Performance Engineering Job Trends in Manchester

Performance Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Performance Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Engineering 13 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% - -
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £78,750 - -
90th Percentile £90,000 - -
North West median annual salary £70,000 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Performance Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,312 2,490 2,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.67% 93.86% 90.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,396 1,165 1,857
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Performance Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in Manchester

Performance Engineering
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Performance Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Performance Engineering

Performance Engineering
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Engineering in Manchester

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
1 3 (23.08%) GCP
2 2 (15.38%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) NoSQL
2 5 (38.46%) MySQL
3 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Gatling
2 1 (7.69%) JMeter
2 1 (7.69%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (23.08%) Marketing
2 2 (15.38%) Retail
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Lead
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
2 5 (38.46%) Software Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Developer
4 3 (23.08%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) .NET Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Architect
5 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Lead Python Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Lead Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
5 2 (15.38%) SaaS Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Architect
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Senior Technical Architect
5 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Architect
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) .NET
2 4 (30.77%) .NET Core
3 3 (23.08%) .NET Framework
3 3 (23.08%) CSS
3 3 (23.08%) HTML
3 3 (23.08%) Web Services
4 2 (15.38%) RESTful
5 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 1 (7.69%) Spring
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (69.23%) Cloud Native
2 8 (61.54%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (53.85%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (15.38%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Microservices
2 11 (84.62%) CI/CD
3 10 (76.92%) Containerisation
4 9 (69.23%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (53.85%) Clean Code
5 7 (53.85%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (53.85%) Event-Driven
5 7 (53.85%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 7 (53.85%) Software Engineering
5 7 (53.85%) TDD
6 5 (38.46%) Agile
6 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
7 4 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (23.08%) OOP
8 3 (23.08%) Software Architecture
8 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
8 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (23.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) C#
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 3 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) SAP