Performance Testing Jobs with Work from Home Options

Performance Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 488 499 377
Rank change year-on-year +11 -122 +9
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 97 156 663
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.39% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.41% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 82 119 371
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,750 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £66,875 £75,625 £80,625
90th Percentile £79,750 £89,852 £90,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,100 38,207 71,189
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.53% 96.06% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,476 26,508 41,843
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,621 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.37% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Performance Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Testing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Performance Testing over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

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 4 (4.12%) Confluence
2 1 (1.03%) GemFire
2 1 (1.03%) IIS
2 1 (1.03%) JBoss
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (34.02%) AWS
2 31 (31.96%) Azure
3 16 (16.49%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (12.37%) BrowserStack
5 7 (7.22%) GCP
6 6 (6.19%) SaaS
7 5 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.12%) GitHub
9 3 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.09%) BlazeMeter
9 3 (3.09%) Sauce Labs
9 3 (3.09%) Serverless
10 2 (2.06%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (2.06%) Figma
10 2 (2.06%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.06%) WhatsApp
11 1 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
11 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) Wireless
2 1 (1.03%) Firewall
2 1 (1.03%) Multicast
2 1 (1.03%) SAN
2 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.31%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.25%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.19%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.12%) InfluxDB
5 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.03%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (31.96%) Selenium
2 27 (27.84%) JMeter
3 20 (20.62%) JIRA
4 12 (12.37%) Cucumber
5 10 (10.31%) Cypress.io
5 10 (10.31%) Git
5 10 (10.31%) Postman
6 8 (8.25%) JUnit
7 7 (7.22%) Jenkins
7 7 (7.22%) SoapUI
7 7 (7.22%) TestRail
8 6 (6.19%) Appium
8 6 (6.19%) LoadRunner
8 6 (6.19%) TestNG
9 5 (5.15%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (4.12%) SpecFlow
11 3 (3.09%) GitLab
12 2 (2.06%) Gatling
12 2 (2.06%) MSTest
12 2 (2.06%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (30.93%) Finance
2 17 (17.53%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.43%) Police
4 12 (12.37%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.31%) Public Sector
6 8 (8.25%) Retail
7 7 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (6.19%) Electronics
8 6 (6.19%) Local Government
9 4 (4.12%) Banking
9 4 (4.12%) Welsh Language
10 3 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.09%) Legal
10 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.06%) Automotive
11 2 (2.06%) Billing
11 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.06%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (2.06%) Law
11 2 (2.06%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (26.80%) Analyst
2 19 (19.59%) Test Analyst
3 18 (18.56%) Senior
4 16 (16.49%) Lead
5 10 (10.31%) Test Engineer
6 7 (7.22%) QA Leader
7 6 (6.19%) Administrator
7 6 (6.19%) DBA
7 6 (6.19%) Systems Analyst
7 6 (6.19%) Systems Test Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Automation Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Developer
8 5 (5.15%) QA Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) QA Automation Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) SaaS Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Senior Automation Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Senior QA Analyst
8 5 (5.15%) Tester
9 4 (4.12%) Test Automation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.19%) RESTful
2 5 (5.15%) SOAP
3 4 (4.12%) LDAP
3 4 (4.12%) OAuth
3 4 (4.12%) OAuth2
3 4 (4.12%) Playwright
3 4 (4.12%) Web Services
3 4 (4.12%) XML
4 3 (3.09%) .NET
4 3 (3.09%) CSS
4 3 (3.09%) HTML
4 3 (3.09%) Sass
4 3 (3.09%) Swagger
5 2 (2.06%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.06%) Middleware
5 2 (2.06%) Node.js
5 2 (2.06%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.06%) Spring
6 1 (1.03%) Puppeteer
6 1 (1.03%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.31%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (7.22%) Replication
3 6 (6.19%) Clustering
3 6 (6.19%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.19%) PMI
4 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.06%) CUDA
4 2 (2.06%) FMCG
4 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.03%) Animation
5 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.19%) Unix
2 2 (2.06%) Linux
2 2 (2.06%) Windows
3 1 (1.03%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (52.58%) Test Automation
2 44 (45.36%) Agile
3 32 (32.99%) Software Testing
4 28 (28.87%) Regression Testing
5 25 (25.77%) Test Scripting
6 22 (22.68%) DevOps
7 21 (21.65%) Mentoring
8 20 (20.62%) User Acceptance Testing
9 18 (18.56%) Functional Testing
10 16 (16.49%) Coaching
11 15 (15.46%) Non-Functional Testing
12 14 (14.43%) Defect Management
13 13 (13.40%) CI/CD
13 13 (13.40%) Code Quality
13 13 (13.40%) Compatibility Testing
13 13 (13.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (13.40%) Manual Testing
13 13 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (13.40%) Scrum
14 12 (12.37%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.68%) SQL
2 16 (16.49%) Java
3 12 (12.37%) C#
3 12 (12.37%) Python
4 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
5 5 (5.15%) JavaScript
6 4 (4.12%) C
7 2 (2.06%) Bash
7 2 (2.06%) C++
7 2 (2.06%) Go
7 2 (2.06%) Groovy
7 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.03%) Scala
8 1 (1.03%) VB
8 1 (1.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 23 (23.71%) Degree
2 13 (13.40%) ISTQB
3 6 (6.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.19%) PMI Certification
3 6 (6.19%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.12%) GIAC
5 3 (3.09%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.06%) PhD
7 1 (1.03%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.03%) ISEB
7 1 (1.03%) LPIC
7 1 (1.03%) MCP
7 1 (1.03%) MCSE
7 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (35.05%) QA
2 8 (8.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.06%) PMO
4 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (9.28%) Firmware
2 6 (6.19%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (1.03%) Docker
3 1 (1.03%) GridGain
3 1 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (11.34%) Grafana
2 6 (6.19%) Kibana
3 2 (2.06%) CASB
4 1 (1.03%) Istio
4 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.31%) Oracle
3 5 (5.15%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.15%) Google
4 3 (3.09%) Splunk
5 2 (2.06%) Adobe
6 1 (1.03%) IBM
6 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.03%) Pega
6 1 (1.03%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) VMware