Performance Engineering Contract Job Trends in West London

Performance Engineering
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Performance Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West London 0.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
London median daily rate £488 £600 £438
% change year-on-year -18.75% +37.14% -34.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 260 188 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.44% 85.84% 91.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 135 317
10th Percentile £204 £249 £216
25th Percentile £350 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -15.09% +2.51%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £613
90th Percentile £629 £633 £700
London median daily rate £530 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -3.73% -3.08% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 9 24
10th Percentile £20.24 £19.65 £17.28
25th Percentile £24.23 £20.75 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.27% -51.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £31.84 £30.59 £68.25
90th Percentile £36.73 £51.00 £82.00
London median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.63
% change year-on-year -21.33% +5.25% -10.93%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West London.

Performance Engineering job vacancy trend in West London

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Performance Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Performance Engineering

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 6 December 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
Hillingdon - 1 £375 -
Performance Engineering
London

Performance Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London 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 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk