Performance Testing Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Performance Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 487 491
Rank change year-on-year +143 +4 -90
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 53 105 186
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.31% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.34% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 50 89 140
10th Percentile £46,462 £33,750 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,750 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £88,750 £87,735
UK median annual salary £72,500 £52,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +38.10% -16.67% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Performance Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Performance Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Testing.

Performance Testing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Performance Testing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (1.89%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 37 (69.81%) Azure
2 29 (54.72%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (45.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 24 (45.28%) Azure Service Bus
3 24 (45.28%) SonarCloud
4 8 (15.09%) AWS
5 2 (3.77%) GCP
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.77%) Serverless
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) BGP
1 2 (3.77%) Firewall
1 2 (3.77%) OSPF
1 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
1 2 (3.77%) VLAN
2 1 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (45.28%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.77%) Big Data
2 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.77%) Power BI
2 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.89%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.89%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.89%) MySQL
3 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (52.83%) Git
2 24 (45.28%) MSBuild
2 24 (45.28%) Octopus Deploy
2 24 (45.28%) Team Foundation Server
2 24 (45.28%) Visual Studio
3 16 (30.19%) Selenium
4 13 (24.53%) JMeter
5 8 (15.09%) Cypress.io
6 7 (13.21%) Jenkins
7 5 (9.43%) Appium
8 4 (7.55%) Gatling
8 4 (7.55%) Postman
9 3 (5.66%) Cucumber
9 3 (5.66%) JUnit
9 3 (5.66%) Locust
9 3 (5.66%) REST Assured
9 3 (5.66%) TestRail
10 2 (3.77%) GitLab
10 2 (3.77%) LoadRunner
10 2 (3.77%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (45.28%) Retail
2 12 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.32%) Finance
3 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.55%) Banking
4 4 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.66%) Private Banking
5 3 (5.66%) Retail Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (45.28%) Architect
1 24 (45.28%) Technical Architect
2 8 (15.09%) Test Engineer
3 6 (11.32%) Lead
3 6 (11.32%) QA Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Performance Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Performance Test Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) QA Automation Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) Test Automation Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Migration Manager
5 3 (5.66%) Test Analyst
5 3 (5.66%) Test Leader
5 3 (5.66%) Test Manager
6 2 (3.77%) Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Java Developer in Test
6 2 (3.77%) QA Test Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (50.94%) REST
2 26 (49.06%) CSS
2 26 (49.06%) HTML
3 25 (47.17%) JSON
4 24 (45.28%) .NET
4 24 (45.28%) ASP.NET
4 24 (45.28%) Bootstrap
4 24 (45.28%) gRPC
4 24 (45.28%) XML
5 6 (11.32%) Playwright
6 2 (3.77%) pytest
6 2 (3.77%) RESTful
7 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.89%) Apache Thrift
7 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.89%) Kafka
7 1 (1.89%) Node.js
7 1 (1.89%) SOAP
7 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.66%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.89%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
1 4 (7.55%) Unix
2 1 (1.89%) Android
2 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (66.04%) DevOps
2 33 (62.26%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (50.94%) Code Quality
3 27 (50.94%) Microservices
4 24 (45.28%) API Integration
4 24 (45.28%) Data Encryption
4 24 (45.28%) Design Patterns
4 24 (45.28%) Event-Driven
4 24 (45.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 24 (45.28%) MVC
4 24 (45.28%) Performance Optimisation
4 24 (45.28%) Technical Leadership
5 19 (35.85%) Test Automation
6 18 (33.96%) Agile
7 13 (24.53%) Software Testing
8 12 (22.64%) Regression Testing
9 11 (20.75%) Test Scripting
9 11 (20.75%) Test Strategy
10 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
11 7 (13.21%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (62.26%) SQL
2 31 (58.49%) JavaScript
3 27 (50.94%) C#
4 8 (15.09%) Python
5 5 (9.43%) Java
5 5 (9.43%) TypeScript
6 4 (7.55%) Groovy
7 2 (3.77%) Ruby
7 2 (3.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) ISTQB
1 6 (11.32%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (3.77%) ISEB
4 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.89%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (47.17%) GDPR
2 21 (39.62%) QA
3 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.89%) Basel III
4 1 (1.89%) IFRS
4 1 (1.89%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 26 (49.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.89%) Firmware
2 1 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Grafana
2 2 (3.77%) Iperf
2 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (3.77%) SolarWinds
1 2 (3.77%) VMware
2 1 (1.89%) Databricks
2 1 (1.89%) Google
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.89%) Splunk