Senior Performance Engineer Contract Job Trends

Senior Performance Engineer
UK

The median Senior Performance Engineer daily rate in the UK is £560, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 645 - 583
Rank change year-on-year - - +110
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Performance Engineer 8 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% - 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% - 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile - - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.37%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £500

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 47,008 27,876 40,382
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.16% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,552 17,889 25,942
10th Percentile £325 £288 £281
25th Percentile £415 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,155 1,223 2,887
10th Percentile £15.38 £13.76 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.08 £17.31 £16.58
Median hourly rate £43.61 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.86% -29.47% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.65 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

Senior Performance Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Performance Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Senior Performance Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Senior Performance Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Senior Performance Engineer
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 Senior Performance Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. 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
London - 8 £560 - 2
England - 8 £560 - 2
Work from Home - 1 - - 2

Senior Performance Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 June 2026, Senior Performance Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Senior Performance Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) .NET
2 7 (87.50%) AI
2 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) C#
2 7 (87.50%) Gatling
2 7 (87.50%) GitHub
2 7 (87.50%) Grafana
2 7 (87.50%) JMeter
2 7 (87.50%) Model Context Protocol
2 7 (87.50%) Observability
2 7 (87.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 7 (87.50%) Prometheus
3 6 (75.00%) Kibana
3 6 (75.00%) Splunk
4 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (12.50%) Agile
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 1 (12.50%) Anomaly Detection
5 1 (12.50%) Apache Camel
5 1 (12.50%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps

Senior Performance Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
1 7 (87.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Gatling
1 7 (87.50%) JMeter
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) .NET
1 7 (87.50%) Model Context Protocol
1 7 (87.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Camel
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) Java EE
2 1 (12.50%) Java SE
2 1 (12.50%) JMS
2 1 (12.50%) JPA
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) OpenID
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) AI Agents
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) AI
2 7 (87.50%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (12.50%) Auto-Scaling
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Fintech
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (12.50%) Stress Testing
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Grafana
1 7 (87.50%) Prometheus
2 6 (75.00%) Kibana
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle