Performance Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Performance Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Performance Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Engineering over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 459 611
Rank change year-on-year +121 +152 -139
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 7 18 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.046% 0.070% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.052% 0.077% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 7
10th Percentile £451 £284 -
25th Percentile £453 £381 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.78% +1.25% -7.41%
75th Percentile £500 £547 £550
90th Percentile - £693 £720
UK median daily rate £454 £563 £685
% change year-on-year -19.29% -17.88% +37.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Performance Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,483 23,229 40,650
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,996 16,418 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Performance Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Engineering
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 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 2 (28.57%) Google Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (14.29%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) GIS
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JMeter
1 5 (71.43%) LoadRunner
2 1 (14.29%) NeoLoad
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Performance Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Optimisation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) RAN Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) RAN Performance Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Java EE
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Performance Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Application Performance Management
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
3 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement Process
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) C
2 1 (14.29%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Dynatrace
1 3 (42.86%) Splunk
2 2 (28.57%) Adobe
2 2 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Omniture
3 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Remedy