Performance Engineering Contracts in England

Performance Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Performance Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Engineering over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 622 733
Rank change year-on-year +89 +111 -138
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 8 23 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.047% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.052% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 21
10th Percentile £436 £275 £488
25th Percentile £452 £502 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £586 £750
Median % change year-on-year -18.87% -21.93% +54.64%
75th Percentile £500 £675 -
90th Percentile £555 £700 £956
UK median daily rate £475 £531 £620
% change year-on-year -10.59% -14.31% +27.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Performance Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,610 44,349 64,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.47% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,692 31,129 45,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,561 1,760
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 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 +76 4 £452 -30.46% 4
South West +17 2 £500 -19.48%
South East +16 1 - - 6
North of England - 1 £475 - 1
North West - 1 £475 -
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 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) GIS
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) JMeter
2 5 (62.50%) LoadRunner
3 4 (50.00%) NeoLoad
4 1 (12.50%) Gatling
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Performance Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Optimisation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Test Leader
4 1 (12.50%) RAN Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) RAN Performance Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Splunk Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Performance Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement Process
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Trend Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) C
2 3 (37.50%) C++
3 2 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kibana
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 3 (37.50%) AppDynamics
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Remedy