Performance Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 397 432
Rank change year-on-year +47 +35 +63
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 7 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.038% 0.048%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.057% 0.046% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 9
10th Percentile £356 £429 £495
25th Percentile £430 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 - £550
90th Percentile - £553 £566
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,263 17,517 20,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.50% 82.49% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,515 10,272 13,899
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £367 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,008 2,194 1,271
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £11.80
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.04 £38.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.32% +17.29% +54.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £73.60 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 24 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
East of England - 3 £600 - 7
South East +46 2 £475 -17.39% 13
North of England +28 2 £475 - 17
North West +9 2 £475 - 11
South West +35 1 £325 -35.00% 2
West Midlands - 1 £390 - 6
Midlands - 1 £390 - 8
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 2 (28.57%) Figma
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Browser DevTools
1 2 (28.57%) UI Automator
2 1 (14.29%) Gatling
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Performance Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Salesforce Developer
3 2 (28.57%) UI Developer
3 2 (28.57%) UI/UX Developer
3 2 (28.57%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Ajax
1 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) Semantic HTML
1 2 (28.57%) Vue
1 2 (28.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Creative Thinking
2 3 (42.86%) Garbage Collection
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Cross-Browser Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Database Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Scalability Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) WCAG
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
2 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 1 (14.29%) New Relic
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk