Performance Engineer Jobs in England

Performance Engineer
UK > England

The median Performance Engineer salary in England is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 822 895 1015
Rank change year-on-year +73 +120 -209
Permanent jobs requiring a Performance Engineer 14 55 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.017% 0.058% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.064% 0.094%
Number of salaries quoted 11 40 64
10th Percentile - £42,611 £46,625
25th Percentile £61,250 £53,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £69,375 - £81,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,382 £138,750
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 79,927 86,214 125,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.56% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 59,989 54,425 75,776
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,084 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +9.09%

Performance Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineer in England

Performance Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Performance Engineer in England

Performance Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Performance Engineer in England

Performance Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
East of England +35 8 £62,000 +13.76% 5
South East - 4 £62,500 - 2
London +101 1 - - 3
Midlands +11 1 - - 2
East Midlands -12 1 - -
Performance Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 across the England region featuring Performance Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 7 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Python
3 5 (35.71%) Linux
3 5 (35.71%) Degree
3 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (28.57%) Mathematical Modelling
4 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 4 (28.57%) OpenMP
4 4 (28.57%) CUDA
4 4 (28.57%) C++
4 4 (28.57%) MATLAB
4 4 (28.57%) Simulink
5 3 (21.43%) C
5 3 (21.43%) Unix
5 3 (21.43%) PhD
5 3 (21.43%) Fortran
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Physics
5 3 (21.43%) Prototyping
5 3 (21.43%) OpenACC
5 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
5 3 (21.43%) Master's Degree
5 3 (21.43%) Code Optimisation
5 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
5 3 (21.43%) Parallel Programming

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (7.14%) IIS
1 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Simulink
2 1 (7.14%) Abaqus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Ethernet
1 1 (7.14%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
1 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) OpenMP
2 3 (21.43%) OpenACC
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) Flask
3 1 (7.14%) HTML
3 1 (7.14%) HTML5
3 1 (7.14%) LLVM
3 1 (7.14%) OpenCL
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) CUDA
2 3 (21.43%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Beowulf
3 1 (7.14%) FPGA
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
3 1 (7.14%) SUSE
3 1 (7.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 7 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 4 (28.57%) Mathematical Modelling
2 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (21.43%) Code Optimisation
3 3 (21.43%) Parallel Programming
3 3 (21.43%) Performance Testing
3 3 (21.43%) Physics
3 3 (21.43%) Prototyping
4 2 (14.29%) Benchmarking
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (7.14%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Open Source
5 1 (7.14%) Open Source Development
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) C++
2 4 (28.57%) MATLAB
3 3 (21.43%) C
3 3 (21.43%) Fortran
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
5 1 (7.14%) Perl
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
5 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) Degree
3 4 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (21.43%) Master's Degree
4 3 (21.43%) PhD
4 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
5 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Firmware
1 1 (7.14%) Lustre
1 1 (7.14%) QEMU
1 1 (7.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) EMC
2 1 (7.14%) IBM
2 1 (7.14%) Intel
2 1 (7.14%) Mellanox
2 1 (7.14%) NetApp
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk