Performance Engineering Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Performance Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 552 547
Rank change year-on-year +59 -5 +205
Permanent jobs citing Performance Engineering 32 11 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.076% 0.030% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.034% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 30 11 1
10th Percentile £39,000 - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -11.76% +11.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,875 £87,500
90th Percentile - £140,677 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £86,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -12.79% +1.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,256 32,348 28,980
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 79.02% 88.54% 89.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19,033 14,675 21,473
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Performance Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Performance Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Performance Engineering

Performance Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Performance Engineering in the UK excluding London

Performance Engineering
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 January 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
North of England - 18 £70,000 - 10
North West - 13 £70,000 - 3
Midlands +17 5 £30,000 -60.00% 10
Yorkshire - 5 £90,000 - 5
South East - 5 £90,000 - 17
West Midlands - 5 £30,000 - 4
South West - 3 £43,000 - 7
East of England - 1 - - 9
Performance Engineering
UK

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) AWS
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
1 9 (28.13%) GCP
2 8 (25.00%) SaaS
3 2 (6.25%) BrowserStack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (34.38%) MySQL
2 8 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (21.88%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Appcelerator Titanium
1 3 (9.38%) Git
1 3 (9.38%) JMeter
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Gatling
3 1 (3.13%) LoadRunner
General
1 9 (28.13%) Marketing
2 8 (25.00%) Retail
3 6 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Finance
5 3 (9.38%) Automotive
5 3 (9.38%) Games
6 2 (6.25%) Electronics
6 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Lead
2 10 (31.25%) Developer
3 8 (25.00%) Lead Developer
3 8 (25.00%) Lead Python Developer
3 8 (25.00%) Lead Software Developer
3 8 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 8 (25.00%) SaaS Developer
3 8 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 5 (15.63%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (9.38%) IT Support
5 3 (9.38%) Lead Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Technical Support
5 3 (9.38%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) .NET Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Software Engineering Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) RESTful
2 7 (21.88%) .NET
3 4 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 3 (9.38%) .NET Framework
4 3 (9.38%) CSS
4 3 (9.38%) HTML
4 3 (9.38%) Web Services
5 2 (6.25%) Playwright
6 1 (3.13%) Hibernate
6 1 (3.13%) NumPy
6 1 (3.13%) Pandas
6 1 (3.13%) PyTorch
6 1 (3.13%) scikit-learn
6 1 (3.13%) Spring
6 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 8 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (25.00%) Marketing Technology
3 7 (21.88%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
6 1 (3.13%) FPGA
6 1 (3.13%) VHDL
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Microservices
2 16 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 15 (46.88%) Technical Leadership
4 13 (40.63%) Clean Code
4 13 (40.63%) Mentoring
4 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (34.38%) Software Engineering
6 10 (31.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (31.25%) Workflow
7 9 (28.13%) Product Roadmap
7 9 (28.13%) Roadmaps
8 8 (25.00%) Agile
8 8 (25.00%) AI
8 8 (25.00%) Analytics
8 8 (25.00%) Business Strategy
8 8 (25.00%) Data Privacy
8 8 (25.00%) E-Commerce
8 8 (25.00%) Marketing Analytics
8 8 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Python
2 7 (21.88%) C#
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) DV Cleared
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 16 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (3.13%) SAP
2 1 (3.13%) Xilinx