Performance Engineering Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Performance Engineering
East of England > Hertfordshire

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.61% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 - -
75th Percentile £552 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £551 £600 -
% change year-on-year -8.17% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 667 382 658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 80.95% 90.31% 87.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 180 226
10th Percentile £200 £244 £206
25th Percentile £406 £425 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £405
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +33.33% -22.86%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £575
90th Percentile £750 £675 £700
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 111 289
10th Percentile £15.99 £16.95 £29.20
25th Percentile £22.63 £28.52 £38.12
Median hourly rate £61.76 £55.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% +10.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.50 £70.00
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Performance Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Performance Engineering

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineering in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Engineering in Hertfordshire

Performance Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Performance Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Performance Engineering

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Hatfield - 5 £551 -
Performance Engineering
East of England

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Consultant
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Splunk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) eBPF
1 5 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) AIOps
1 5 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 5 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 5 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) ITSM
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 5 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
1 5 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Use Case
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (80.00%) Open Source
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 5 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk