Performance Testing Jobs

Performance Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 599 680 617
Rank change year-on-year +81 -63 -167
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 121 241 343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.26% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 87 171 191
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,101 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £45,000 £53,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,625 £77,500
90th Percentile - £81,250 £135,693
UK excluding London median annual salary £81,250 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +62.50% -16.67% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 52,007 91,221 87,455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 92.64% 82.32% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,082 62,888 53,283
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,934 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

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 16 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Testing in the UK

Performance Testing
Top 17 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 16 June 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
England +77 101 £75,000 +40.19% 1,124
UK excluding London +112 67 £81,250 +62.50% 949
Work from Home +93 52 £80,000 +60.00% 326
London +64 49 £57,500 -4.17% 306
South East +104 32 £82,500 +65.00% 238
Midlands +59 9 £45,000 -10.00% 151
Wales +51 8 £52,562 +16.80% 32
South West +111 5 £40,000 -34.69% 104
Scotland +93 5 £80,000 +45.45% 63
West Midlands +54 5 £44,500 -11.00% 76
North of England +23 5 £60,000 +20.00% 207
East Midlands +47 4 £45,000 -30.77% 74
North West -6 4 £75,000 +66.67% 101
Yorkshire +47 1 £59,800 -1.16% 92
East of England +32 1 - - 135
Northern Ireland - 1 £45,000 - 17
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 - 1

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 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.83%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.83%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.83%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 59 (48.76%) Azure
2 47 (38.84%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (23.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 28 (23.14%) Azure Service Bus
3 28 (23.14%) SonarCloud
4 21 (17.36%) AWS
5 7 (5.79%) BlazeMeter
5 7 (5.79%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (4.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (4.13%) GCP
7 4 (3.31%) SaaS
7 4 (3.31%) Serverless
8 3 (2.48%) GitHub
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.65%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.83%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) BGP
1 2 (1.65%) Firewall
1 2 (1.65%) Internet
1 2 (1.65%) OSPF
1 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
1 2 (1.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (25.62%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (11.57%) NoSQL
3 9 (7.44%) Big Data
4 7 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (5.79%) Power BI
5 6 (4.96%) MySQL
5 6 (4.96%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.13%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.31%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (3.31%) Delta Lake
7 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.83%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
10 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.83%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.83%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 46 (38.02%) Git
2 40 (33.06%) Selenium
3 34 (28.10%) JMeter
4 28 (23.14%) MSBuild
4 28 (23.14%) Octopus Deploy
4 28 (23.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 28 (23.14%) Visual Studio
5 18 (14.88%) Cypress.io
5 18 (14.88%) Jenkins
6 16 (13.22%) Postman
7 15 (12.40%) JUnit
8 14 (11.57%) JIRA
9 13 (10.74%) REST Assured
10 11 (9.09%) Appium
10 11 (9.09%) TestRail
11 10 (8.26%) LoadRunner
12 9 (7.44%) Gatling
13 8 (6.61%) Cucumber
14 7 (5.79%) Locust
15 6 (4.96%) GitLab
General
1 33 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.66%) Finance
3 24 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (19.83%) Retail
4 14 (11.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (8.26%) Banking
6 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.79%) Law
8 4 (3.31%) Health Technology
8 4 (3.31%) Marketing
9 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.48%) Legal
9 3 (2.48%) Private Banking
9 3 (2.48%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.65%) Advertising
10 2 (1.65%) Games
11 1 (0.83%) iGaming
11 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (23.97%) Architect
2 28 (23.14%) Technical Architect
3 20 (16.53%) Lead
4 17 (14.05%) Developer
5 16 (13.22%) Test Engineer
6 14 (11.57%) QA Engineer
6 14 (11.57%) Senior
7 12 (9.92%) Analyst
7 12 (9.92%) QA Automation Engineer
8 11 (9.09%) Software Engineer
9 10 (8.26%) Test Analyst
10 8 (6.61%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (6.61%) Java Developer
11 7 (5.79%) Software Developer
11 7 (5.79%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (5.79%) Test Manager
12 6 (4.96%) QA Test Engineer
12 6 (4.96%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
13 5 (4.13%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (33.06%) REST
2 39 (32.23%) CSS
3 35 (28.93%) HTML
4 30 (24.79%) JSON
5 29 (23.97%) .NET
5 29 (23.97%) XML
6 28 (23.14%) ASP.NET
6 28 (23.14%) Bootstrap
6 28 (23.14%) gRPC
7 15 (12.40%) React
8 13 (10.74%) Kafka
8 13 (10.74%) Playwright
9 11 (9.09%) AngularJS
10 10 (8.26%) RESTful
11 9 (7.44%) Jest
12 8 (6.61%) pytest
12 8 (6.61%) Spring
13 6 (4.96%) Node.js
13 6 (4.96%) SOAP
14 4 (3.31%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.79%) Mobile App
2 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.31%) Derivative
3 4 (3.31%) Equities
4 3 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.65%) Cybercrime
5 2 (1.65%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (0.83%) Mobile Games
6 1 (0.83%) NHS
6 1 (0.83%) Online Games
6 1 (0.83%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.83%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.31%) Linux
2 3 (2.48%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) Android
3 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (57.85%) Agile
2 59 (48.76%) DevOps
3 57 (47.11%) Test Automation
4 51 (42.15%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (39.67%) CI/CD
6 44 (36.36%) Microservices
7 43 (35.54%) Code Quality
8 36 (29.75%) Event-Driven
9 33 (27.27%) Software Testing
10 31 (25.62%) Technical Leadership
11 30 (24.79%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 30 (24.79%) Test Strategy
12 29 (23.97%) API Integration
12 29 (23.97%) Design Patterns
12 29 (23.97%) Performance Optimisation
13 28 (23.14%) Data Encryption
13 28 (23.14%) MVC
14 27 (22.31%) Security Testing
15 25 (20.66%) SDLC
16 22 (18.18%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 55 (45.45%) JavaScript
1 55 (45.45%) SQL
2 34 (28.10%) C#
3 29 (23.97%) Python
4 27 (22.31%) Java
5 21 (17.36%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.79%) Groovy
7 2 (1.65%) Ruby
7 2 (1.65%) Scala
8 1 (0.83%) Bash
8 1 (0.83%) Go
8 1 (0.83%) PHP
8 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (19.01%) ISTQB
2 13 (10.74%) SC Cleared
2 13 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 9 (7.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 5 (4.13%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.13%) Degree
5 3 (2.48%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.48%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (2.48%) CISSP
5 3 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.48%) ISEB
6 1 (0.83%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (32.23%) QA
2 29 (23.97%) GDPR
3 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (35.54%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.83%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (14.88%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.61%) Grafana
3 7 (5.79%) Terraform
4 4 (3.31%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (1.65%) Iperf
6 1 (0.83%) Kibana
6 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.83%) Puppet
6 1 (0.83%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 7 (5.79%) Databricks
2 5 (4.13%) Splunk
3 4 (3.31%) Dynatrace
3 4 (3.31%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.65%) Google
4 2 (1.65%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.65%) Oracle
4 2 (1.65%) SAP
4 2 (1.65%) Sitecore
4 2 (1.65%) SolarWinds
4 2 (1.65%) VMware
4 2 (1.65%) Workday
5 1 (0.83%) Aderant
5 1 (0.83%) CyberSource
5 1 (0.83%) IBM
5 1 (0.83%) iManage
5 1 (0.83%) Intapp
5 1 (0.83%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.83%) OneTrust
5 1 (0.83%) SEEBURGER
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