Performance Engineering Contracts

Performance Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Engineering over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 683 822
Rank change year-on-year +115 +139 -158
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 10 33 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.056% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.062% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 27 24
10th Percentile £436 £294 £447
25th Percentile £450 £490 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £525 £685
Median % change year-on-year -13.52% -23.36% +37.69%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £750
90th Percentile £555 £700 £954
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +9.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Engineering in the UK

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineering over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Engineering in the UK

Performance Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Engineering in the UK

Performance Engineering
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Engineering 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +93 9 £454 -17.45% 19
Work from Home +120 7 £477 -4.60% 11
London +102 6 £450 -30.77% 5
UK excluding London +52 3 £500 -4.76% 15
South West +23 2 £500 -19.48% 1
South East +20 1 - - 6

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 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (20.00%) Google Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (10.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (10.00%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (30.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (30.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
2 1 (10.00%) GIS
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) JMeter
1 7 (70.00%) LoadRunner
2 3 (30.00%) NeoLoad
3 1 (10.00%) Gatling
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Performance Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Optimisation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) RAN Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) RAN Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Java EE
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Application Performance Management
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (20.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement Process
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) C
2 3 (30.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kibana
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Splunk
2 3 (30.00%) AppDynamics
2 3 (30.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Adobe
3 2 (20.00%) Google
3 2 (20.00%) Omniture
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Remedy