Performance Engineering Contracts in the North West

Performance Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 129 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.100% 0.035% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.042% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 -
England median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,793 2,361 2,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 89.52% 83.63% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 1,438 1,890
10th Percentile £306 £306 £313
25th Percentile £384 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% -1.05% +2.67%
75th Percentile £561 £585 £588
90th Percentile £664 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 270 141
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £19.06 £14.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% +1.67% +27.42%
75th Percentile £63.40 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.17 £66.61 £57.50
England median hourly rate £26.45 £37.75 £35.03
% change year-on-year -29.93% +7.76% +36.41%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Performance Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineering in the North West

Performance Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineering in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Performance Engineering in the North West

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Merseyside - 2 £475 -
Performance Engineering
England

Performance Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) Figma
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (100.00%) UI Automator
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce Developer
1 2 (100.00%) UI Developer
1 2 (100.00%) UI/UX Developer
1 2 (100.00%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) Semantic HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Vue
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Salesforce