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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 597 681 604
Rank change year-on-year +84 -77 -161
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 114 231 393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.23% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.27% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 89 170 206
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,015 £42,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile - £80,125 £129,097
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +65.00% -13.04% +9.52%

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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -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 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
England +65 96 £77,500 +47.62% 544
UK excluding London +113 63 £82,500 +65.00% 528
Work from Home +74 51 £80,000 +60.00% 153
London +90 47 £57,500 -6.59% 93
South East +103 33 £82,500 +73.68% 147
Wales +50 8 £50,124 +11.39% 17
Midlands +35 7 £44,750 -10.50% 98
North of England 0 5 £60,000 +23.08% 115
South West +113 4 £40,000 -33.33% 58
Scotland +100 4 £80,000 +45.45% 24
East Midlands +34 4 £45,000 -30.77% 43
North West -22 4 £75,000 +66.67% 49
West Midlands +44 3 £39,750 -20.50% 48
Yorkshire +44 1 £59,800 -1.16% 52
Northern Ireland - 1 £45,000 - 15
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 - 2

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 (3.51%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.63%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.88%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.88%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 60 (52.63%) Azure
2 47 (41.23%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (25.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 29 (25.44%) Azure Service Bus
3 29 (25.44%) SonarCloud
4 21 (18.42%) AWS
5 7 (6.14%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.26%) GCP
7 5 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.39%) BlazeMeter
8 4 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (3.51%) SaaS
9 3 (2.63%) GitHub
10 2 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (1.75%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.75%) Serverless
11 1 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.88%) Google Sheets
11 1 (0.88%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) BGP
1 2 (1.75%) Firewall
1 2 (1.75%) OSPF
1 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.75%) VLAN
2 1 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (28.07%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (14.04%) NoSQL
3 8 (7.02%) Big Data
4 7 (6.14%) Power BI
5 6 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.39%) MySQL
6 5 (4.39%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.51%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.51%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.51%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.88%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 47 (41.23%) Git
2 40 (35.09%) Selenium
3 38 (33.33%) JMeter
4 30 (26.32%) Visual Studio
5 29 (25.44%) MSBuild
5 29 (25.44%) Octopus Deploy
5 29 (25.44%) Team Foundation Server
6 20 (17.54%) Jenkins
6 20 (17.54%) Postman
7 19 (16.67%) Cypress.io
8 16 (14.04%) REST Assured
9 15 (13.16%) JUnit
10 12 (10.53%) Gatling
10 12 (10.53%) JIRA
10 12 (10.53%) LoadRunner
11 9 (7.89%) Appium
11 9 (7.89%) Cucumber
11 9 (7.89%) TestRail
12 8 (7.02%) TestNG
13 7 (6.14%) Locust
General
1 32 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.05%) Retail
3 22 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (14.04%) Finance
5 8 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.26%) Banking
7 3 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.63%) Private Banking
7 3 (2.63%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.75%) Advertising
8 2 (1.75%) Games
8 2 (1.75%) Law
8 2 (1.75%) Marketing
9 1 (0.88%) iGaming
9 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (26.32%) Architect
2 29 (25.44%) Technical Architect
3 18 (15.79%) Lead
4 14 (12.28%) Developer
4 14 (12.28%) Test Engineer
5 13 (11.40%) Analyst
6 12 (10.53%) QA Engineer
7 11 (9.65%) Senior
8 10 (8.77%) QA Automation Engineer
9 8 (7.02%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (7.02%) Java Developer
9 8 (7.02%) Test Analyst
10 7 (6.14%) Test Manager
11 6 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
11 6 (5.26%) Tester
12 5 (4.39%) QA Test Engineer
12 5 (4.39%) Senior Analyst
13 4 (3.51%) QA Analyst
13 4 (3.51%) QA Leader
13 4 (3.51%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (37.72%) REST
2 38 (33.33%) CSS
3 35 (30.70%) HTML
4 31 (27.19%) JSON
5 30 (26.32%) .NET
5 30 (26.32%) XML
6 29 (25.44%) ASP.NET
6 29 (25.44%) Bootstrap
6 29 (25.44%) gRPC
7 13 (11.40%) React
8 11 (9.65%) Playwright
9 10 (8.77%) AngularJS
10 9 (7.89%) Kafka
11 8 (7.02%) pytest
11 8 (7.02%) RESTful
12 6 (5.26%) Jest
12 6 (5.26%) Node.js
12 6 (5.26%) SOAP
12 6 (5.26%) Spring
13 4 (3.51%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.26%) Mobile App
2 3 (2.63%) Algorithms
2 3 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.75%) Cybercrime
3 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.75%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.88%) Derivative
4 1 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.88%) Equities
4 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.88%) Mobile Games
4 1 (0.88%) NHS
4 1 (0.88%) Online Games
4 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.88%) Sports Betting
4 1 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.51%) Linux
2 3 (2.63%) Unix
3 1 (0.88%) Android
3 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (54.39%) Agile
2 59 (51.75%) DevOps
3 57 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 46 (40.35%) Microservices
4 46 (40.35%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (37.72%) CI/CD
5 43 (37.72%) Code Quality
6 36 (31.58%) Event-Driven
7 34 (29.82%) Software Testing
8 31 (27.19%) Technical Leadership
9 30 (26.32%) API Integration
9 30 (26.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 30 (26.32%) Performance Optimisation
9 30 (26.32%) Security Testing
9 30 (26.32%) Test Strategy
10 29 (25.44%) Data Encryption
10 29 (25.44%) Design Patterns
10 29 (25.44%) MVC
11 21 (18.42%) Scrum
12 20 (17.54%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 60 (52.63%) SQL
2 58 (50.88%) JavaScript
3 36 (31.58%) C#
4 30 (26.32%) Python
5 28 (24.56%) Java
6 15 (13.16%) TypeScript
7 6 (5.26%) Groovy
8 5 (4.39%) Scala
9 2 (1.75%) Ruby
10 1 (0.88%) Bash
10 1 (0.88%) Go
10 1 (0.88%) PHP
10 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (20.18%) ISTQB
2 14 (12.28%) Security Cleared
3 13 (11.40%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 6 (5.26%) Degree
6 5 (4.39%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.51%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.63%) CISSP
8 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.63%) ISEB
9 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.75%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.88%) ISEB Practitioner
10 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (33.33%) QA
2 29 (25.44%) GDPR
3 5 (4.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (36.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.14%) Grafana
3 6 (5.26%) Terraform
4 5 (4.39%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (1.75%) Iperf
6 1 (0.88%) Kibana
6 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (5.26%) Databricks
2 4 (3.51%) Splunk
3 3 (2.63%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.75%) Google
4 2 (1.75%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.75%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.75%) SolarWinds
4 2 (1.75%) VMware
5 1 (0.88%) CyberSource
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle
5 1 (0.88%) SAP
5 1 (0.88%) SEEBURGER
5 1 (0.88%) Sitecore