Performance Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 394 428 515
Rank change year-on-year +34 +87 -83
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 6 10 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.044% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.049% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile £474 £495 £430
25th Percentile £491 £506 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -7.46%
75th Percentile £522 £550 £525
90th Percentile £561 £566 £586
UK median daily rate £500 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -5.88% -7.61% +18.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Performance Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Engineering in the UK excluding London

Performance Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Engineering in the UK excluding London

Performance Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Engineering in the UK excluding London

Performance Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
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 the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (16.67%) XCAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner
2 2 (33.33%) Maven
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) NeoLoad
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Performance Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Optimisation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Test Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) RAN Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) RAN Performance Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Performance Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Test Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Performance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Software Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement Process
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy