Performance Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Testing over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 658 581 444
Rank change year-on-year -77 -137 +47
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 231 421 1,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.42% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.44% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 169 210 588
10th Percentile £36,930 £43,750 £41,675
25th Percentile £45,000 £55,000 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £122,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,075 94,861 153,532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 95.59% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 55,938 82,447
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,714
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Performance Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 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
England -31 194 £52,500 -19.23% 57
UK excluding London -80 143 £50,000 -13.04% 50
Work from Home +6 99 £51,250 -21.15% 29
London +13 78 £63,112 -12.95% 17
North of England +47 46 £48,750 -18.75% 11
Midlands +19 32 £50,000 -9.09% 5
North West +18 27 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Scotland -59 26 £61,250 +44.12% 7
West Midlands +34 23 £50,000 -6.98% 3
South East -57 20 £45,000 -18.18% 13
Yorkshire +59 19 £60,500 +0.83% 3
South West -24 10 £62,500 +4.17% 7
East Midlands -4 9 £65,000 +4.00% 2
Wales 0 5 £45,000 +11.62% 2
East of England -1 4 £52,500 +10.53% 4

Performance Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 13 (5.63%) Confluence
2 2 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) GemFire
3 1 (0.43%) JBoss
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle Coherence
3 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (0.87%) Trello
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 60 (25.97%) AWS
2 59 (25.54%) Azure
3 27 (11.69%) BlazeMeter
4 24 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (6.49%) BrowserStack
5 15 (6.49%) GCP
6 14 (6.06%) SaaS
7 8 (3.46%) GitHub
8 5 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.73%) Serverless
10 3 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.30%) PaaS
10 3 (1.30%) Sauce Labs
10 3 (1.30%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (1.30%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.87%) Google App Engine
11 2 (0.87%) IaaS
11 2 (0.87%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.73%) Wireless
2 2 (0.87%) HTTP
2 2 (0.87%) VPN
3 1 (0.43%) Firewall
3 1 (0.43%) Multicast
3 1 (0.43%) SAN
3 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.26%) MongoDB
2 24 (10.39%) NoSQL
3 16 (6.93%) Apache Cassandra
3 16 (6.93%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.60%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.73%) InfluxDB
6 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.87%) EDMS
6 2 (0.87%) Looker
6 2 (0.87%) Redis
7 1 (0.43%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.43%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.43%) Metadata
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 64 (27.71%) JMeter
2 56 (24.24%) Selenium
3 44 (19.05%) JIRA
4 36 (15.58%) JUnit
5 26 (11.26%) LoadRunner
6 20 (8.66%) Git
7 19 (8.23%) Cypress.io
8 18 (7.79%) Jenkins
9 17 (7.36%) Postman
10 15 (6.49%) Cucumber
11 13 (5.63%) Team Foundation Server
12 10 (4.33%) Appium
13 9 (3.90%) Gatling
13 9 (3.90%) TestNG
14 8 (3.46%) GitLab
14 8 (3.46%) SoapUI
15 7 (3.03%) TestRail
16 6 (2.60%) SpecFlow
17 5 (2.16%) MSTest
17 5 (2.16%) NeoLoad
General
1 60 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 58 (25.11%) Finance
3 36 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (11.69%) Law
6 24 (10.39%) Banking
7 21 (9.09%) Private Banking
8 15 (6.49%) Police
8 15 (6.49%) Public Sector
9 11 (4.76%) Retail
10 6 (2.60%) Electronics
10 6 (2.60%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.60%) Local Government
10 6 (2.60%) Marketing
11 5 (2.16%) Legal
12 4 (1.73%) Automotive
12 4 (1.73%) Games
12 4 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.73%) Welsh Language
13 3 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (16.45%) Analyst
2 33 (14.29%) Lead
3 28 (12.12%) Test Analyst
4 27 (11.69%) Senior
5 26 (11.26%) Test Engineer
6 21 (9.09%) Developer
7 17 (7.36%) Software Engineer
8 16 (6.93%) Java Engineer
9 15 (6.49%) Java Software Engineer
9 15 (6.49%) Tester
