Performance Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Performance Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Performance Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 464 595
Rank change year-on-year +134 +131 -128
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Engineer 16 7 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.027% 0.056%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.029% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 14
10th Percentile £388 £376 £404
25th Percentile £453 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% +6.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £490 £497
90th Percentile - £496 £540
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% +11.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,245 24,407 42,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.35% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,541 17,249 30,859
10th Percentile £325 £357 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 558 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £18.50 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Performance Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Performance Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Engineer.

Performance Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Performance Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Performance Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Performance Engineer 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Performance Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (68.75%) JMeter
1 11 (68.75%) Performance Testing
2 7 (43.75%) Performance Engineering
3 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) LoadRunner
4 5 (31.25%) Java
5 3 (18.75%) ISEB
5 3 (18.75%) Scrum
5 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
5 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
5 3 (18.75%) Performance Management
5 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
5 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Splunk
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Application Performance Management
5 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (18.75%) Dynatrace
5 3 (18.75%) Data Design
6 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
6 2 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 2 (12.50%) Power BI
6 2 (12.50%) Grafana
6 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement Process
6 2 (12.50%) Prometheus

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Google Analytics
1 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (12.50%) XCAP
2 1 (6.25%) FTP
2 1 (6.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) GIS
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
1 2 (12.50%) Tableau
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) JMeter
2 5 (31.25%) LoadRunner
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.25%) NeoLoad
General
1 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Banking
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Java EE
1 2 (12.50%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Performance Testing
2 7 (43.75%) Performance Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Application Performance Management
4 3 (18.75%) Data Design
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Management
4 3 (18.75%) Scrum
4 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
5 2 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement Process
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) C
3 1 (6.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (18.75%) ISEB
2 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Grafana
1 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.25%) Kibana
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Dynatrace
1 3 (18.75%) Splunk
2 2 (12.50%) Adobe
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Omniture
2 2 (12.50%) Remedy
3 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle