Performance Test Engineer Job Trends in London

Performance Test Engineer
England > London

The median Performance Test Engineer salary in London is £51,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Performance Test Engineer 9 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.053% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% - -
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £42,500 - -
25th Percentile £49,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £65,000 - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +23.08%

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 15,651 12,141 20,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 90.87% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10,457 7,587 16,364
10th Percentile £37,375 £42,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £75,000 £71,920
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +4.28% -2.15%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £94,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

Performance Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Performance Test Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Performance Test Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Performance Test Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Performance Test Engineer job vacancies in London

Performance Test Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Test Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Test Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 17 March 2026, Performance Test 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 Test Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 9 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 6 (66.67%) Gatling
3 6 (66.67%) HTTP
3 6 (66.67%) JMeter
3 6 (66.67%) LoadRunner
3 6 (66.67%) Runbook
3 6 (66.67%) Test Scripting
4 4 (44.44%) AppDynamics
4 4 (44.44%) Dynatrace
4 4 (44.44%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (44.44%) Grafana
4 4 (44.44%) Kibana
4 4 (44.44%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) AI
5 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) Observability
5 3 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (33.33%) Scalability Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy

Performance Test 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 9 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Gatling
1 6 (66.67%) JMeter
1 6 (66.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 9 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (77.78%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 9 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 6 (66.67%) Runbook
3 6 (66.67%) Test Scripting
4 4 (44.44%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) AI
5 3 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 3 (33.33%) Observability
5 3 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Performance Engineering
5 3 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (33.33%) Scalability Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Grafana
1 4 (44.44%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) AppDynamics
1 4 (44.44%) Dynatrace