Performance Engineering Job Trends in the North East

Performance Engineering
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Performance Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.028% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,521 795 1,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.66% 82.04% 79.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,862 480 594
10th Percentile £31,375 £25,087 £25,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,188 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,875 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year +28.28% -6.28% -8.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £93,634 £75,000 £78,858
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in the North East

Performance Engineering
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Engineering within the North East region over the 6 months to 3 October 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 - - 3
Performance Engineering
England

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Performance Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scalability Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft