Performance Testing Job Trends

Performance Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Performance Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 508 548
Rank change year-on-year -110 +40 +22
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 187 162 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.16% 0.33% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.37% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 94 80 112
10th Percentile £40,125 £36,250 £46,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £73,140 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year -9.09% -22.81% +18.75%

All Process & 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 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Performance Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

Performance Testing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Performance Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Performance Testing

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Top 16 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 10 October 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
England -95 169 £51,250 -21.15% 228
UK excluding London -131 95 £50,000 -9.09% 112
London -16 81 £60,400 -15.23% 128
North of England -40 24 £75,000 +36.36% 25
Work from Home -79 23 £60,400 -10.52% 105
South East -92 21 £50,000 -39.39% 22
South West -60 20 £45,000 +12.50% 12
Yorkshire -16 16 £82,500 +56.40% 10
Midlands -38 15 £37,500 - 24
East Midlands -33 8 £37,500 - 8
West Midlands -45 7 £35,000 -30.00% 16
Wales -75 7 £45,000 -18.18% 2
North East -66 6 £75,000 - 7
Scotland +13 5 £75,000 +7.14% 10
East of England -40 3 £60,000 -25.00% 14
North West -23 2 £30,000 -50.00% 8

Performance Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (3.74%) Confluence
2 1 (0.53%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (1.07%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (5.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.60%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.60%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.53%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 79 (42.25%) AWS
2 45 (24.06%) AWS CloudFormation
3 30 (16.04%) Azure
4 16 (8.56%) GitHub
5 13 (6.95%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.81%) GCP
8 6 (3.21%) BrowserStack
9 5 (2.67%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 4 (2.14%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.14%) Anthropic Claude
10 4 (2.14%) AWS KMS
10 4 (2.14%) ChatGPT
10 4 (2.14%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.14%) Serverless
10 4 (2.14%) Tricentis Tosca
11 3 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.95%) HTTP
2 6 (3.21%) DNS
3 3 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.07%) BGP
4 2 (1.07%) DHCP
4 2 (1.07%) OSPF
4 2 (1.07%) SSL
4 2 (1.07%) VLAN
4 2 (1.07%) VPN
5 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.53%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (24.60%) NoSQL
2 10 (5.35%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.67%) SAP BW
4 4 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.14%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.60%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.07%) DTS
6 2 (1.07%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 67 (35.83%) Cucumber
2 63 (33.69%) GitLab
3 35 (18.72%) JMeter
4 32 (17.11%) Gatling
5 23 (12.30%) Selenium
6 21 (11.23%) Jenkins
7 19 (10.16%) Postman
8 18 (9.63%) LoadRunner
9 15 (8.02%) Cypress.io
10 14 (7.49%) JIRA
10 14 (7.49%) REST Assured
11 6 (3.21%) Git
12 5 (2.67%) Newman
13 4 (2.14%) Burp Suite
13 4 (2.14%) SonarQube
14 3 (1.60%) HP UFT
14 3 (1.60%) Pa11y
14 3 (1.60%) WebDriver
15 2 (1.07%) Robot Framework
15 2 (1.07%) Zephyr
General
1 62 (33.16%) Finance
2 41 (21.93%) Social Skills
3 31 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (14.97%) Public Sector
5 25 (13.37%) Banking
6 24 (12.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (10.70%) Financial Institution
8 16 (8.56%) Manufacturing
9 10 (5.35%) Retail
10 5 (2.67%) Legal
11 4 (2.14%) Electronics
12 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.07%) Automotive
13 2 (1.07%) Marketing
14 1 (0.53%) Advertising
14 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.53%) Law
14 1 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 46 (24.60%) Senior
2 45 (24.06%) Java Engineer
3 31 (16.58%) Test Engineer
4 25 (13.37%) Principal Engineer
4 25 (13.37%) Principal Java Engineer
5 21 (11.23%) Tester
6 20 (10.70%) Senior Java Engineer
7 13 (6.95%) Developer
7 13 (6.95%) Performance Tester
