Performance Engineering Jobs in the North West

Performance Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Performance Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Performance Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 - 295
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Permanent jobs citing Performance Engineering 2 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.025% - 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% - 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 - £61,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £127,680 £81,250 £72,647
% change year-on-year +57.14% +11.84% -3.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,677 8,179 7,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.83% 82.75% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,992 6,212 3,861
10th Percentile £25,895 £27,500 £30,831
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Performance Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineering in the North West

Performance Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineering in the North West.

Salary trend for Performance Engineering in the North West

Performance Engineering
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
Manchester - 2 £85,000 - 3
Performance Engineering
England

Performance Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Software Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes