Performance Engineering Contracts in England

Performance Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 616 746
Rank change year-on-year +76 +130 -124
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 11 21 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.044% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.049% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 22
10th Percentile £443 £275 £450
25th Percentile £454 £505 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £586 £588
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -0.34% +21.13%
75th Percentile £575 £681 £750
90th Percentile £598 £700 £818
UK median daily rate £500 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -5.88% -7.61% +18.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Performance Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Performance Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineering in England

Performance Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineering in England.

Daily rate trend for Performance Engineering in England

Performance Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineering in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Engineering in England

Performance Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Engineering in England

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
London +83 4 £452 -30.46% 8
South East +12 3 £575 +12.20% 6
South West +6 2 £500 -19.48%
North of England - 1 £475 -
North West - 1 £475 -
Performance Engineering
UK

Performance Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (27.27%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (9.09%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (9.09%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (27.27%) DynamoDB
1 3 (27.27%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (27.27%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) GIS
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) JMeter
2 5 (45.45%) LoadRunner
3 4 (36.36%) NeoLoad
4 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
4 3 (27.27%) Maven
4 3 (27.27%) Selenium
5 1 (9.09%) Gatling
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Performance Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Senior
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Performance Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Lead
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Optimisation Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Test Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) RAN Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Performance Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Splunk Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Test Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Gherkin
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Performance Testing
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Software Architecture
4 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
4 3 (27.27%) Functional Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (18.18%) User Experience
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (9.09%) Manual Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Software Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Trend Analysis
6 1 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Java
2 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) C
3 3 (27.27%) C++
4 2 (18.18%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kibana
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Splunk
2 3 (27.27%) AppDynamics
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Remedy