Performance Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Testing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 673 568 456
Rank change year-on-year -105 -112 +29
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 234 474 1,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.46% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.48% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 172 226 549
10th Percentile £37,101 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £64,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.92% +7.92% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £79,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £122,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £56,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.50% +7.62% +6.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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 3 May 2024.

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 3 May 2024. 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 -69 196 £53,500 -17.69% 58
UK excluding London -73 145 £50,000 -11.50% 48
Work from Home +17 103 £52,500 -16.00% 27
London +3 79 £65,000 -13.33% 16
North of England +46 47 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Midlands +35 32 £50,000 -9.09% 10
North West +28 28 £45,000 -25.00% 5
Scotland -72 27 £52,500 +23.53% 7
West Midlands +33 23 £50,000 -9.09% 3
Yorkshire +60 19 £60,500 +0.83%
South East -55 19 £47,500 -11.63% 8
South West -33 10 £62,500 +4.17% 10
East Midlands 0 9 £65,000 +4.00% 7
East of England 0 5 £55,000 +15.79% 5
Wales -6 5 £45,000 +46.91% 1

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 13 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) GemFire
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) JBoss
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.85%) Trello
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 61 (26.07%) Azure
2 60 (25.64%) AWS
3 27 (11.54%) BlazeMeter
4 26 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (6.41%) BrowserStack
5 15 (6.41%) GCP
5 15 (6.41%) SaaS
6 11 (4.70%) GitHub
7 4 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.71%) Serverless
8 3 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.28%) PaaS
8 3 (1.28%) Sauce Labs
8 3 (1.28%) Tricentis Tosca
8 3 (1.28%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 2 (0.85%) Google App Engine
9 2 (0.85%) IaaS
9 2 (0.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.71%) Wireless
2 2 (0.85%) HTTP
2 2 (0.85%) VPN
3 1 (0.43%) Firewall
3 1 (0.43%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) SAN
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 23 (9.83%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.84%) Apache Cassandra
3 16 (6.84%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.99%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.71%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.85%) EDMS
6 2 (0.85%) Looker
6 2 (0.85%) Redis
7 1 (0.43%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.43%) Metadata
7 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 66 (28.21%) JMeter
2 56 (23.93%) Selenium
3 43 (18.38%) JIRA
4 33 (14.10%) JUnit
5 27 (11.54%) LoadRunner
6 23 (9.83%) Jenkins
7 20 (8.55%) Git
8 19 (8.12%) Cypress.io
8 19 (8.12%) Postman
9 14 (5.98%) Cucumber
10 13 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
11 11 (4.70%) Gatling
12 8 (3.42%) Appium
12 8 (3.42%) GitLab
12 8 (3.42%) SpecFlow
13 7 (2.99%) SoapUI
14 6 (2.56%) TeamCity
14 6 (2.56%) TestNG
15 5 (2.14%) HP UFT
15 5 (2.14%) MSTest
General
1 60 (25.64%) Finance
2 59 (25.21%) Social Skills
3 36 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (11.54%) Law
6 26 (11.11%) Banking
7 21 (8.97%) Private Banking
8 15 (6.41%) Police
9 13 (5.56%) Public Sector
10 11 (4.70%) Retail
11 6 (2.56%) Electronics
11 6 (2.56%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.56%) Local Government
11 6 (2.56%) Marketing
12 4 (1.71%) Automotive
12 4 (1.71%) Games
12 4 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.71%) Welsh Language
13 3 (1.28%) Advertising
13 3 (1.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (15.38%) Analyst
2 34 (14.53%) Lead
3 28 (11.97%) Senior
4 27 (11.54%) Test Engineer
5 26 (11.11%) Test Analyst
6 21 (8.97%) Developer
7 18 (7.69%) Software Engineer
8 16 (6.84%) Java Engineer
8 16 (6.84%) Tester
9 15 (6.41%) Java Software Engineer
10 13 (5.56%) QA Engineer
11 12 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.70%) Test Leader
