Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Performance Tuning
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 66 78
Rank change year-on-year -22 +12 +22
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 32 29 53
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.85% 2.26% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 2.43% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 48
10th Percentile £412 £480 £478
25th Percentile £466 £619 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £640 £633
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +1.19% +26.50%
75th Percentile £594 £663 £688
90th Percentile £614 £675 -
South East median daily rate £540 £585 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% -6.40% +20.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £63.75 -
South East median hourly rate £36.71 £63.75 -
% change year-on-year -42.41% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Performance Tuning 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 1,500 1,194 1,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.91% 93.06% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 657 991
10th Percentile £285 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -1.57%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £608
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 34 96
10th Percentile £19.00 £27.08 £20.33
25th Percentile £32.81 £46.59 £42.50
Median hourly rate £81.50 £61.50 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% +3.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £87.00 £65.39 £68.05
90th Percentile £106.00 £84.25 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £42.88 £45.21
% change year-on-year -41.35% -5.15% +0.47%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Tuning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Berkshire

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 February 2026. 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 +1 18 £575 -11.54% 1
Bracknell -1 6 £423 -12.16%
Wokingham -40 4 £500 +42.86%
Performance Tuning
South East

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (6.25%) WebLogic
3 1 (3.13%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (6.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) AWS
2 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) Serverless
3 8 (25.00%) OCI
4 6 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Functions
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Storage
6 3 (9.38%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub
6 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (9.38%) Power Automate
6 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
6 3 (9.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) Unified Communications
1 2 (6.25%) WebEx
2 1 (3.13%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
2 1 (3.13%) SSL
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) Oracle Reports
2 10 (31.25%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (28.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 7 (21.88%) NoSQL
5 6 (18.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (18.75%) Couchbase
5 6 (18.75%) Oracle Database
6 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
7 3 (9.38%) Power BI
8 2 (6.25%) Oracle BI EE
8 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (6.25%) SAP HANA
8 2 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
9 1 (3.13%) MySQL
9 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
9 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (3.13%) Finance
2 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Developer
2 9 (28.13%) Oracle Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Data Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) DBA
4 6 (18.75%) Oracle DBA
5 5 (15.63%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Administrator
6 4 (12.50%) Architect
6 4 (12.50%) Report Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Platform Architect
7 3 (9.38%) Power Platform Architect
8 2 (6.25%) ABAP Developer
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Cisco Administrator
8 2 (6.25%) SAP Developer
9 1 (3.13%) Senior DBA
9 1 (3.13%) Senior Oracle DBA
9 1 (3.13%) Senior SQL DBA
9 1 (3.13%) SQL DBA
9 1 (3.13%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (18.75%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) ADO
3 2 (6.25%) BAPI
3 2 (6.25%) SAP Smart Forms
3 2 (6.25%) Web Services
4 1 (3.13%) CSS
4 1 (3.13%) CSS3
4 1 (3.13%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) HTML5
4 1 (3.13%) OAuth
4 1 (3.13%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Replication
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Life Science
4 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.13%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
2 9 (28.13%) Unix
3 3 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (31.25%) High Availability
3 9 (28.13%) CI/CD
3 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (28.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (21.88%) DevOps
5 6 (18.75%) Data Modelling
5 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
5 6 (18.75%) Security Patching
5 6 (18.75%) Task Automation
6 5 (15.63%) Analytics
6 5 (15.63%) Runbook
7 4 (12.50%) Database Tuning
7 4 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
7 4 (12.50%) Statistics
8 3 (9.38%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (9.38%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (9.38%) Migration
8 3 (9.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) SQL
2 8 (25.00%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) ABAP
4 2 (6.25%) Perl
4 2 (6.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.13%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) OCP
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle Certification
3 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) GDPR
2 3 (9.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (9.38%) NIST
3 2 (6.25%) COBIT
3 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.13%) Docker
3 1 (3.13%) NDS
3 1 (3.13%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle RMAN
1 6 (18.75%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Data Guard
4 2 (6.25%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.25%) systemd
5 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Oracle
2 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.75%) Confluent
3 6 (18.75%) IBM
4 3 (9.38%) OpenAI
4 3 (9.38%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco
5 2 (6.25%) SAP
6 1 (3.13%) ESRI
6 1 (3.13%) NetIQ
6 1 (3.13%) OpenText
6 1 (3.13%) Wonderware