Performance Optimisation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Performance Optimisation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 282 389 533
Rank change year-on-year +107 +144 -109
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 59 78 86
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.31% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.35% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 48 57
10th Percentile £413 £455 £375
25th Percentile £453 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £510 £535
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -4.67% +16.30%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £791 £765
UK median daily rate £588 £510 £596
% change year-on-year +15.20% -14.47% +15.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £47.83
25th Percentile - - £47.94
Median hourly rate - £38.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - -22.05% -
75th Percentile - - £49.44
90th Percentile - - £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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,215 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.97% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,849 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 522 532
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Performance Optimisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Optimisation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Optimisation.

Performance Optimisation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Performance Optimisation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Optimisation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Optimisation.

Performance Optimisation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (5.08%) CMS
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.69%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.69%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.69%) SAP CAR
2 1 (1.69%) SAP POS DM
2 1 (1.69%) SAP Retail
2 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.98%) Azure
2 17 (28.81%) AWS
3 8 (13.56%) GCP
4 5 (8.47%) Amazon S3
4 5 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (6.78%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (6.78%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.78%) Serverless
5 4 (6.78%) Snowflake
6 3 (5.08%) Apigee
6 3 (5.08%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (5.08%) GitHub
6 3 (5.08%) Twilio
7 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.39%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.39%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) CTI
1 6 (10.17%) VoIP
2 4 (6.78%) HTTP
2 4 (6.78%) Network Security
3 2 (3.39%) Internet
4 1 (1.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.95%) Data Lake
2 7 (11.86%) NoSQL
3 6 (10.17%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (10.17%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.78%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (5.08%) MariaDB
6 3 (5.08%) Power BI
7 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.39%) Big Data
7 2 (3.39%) DocumentDB
7 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.39%) Oracle Database
7 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.39%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.69%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Git
1 3 (5.08%) webpack
2 2 (3.39%) GitLab
2 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.39%) rollup.js
2 2 (3.39%) Storybook
2 2 (3.39%) Vite
3 1 (1.69%) Ant
3 1 (1.69%) Babel
3 1 (1.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.69%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.69%) JIRA
3 1 (1.69%) JMeter
3 1 (1.69%) NeoLoad
3 1 (1.69%) Selenium
3 1 (1.69%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (20.34%) Finance
3 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
4 9 (15.25%) Banking
5 8 (13.56%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.78%) Retail
6 4 (6.78%) Telecoms
7 3 (5.08%) Front Office
8 1 (1.69%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
8 1 (1.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Architect
2 17 (28.81%) Developer
3 8 (13.56%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (11.86%) Administrator
5 5 (8.47%) Azure Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Data Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Azure Data Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Data Modeller
6 4 (6.78%) DBA
6 4 (6.78%) Senior
6 4 (6.78%) Splunk Administrator
7 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (5.08%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Oracle Financials Developer
8 2 (3.39%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) Web Services
2 6 (10.17%) CSS
2 6 (10.17%) HTML
3 5 (8.47%) .NET
3 5 (8.47%) Node.js
4 4 (6.78%) JSON
4 4 (6.78%) REST
4 4 (6.78%) RESTful
5 3 (5.08%) Jest
5 3 (5.08%) Middleware
5 3 (5.08%) Nuxt
5 3 (5.08%) OAuth
5 3 (5.08%) OAuth2
5 3 (5.08%) OpenAPI
5 3 (5.08%) OpenID
5 3 (5.08%) SOAP
5 3 (5.08%) Swagger
5 3 (5.08%) YAML
6 2 (3.39%) PySpark
6 2 (3.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) IVR
1 6 (10.17%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.08%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.39%) Contactless
3 2 (3.39%) Digital Wallet
3 2 (3.39%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.39%) Grid Computing
3 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Blog
4 1 (1.69%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.69%) Derivative
4 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.69%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.69%) NHS
4 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.86%) Linux
2 3 (5.08%) Unix
2 3 (5.08%) Windows
3 2 (3.39%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (3.39%) CentOS
4 1 (1.69%) Android
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (28.81%) DevOps
3 16 (27.12%) Analytics
4 13 (22.03%) Data Modelling
5 12 (20.34%) Capacity Planning
6 11 (18.64%) Computer Science
6 11 (18.64%) Roadmaps
7 9 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (13.56%) Agile
8 8 (13.56%) CI/CD
9 7 (11.86%) Data Integration
9 7 (11.86%) Data Management
9 7 (11.86%) E-Commerce
9 7 (11.86%) Microservices
9 7 (11.86%) Migration
10 6 (10.17%) Data Architecture
10 6 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (10.17%) Knowledge Transfer
10 6 (10.17%) Test Automation
10 6 (10.17%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.42%) SQL
2 9 (15.25%) JavaScript
3 6 (10.17%) Java
3 6 (10.17%) Python
3 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
4 4 (6.78%) C#
5 2 (3.39%) PHP
5 2 (3.39%) PL/SQL
5 2 (3.39%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.69%) ABAP
6 1 (1.69%) C++
6 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.69%) R
6 1 (1.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Degree
2 9 (15.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (11.86%) Azure Certification
3 7 (11.86%) Master's Degree
4 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (8.47%) AWS Certification
5 5 (8.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Security Cleared
7 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.69%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.69%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.17%) GDPR
2 5 (8.47%) QA
3 4 (6.78%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.39%) HIPAA
4 2 (3.39%) PSD2
4 2 (3.39%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (11.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (11.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) Kibana
2 1 (1.69%) logstash
2 1 (1.69%) Matomo
2 1 (1.69%) Nagios
2 1 (1.69%) Terraform
2 1 (1.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (23.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) Databricks
2 6 (10.17%) Genesys
2 6 (10.17%) Google
3 4 (6.78%) Splunk
4 3 (5.08%) Avaya
4 3 (5.08%) Cisco
4 3 (5.08%) Oracle
5 2 (3.39%) PayPal
6 1 (1.69%) Ariba
6 1 (1.69%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.69%) F5
6 1 (1.69%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.69%) SAP
6 1 (1.69%) SnapLogic
6 1 (1.69%) VMware
6 1 (1.69%) Zscaler