Optimisation Engineer Contracts

Optimisation Engineer
UK

The median Optimisation Engineer daily rate in the UK is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 689 858
Rank change year-on-year +117 +169 -
Contract jobs requiring an Optimisation Engineer 7 11 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.018% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.019% 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 2
10th Percentile - £534 £413
25th Percentile £425 £551 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% -1.74% -
75th Percentile £475 £570 £669
90th Percentile - - £718
UK excluding London median daily rate - £560 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Optimisation Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Optimisation Engineer in the UK

Optimisation Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Optimisation Engineer in the UK

Optimisation Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Optimisation Engineer in the UK

Optimisation Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Optimisation Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +112 7 £450 -20.35% 4
UK excluding London +71 4 - - 2
London +108 3 £450 -21.05% 2
Work from Home +119 2 - - 1
South West +23 2 - -
South East - 2 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 featuring Optimisation Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (57.14%) Customer Experience
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (28.57%) CSS
3 2 (28.57%) DOM
3 2 (28.57%) HTML
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) SLA
3 2 (28.57%) Adobe
3 2 (28.57%) Nokia
3 2 (28.57%) WebTrends
3 2 (28.57%) Remedy
3 2 (28.57%) Ajax
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (28.57%) Google
3 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) JSON
3 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
3 2 (28.57%) QA
3 2 (28.57%) Copywriting
3 2 (28.57%) Google Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) GIS
3 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 2 (28.57%) Banking

Optimisation Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Google Analytics
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) CloudBees
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (28.57%) 4G
2 2 (28.57%) HTTP
2 2 (28.57%) LTE
2 2 (28.57%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
2 2 (28.57%) XCAP
3 1 (14.29%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) GIS
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
1 2 (28.57%) Tableau
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Ajax
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) DOM
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Customer Experience
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement Process
2 2 (28.57%) Copywriting
2 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (28.57%) Front End Development
2 2 (28.57%) High Availability
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) User Experience
2 2 (28.57%) UX Design
2 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) Groovy
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Ruby
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Actix
1 2 (28.57%) Adobe
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Maxymiser
1 2 (28.57%) Nokia
1 2 (28.57%) Optimizely
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Remedy