Performance Engineering Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Performance Engineering
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Performance Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 97 126
Rank change year-on-year -17 +29 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.12% 0.15% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.16% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £473 £480 -
25th Percentile £493 £481 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £481 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% - -
75th Percentile £558 £482 -
90th Percentile £578 £482 -
South East median daily rate £450 £481 -
% change year-on-year -6.44% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Performance Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,471 1,213 1,819
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.89% 93.02% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 672 1,015
10th Percentile £281 £300 £213
25th Percentile £400 £408 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £608
90th Percentile £650 £663 £678
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 35 93
10th Percentile £18.92 £27.35 £20.49
25th Percentile £30.63 £47.06 £42.50
Median hourly rate £81.00 £61.50 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.72% +0.81% -5.68%
75th Percentile £93.75 £65.17 £68.75
90th Percentile £106.60 £83.65 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £43.94 £47.50
% change year-on-year -42.76% -7.49% +5.56%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Performance Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Performance Engineering

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 February 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham - 1 £460 - 1
Performance Engineering
South East

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle BRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Broadband
1 1 (50.00%) GPRS
1 1 (50.00%) GSM
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Designer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat