Performance Engineering Contracts in England

Performance Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Performance Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 533 623
Rank change year-on-year +61 +90 +119
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 13 9 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.024% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.028% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 24
10th Percentile £450 £436 £319
25th Percentile £481 £450 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £454 £650
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -30.15% -13.33%
75th Percentile £572 £500 £700
90th Percentile £650 £555 -
UK median daily rate £488 £454 £563
% change year-on-year +7.38% -19.29% -17.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Performance Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineering in England

Performance Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Engineering in England

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Engineering in England

Performance Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Engineering in England

Performance Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +38 6 £488 +8.33% 26
East of England - 3 £600 - 49
South East +47 2 £481 - 58
South West +45 1 £325 -35.00% 29
North West - 1 - - 31
North of England - 1 - - 58
Performance Engineering
UK

Performance Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.69%) Datadog
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) 3GPP
1 1 (7.69%) 4G
1 1 (7.69%) 5G
1 1 (7.69%) LTE
1 1 (7.69%) MIMO
1 1 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JMeter
1 6 (46.15%) LoadRunner
2 4 (30.77%) Serenity BDD
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) Gatling
4 1 (7.69%) Git
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) IntelliJ
4 1 (7.69%) JIRA
4 1 (7.69%) JProfiler
4 1 (7.69%) Toad
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Performance Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
3 4 (30.77%) Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Performance Test Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Performance Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Senior Test Consultant
3 4 (30.77%) Test Consultant
4 3 (23.08%) Java Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Architect
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Architect
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Data Architect
5 2 (15.38%) Data Architect
6 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
6 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Developer
6 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) VB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
1 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
1 1 (7.69%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) WinForms
1 1 (7.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Performance Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) Defect Management
4 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (23.08%) Garbage Collection
5 3 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Data Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
6 2 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) Java
2 7 (53.85%) Python
3 5 (38.46%) C#
4 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 4 (30.77%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Bash
5 1 (7.69%) Groovy
5 1 (7.69%) VB
5 1 (7.69%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Perfmon
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Dynatrace
2 5 (38.46%) New Relic
3 2 (15.38%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) AppDynamics
4 1 (7.69%) Huawei
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle