Performance Tuning Contracts in London

Performance Tuning
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 248 264
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 -85
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 128 273 402
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.72% 1.01% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.11% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 166 268
10th Percentile £375 £413 £463
25th Percentile £413 £463 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -17.86% +27.27%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £844
90th Percentile £838 £800 £913
England median daily rate £518 £525 £596
% change year-on-year -1.43% -11.91% +13.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £26.38
25th Percentile £46.75 - £35.94
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £42.02
75th Percentile £50.25 - £42.45
90th Percentile - - £43.23
England median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year -15.03% +56.76% -20.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,674 24,676 35,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.50% 91.13% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,226 17,739 26,174
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 281 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.63 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +8.33% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £63.75 £50.68
90th Percentile £66.30 £78.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in London

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in London

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +7 7 £525 -18.60% 3
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
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 9 (7.03%) Apache Spark
2 8 (6.25%) Confluence
3 5 (3.91%) Anypoint
3 5 (3.91%) Mule
3 5 (3.91%) Mule ESB
3 5 (3.91%) OpenStack
4 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.34%) Apache
5 3 (2.34%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.56%) CICS
6 2 (1.56%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.78%) GemFire
7 1 (0.78%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (3.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.56%) ION Anvil
2 2 (1.56%) ION MarketView
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.78%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.78%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (32.81%) Azure
2 41 (32.03%) AWS
3 13 (10.16%) IaaS
3 13 (10.16%) PaaS
4 12 (9.38%) GCP
5 10 (7.81%) Amazon S3
6 9 (7.03%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (7.03%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (6.25%) Nutanix
7 8 (6.25%) Rubrik
7 8 (6.25%) SaaS
8 7 (5.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (4.69%) GitHub
9 6 (4.69%) WhatsApp
10 5 (3.91%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.91%) OpenShift
10 5 (3.91%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.91%) Serverless
11 4 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (8.59%) Firewall
2 10 (7.81%) SAN
3 9 (7.03%) DHCP
3 9 (7.03%) DNS
3 9 (7.03%) Kerberos
3 9 (7.03%) TCP/IP
3 9 (7.03%) VLAN
4 8 (6.25%) NAS
5 2 (1.56%) SSH
5 2 (1.56%) WAN
6 1 (0.78%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.78%) HTTP
6 1 (0.78%) InfiniBand
6 1 (0.78%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.78%) LAN
6 1 (0.78%) Network Security
6 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.78%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (28.91%) SQL Server
2 22 (17.19%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (14.06%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (10.16%) MySQL
5 12 (9.38%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (9.38%) Oracle Database
5 12 (9.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (8.59%) NoSQL
7 8 (6.25%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (3.91%) Oracle Exadata
9 5 (3.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.13%) Data Lake
10 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 4 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (2.34%) DB2
11 3 (2.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (14.06%) Git
1 18 (14.06%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.03%) Visual Studio
3 8 (6.25%) JIRA
3 8 (6.25%) TeamCity
4 5 (3.91%) MSI
4 5 (3.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (3.91%) WiX
5 4 (3.13%) JUnit
5 4 (3.13%) Mockito
6 3 (2.34%) GitLab
7 1 (0.78%) ERwin
7 1 (0.78%) Oracle APEX
General
1 42 (32.81%) Finance
2 39 (30.47%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.47%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.91%) Banking
6 3 (2.34%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.34%) Front Office
6 3 (2.34%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.34%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.56%) Electronics
7 2 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.56%) Marketing
7 2 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.78%) Arabic Language
8 1 (0.78%) French Language
8 1 (0.78%) German Language
8 1 (0.78%) Japanese Language
8 1 (0.78%) Korean Language
8 1 (0.78%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (28.13%) Developer
2 29 (22.66%) DBA
3 15 (11.72%) SQL DBA
4 13 (10.16%) Senior
5 11 (8.59%) Administrator
5 11 (8.59%) Oracle Developer
6 8 (6.25%) Architect
6 8 (6.25%) Scala Developer
6 8 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 7 (5.47%) DV Cleared DBA
7 7 (5.47%) Java Developer
7 7 (5.47%) Senior Developer
7 7 (5.47%) SQL Server DBA
8 6 (4.69%) AWS Developer
8 6 (4.69%) Data Engineer
8 6 (4.69%) Lead
8 6 (4.69%) Senior Oracle Developer
9 5 (3.91%) AWS Administrator
9 5 (3.91%) Azure Developer
9 5 (3.91%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.72%) .NET
2 12 (9.38%) REST
3 10 (7.81%) Entity Framework
4 9 (7.03%) LDAP
5 8 (6.25%) JSON
6 7 (5.47%) .NET Framework
6 7 (5.47%) Kafka
7 6 (4.69%) ASP.NET
7 6 (4.69%) SOAP
7 6 (4.69%) XML
7 6 (4.69%) XSLT
8 5 (3.91%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (3.91%) LINQ
8 5 (3.91%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
8 5 (3.91%) NHibernate
8 5 (3.91%) Spring Boot
8 5 (3.91%) WCF
8 5 (3.91%) Web Services
9 4 (3.13%) Spring
10 3 (2.34%) Murex MxML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.72%) Replication
2 14 (10.94%) Clustering
3 9 (7.03%) Fixed Income
4 8 (6.25%) Data Centre
5 7 (5.47%) Derivative
6 5 (3.91%) Client/Server
6 5 (3.91%) Market Risk
6 5 (3.91%) Web 2.0
7 4 (3.13%) Credit Derivative
7 4 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.34%) Equities
8 3 (2.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.34%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.56%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.56%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.56%) NHS
9 2 (1.56%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.97%) Linux
2 16 (12.50%) Windows
3 13 (10.16%) Unix
4 9 (7.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (6.25%) Solaris
5 8 (6.25%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.56%) zOS
7 1 (0.78%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (27.34%) DevOps
2 32 (25.00%) Agile
2 32 (25.00%) Migration
3 30 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (20.31%) CI/CD
5 21 (16.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 20 (15.63%) Data Integration
7 19 (14.84%) High Availability
7 19 (14.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (13.28%) Continuous Integration
9 14 (10.94%) Data Security
9 14 (10.94%) Storage Management
10 13 (10.16%) Software Engineering
11 12 (9.38%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (9.38%) ETL
12 11 (8.59%) Computer Science
12 11 (8.59%) Containerisation
12 11 (8.59%) Database Security
13 10 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (7.81%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 69 (53.91%) SQL
2 31 (24.22%) Python
3 22 (17.19%) Bash
4 16 (12.50%) C#
5 15 (11.72%) JavaScript
6 13 (10.16%) Java
6 13 (10.16%) PowerShell
7 11 (8.59%) T-SQL
8 9 (7.03%) PL/SQL
9 8 (6.25%) Scala
10 3 (2.34%) VBA
11 2 (1.56%) COBOL
11 2 (1.56%) Perl
11 2 (1.56%) REXX
11 2 (1.56%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.78%) Bicep
12 1 (0.78%) Go
12 1 (0.78%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (16.41%) Degree
2 20 (15.63%) Security Cleared
3 13 (10.16%) DV Cleared
4 10 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.91%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.13%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.34%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.34%) MCITP
8 3 (2.34%) MCTS
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.81%) GDPR
2 8 (6.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (3.91%) QA
4 4 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.78%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (18.75%) Docker
2 10 (7.81%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (5.47%) Firmware
5 2 (1.56%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.78%) Ceph
6 1 (0.78%) GridGain
6 1 (0.78%) iptables
6 1 (0.78%) KVM
6 1 (0.78%) Lustre
6 1 (0.78%) NFS
6 1 (0.78%) Samba
6 1 (0.78%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.97%) Terraform
3 16 (12.50%) Ansible
4 8 (6.25%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (6.25%) Netcool
4 8 (6.25%) Tivoli
4 8 (6.25%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 7 (5.47%) Puppet
6 6 (4.69%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (3.91%) CloudHub
7 5 (3.91%) Dell DRAC
7 5 (3.91%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.56%) Data Guard
8 2 (1.56%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.78%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle Flashback
9 1 (0.78%) SELinux
9 1 (0.78%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.78%) yum
Vendors
1 44 (34.38%) Oracle
2 34 (26.56%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.16%) Dell
4 11 (8.59%) IBM
5 10 (7.81%) VMware
6 9 (7.03%) Cisco
7 8 (6.25%) CyberArk
7 8 (6.25%) Databricks
7 8 (6.25%) EMC
7 8 (6.25%) HP
7 8 (6.25%) Isilon
7 8 (6.25%) Qualys
7 8 (6.25%) Serena
7 8 (6.25%) ServiceNow
7 8 (6.25%) Splunk
8 5 (3.91%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.91%) Salesforce
9 4 (3.13%) SAP
10 3 (2.34%) ESRI
10 3 (2.34%) Murex