Performance Engineer Contracts in London

Performance Engineer
England > London

The median Performance Engineer daily rate in London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 482 608
Rank change year-on-year +111 +126 -133
Contract jobs requiring a Performance Engineer 15 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.086% 0.019% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.020% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 3
10th Percentile £387 £432 £405
25th Percentile £419 £461 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £519 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +22.06% -
75th Percentile £512 £573 £488
90th Percentile £588 £601 £525
England median daily rate £500 £500 £438
% change year-on-year - +14.29% +2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,330 24,760 37,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,815 17,998 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +13.45%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

Performance Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Performance Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineer in London

Performance Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Engineer in London

Performance Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Engineer in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Engineer in London

Performance Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Central London +41 2 £476 -22.37%
Performance Engineer
England

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 20 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 job ads across the London region featuring Performance Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (93.33%) JMeter
2 12 (80.00%) Java
3 10 (66.67%) Performance Testing
4 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 9 (60.00%) AWS
5 8 (53.33%) Confluence
5 8 (53.33%) JIRA
5 8 (53.33%) Python
5 8 (53.33%) Shell Script
5 8 (53.33%) Grafana
5 8 (53.33%) Prometheus
6 5 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 5 (33.33%) LDAP
7 4 (26.67%) LoadRunner
7 4 (26.67%) Splunk
7 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
7 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
7 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
7 4 (26.67%) Performance Engineering
8 3 (20.00%) Ansible
8 3 (20.00%) Kibana
8 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
8 3 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
8 3 (20.00%) AppDynamics
8 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (20.00%) NeoLoad
8 3 (20.00%) Cloud Computing

Performance Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (53.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (13.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (93.33%) JMeter
2 8 (53.33%) JIRA
3 4 (26.67%) LoadRunner
4 3 (20.00%) NeoLoad
5 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
6 1 (6.67%) Gatling
General
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (6.67%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (6.67%) Auto-Scaling
6 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (6.67%) Defect Management
6 1 (6.67%) Functional Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Manual Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Microservices
6 1 (6.67%) Migration
6 1 (6.67%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (6.67%) System Integration Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Trend Analysis
6 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (6.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) Python
2 8 (53.33%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) C
3 3 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Grafana
1 8 (53.33%) Prometheus
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (20.00%) Kibana
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Splunk
2 3 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft