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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 66 80
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 34 28 51
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.87% 2.38% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 2.54% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 47
10th Percentile £412 £370 £463
25th Percentile £474 £450 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +2.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £591 £663 £688
90th Percentile £612 £675 -
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £615
% change year-on-year +4.76% -14.63% +23.00%
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 1,577 1,104 1,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.51% 93.72% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,031 631 990
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £413 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £594 £632 £606
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 32 97
10th Percentile £20.08 £26.03 £18.95
25th Percentile £57.00 £41.25 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £61.50 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.97% +5.48% -9.86%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £67.50
90th Percentile £98.50 £85.47 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £30.00 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -29.41% +13.33% -16.67%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +2 19 £569 -12.50% 3
Wokingham -34 9 £500 +11.11% 1
Bracknell -7 2 £475 -1.25%
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 4 (11.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.88%) Confluence
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (5.88%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.94%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.94%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (2.94%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.94%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.94%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (5.88%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) AWS
3 6 (17.65%) Entra ID
3 6 (17.65%) Serverless
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Functions
4 5 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (14.71%) Power Automate
4 5 (14.71%) Power Platform
4 5 (14.71%) PowerApps
5 4 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (8.82%) Azure Storage
6 3 (8.82%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (8.82%) GitHub
6 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (8.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) HTTP
2 2 (5.88%) SSL
2 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.88%) Unified Communications
2 2 (5.88%) WebEx
3 1 (2.94%) DHCP
3 1 (2.94%) LAN
3 1 (2.94%) NAS
3 1 (2.94%) SAN
3 1 (2.94%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (26.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 6 (17.65%) Oracle Database
4 5 (14.71%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
6 3 (8.82%) Power BI
7 2 (5.88%) MySQL
7 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
7 2 (5.88%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (5.88%) SAP HANA
7 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.94%) Couchbase
8 1 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.94%) GIS
8 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) GitLab
2 1 (2.94%) Introscope
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (20.59%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Developer
2 9 (26.47%) Oracle Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Architect
4 7 (20.59%) DBA
5 6 (17.65%) Oracle DBA
5 6 (17.65%) Platform Architect
6 4 (11.76%) Administrator
6 4 (11.76%) Power Platform Architect
6 4 (11.76%) Report Developer
7 2 (5.88%) ABAP Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Cisco Administrator
7 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) SAP Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) GIS Architect
8 1 (2.94%) Middleware Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) SQL DBA
8 1 (2.94%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.88%) ADO
2 2 (5.88%) BAPI
2 2 (5.88%) Kafka
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (5.88%) OAuth
2 2 (5.88%) SAP Smart Forms
2 2 (5.88%) Web Services
3 1 (2.94%) CSS
3 1 (2.94%) CSS3
3 1 (2.94%) HTML
3 1 (2.94%) HTML5
3 1 (2.94%) JDBC
3 1 (2.94%) JMS
3 1 (2.94%) Middleware
3 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.94%) REST
3 1 (2.94%) SAML
3 1 (2.94%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 4 (11.76%) Replication
2 2 (5.88%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.88%) Clustering
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.94%) Life Science
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.94%) SCADA
3 1 (2.94%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Unix
3 4 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.88%) Windows
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (2.94%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (32.35%) DevOps
2 11 (32.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (23.53%) High Availability
4 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
4 7 (20.59%) Data Modelling
4 7 (20.59%) Deployment Automation
4 7 (20.59%) Task Automation
5 6 (17.65%) Analytics
5 6 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (17.65%) Runbook
6 5 (14.71%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (14.71%) Migration
7 4 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (11.76%) Database Tuning
7 4 (11.76%) GAP Analysis
7 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (11.76%) Statistics
7 4 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (11.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.76%) Python
4 3 (8.82%) Perl
4 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.88%) ABAP
5 2 (5.88%) Bash
5 2 (5.88%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.94%) Java
6 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.94%) Jython
6 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) Azure Certification
2 5 (14.71%) OCP
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) GDPR
2 4 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (11.76%) NIST
3 2 (5.88%) COBIT
3 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.94%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (2.94%) Docker
4 1 (2.94%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.94%) NDS
4 1 (2.94%) NetIQ eDirectory
4 1 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (17.65%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (8.82%) Data Guard
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (5.88%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (5.88%) systemd
5 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.94%) Ansible
5 1 (2.94%) CA Wily
5 1 (2.94%) Grafana
5 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.94%) Terraform
5 1 (2.94%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 18 (52.94%) Oracle
2 9 (26.47%) Microsoft
3 6 (17.65%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.82%) OpenAI
5 2 (5.88%) Cisco
5 2 (5.88%) IBM
5 2 (5.88%) SAP
6 1 (2.94%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.94%) Confluent
6 1 (2.94%) ESRI
6 1 (2.94%) NetIQ
6 1 (2.94%) OpenText
6 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.94%) VMware
6 1 (2.94%) Wonderware