Performance Optimisation Contracts

Performance Optimisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 401 504 643
Rank change year-on-year +103 +139 -86
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 180 198 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.33% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.37% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 123 150
10th Percentile £400 £330 £406
25th Percentile £473 £418 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £520 £588
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -11.49% +14.08%
75th Percentile £678 £663 £663
90th Percentile £788 £737 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £588
% change year-on-year +7.50% -14.89% +20.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £55.49 £42.24 £46.00
25th Percentile £56.22 £48.60 £47.13
Median hourly rate £57.57 £52.13 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% +7.48% +50.38%
75th Percentile £59.04 - £49.31
90th Percentile £59.85 - £49.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.57 £52.13 £48.50
% change year-on-year +10.44% +7.48% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 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 +86 155 £550 +10.00% 110
London +79 79 £585 +16.90% 53
UK excluding London +102 69 £538 +7.50% 60
Work from Home +98 55 £591 +10.42% 55
South East +46 30 £600 +45.45% 9
South West +41 20 £538 - 7
North of England +25 13 £425 +1.19% 22
North West +17 9 £425 +1.19% 13
Midlands +23 5 £588 -9.62% 9
Yorkshire +21 4 £550 +10.00% 4
West Midlands +24 3 £360 -44.62% 3
East Midlands - 2 £681 - 6
East of England - 1 - - 8

Performance Optimisation
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (2.22%) CMS
2 3 (1.67%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.67%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.67%) nginx
2 3 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.11%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.67%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.56%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.56%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.56%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.56%) SAP POS DM
4 1 (0.56%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (41.11%) Azure
2 47 (26.11%) AWS
3 28 (15.56%) Power Platform
4 20 (11.11%) GCP
5 19 (10.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.67%) GitHub
8 10 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 10 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (5.00%) Serverless
10 8 (4.44%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.89%) OpenShift
12 6 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (3.33%) Snowflake
13 5 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (2.78%) Power Automate
14 4 (2.22%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.22%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.56%) Firewall
2 8 (4.44%) Network Security
3 7 (3.89%) VSAN
4 5 (2.78%) SSH
4 5 (2.78%) Wideband
5 4 (2.22%) HTTP
6 3 (1.67%) BGP
6 3 (1.67%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.67%) LAN
6 3 (1.67%) MPLS
6 3 (1.67%) Multicast
6 3 (1.67%) OSPF
6 3 (1.67%) WAN
7 2 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.11%) Internet
8 1 (0.56%) AMQP
8 1 (0.56%) DNS
8 1 (0.56%) DSL
8 1 (0.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.11%) NoSQL
2 23 (12.78%) Power BI
3 19 (10.56%) Relational Database
4 16 (8.89%) SQL Server
5 15 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (7.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 12 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 12 (6.67%) Tableau
8 11 (6.11%) Data Lake
9 9 (5.00%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (3.33%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (3.33%) Big Data
11 6 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (2.78%) KDB
13 4 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (2.22%) MariaDB
13 4 (2.22%) Oracle Database
13 4 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.44%) JIRA
3 6 (3.33%) webpack
4 5 (2.78%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.78%) JUnit
5 3 (1.67%) GitLab
6 2 (1.11%) Android Studio
6 2 (1.11%) Ant
6 2 (1.11%) Babel
6 2 (1.11%) ERwin
6 2 (1.11%) Git
6 2 (1.11%) Mocha
6 2 (1.11%) rollup.js
6 2 (1.11%) Storybook
6 2 (1.11%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.11%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.11%) Vite
6 2 (1.11%) Xcode
7 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.56%) VersionOne
General
1 58 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 41 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (22.22%) Finance
4 15 (8.33%) Banking
5 10 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.44%) Front Office
7 5 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.67%) Marketing
8 3 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.56%) Billing
10 1 (0.56%) Publishing
10 1 (0.56%) Retail
10 1 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (32.22%) Developer
2 34 (18.89%) Architect
3 27 (15.00%) Data Engineer
4 16 (8.89%) Senior
5 14 (7.78%) Senior Developer
6 12 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 10 (5.56%) Software Developer
7 10 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.00%) Administrator
8 9 (5.00%) React Developer
9 7 (3.89%) Azure Architect
9 7 (3.89%) DBA
9 7 (3.89%) VMware Expert
10 6 (3.33%) Data Architect
10 6 (3.33%) Network Engineer
10 6 (3.33%) Quantitative Developer
10 6 (3.33%) Senior Quantitative Developer
10 6 (3.33%) Technical Architect
11 5 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (2.78%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.33%) Web Services
2 13 (7.22%) REST
3 12 (6.67%) .NET
3 12 (6.67%) CSS
3 12 (6.67%) HTML
4 10 (5.56%) Node.js
4 10 (5.56%) React
4 10 (5.56%) SOAP
5 9 (5.00%) JSON
6 8 (4.44%) J2EE
6 8 (4.44%) NumPy
6 8 (4.44%) Pandas
6 8 (4.44%) RESTful
6 8 (4.44%) SciPy
7 6 (3.33%) Middleware
7 6 (3.33%) React Native
7 6 (3.33%) Spring
7 6 (3.33%) XML
8 5 (2.78%) .NET Framework
8 5 (2.78%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.11%) Cloud Native
1 11 (6.11%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.00%) Derivative
3 9 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.33%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.78%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.22%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.67%) Grid Computing
7 3 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) Equities
8 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.11%) Replication
8 2 (1.11%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.33%) Linux
2 13 (7.22%) Unix
3 6 (3.33%) Android
3 6 (3.33%) Windows
4 3 (1.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.11%) CentOS
6 1 (0.56%) Tizen
6 1 (0.56%) tvOS
6 1 (0.56%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (26.11%) DevOps
2 44 (24.44%) Data Modelling
3 42 (23.33%) CI/CD
4 38 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (16.11%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (15.56%) Translating Business Requirements
7 27 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
8 26 (14.44%) ETL
9 25 (13.89%) Agile
10 23 (12.78%) Computer Science
11 22 (12.22%) Analytics
12 21 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
13 19 (10.56%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (10.56%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
13 19 (10.56%) Migration
14 18 (10.00%) Containerisation
14 18 (10.00%) Data Integration
14 18 (10.00%) SDLC
15 16 (8.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (36.11%) SQL
2 41 (22.78%) Java
3 38 (21.11%) Python
4 28 (15.56%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.22%) T-SQL
7 8 (4.44%) C++
7 8 (4.44%) Rust
8 7 (3.89%) C#
9 6 (3.33%) Scala
10 5 (2.78%) Perl
11 4 (2.22%) Go
11 4 (2.22%) Groovy
11 4 (2.22%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.22%) Ruby
12 3 (1.67%) PHP
12 3 (1.67%) R
13 2 (1.11%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.11%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.11%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 28 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.78%) Degree
3 20 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.33%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.11%) CCNA
9 2 (1.11%) CCNP
9 2 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.56%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (16.67%) QA
2 7 (3.89%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.78%) GDPR
4 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (10.56%) Docker
2 8 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.89%) vCloud
3 7 (3.89%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.11%) Firmware
5 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.56%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 24 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.22%) Terraform
3 8 (4.44%) Istio
4 7 (3.89%) Rancher
4 7 (3.89%) vCenter Server
5 6 (3.33%) Ansible
6 4 (2.22%) Grafana
7 2 (1.11%) Kibana
7 2 (1.11%) logstash
8 1 (0.56%) Argo
8 1 (0.56%) Matomo
8 1 (0.56%) Nagios
8 1 (0.56%) QRadar
8 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (6.67%) Oracle
3 11 (6.11%) Google
4 9 (5.00%) VMware
5 8 (4.44%) Databricks
6 5 (2.78%) Splunk
7 4 (2.22%) SAP
8 3 (1.67%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.67%) Cisco
8 3 (1.67%) F5
8 3 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.67%) Solace
8 3 (1.67%) TIBCO
9 2 (1.11%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.11%) IBM
9 2 (1.11%) Informatica
9 2 (1.11%) PayPal
9 2 (1.11%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.11%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.56%) Citrix