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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 97 -
Rank change year-on-year +18 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 8 17 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.70% 0.86% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.99% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £453 £619 -
90th Percentile £508 £630 -
South East median daily rate £455 £600 £413
% change year-on-year -24.17% +45.45% -38.66%

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 1,058 1,715 1,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.22% 87.01% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 639 860 1,015
10th Percentile £325 £265 £334
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £511
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.24% +2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 113 53
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £29.38 £41.25 £24.50
Median hourly rate £59.50 £60.46 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% +0.76% +185.71%
75th Percentile £80.00 £71.75 £74.79
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £47.78 £52.10
% change year-on-year -49.77% -8.29% +131.56%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Berkshire over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 25 June 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
Wokingham - 5 £450 - 3
Reading +22 3 £440 -29.60% 6
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 (12.50%) Confluence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
3 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) IaaS
3 1 (12.50%) OCI
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Parquet
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) React
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (25.00%) OAuth
2 2 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Apollo GraphQL
3 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (12.50%) Entity Framework
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (12.50%) OpenID
3 1 (12.50%) Prisma
3 1 (12.50%) SAML
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Device Driver
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) API Management
2 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Operational Stability
2 2 (25.00%) Operations Management
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Code Quality
3 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
3 1 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) BMC
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) VMware