Performance Engineer
UK

The median Performance Engineer salary in the UK is £62,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 861 921 1101
Rank change year-on-year +60 +180 -233
Permanent jobs requiring a Performance Engineer 17 51 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.050% 0.086%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.055% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 14 36 85
10th Percentile £40,000 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £42,481 £54,125 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 - £81,250
90th Percentile £71,625 £78,382 £117,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,000 £55,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +12.73% +5.77% -9.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,699 92,665 152,640
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.54% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,079 58,510 84,912
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,719 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,173
% change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%

Performance Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Performance Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineer in the UK

Performance Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Performance Engineer in the UK

Performance Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineer over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Engineer in the UK

Performance Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
UK excluding London -14 16 £62,000 +12.73% 10
England +68 13 £62,250 -4.23% 11
East of England +19 7 £62,000 +13.76% 3
Work from Home +59 6 £62,000 -4.62% 7
South East - 4 £62,500 - 4
Wales - 4 £40,000 -
London +86 1 - - 1
East Midlands -7 1 - -
Midlands -11 1 - - 1

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Performance Engineer 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 featuring Performance Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (41.18%) Mathematics
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
1 7 (41.18%) Performance Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) Python
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Degree
4 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
4 4 (23.53%) CUDA
4 4 (23.53%) Unix
4 4 (23.53%) OpenMP
4 4 (23.53%) C++
4 4 (23.53%) MATLAB
4 4 (23.53%) Simulink
4 4 (23.53%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (23.53%) Mathematical Modelling
4 4 (23.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
5 3 (17.65%) Master's Degree
5 3 (17.65%) Code Optimisation
5 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
5 3 (17.65%) Prototyping
5 3 (17.65%) OpenACC
5 3 (17.65%) PhD
5 3 (17.65%) Fortran
5 3 (17.65%) Physics
5 3 (17.65%) C
5 3 (17.65%) Parallel Programming
5 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared

Performance Engineer Skill Set
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 (5.88%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Simulink
2 1 (5.88%) Abaqus
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) AWS
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Ethernet
1 1 (5.88%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JMeter
1 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) OpenMP
2 3 (17.65%) OpenACC
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) Flask
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) HTML5
3 1 (5.88%) LLVM
3 1 (5.88%) OpenCL
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) CUDA
2 3 (17.65%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Beowulf
3 1 (5.88%) FPGA
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Unix
3 1 (5.88%) SUSE
3 1 (5.88%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Mathematics
1 7 (41.18%) Performance Engineering
2 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
2 4 (23.53%) Mathematical Modelling
2 4 (23.53%) Systems Engineering
2 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (17.65%) Code Optimisation
3 3 (17.65%) Parallel Programming
3 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
3 3 (17.65%) Physics
3 3 (17.65%) Prototyping
4 2 (11.76%) Benchmarking
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Validation
5 1 (5.88%) Agile
5 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) C++
2 4 (23.53%) MATLAB
3 3 (17.65%) C
3 3 (17.65%) Fortran
4 2 (11.76%) Bash
5 1 (5.88%) Groovy
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) Perl
5 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) Degree
3 4 (23.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (17.65%) Master's Degree
4 3 (17.65%) PhD
4 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Firmware
1 1 (5.88%) Lustre
1 1 (5.88%) QEMU
1 1 (5.88%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
1 1 (5.88%) EMC
1 1 (5.88%) IBM
1 1 (5.88%) Intel
1 1 (5.88%) Mellanox
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) NetApp
1 1 (5.88%) Red Hat