8 11 (5.88%) Lead
8 11 (5.88%) QA Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) Test Automation Engineer
10 9 (4.81%) Senior Tester
11 8 (4.28%) Analyst
11 8 (4.28%) Senior Performance Tester
11 8 (4.28%) Software Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Architect
12 7 (3.74%) Senior Test Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Software Development Engineer
12 7 (3.74%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (27.81%) Kafka
2 50 (26.74%) Spring Boot
3 49 (26.20%) Spring
4 27 (14.44%) Playwright
5 17 (9.09%) REST
6 11 (5.88%) Gherkin
7 7 (3.74%) .NET
7 7 (3.74%) JSON
8 6 (3.21%) Terraform
9 5 (2.67%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (2.67%) React
10 4 (2.14%) Node.js
10 4 (2.14%) pytest
10 4 (2.14%) Web Services
11 3 (1.60%) Flutter
11 3 (1.60%) Middleware
11 3 (1.60%) React Native
12 2 (1.07%) .NET Framework
12 2 (1.07%) AngularJS
12 2 (1.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 62 (33.16%) Distributed Systems
2 52 (27.81%) Cloud Native
3 45 (24.06%) e-Learning
3 45 (24.06%) Public Cloud
4 27 (14.44%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (6.42%) Product Ownership
6 8 (4.28%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (3.21%) Driving Licence
7 6 (3.21%) Mobile App
8 5 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.07%) Blog
9 2 (1.07%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.07%) Housing Association
9 2 (1.07%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.07%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.53%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.53%) Pharmacovigilance
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.95%) Linux
2 9 (4.81%) Windows
3 3 (1.60%) Kali Linux
4 2 (1.07%) Android
4 2 (1.07%) Unix
5 1 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.53%) OpenWrt
5 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (68.45%) Test Automation
2 120 (64.17%) CI/CD
3 104 (55.61%) Agile
4 66 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 63 (33.69%) Test Strategy
6 62 (33.16%) BDD
7 59 (31.55%) Microservices
8 52 (27.81%) Event-Driven
9 48 (25.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (25.13%) Mentoring
11 45 (24.06%) CQRS
11 45 (24.06%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (22.46%) Validation
13 40 (21.39%) Coaching
14 39 (20.86%) End-to-End Testing
15 32 (17.11%) Software Engineering
15 32 (17.11%) Software Testing
16 31 (16.58%) DevOps
17 28 (14.97%) AI
17 28 (14.97%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 75 (40.11%) Java
2 66 (35.29%) SQL
3 26 (13.90%) Python
4 10 (5.35%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.28%) TypeScript
6 7 (3.74%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.74%) Ruby
7 6 (3.21%) Bash
7 6 (3.21%) C#
8 5 (2.67%) ABAP
8 5 (2.67%) Apex Code
8 5 (2.67%) Go
8 5 (2.67%) SOQL
8 5 (2.67%) SOSL
9 3 (1.60%) C
9 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.07%) C++
10 2 (1.07%) Perl
10 2 (1.07%) Rust
11 1 (0.53%) Dart
Qualifications
1 45 (24.06%) AWS Certification
1 45 (24.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 21 (11.23%) Security Cleared
3 18 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.42%) Degree
5 10 (5.35%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.14%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.07%) HND
8 2 (1.07%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (1.07%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.53%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (24.60%) QA
2 20 (10.70%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 9 (4.81%) WCAG
4 8 (4.28%) GDPR
5 4 (2.14%) ISO 20022
5 4 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.07%) HAZOP
6 2 (1.07%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (6.42%) Docker
2 3 (1.60%) Firmware
3 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.53%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 21 (11.23%) Grafana
2 13 (6.95%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.35%) Kibana
4 5 (2.67%) HP Fortify
5 3 (1.60%) Ansible
6 2 (1.07%) Functional Safety
6 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (8.56%) Dynatrace
2 11 (5.88%) AppDynamics
2 11 (5.88%) SAP
3 10 (5.35%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.28%) Oracle
5 5 (2.67%) Google
5 5 (2.67%) OpenText
5 5 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.60%) Veracode
7 2 (1.07%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.07%) Talend
8 1 (0.53%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.53%) NCR
8 1 (0.53%) NEC
8 1 (0.53%) Splunk
8 1 (0.53%) YouTube