Performance Engineering Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Performance Engineering
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames requiring Performance Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 2.13% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
West London median daily rate £375 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Richmond upon Thames

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 Richmond upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 41 2 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 87.23% 40.00% 72.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 2 25
10th Percentile £400 £311 £210
25th Percentile £520 £312 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £339 £575
Median % change year-on-year +77.86% -41.09% +27.78%
75th Percentile £628 £367 £594
90th Percentile £639 £369 £625
West London median daily rate £525 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +31.25% -15.79% -14.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £20.57 - -
25th Percentile £20.61 - -
Median hourly rate £22.17 - -
75th Percentile £23.68 - -
90th Percentile £23.70 - -
West London median hourly rate £25.15 £22.27 £30.16
% change year-on-year +12.93% -26.16% -53.60%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

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

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Performance Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Stress Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus