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 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 341 447 611
Rank change year-on-year +106 +164 -123
Contract jobs citing Performance Engineering 7 14 17
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.048% 0.058% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.065% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 12
10th Percentile £457 £275 £430
25th Percentile £463 £375 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +0.52%
75th Percentile - £531 £577
90th Percentile £575 £550 £656
UK median daily rate £500 £531 £575
% change year-on-year -5.88% -7.61% +18.25%

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 12,820 21,608 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,645 15,332 29,227
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 516
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Performance Engineering over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Performance Engineering daily rate histogram 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%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
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
2 3 (42.86%) LoadRunner
3 2 (28.57%) NeoLoad
4 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (14.29%) Maven
4 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Performance Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Performance Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Optimisation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Leader
4 1 (14.29%) RAN Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) RAN Performance Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Performance Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Test Consultant
4 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) eBPF
1 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Performance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
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%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Cilium
2 1 (14.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk