Performance Engineer Contracts in Northampton

Performance Engineer
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Performance Engineer daily rate in Northampton is £360, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
16 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 0.70% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £360 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Northampton with a recognized job title 273 204 91
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 95.33% 91.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 162 67
10th Percentile £268 £355 £198
25th Percentile £340 £381 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £445 £455
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% -2.29% -1.53%
75th Percentile £450 £550 £519
90th Percentile £525 £600 £606
Northamptonshire median daily rate £375 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -15.73% -6.32% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £16.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £21.39 - £14.52
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.14%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £12.22 £13.18
% change year-on-year +75.04% -7.25% -62.36%

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 16 August 2025, Performance Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Northampton region featuring Performance Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) New Relic
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (100.00%) New Relic
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
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