Performance Engineering Contract Job Trends in the South West

Performance Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Performance Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 - 154
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.24% - 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £663 - -
90th Percentile £700 - -
England median daily rate £583 £488 £454
% change year-on-year +19.59% +7.38% -35.14%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,353 1,520 2,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.82% 89.99% 83.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,277 1,004 1,737
10th Percentile £310 £241 £255
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -4.37%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £700 £713
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 415 109 335
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.51 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.50 £50.75 £25.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +35.90% -22.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £67.20
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -10.48%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in the South West

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Performance Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Performance Engineering

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 21 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Engineering in the South West

Performance Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Performance Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Performance Engineering

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 21 March 2026. 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
Wiltshire - 6 £450 - 1
Bristol - 1 £700 -
Performance Engineering
England

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Datadog
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Gatling
1 6 (85.71%) JMeter
1 6 (85.71%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Database Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Scalability Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Runbook
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Synthetic Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) AppDynamics
1 6 (85.71%) Dynatrace
1 6 (85.71%) New Relic
1 6 (85.71%) Splunk