Performance Engineer Contracts in England

Performance Engineer
UK > England

The median Performance Engineer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 654 776
Rank change year-on-year +139 +122 -181
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Engineer 26 7 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.071% 0.014% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.015% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 3 15
10th Percentile £399 £380 £405
25th Percentile £444 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -
75th Percentile £538 £566 £494
90th Percentile - £605 £550
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% +11.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Performance Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Performance Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineer in England

Performance Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Engineer in England

Performance Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineer in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Engineer in England

Performance Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Engineer in England

Performance Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London +128 17 £465 - 1
Midlands +33 5 £525 +5.00% 1
East Midlands - 5 £525 -
South West +23 2 £500 -19.48%
South East - 2 - - 5
Performance Engineer
UK

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Performance Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Performance Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (80.77%) JMeter
2 17 (65.38%) Performance Testing
3 14 (53.85%) Java
4 12 (46.15%) Test Automation
5 9 (34.62%) AWS
5 9 (34.62%) Performance Engineering
6 8 (30.77%) Grafana
6 8 (30.77%) Prometheus
6 8 (30.77%) Confluence
6 8 (30.77%) Python
6 8 (30.77%) LoadRunner
6 8 (30.77%) Shell Script
6 8 (30.77%) JIRA
7 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
8 6 (23.08%) Splunk
9 5 (19.23%) Agile
9 5 (19.23%) LDAP
9 5 (19.23%) Operational Acceptance Testing
10 4 (15.38%) Test Strategy
10 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
11 3 (11.54%) Test Scripting
11 3 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
11 3 (11.54%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (11.54%) NeoLoad
11 3 (11.54%) C

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (30.77%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (7.69%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Google Analytics
3 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (7.69%) XCAP
3 1 (3.85%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (11.54%) DynamoDB
1 3 (11.54%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (11.54%) MySQL
2 2 (7.69%) GIS
2 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 2 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (80.77%) JMeter
2 8 (30.77%) JIRA
2 8 (30.77%) LoadRunner
3 3 (11.54%) NeoLoad
4 2 (7.69%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.85%) Gatling
General
1 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (7.69%) Finance
1 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Banking
2 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (3.85%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) LDAP
2 2 (7.69%) Java EE
2 2 (7.69%) Web Services
3 1 (3.85%) REST
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Performance Testing
2 12 (46.15%) Test Automation
3 9 (34.62%) Performance Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Agile
4 5 (19.23%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 4 (15.38%) Test Strategy
6 3 (11.54%) Data Design
6 3 (11.54%) DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (11.54%) Scrum
6 3 (11.54%) Software Testing
6 3 (11.54%) Test Scripting
7 2 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (7.69%) Customer Experience
7 2 (7.69%) Performance Analysis
7 2 (7.69%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
7 2 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (7.69%) Scenario Testing
7 2 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Java
2 8 (30.77%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) Shell Script
3 3 (11.54%) C
3 3 (11.54%) C++
4 1 (3.85%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (11.54%) ISEB
3 3 (11.54%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Grafana
1 8 (30.77%) Prometheus
2 3 (11.54%) Ansible
2 3 (11.54%) Kibana
2 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Splunk
2 3 (11.54%) AppDynamics
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) Adobe
3 2 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 2 (7.69%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) Omniture
3 2 (7.69%) Remedy
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft