Performance Engineering Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Performance Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 581 652
Rank change year-on-year +198 +71 +87
Permanent jobs citing Performance Engineering 14 11 21
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.094% 0.033% 0.049%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.035% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 13 7 18
10th Percentile - £53,523 £53,375
25th Percentile £46,486 - £66,911
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £127,680 £62,000 £76,323
Median % change year-on-year +105.94% -18.77% +1.76%
75th Percentile £146,300 £67,875 £140,000
90th Percentile - £119,250 -
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Performance Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Performance Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Engineering.

Performance Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Performance Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Performance Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JMeter
General
1 10 (71.43%) Banking
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Performance Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Performance Test Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead Java Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (71.43%) API Development
2 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 10 (71.43%) Coaching
2 10 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 10 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
2 10 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (71.43%) Mentoring
2 10 (71.43%) Microservices
2 10 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (71.43%) Roadmaps
2 10 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Business Transformation
3 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Groovy
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Grafana