Performance Engineering Contracts

Performance Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 520 583 659
Rank change year-on-year +63 +76 +174
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 23 13 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.030% 0.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.080% 0.035% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 20
10th Percentile £385 £446 £275
25th Percentile £402 £491 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.20% -5.68%
75th Percentile £506 £597 £570
90th Percentile £650 £629 £678
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,907 36,912 51,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.67% 85.33% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,194 23,557 35,146
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,436 2,507 1,728
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.79
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.09 £16.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.99
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -3.82% +49.95%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.03
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.82% +66.81%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineering in the UK

Performance Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Engineering in the UK

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineering over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Engineering in the UK

Performance Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineering.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Engineering in the UK

Performance Engineering
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 July 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 +62 20 £475 -5.00% 71
Work from Home +35 11 £488 -2.50% 32
London +37 10 £488 -22.00% 35
UK excluding London +52 9 £475 -5.00% 35
East of England - 3 £600 - 3
Midlands - 3 £390 - 6
West Midlands - 3 £390 - 4
South East +45 2 £475 -17.39% 8
North West +6 2 £475 - 9
North of England +5 2 £475 - 15
South West +39 1 £325 -35.00%

Performance Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Figma
4 2 (8.70%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.35%) Datadog
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) HTTP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) NoSQL
2 2 (8.70%) DB2
2 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
2 2 (8.70%) MemSQL
2 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.70%) Sybase IQ
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.35%) Redis
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) SAP HANA
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) JMeter
1 6 (26.09%) LoadRunner
2 4 (17.39%) Serenity BDD
3 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.70%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (8.70%) GitLab
4 2 (8.70%) UI Automator
5 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.35%) EasyMock
5 1 (4.35%) Gatling
5 1 (4.35%) Git
5 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
5 1 (4.35%) JBehave
5 1 (4.35%) JIRA
5 1 (4.35%) JProfiler
5 1 (4.35%) Mockito
5 1 (4.35%) Postman
5 1 (4.35%) Toad
5 1 (4.35%) VisualVM
5 1 (4.35%) YourKit
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Performance Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Developer
3 6 (26.09%) Senior
4 5 (21.74%) Consultant
4 5 (21.74%) Performance Consultant
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Test Consultant
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Consultant
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Performance Consultant
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Test Consultant
5 4 (17.39%) Test Consultant
6 3 (13.04%) Java Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Java Engineer
7 2 (8.70%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (8.70%) UI Developer
7 2 (8.70%) UI/UX Developer
7 2 (8.70%) UX Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) C# .NET Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Ajax
1 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
1 2 (8.70%) CSS
1 2 (8.70%) HTML
1 2 (8.70%) JSON
1 2 (8.70%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (8.70%) React
1 2 (8.70%) Semantic HTML
1 2 (8.70%) Vue
1 2 (8.70%) XML
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.35%) Dapper ORM
2 1 (4.35%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (4.35%) Spring
2 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (4.35%) WinForms
2 1 (4.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (13.04%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.04%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) Agile
3 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
3 7 (30.43%) Microservices
4 6 (26.09%) CI/CD
4 6 (26.09%) Performance Testing
5 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (17.39%) Defect Management
6 4 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
6 4 (17.39%) Software Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.04%) Creative Thinking
7 3 (13.04%) Garbage Collection
7 3 (13.04%) Performance Analysis
7 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
7 3 (13.04%) User Experience
8 2 (8.70%) Database Tuning
8 2 (8.70%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (47.83%) Java
2 10 (43.48%) Python
3 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
4 5 (21.74%) C#
5 4 (17.39%) SQL
6 3 (13.04%) Bash
7 1 (4.35%) Groovy
7 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.35%) VB
7 1 (4.35%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 4 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.70%) WCAG
2 1 (4.35%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (17.39%) Perfmon
3 2 (8.70%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Ansible
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Dynatrace
2 5 (21.74%) New Relic
2 5 (21.74%) Oracle
3 3 (13.04%) Splunk
4 2 (8.70%) AppDynamics
4 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.35%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow