Performance Consultant Contract Job Trends

Performance Consultant
UK

The median Performance Consultant daily rate in the UK is £493, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 558 627
Rank change year-on-year +6 +69 +208
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Consultant 5 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.010% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.011% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £487 £383 £465
25th Percentile £489 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -26.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £496 £538 £675
90th Percentile £499 £568 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,009 35,817 46,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.96% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,949 22,029 31,957
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,585 1,680 1,499
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.99
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.86% +98.86%

Performance Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Performance Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Consultant in the UK

Performance Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Performance Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Performance Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Performance Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Performance Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Performance Consultant
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 19 September 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
England +7 4 £485 +2.11% 5
London - 4 £485 - 4
Work from Home +24 3 £500 -13.04% 3

Performance Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Performance Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Performance Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Grafana
3 1 (20.00%) Gatling
3 1 (20.00%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
3 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) SAPUI5
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Observability

Performance Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP BPC
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FS
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP BW
1 1 (20.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Gatling
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (20.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) New Relic
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow