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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 409 469
Rank change year-on-year +79 +60 -52
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 68 38 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 26 27
10th Percentile £413 £394 £362
25th Percentile £513 £406 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -28.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £597 £675 £663
90th Percentile £680 - £677
UK median daily rate £588 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +17.50% -16.67% +16.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.13 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.13 £50.75
% change year-on-year +5.51% +2.72% +57.35%

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 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +27 27 £600 +45.45% 13
South West +24 19 £538 +19.44% 4
North of England +26 12 £425 -5.56% 23
North West +12 8 £425 -5.56% 12
Midlands +22 7 £588 -9.62% 14
Yorkshire +22 4 £550 +10.00% 3
East Midlands +13 4 £594 - 3
West Midlands +9 3 £360 -44.62% 11
East of England - 3 £525 - 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 2 (2.94%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.47%) Apache
4 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.47%) CMS
4 1 (1.47%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 34 (50.00%) 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 Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.29%) VSAN
2 6 (8.82%) Firewall
3 5 (7.35%) Wideband
4 4 (5.88%) Network Security
5 2 (2.94%) BGP
5 2 (2.94%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (2.94%) MPLS
5 2 (2.94%) OSPF
5 2 (2.94%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.94%) VPN
6 1 (1.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 14 (20.59%) Power BI
2 14 (20.59%) Relational Database
3 13 (19.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (17.65%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 12 (17.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 12 (17.65%) Tableau
5 8 (11.76%) NoSQL
6 7 (10.29%) Data Lake
7 6 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (7.35%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (4.41%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (4.41%) ClickHouse
9 3 (4.41%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.94%) Impala
11 1 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.47%) Big Data
11 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 29 (42.65%) Social Skills
2 19 (27.94%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.41%) Finance
5 2 (2.94%) Marketing
5 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (29.41%) Data Engineer
2 11 (16.18%) Architect
3 7 (10.29%) Developer
3 7 (10.29%) VMware Expert
4 5 (7.35%) Azure Data Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (7.35%) Data Modeller
4 5 (7.35%) Technical Architect
5 4 (5.88%) Design Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) RF Design Engineer
5 4 (5.88%) RF Engineer
6 3 (4.41%) Power BI Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) Consultant
7 2 (2.94%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 2 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.94%) IT Architect
7 2 (2.94%) Salesforce Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) Apache Beam
1 3 (4.41%) Kafka
1 3 (4.41%) Keycloak
1 3 (4.41%) React
1 3 (4.41%) RESTful
2 2 (2.94%) GraphQL
2 2 (2.94%) Next.js
2 2 (2.94%) Node.js
2 2 (2.94%) PySpark
3 1 (1.47%) Apache Sling
3 1 (1.47%) CSS
3 1 (1.47%) DOM
3 1 (1.47%) HTML
3 1 (1.47%) JWT
3 1 (1.47%) OAuth
3 1 (1.47%) OpenID
3 1 (1.47%) OSGi
3 1 (1.47%) Redux
3 1 (1.47%) REST
3 1 (1.47%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 7 (10.29%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.41%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
6 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 8 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (11.76%) Risk Management
13 7 (10.29%) Analytics
13 7 (10.29%) Computer Science
13 7 (10.29%) Continuous Integration
14 6 (8.82%) Data Governance
15 5 (7.35%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 19 (27.94%) SQL
2 12 (17.65%) T-SQL
3 8 (11.76%) Python
4 6 (8.82%) Java
4 6 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.88%) Scala
6 3 (4.41%) Go
6 3 (4.41%) Groovy
6 3 (4.41%) Ruby
7 2 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.47%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 20 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 14 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (10.29%) Degree
3 7 (10.29%) DV Cleared
4 6 (8.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.88%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.47%) CCNA
7 1 (1.47%) CCNP
7 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.06%) 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 9 (13.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.29%) vCloud
3 7 (10.29%) VMware NSX
4 3 (4.41%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (2.94%) KVM
5 2 (2.94%) QEMU
5 2 (2.94%) VMware ESXi
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 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.24%) VMware
3 7 (10.29%) Google
4 5 (7.35%) Databricks
5 2 (2.94%) Cloudera
5 2 (2.94%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.47%) F5
6 1 (1.47%) Informatica
6 1 (1.47%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds