Senior Performance Engineer Jobs

Senior Performance Engineer
UK

The median Senior Performance Engineer salary in the UK is £40,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 905 976 1226
Rank change year-on-year +71 +250 -329
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Performance Engineer 5 3 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.005% 0.003% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £75,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £80,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +68.42% -24.00%
75th Percentile £40,808 £85,000 £53,125
90th Percentile £61,323 - £54,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 - £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -21.16%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 93,479 94,643 151,222
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.52% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,031 59,595 85,375
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,611
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Senior Performance Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Performance Engineer in the UK

Senior Performance Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Performance Engineer in the UK

Senior Performance Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Performance Engineer over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Performance Engineer in the UK

Senior Performance Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Performance Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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 -7 5 £40,000 - 4
Wales - 4 £40,000 -
Work from Home +80 2 £57,904 -27.62% 1
England +101 1 £75,000 -6.25% 3
South East - 1 £75,000 - 3

Senior Performance Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Performance Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (20.00%) Agile
1 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (20.00%) QA
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared

Senior Performance Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Agile
1 1 (20.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana