Performance Optimisation Contracts in Berkshire

Performance Optimisation
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 106 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 13 18 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.11% 0.91% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.02% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 0
10th Percentile £400 £444 -
25th Percentile £409 £503 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.50% - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile £460 - -
South East median daily rate £453 £600 £413
% change year-on-year -24.58% +45.45% -38.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.14 -
South East median hourly rate - £60.14 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Performance Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,096 1,764 1,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.44% 88.91% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 918 1,053
10th Percentile £313 £213 £341
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £615 £608 £626
90th Percentile £675 £675 £711
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 101 48
10th Percentile £22.29 £20.17 £19.20
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.50 £25.72
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%
75th Percentile £76.77 £71.75 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £87.46 £79.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Berkshire

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Berkshire

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Berkshire

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +23 8 £409 -0.24% 1
Wokingham - 4 £425 -
Maidenhead - 1 £500 -
Performance Optimisation
South East

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) Azure AKS
3 4 (30.77%) Azure Functions
3 4 (30.77%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Azure API Management
4 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
4 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.69%) IaaS
4 1 (7.69%) OCI
4 1 (7.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) 5G
1 2 (15.38%) LTE
1 2 (15.38%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (30.77%) Redis
2 2 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Parquet
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Backend Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Designer
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Embedded Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) RESTful
2 4 (30.77%) GraphQL
2 4 (30.77%) Prisma
3 2 (15.38%) Node.js
3 2 (15.38%) OAuth
3 2 (15.38%) React
3 2 (15.38%) REST
4 1 (7.69%) .NET
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
4 1 (7.69%) JSON
4 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (7.69%) OpenID
4 1 (7.69%) PySpark
4 1 (7.69%) SAML
4 1 (7.69%) SOAP
4 1 (7.69%) Web Services
4 1 (7.69%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Device Driver
1 1 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.69%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 4 (30.77%) API Design
3 4 (30.77%) Code Quality
3 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
3 4 (30.77%) Cost Management
3 4 (30.77%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
3 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven
3 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (30.77%) Front End Development
3 4 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 2 (15.38%) API Management
4 2 (15.38%) Data Transformation
4 2 (15.38%) Edge Computing
4 2 (15.38%) Operational Stability
4 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) TypeScript
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Python
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) BMC PATROL
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) BMC
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) VMware