13 10 (4.27%) QA Leader
14 9 (3.85%) Engineering Manager
15 7 (2.99%) Performance Tester
16 6 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
16 6 (2.56%) Senior Test Engineer
16 6 (2.56%) Systems Test Analyst
16 6 (2.56%) Web Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.26%) Spring
2 19 (8.12%) Kafka
3 15 (6.41%) REST
4 12 (5.13%) RESTful
5 9 (3.85%) .NET
5 9 (3.85%) Playwright
5 9 (3.85%) Web Services
6 8 (3.42%) SOAP
6 8 (3.42%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.99%) HTML
8 6 (2.56%) .NET Framework
8 6 (2.56%) CSS
8 6 (2.56%) Node.js
9 4 (1.71%) LDAP
9 4 (1.71%) OAuth
9 4 (1.71%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.71%) React
9 4 (1.71%) XML
10 3 (1.28%) FIX Protocol
10 3 (1.28%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (8.12%) Mobile App
3 17 (7.26%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.98%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (3.42%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.99%) Clustering
7 7 (2.99%) Replication
8 6 (2.56%) PMI
9 5 (2.14%) Low-Code
10 4 (1.71%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.28%) Equities
11 3 (1.28%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.85%) CUDA
12 2 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (0.85%) FMCG
12 2 (0.85%) Life Science
12 2 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.27%) Linux
2 6 (2.56%) Unix
3 3 (1.28%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.28%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) AIX
4 1 (0.43%) Android
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (56.41%) Test Automation
2 120 (51.28%) Agile
3 78 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 64 (27.35%) DevOps
5 63 (26.92%) CI/CD
6 59 (25.21%) Test Scripting
7 54 (23.08%) Regression Testing
8 47 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
9 44 (18.80%) Functional Testing
9 44 (18.80%) Test Strategy
10 38 (16.24%) Mentoring
10 38 (16.24%) SDLC
11 36 (15.38%) Computer Science
11 36 (15.38%) Test Management
12 35 (14.96%) Software Engineering
13 32 (13.68%) Microservices
14 30 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (12.39%) API Testing
16 28 (11.97%) Non-Functional Testing
16 28 (11.97%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (23.93%) Java
2 36 (15.38%) SQL
3 30 (12.82%) C#
4 29 (12.39%) Python
5 19 (8.12%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.56%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.14%) C
7 5 (2.14%) C++
8 4 (1.71%) Bash
9 3 (1.28%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.28%) Ruby
10 2 (0.85%) Go
10 2 (0.85%) Groovy
10 2 (0.85%) Swift
11 1 (0.43%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) Scala
11 1 (0.43%) VB
11 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (20.09%) Degree
2 22 (9.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (7.69%) ISTQB
4 15 (6.41%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.42%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.56%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.71%) GIAC
9 3 (1.28%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.85%) HND
10 2 (0.85%) PhD
11 1 (0.43%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.43%) ISEB
11 1 (0.43%) LPIC
11 1 (0.43%) MCP
11 1 (0.43%) MCSE
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (28.63%) QA
2 18 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.14%) GDPR
4 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.85%) PMO
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (4.70%) Firmware
2 9 (3.85%) Docker
3 6 (2.56%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) GridGain
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (14.10%) Grafana
2 22 (9.40%) Terraform
3 11 (4.70%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.56%) Kibana
5 2 (0.85%) Ansible
5 2 (0.85%) CASB
6 1 (0.43%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.43%) Istio
6 1 (0.43%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (13.25%) Dynatrace
2 26 (11.11%) Splunk
3 19 (8.12%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.70%) Google
4 11 (4.70%) Oracle
5 4 (1.71%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.28%) Databricks
7 2 (0.85%) Adobe
7 2 (0.85%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.85%) IBM
7 2 (0.85%) iManage
7 2 (0.85%) Intapp
8 1 (0.43%) Apple
8 1 (0.43%) Citrix
8 1 (0.43%) EMC
8 1 (0.43%) Pega
8 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.43%) VMware