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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 373 467
Rank change year-on-year +7 +94 +136
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 11 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.081% 0.018% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.088% 0.021% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile £400 - £258
25th Percentile £402 £613 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £625 £275
Median % change year-on-year -26.40% +127.27% -52.17%
75th Percentile £494 £638 £286
90th Percentile £513 - £306
England median daily rate £460 £550 £506
% change year-on-year -16.36% +8.64% -11.96%

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 12,542 14,452 21,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.25% 88.87% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,388 10,188 15,919
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 197 232
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.99 £18.63
25th Percentile £24.50 £22.00 £24.75
Median hourly rate £29.50 £35.00 £40.77
Median % change year-on-year -15.71% -14.15% +13.25%
75th Percentile £49.56 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £62.85 £71.50 £82.03
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineering in London over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
Central London - 2 £400 - 1
Performance Engineering
England

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) dbt
4 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) IaaS
4 1 (9.09%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) NoSQL
2 4 (36.36%) DB2
2 4 (36.36%) Hadoop
2 4 (36.36%) MemSQL
2 4 (36.36%) MongoDB
2 4 (36.36%) Sybase IQ
3 1 (9.09%) Redis
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JMeter
1 2 (18.18%) LoadRunner
1 2 (18.18%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
2 1 (9.09%) EasyMock
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (9.09%) JBehave
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) JUnit
2 1 (9.09%) Mockito
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) VisualVM
2 1 (9.09%) YourKit
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Senior
4 2 (18.18%) Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Test Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Performance Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Test Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) Test Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (9.09%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Programme Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Programme Test Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Manager
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
5 1 (9.09%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Core
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
2 1 (9.09%) Dapper ORM
2 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
2 1 (9.09%) JavaFX
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Swing
2 1 (9.09%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (9.09%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Algorithms
1 5 (45.45%) Data Structures
2 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Software Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Defect Management
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Test Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 1 (9.09%) Concurrent Programming
6 1 (9.09%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
6 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
2 6 (54.55%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) C#
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
5 1 (9.09%) VB
5 1 (9.09%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Perfmon
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
1 2 (18.18%) New Relic
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Splunk