Performance Engineering Contracts in the Thames Valley

Performance Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 103 131 144
Rank change year-on-year +28 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.13% 0.075% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.088% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £513
75th Percentile - - £519
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £475 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -17.39% +12.20% -2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,396 2,270 2,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.07% 85.11% 90.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 1,234 1,799
10th Percentile £293 £232 £320
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +3.54%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.24% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 176 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £16.33
25th Percentile £14.75 £19.25 £22.29
Median hourly rate £24.91 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.57% -5.00% +194.12%
75th Percentile £62.44 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £78.09
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.78 £52.10
% change year-on-year -49.77% -8.29% +131.56%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineering in the Thames Valley

Performance Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Performance Engineering in the Thames Valley

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 £475 - 1
Performance Engineering
South East

Performance Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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