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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 706 634 856
Rank change year-on-year -72 +222 +138
Permanent jobs citing Scalability Testing 7 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.003% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £43,847 - £36,250
25th Percentile £44,448 - £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +5.88% -20.93%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £55,625
90th Percentile - - £62,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +5.56% -16.28% -2.27%

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 62,747 38,173 78,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.19% 93.03% 86.26%
Number of salaries quoted 38,762 22,528 58,201
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,290 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,557
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -8.26%

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 7 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Scalability Testing in the UK

Scalability Testing
Top 5 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 7 April 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 -53 7 £56,250 +25.00% 2
London - 4 £65,000 - 1
UK excluding London -80 1 £47,500 +5.56% 1
North of England - 1 £47,500 -
North East - 1 £47,500 -

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Gatling
1 1 (14.29%) JMeter
1 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Test Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 3 (42.86%) Lead Test Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Test Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Test Leader
3 2 (28.57%) SEO Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Test Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Observability
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) AI
3 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Data Management
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (42.86%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace