Scalability Testing Job Trends

Scalability Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Scalability Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 805 - 774
Rank change year-on-year - - -31
Permanent jobs citing Scalability Testing 7 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.006% - 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% - 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 8
10th Percentile £46,700 - £42,875
25th Percentile £55,250 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 - £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +58.97%
75th Percentile £86,250 - £82,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £82,500 - £47,500

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Scalability 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 86,432 44,324 60,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.12% 89.10% 81.90%
Number of salaries quoted 59,358 24,582 33,017
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Scalability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Scalability Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

Scalability Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Scalability Testing

Scalability Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Scalability Testing over the 6 months to 4 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Scalability Testing in the UK

Scalability Testing
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Scalability Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 - 6 £71,250 - 8
UK excluding London - 5 £82,500 - 4
West Midlands - 2 £82,500 - 3
London - 2 £41,000 - 4
Midlands - 2 £82,500 - 3
North East - 1 - -
South East - 1 £60,000 -
Scotland - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - - 1

Scalability 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (14.29%) BrowserStack
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) LoadRunner
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) Gatling
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Aerospace
2 2 (28.57%) Automotive
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Python Software Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Software Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Tester
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Tester
2 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Performance Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) Django
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (57.14%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (28.57%) IoT
3 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (28.57%) Robotics
3 2 (28.57%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Observability
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Performance Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven
4 3 (42.86%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (28.57%) Requirements Workshops
5 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft