Performance Testing Jobs in the West Midlands

Performance Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 231 264
Rank change year-on-year +41 +33 -21
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 4 23 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.093% 0.31% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.37% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 2
10th Percentile £34,850 £26,500 £51,625
25th Percentile £38,375 £47,500 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,500 £50,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -6.98% +13.16%
75th Percentile £44,875 £52,500 £54,688
90th Percentile £44,950 £62,500 £54,875
England median annual salary £75,000 £52,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +42.86% -19.23% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,935 6,173 6,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.21% 82.47% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,636 4,565 3,157
10th Percentile £28,911 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,525 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the West Midlands

Performance Testing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Testing in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Performance Testing in the West Midlands

Performance Testing
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Staffordshire +16 1 - - 2
Shropshire - 1 £45,000 - 5
Performance Testing
England

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) Appium
2 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) TestRail
2 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Regression Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stress Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (25.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Pega