Performance Engineering Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Performance Engineering
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Performance Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile £650 - -
South West median daily rate £500 £325 £413
% change year-on-year +53.85% -21.21% -33.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,022 638 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 77.96% 91.54% 82.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 336 459
10th Percentile £325 £235 £260
25th Percentile £419 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £589
90th Percentile £638 £644 £703
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 101 200
10th Percentile £19.33 £17.79 £43.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.87 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -53.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £67.50 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £78.20
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in Bristol

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineering in Bristol over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Engineering in Bristol

Performance Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Performance Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Performance Engineering

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Coaching
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) People Management
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Synthetic Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform