Performance Test Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Performance Test Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Performance Test Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Performance Test Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.11% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 758 1,512 1,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.63% 96.12% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 341 1,059 991
10th Percentile £26,929 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - +0.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £83,738 £71,250 £76,943
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,750 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -

Performance Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Test Engineer in Edinburgh

Performance Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, Performance Test 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 across the Edinburgh region featuring Performance Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Tech for Good
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Performance Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Testing
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes