Performance Engineering Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Performance Engineering
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon 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 16 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 4.96% - 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.38% - 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £500
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £450 - £500

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 94 67 98
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 77.69% 89.33% 79.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 46 50
10th Percentile £305 £356 £193
25th Percentile £350 £434 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £538 £518
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +3.86% -1.43%
75th Percentile £546 £638 £588
90th Percentile £594 £719 £626
Wiltshire median daily rate £560 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -0.44% +2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 12
10th Percentile £33.49 - £12.00
25th Percentile £46.00 - £13.77
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £15.43
Median % change year-on-year - - -75.51%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £20.50
90th Percentile £71.75 - £30.25
Wiltshire median hourly rate £21.01 £60.00 £14.54
% change year-on-year -64.98% +312.65% -77.80%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in Swindon

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

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

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Gatling
1 6 (100.00%) JMeter
1 6 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Database Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Scalability Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 6 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 6 (100.00%) New Relic
1 6 (100.00%) Splunk