Performance Engineer Job Trends in London

Performance Engineer
England > London

The median Performance Engineer salary in London is £59,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Performance Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.013% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £53,050 - -
25th Percentile £54,625 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 - -
75th Percentile £64,625 - -
90th Percentile £66,350 - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £42,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +52.94% -32.00% +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,788 13,984 20,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 91.72% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9,174 8,055 16,173
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -2.03%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Performance Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Performance Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Performance Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Performance Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Performance Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Performance Engineer job vacancies in London

Performance Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineer in London over the 6 months to 6 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Engineer in London

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 6 February 2026, Performance Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Performance Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Kibana
2 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Scalability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Scalability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace