Senior Performance Engineer Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Senior Performance Engineer
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The median Senior Performance Engineer daily rate in Richmond upon Thames is £560, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with 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 requiring a Senior Performance Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 2.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
West London median daily rate £560 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Richmond upon Thames

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Richmond upon Thames. 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 Richmond upon Thames with a recognized job title 45 5 35
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.74% 100.00% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 5 33
10th Percentile £400 £175 £233
25th Percentile £520 £181 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £188 £563
Median % change year-on-year +221.33% -66.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £356 £588
90th Percentile £680 £365 £625
West London median daily rate £525 £400 £473
% change year-on-year +31.25% -15.34% -14.09%

Senior Performance Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames

For the 6 months to 8 May 2026, Senior Performance Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Richmond upon Thames region featuring Senior Performance Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Model Context Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Stress Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy

Senior Performance Engineer Skill Set
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
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%) Performance Engineering
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