Performance Testing Jobs in Wales

Performance Testing
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 117 118
Rank change year-on-year +43 +1 -1
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 7 5 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.57% 0.23% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.30% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile - £42,066 £32,067
25th Percentile £46,486 £43,952 £34,223
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,562 £45,000 £40,315
Median % change year-on-year +16.80% +11.62% -32.24%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £48,908
90th Percentile £67,500 - £52,563
UK median annual salary £72,500 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +38.10% -16.00% +4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 999 1,682 1,620
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 81.89% 76.42% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 557 1,114 800
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,975 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% - -5.59%
75th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in Wales

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in Wales.

Salary trend for Performance Testing in Wales

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing in Wales over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in Wales

Performance Testing
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the Wales region over the 6 months to 31 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
South Wales +37 3 £65,000 +44.44% 4
West Wales +18 3 £50,124 +22.83%
Performance Testing
UK

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) BGP
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) OSPF
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 2 (28.57%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) Appium
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JUnit
2 2 (28.57%) Katalon Studio
2 2 (28.57%) Maven
2 2 (28.57%) REST Assured
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) TestNG
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Test Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Test Leader
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) REST
1 2 (28.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Business Transformation
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Network Design
4 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Code Quality
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Groovy
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Iperf
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
1 2 (28.57%) VMware