Performance Engineering Jobs

Performance Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 675 885 897
Rank change year-on-year +210 +12 +133
Permanent jobs citing Performance Engineering 36 25 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.066% 0.024% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.029% 0.072%
Number of salaries quoted 17 16 26
10th Percentile £39,150 - £53,750
25th Percentile £46,486 £62,000 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £78,750 £71,323
Median % change year-on-year +39.68% +10.41% -4.90%
75th Percentile £146,300 £153,750 £107,500
90th Percentile - £187,500 £140,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £100,000 £62,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +61.29% +7.83% -23.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineering in the UK

Performance Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Performance Engineering in the UK

Performance Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineering over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Performance Engineering in the UK

Performance Engineering
Top 14 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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
UK excluding London +217 34 £100,000 +61.29% 25
England +170 32 £121,340 +49.34% 50
South East +99 12 £29,000 - 10
Work from Home +121 11 £127,680 +105.94% 30
North of England - 11 £127,680 - 7
Yorkshire - 8 £127,680 - 2
Midlands +63 4 - - 2
East Midlands +42 4 - -
Wales +49 3 £50,124 +22.83%
North West - 3 £85,000 - 2
London +110 2 £110,000 -18.52% 30
South West - 2 £81,250 -
Scotland +124 1 - -
East of England +39 1 £70,000 +12.90% 5

Performance Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 9 (25.00%) AWS
2 8 (22.22%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) GCP
4 2 (5.56%) Datadog
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Redis
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) JMeter
2 1 (2.78%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (38.89%) Law
2 10 (27.78%) Finance
3 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (22.22%) Banking
5 7 (19.44%) Aeronautics
5 7 (19.44%) Aerospace
5 7 (19.44%) Automotive
6 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
7 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (27.78%) Lead
1 10 (27.78%) Performance Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Developer
3 3 (8.33%) Performance Test Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Test Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Software Engineering Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Software Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Technical Manager
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) C# Developer
5 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Python Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Senior
5 1 (2.78%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
1 2 (5.56%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (5.56%) Spring
1 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.78%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) PySpark
2 1 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.78%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.56%) CAN bus
3 2 (5.56%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Derivative
4 1 (2.78%) Equities
4 1 (2.78%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
1 3 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) DevOps
2 14 (38.89%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
2 14 (38.89%) Physics
2 14 (38.89%) Software Engineering
3 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
3 13 (36.11%) Containerisation
4 12 (33.33%) Microservices
4 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 11 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (27.78%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (25.00%) API Development
7 9 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 9 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 9 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 9 (25.00%) Validation
8 8 (22.22%) Agile
8 8 (22.22%) Coaching
8 8 (22.22%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) Python
2 11 (30.56%) Java
3 7 (19.44%) MATLAB
4 3 (8.33%) Groovy
4 3 (8.33%) SQL
5 2 (5.56%) Bash
5 2 (5.56%) Go
6 1 (2.78%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (38.89%) Degree
1 14 (38.89%) Master's Degree
2 7 (19.44%) PhD
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 12 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.89%) Grafana
3 2 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.78%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (5.56%) Splunk
2 1 (2.78%) Databricks