Performance Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Performance Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Engineering over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 437 498
Rank change year-on-year +52 +61 -74
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 3 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.042% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.047% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile - £495 -
25th Percentile - £506 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +9.38%
75th Percentile - £550 £563
90th Percentile - £566 £597
UK median daily rate £454 £525 £685
% change year-on-year -13.52% -23.36% +37.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Performance Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Performance Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineering in the UK excluding London

Performance Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Engineering in the UK excluding London

Performance Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Engineering in the UK excluding London

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
South West +23 2 £500 -19.48% 2
South East +20 1 - - 6
Performance Engineering
UK

Performance Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) GIS
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
1 2 (66.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Performance Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Optimisation Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) RAN Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) RAN Performance Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement Process
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Remedy