microservices
6 41 (34.17%) Event-Driven
7 36 (30.00%) CI/CD
7 36 (30.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 36 (30.00%) Software Testing
8 35 (29.17%) API Integration
8 35 (29.17%) Data Encryption
8 35 (29.17%) Design Patterns
8 35 (29.17%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 35 (29.17%) MVC
9 30 (25.00%) Security Testing
10 29 (24.17%) Technical Leadership
11 28 (23.33%) Test Strategy
12 26 (21.67%) Manual Testing
13 22 (18.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 64 (53.33%) JavaScript
2 62 (51.67%) SQL
3 43 (35.83%) C#
4 27 (22.50%) Java
4 27 (22.50%) Python
5 13 (10.83%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.83%) Groovy
7 6 (5.00%) Scala
8 2 (1.67%) Ruby
9 1 (0.83%) Bash
9 1 (0.83%) Go
9 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (17.50%) ISTQB
2 14 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 13 (10.83%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.50%) Degree
5 7 (5.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (4.17%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.50%) CISSP
7 3 (2.50%) ISEB
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.83%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (32.50%) QA
2 36 (30.00%) GDPR
3 7 (5.83%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.67%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.83%) Basel III
5 1 (0.83%) IFRS
5 1 (0.83%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 48 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.83%) Firmware
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.50%) Grafana
3 6 (5.00%) Terraform
4 5 (4.17%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (1.67%) Iperf
5 2 (1.67%) Kibana
6 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.83%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (3.33%) Databricks
1 4 (3.33%) Splunk
2 3 (2.50%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.67%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.67%) SolarWinds
3 2 (1.67%) VMware
4 1 (0.83%) CyberSource
4 1 (0.83%) Google
4 1 (0.83%) Pega
4 1 (0.83%) SAP
4 1 (0.83%) SEEBURGER
4 1 (0.83%) Sitecore
4 1 (0.83%) StreamSets