Performance Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Performance Engineering
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 283 225
Rank change year-on-year +136 -58 +19
Permanent jobs citing Performance Engineering 3 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.10% 0.015% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.016% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £104,868 £71,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £122,773 £72,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +69.34% - -
75th Percentile £140,677 £73,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £122,773 £80,000 £72,647
% change year-on-year +53.47% +10.12% -3.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,642 6,252 4,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.25% 92.81% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,350 2,422 2,244
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,321
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,875
90th Percentile £83,074 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Performance Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineering in Scotland

Performance Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineering in Scotland.

Salary trend for Performance Engineering in Scotland

Performance Engineering
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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
Edinburgh +22 3 £122,773 +69.34% 3
Performance Engineering
UK

Performance Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Java Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead Java Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) API Development
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk