Performance Test Leader Jobs

Performance Test Lead
UK

The median Performance Test Lead salary in the UK is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 890 984 1201
Rank change year-on-year +94 +217 -324
Permanent jobs requiring a Performance Test Leader 4 9 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.009% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% 0.009% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,250 £66,911 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,647 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.68% +32.08% -18.52%
75th Percentile £80,938 £78,382 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,875 - £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £77,500 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 92,901 95,961 148,050
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.57% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,751 60,281 85,224
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,686 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,495
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Performance Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Performance Test Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Test Leader in the UK

Performance Test Leader
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Performance Test Leader in the UK

Performance Test Leader
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Test Leader within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +114 4 £77,500 +6.68% 1
UK excluding London - 4 £77,500 -
North of England - 3 £77,500 -
Yorkshire - 3 £77,500 -
East of England - 1 £85,000 -

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Performance Test Leader job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Performance Test Leader in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (75.00%) JMeter
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) IIS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Culture Change
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership

Performance Test Leader Skill Set
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 1 (25.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) LoadRunner
2 3 (75.00%) JMeter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (75.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Culture Change
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk