Performance Engineering Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Performance Engineering
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Performance Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.23% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £416 - -
25th Percentile £422 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £448 - -
90th Percentile £450 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 821 261 412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.04% 95.26% 92.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 169 245
10th Percentile £354 £209 £368
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.58% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 13
10th Percentile £14.55 £12.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.27 £12.62 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.01 £14.85 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +12.21% +24.46%
75th Percentile £23.70 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.15 £16.97 £29.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.58 £22.50 £15.37
% change year-on-year +4.78% +46.44% +44.54%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 February 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
Sheffield - 2 £438 - 1
Performance Engineering
Yorkshire

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) NAS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Isilon
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp