Performance Engineering Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Performance Engineering
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Performance Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.46% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
South East median daily rate £325 £463 £575
% change year-on-year -29.73% -19.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 547 330 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 83.90% 94.29% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 219 320
10th Percentile £202 £204 £203
25th Percentile £355 £250 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £571 £550 £550
90th Percentile £634 £600 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £510
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -1.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 35 30
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.27 £13.10
25th Percentile £25.63 £25.15 £30.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £74.22
90th Percentile - - £77.17
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £22.19 £58.30
% change year-on-year +119.56% -61.94% +11.05%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in Surrey

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Performance Engineering

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 28 September 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
Staines - 2 £325 -
Woking - 1 - - 3
Performance Engineering
South East

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Observability
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
1 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Scalability Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA