Performance Engineering Contracts in the South East

Performance Engineering
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 197 211
Rank change year-on-year +46 +14 +57
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.065% 0.053% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.064% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £563 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +12.20% -2.38%
75th Percentile - £588 £519
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,789 4,717 5,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.26% 82.61% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,742 2,733 3,514
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £394 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £511
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.24% +2.25%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £620
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 469 231
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.06 £18.20 £22.07
Median hourly rate £24.00 £47.78 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year -49.77% -8.29% +131.56%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.09 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineering in the South East

Performance Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineering in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Performance Engineering in the South East

Performance Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineering in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Engineering in the South East

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 25 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
Thames Valley +28 2 £475 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 2 £475 - 1
Performance Engineering
England

Performance Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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