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 8 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 343 447
Rank change year-on-year +39 +104 +172
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 11 9 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.062% 0.062%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.071% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 12
10th Percentile £402 £474 £275
25th Percentile £460 £491 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £494 £531 £528
90th Percentile £505 £588 £549
UK median daily rate £481 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -8.33% +1.20% -5.68%

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 9,347 12,702 21,816
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.74% 87.36% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,334 8,549 15,395
10th Percentile £325 £325 £359
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 549 528
10th Percentile £12.73 £14.98 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.00 £25.99
Median hourly rate £34.83 £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.06% -19.05% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.10 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £39.92
% change year-on-year -32.93% -6.05% +53.52%

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 7 (63.64%) AWS
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) Datadog
4 1 (9.09%) dbt
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) DB2
2 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
2 2 (18.18%) MemSQL
2 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
2 2 (18.18%) Sybase IQ
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
3 1 (9.09%) Redis
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JMeter
1 5 (45.45%) LoadRunner
2 4 (36.36%) Serenity BDD
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (9.09%) EasyMock
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) IntelliJ
4 1 (9.09%) JBehave
4 1 (9.09%) JProfiler
4 1 (9.09%) JUnit
4 1 (9.09%) Mockito
4 1 (9.09%) Toad
4 1 (9.09%) VisualVM
4 1 (9.09%) YourKit
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Consultant
1 5 (45.45%) Performance Consultant
1 5 (45.45%) Senior
2 4 (36.36%) Performance Test Consultant
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Consultant
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Performance Consultant
2 4 (36.36%) Senior Test Consultant
2 4 (36.36%) Test Consultant
3 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Java Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Test Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) SCADA Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (9.09%) Spring
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
1 1 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Algorithms
1 3 (27.27%) Data Structures
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Microservices
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Performance Testing
3 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Defect Management
4 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Software Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Analysis
7 1 (9.09%) Concurrent Programming
7 1 (9.09%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
7 1 (9.09%) JVM Tuning
7 1 (9.09%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (9.09%) SOLID
7 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) Groovy
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Perfmon
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
4 1 (9.09%) Ansible
4 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Dynatrace
2 4 (36.36%) New Relic
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 2 (18.18%) Splunk
4 1 (9.09%) AppDynamics
4 1 (9.09%) SAP
4 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow