Optimisation Engineer Contracts in London

Optimisation Engineer
England > London

The median Optimisation Engineer daily rate in London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 495 607
Rank change year-on-year +110 +112 -131
Contract jobs requiring an Optimisation Engineer 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.022% 0.003%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.024% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - £528 -
25th Percentile £425 £544 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £570 £400
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +42.50% -
75th Percentile £475 - £425
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £565 £675
% change year-on-year -20.35% -16.30% -

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 16,501 25,472 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 95.25% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 18,450 27,143
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Optimisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Optimisation Engineer in London

Optimisation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Optimisation Engineer in London

Optimisation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Optimisation Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Optimisation Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Optimisation 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 Optimisation Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) DOM
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (66.67%) HTTP
2 2 (66.67%) Adobe
2 2 (66.67%) WebTrends
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (66.67%) Google
2 2 (66.67%) Retail Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Copywriting
2 2 (66.67%) Google Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
2 2 (66.67%) Maxymiser
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Optimizely
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development

Optimisation 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Google Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CloudBees
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Ajax
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) DOM
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Copywriting
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
1 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 2 (66.67%) User Experience
1 2 (66.67%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Adobe
1 2 (66.67%) Google
1 2 (66.67%) Maxymiser
1 2 (66.67%) Optimizely
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle