Performance Tuning Contracts in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Performance Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 138 136
Rank change year-on-year +19 -2 -31
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 5 34 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.96% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 1.05% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 20 41
10th Percentile £516 £459 £381
25th Percentile £522 £524 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £673 £679
Median % change year-on-year -20.07% -0.97% +15.59%
75th Percentile £547 £741 £800
90th Percentile £549 £750 £913
Central London median daily rate £538 £645 £679
% change year-on-year -16.67% -5.02% +18.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Performance Tuning 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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,978 3,244 3,836
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.48% 91.59% 91.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 2,188 2,904
10th Percentile £354 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £726 £680
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.61 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 1 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessWorks
1 1 (20.00%) SAP HCM
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) dbt
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (40.00%) MySQL
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) DB2
3 1 (20.00%) MariaDB
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (20.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Arabic Language
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) French Language
2 1 (20.00%) German Language
2 1 (20.00%) Japanese Language
2 1 (20.00%) Korean Language
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) TIBCO Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) TIBCO Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) SOAP
1 2 (40.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (20.00%) XSD
2 1 (20.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Data Guard
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
1 1 (20.00%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (20.00%) Workday