Performance Engineering Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Performance Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Performance Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £385 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 - -
75th Percentile £413 - -
90th Percentile £447 - -
England median daily rate £450 £600 £465
% change year-on-year -25.00% +29.03% -28.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,694 2,005 2,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.57% 85.87% 84.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 1,258 1,523
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 72 97
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.15
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.05 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.13% +0.22% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Performance Engineering

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
West Midlands - 4 £390 -
Performance Engineering
England

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) CRM
1 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft