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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 548 619
Rank change year-on-year +68 +71 +146
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 24 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.088% 0.025% 0.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.029% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 5 14
10th Percentile £385 £429 £275
25th Percentile £400 £463 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% +6.02% -9.78%
75th Percentile £494 £588 £664
90th Percentile £650 £618 £693
UK median daily rate £475 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -15.56% +7.14% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - -

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 24,681 30,928 42,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.62% 85.68% 89.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,843 20,137 29,614
10th Percentile £300 £308 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £666
90th Percentile £746 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 2,090 1,510
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.18 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.83 £18.39
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.25
% change year-on-year -34.02% -5.29% +52.81%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 13 £470 -24.80% 22
Midlands - 4 £390 - 3
West Midlands - 4 £390 - 2
East of England - 3 £600 - 3
South East +34 2 £475 -17.39% 6
North West +9 2 £475 - 7
North of England +7 2 £475 - 13
South West +39 1 £325 -21.21% 2
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 7 (29.17%) AWS
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) Figma
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) Datadog
5 1 (4.17%) dbt
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (16.67%) DB2
2 4 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 4 (16.67%) MemSQL
2 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 4 (16.67%) Sybase IQ
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.17%) Redis
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) JMeter
1 6 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 4 (16.67%) Serenity BDD
3 2 (8.33%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.33%) UI Automator
4 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.17%) EasyMock
4 1 (4.17%) Git
4 1 (4.17%) GitLab
4 1 (4.17%) IntelliJ
4 1 (4.17%) JBehave
4 1 (4.17%) JIRA
4 1 (4.17%) JProfiler
4 1 (4.17%) JUnit
4 1 (4.17%) Mockito
4 1 (4.17%) Postman
4 1 (4.17%) Toad
4 1 (4.17%) VisualVM
4 1 (4.17%) YourKit
General
1 17 (70.83%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Performance Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Senior
4 5 (20.83%) Java Developer
5 4 (16.67%) Consultant
5 4 (16.67%) Performance Consultant
5 4 (16.67%) Performance Test Consultant
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Consultant
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Performance Consultant
5 4 (16.67%) Senior Test Consultant
5 4 (16.67%) Test Consultant
6 3 (12.50%) Java Engineer
6 3 (12.50%) UI Developer
7 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (8.33%) UI/UX Developer
7 2 (8.33%) UX Developer
8 1 (4.17%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (4.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Performance Test Engineer
8 1 (4.17%) Senior UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Ajax
1 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
1 2 (8.33%) CSS
1 2 (8.33%) HTML
1 2 (8.33%) JSON
1 2 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (8.33%) React
1 2 (8.33%) Semantic HTML
1 2 (8.33%) Vue
1 2 (8.33%) XML
2 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.17%) Dapper ORM
2 1 (4.17%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (4.17%) Spring
2 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.17%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Swing
2 1 (4.17%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (4.17%) WinForms
2 1 (4.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (20.83%) Algorithms
2 5 (20.83%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (25.00%) DevOps
3 6 (25.00%) Microservices
3 6 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Performance Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (12.50%) Code Quality
6 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (12.50%) Creative Thinking
6 3 (12.50%) Garbage Collection
6 3 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Front End Development
7 2 (8.33%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) Java
2 10 (41.67%) Python
3 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (20.83%) C#
5 3 (12.50%) SQL
6 1 (4.17%) Bash
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.17%) VB
6 1 (4.17%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.33%) WCAG
2 1 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Perfmon
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 5 (20.83%) New Relic
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) Splunk
4 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.17%) AppDynamics
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft