Performance Engineering Jobs

Performance Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Engineering over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 869 908 1020
Rank change year-on-year +39 +112 -171
Permanent jobs citing Performance Engineering 25 73 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.072% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.076% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 16 28 133
10th Percentile - £53,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £62,000 £66,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £72,647 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -3.14% -
75th Percentile £153,750 £115,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £187,500 £140,000 £94,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -0.80% -16.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Engineering 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 84,921 96,445 150,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.59% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59,902 56,808 82,456
10th Percentile £29,010 £34,000 £33,645
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 Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineering in the UK

Performance Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Performance Engineering in the UK

Performance Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineering over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Engineering in the UK

Performance Engineering
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Engineering within the UK over the 6 months to 11 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 21 £81,250 +11.84% 17
London +86 12 £135,000 +22.73% 4
Work from Home +71 11 £62,000 -14.66% 10
UK excluding London -4 11 £62,000 -0.80% 14
East of England - 5 £62,000 - 3
South East +4 3 - - 6
Midlands -6 1 - - 3
Scotland -61 1 £72,500 -
Wales - 1 £40,808 -
East Midlands - 1 - - 1

Performance Engineering
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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Simulink
2 1 (4.00%) Weka
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (16.00%) GitHub
3 2 (8.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.00%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.00%) PaaS
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) FTP
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
1 1 (4.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Metadata
2 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) JMeter
2 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) LoadRunner
3 2 (8.00%) Ant
3 2 (8.00%) Selenium
3 2 (8.00%) Subversion
4 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.00%) JIRA
4 1 (4.00%) JProfiler
4 1 (4.00%) Maven
4 1 (4.00%) NeoLoad
4 1 (4.00%) Postman
4 1 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Marketing
2 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.00%) Tech for Good
2 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Lead
2 7 (28.00%) Performance Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Lead Systems Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) C++ Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Performance Tester
5 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Tester
6 1 (4.00%) Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Test Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Keras
1 4 (16.00%) OpenACC
1 4 (16.00%) PyTorch
1 4 (16.00%) TensorFlow
1 4 (16.00%) Web Services
2 3 (12.00%) RESTful
3 2 (8.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (8.00%) Middleware
3 2 (8.00%) SOAP
4 1 (4.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.00%) HTML
4 1 (4.00%) OpenCL
4 1 (4.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) CUDA
2 4 (16.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (16.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.00%) ASIC
3 2 (8.00%) FPGA
3 2 (8.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Clustering
4 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.00%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 8 (32.00%) Performance Testing
2 6 (24.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (24.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (24.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (24.00%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (20.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (20.00%) Deep Learning
3 5 (20.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) Market Making
4 4 (16.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
4 4 (16.00%) LSTM
4 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (16.00%) Mathematical Modelling
4 4 (16.00%) Microservices
4 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (16.00%) Software Architecture
4 4 (16.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) Java
3 4 (16.00%) C++
3 4 (16.00%) MATLAB
4 3 (12.00%) C
5 2 (8.00%) Apex Code
5 2 (8.00%) SQL
6 1 (4.00%) Fortran
6 1 (4.00%) Groovy
6 1 (4.00%) Perl
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
1 1 (4.00%) NFS
1 1 (4.00%) QEMU
1 1 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Grafana
1 2 (8.00%) WebSphere Cast Iron
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) HP SiteScope
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Perfmon
2 1 (4.00%) SCCM
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Dynatrace
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) AppDynamics
3 2 (8.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) Brocade
4 1 (4.00%) Citrix
4 1 (4.00%) Dell
4 1 (4.00%) F5
4 1 (4.00%) New Relic
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) VMware