Performance Tester Jobs in the UK excluding London

Performance Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Performance Tester salary in the UK excluding London is £39,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 763 732 833
Rank change year-on-year -31 +101 -142
Permanent jobs requiring a Performance Tester 5 4 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.007% 0.007% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.008% 0.018%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 12
10th Percentile £26,850 £52,150 £36,875
25th Percentile £31,125 £52,375 £42,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -28.18% +15.79% -18.80%
75th Percentile £49,125 £58,438 £58,750
90th Percentile £54,150 £60,125 £64,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Performance Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Performance Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tester in the UK excluding London

Performance Tester
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Tester in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Performance Tester in the UK excluding London

Performance Tester
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Tester in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Tester in the UK excluding London

Performance Tester
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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 East - 2 - -
Wales - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £55,000 - 1
East Midlands - 1 £24,000 -
Midlands - 1 £24,000 -
Performance Tester
UK

Performance Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Performance Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Performance Tester in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) JMeter
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) LoadRunner
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Measurement
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) RESTful
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (40.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP

Performance Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JMeter
2 3 (60.00%) LoadRunner
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) Gatling
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RESTful
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Measurement
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Stress Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle