Performance Engineering Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Performance Engineering
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Performance Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Performance Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.12% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - -
75th Percentile £78,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £118,886 £83,750
% change year-on-year -43.22% +41.95% -1.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 697 258 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 80.21% 89.27% 87.24%
Number of salaries quoted 263 74 284
10th Percentile £26,250 £34,112 £30,000
25th Percentile £27,000 £40,221 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Performance Engineering
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Performance Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Performance Engineering

Performance Engineering
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Engineering within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 30 March 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
County Antrim - 1 £77,500 - 1
Performance Engineering
UK

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA