Performance Engineer Jobs in Swansea

Performance Engineer
West Wales > Swansea

The median Performance Engineer salary in Swansea is £50,124 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 27 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Performance Engineer 4 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 6.90% 2.42% -
As % of the Job Titles category 7.84% 2.42% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £45,415 - -
25th Percentile £46,104 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,124 £40,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% - -
75th Percentile £53,762 £40,202 -
90th Percentile - £40,566 -
West Wales median annual salary £50,124 £40,000 -
% change year-on-year +25.31% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Swansea

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Swansea. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Swansea with a recognized job title 51 165 202
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.93% 100.00% 87.07%
Number of salaries quoted 30 148 160
10th Percentile £21,250 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,250 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,104 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.12% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £53,762 £55,125 £50,313
90th Percentile £60,371 £66,421 £61,250
West Wales median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% -11.11%

Performance Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Job postings that featured Performance Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineer in Swansea

Performance Engineer
Salary Trend in Swansea

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineer in Swansea.

Salary trend for Performance Engineer in Swansea

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swansea

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Performance Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Swansea region featuring Performance Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) JMeter
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 4 (100.00%) Groovy
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Business Transformation
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swansea 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JMeter
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (75.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Business Transformation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 4 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Groovy
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Grafana