Performance Engineering Contracts in London

Performance Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 347 385 472
Rank change year-on-year +38 +87 +103
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 6 6 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.034% 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.038% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 16
10th Percentile £463 £428 £394
25th Percentile £481 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -33.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £494 £454 £700
90th Percentile - £564 -
England median daily rate £488 £454 £650
% change year-on-year +7.38% -30.15% -13.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineering in London

Performance Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Engineering in London

Performance Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Engineering in London

Performance Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) JMeter
1 5 (83.33%) LoadRunner
2 4 (66.67%) Serenity BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (16.67%) Git
4 1 (16.67%) GitLab
4 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) JProfiler
4 1 (16.67%) Toad
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Test Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Performance Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Test Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Test Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) VB Developer
2 1 (16.67%) VB Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) VB6 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 1 (16.67%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) WinForms
1 1 (16.67%) WireMock
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Performance Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Containerisation
3 4 (66.67%) Defect Management
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) Microservices
3 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) JVM Tuning
5 1 (16.67%) Kanban
5 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) VB
3 1 (16.67%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Dynatrace
2 4 (66.67%) New Relic
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Splunk