10 12 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.19%) QA Engineer
11 11 (4.76%) Test Leader
12 10 (4.33%) QA Leader
13 7 (3.03%) Engineering Manager
13 7 (3.03%) Performance Tester
13 7 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (3.03%) Test Manager
14 6 (2.60%) Systems Analyst
14 6 (2.60%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.39%) Spring
2 17 (7.36%) Kafka
3 13 (5.63%) REST
4 11 (4.76%) RESTful
5 9 (3.90%) Playwright
6 8 (3.46%) Spring Boot
6 8 (3.46%) Web Services
7 7 (3.03%) .NET
7 7 (3.03%) HTML
7 7 (3.03%) SOAP
8 6 (2.60%) CSS
9 4 (1.73%) LDAP
9 4 (1.73%) Node.js
9 4 (1.73%) OAuth
9 4 (1.73%) OAuth2
9 4 (1.73%) React
9 4 (1.73%) XML
10 3 (1.30%) Gherkin
10 3 (1.30%) PySpark
10 3 (1.30%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.26%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 16 (6.93%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.19%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.46%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.03%) Clustering
6 7 (3.03%) Replication
7 6 (2.60%) PMI
8 5 (2.16%) Low-Code
9 4 (1.73%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.30%) Equities
10 3 (1.30%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.87%) CUDA
11 2 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.87%) FMCG
11 2 (0.87%) Life Science
11 2 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.33%) Linux
2 6 (2.60%) Unix
3 3 (1.30%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.87%) Windows
5 1 (0.43%) AIX
5 1 (0.43%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 117 (50.65%) Agile
3 76 (32.90%) Software Testing
4 62 (26.84%) DevOps
5 59 (25.54%) CI/CD
5 59 (25.54%) Test Scripting
6 56 (24.24%) Regression Testing
7 47 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (19.91%) Functional Testing
9 43 (18.61%) Test Strategy
10 38 (16.45%) Mentoring
11 37 (16.02%) Computer Science
11 37 (16.02%) Test Management
12 36 (15.58%) SDLC
13 32 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (13.85%) Software Engineering
14 30 (12.99%) Microservices
15 29 (12.55%) Non-Functional Testing
16 28 (12.12%) User Acceptance Testing
17 27 (11.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 54 (23.38%) Java
2 34 (14.72%) SQL
3 32 (13.85%) Python
4 28 (12.12%) C#
5 18 (7.79%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.60%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.16%) C
7 5 (2.16%) C++
8 4 (1.73%) Bash
9 3 (1.30%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.87%) Go
10 2 (0.87%) Groovy
10 2 (0.87%) Swift
11 1 (0.43%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) PHP
11 1 (0.43%) Ruby
11 1 (0.43%) Scala
11 1 (0.43%) VB
11 1 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 48 (20.78%) Degree
2 23 (9.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (7.79%) ISTQB
4 14 (6.06%) Security Cleared
5 7 (3.03%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.60%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.73%) GIAC
9 3 (1.30%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.87%) HND
10 2 (0.87%) PhD
11 1 (0.43%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.43%) ISEB
11 1 (0.43%) LPIC
11 1 (0.43%) MCP
11 1 (0.43%) MCSE
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (29.00%) QA
2 18 (7.79%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.16%) GDPR
4 3 (1.30%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.87%) PMO
6 1 (0.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.43%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 11 (4.76%) Firmware
2 7 (3.03%) Docker
3 6 (2.60%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) GridGain
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (14.29%) Grafana
2 23 (9.96%) Terraform
3 9 (3.90%) Kubernetes
4 6 (2.60%) Kibana
5 2 (0.87%) Ansible
5 2 (0.87%) CASB
6 1 (0.43%) HP SiteScope
6 1 (0.43%) Istio
6 1 (0.43%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (12.99%) Dynatrace
2 25 (10.82%) Splunk
3 18 (7.79%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.19%) Oracle
5 11 (4.76%) Google
6 4 (1.73%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.30%) Databricks
8 2 (0.87%) Adobe
8 2 (0.87%) AppDynamics
8 2 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.87%) IBM
8 2 (0.87%) iManage
8 2 (0.87%) Intapp
9 1 (0.43%) Apple
9 1 (0.43%) Citrix
9 1 (0.43%) EMC
9 1 (0.43%) Pega
9 1 (0.43%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.43%) VMware