Performance Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Performance Engineering
North West > Cheshire

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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £575 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 581 403 451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 88.57% 92.86% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 243 297
10th Percentile £305 £278 £265
25th Percentile £358 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -5.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £551 £550 £560
90th Percentile £679 £638 £611
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 31 34
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.47 £24.09 £17.29
Median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £25.14
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% +29.30% +29.50%
75th Percentile £42.25 £81.75 £39.50
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £45.00 £31.64 £26.00
% change year-on-year +42.23% +21.69% -30.67%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Knutsford - 1 £575 -
Performance Engineering
North West

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) IBM Watson
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LangChain
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) IBM