Performance Engineering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Performance Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 338 459
Rank change year-on-year +41 +121 +152
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 7 7 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.046% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.052% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 14
10th Percentile - £451 £284
25th Percentile £481 £453 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £477 £506
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% -5.78% +1.25%
75th Percentile £494 £500 £547
90th Percentile £498 - £693
UK median daily rate £488 £454 £563
% change year-on-year +7.38% -19.29% -17.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Performance Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Performance Engineering.

Performance Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) Datadog
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 1 (14.29%) RDBMS
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
1 1 (14.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JMeter
1 5 (71.43%) LoadRunner
2 4 (57.14%) Serenity BDD
3 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (14.29%) GitLab
4 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
4 1 (14.29%) JProfiler
4 1 (14.29%) Toad
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Consultant
1 5 (71.43%) Performance Consultant
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Test Consultant
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Consultant
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Performance Consultant
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Test Consultant
2 4 (57.14%) Test Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Performance Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (57.14%) Defect Management
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
4 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
5 1 (14.29%) Service-Level Objective
5 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) Java
3 4 (57.14%) C#
3 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
4 3 (42.86%) Bash
5 1 (14.29%) Groovy
5 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Perfmon
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Dynatrace
2 4 (57.14%) New Relic
3 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk