Performance Optimisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Optimisation
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 Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 419 464
Rank change year-on-year +101 +45 -64
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 68 37 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 24 26
10th Percentile £413 £389 £359
25th Percentile £438 £406 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% -16.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £659
90th Percentile £684 - £663
UK median daily rate £588 £510 £596
% change year-on-year +15.20% -14.47% +15.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £55.49 - £47.83
25th Percentile £56.22 - £47.94
Median hourly rate £57.57 £52.13 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% +6.93% -
75th Percentile £59.04 - £49.44
90th Percentile £59.85 - £49.48
UK median hourly rate £57.57 £52.13 £48.50
% change year-on-year +10.44% +7.48% +50.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Performance Optimisation 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 17,229 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.55% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,247 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,039 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK excluding London

Performance Optimisation
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 Optimisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +38 28 £600 +45.45% 7
South West +34 20 £538 - 9
North of England +22 12 £425 +1.19% 26
North West +19 8 £425 +1.19% 12
Midlands +30 7 £588 -9.62% 14
Yorkshire +27 4 £550 +10.00% 5
East Midlands +23 4 £594 - 6
West Midlands +19 3 £360 -44.62% 8
East of England - 1 - - 5
Performance Optimisation
UK

Performance Optimisation
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.41%) Jupyter
2 3 (4.41%) nginx
3 1 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.47%) Apache
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.47%) CMS
3 1 (1.47%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 32 (47.06%) Azure
2 18 (26.47%) AWS
3 16 (23.53%) Power Platform
4 15 (22.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (14.71%) GCP
6 7 (10.29%) OpenShift
7 5 (7.35%) Snowflake
8 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.41%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (4.41%) CloudBees
9 3 (4.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (4.41%) Serverless
10 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.47%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.29%) Firewall
1 7 (10.29%) VSAN
2 5 (7.35%) Wideband
3 4 (5.88%) Network Security
4 2 (2.94%) BGP
4 2 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.94%) MPLS
4 2 (2.94%) OSPF
4 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.59%) Power BI
1 14 (20.59%) Relational Database
1 14 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 13 (19.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (17.65%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 12 (17.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 12 (17.65%) Tableau
4 8 (11.76%) NoSQL
5 7 (10.29%) Data Lake
6 6 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (7.35%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (4.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (4.41%) ClickHouse
8 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.94%) Impala
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.47%) Big Data
10 1 (1.47%) Flink
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.94%) ERwin
2 2 (2.94%) webpack
3 1 (1.47%) GitLab
3 1 (1.47%) JIRA
3 1 (1.47%) VersionOne
3 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (39.71%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.94%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.41%) Finance
5 2 (2.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (26.47%) Data Engineer
2 11 (16.18%) Architect
3 8 (11.76%) Developer
4 7 (10.29%) VMware Expert
5 5 (7.35%) Data Modeller
5 5 (7.35%) Technical Architect
6 4 (5.88%) Design Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) RF Design Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) RF Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Power BI Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Architect
8 2 (2.94%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) IT Architect
8 2 (2.94%) Network Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) RESTful
2 3 (4.41%) Apache Beam
2 3 (4.41%) Kafka
2 3 (4.41%) Keycloak
2 3 (4.41%) React
3 2 (2.94%) CSS
3 2 (2.94%) GraphQL
3 2 (2.94%) HTML
3 2 (2.94%) Next.js
3 2 (2.94%) Node.js
3 2 (2.94%) PySpark
4 1 (1.47%) Apache Sling
4 1 (1.47%) DOM
4 1 (1.47%) Laravel
4 1 (1.47%) OAuth
4 1 (1.47%) OpenID
4 1 (1.47%) OSGi
4 1 (1.47%) Redux
4 1 (1.47%) REST
4 1 (1.47%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.82%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.35%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.41%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.47%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
2 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.18%) Translating Business Requirements
2 25 (36.76%) Data Modelling
3 20 (29.41%) DevOps
4 19 (27.94%) Collaborative Working
5 18 (26.47%) CI/CD
5 18 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (25.00%) ETL
7 16 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (20.59%) Time Management
9 13 (19.12%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (16.18%) Containerisation
11 10 (14.71%) Data Integration
12 9 (13.24%) Computer Science
13 8 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
13 8 (11.76%) Risk Management
14 7 (10.29%) Analytics
14 7 (10.29%) Continuous Integration
15 6 (8.82%) Data Governance
16 5 (7.35%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.94%) SQL
2 12 (17.65%) T-SQL
3 8 (11.76%) Python
4 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.82%) Java
6 4 (5.88%) Scala
7 3 (4.41%) Go
7 3 (4.41%) Groovy
7 3 (4.41%) Ruby
8 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.47%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (13.24%) Degree
4 8 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 6 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (5.88%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.94%) CCNA
7 2 (2.94%) CCNP
7 2 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (23.53%) QA
2 3 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.94%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (16.18%) Docker
2 7 (10.29%) vCloud
2 7 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (10.29%) VMware NSX
3 3 (4.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (1.47%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 15 (22.06%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.18%) Terraform
3 7 (10.29%) Istio
3 7 (10.29%) Rancher
3 7 (10.29%) vCenter Server
4 3 (4.41%) Ansible
4 3 (4.41%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) Google
2 7 (10.29%) VMware
3 5 (7.35%) Databricks
4 2 (2.94%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.94%) F5
4 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.94%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.47%) Citrix
5 1 (1.47%) Informatica
5 1 (1.47%) Oracle
5 1 (1.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud