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

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 67 69
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 +26
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 32 27 56
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.79% 2.18% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.34% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 51
10th Percentile £415 £453 £473
25th Percentile £471 £482 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £639 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.92% +2.20% +25.00%
75th Percentile £597 £666 £688
90th Percentile £616 £675 -
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +25.00%
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 1,548 1,153 1,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.82% 93.13% 90.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 644 979
10th Percentile £298 £300 £213
25th Percentile £401 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -2.91%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.74% +0.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 33 98
10th Percentile £19.38 £26.05 £19.82
25th Percentile £51.78 £46.12 £41.56
Median hourly rate £82.25 £61.50 £58.65
Median % change year-on-year +33.75% +4.85% -9.32%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £67.73
90th Percentile £105.65 £84.86 £85.65
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -38.89% +3.85% -3.71%

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 5 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 5 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 +1 18 £575 -11.54% 2
Wokingham -36 6 £500 +25.00% 3
Bracknell -4 4 £425 -11.64% 1
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 (12.50%) 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 11 (34.38%) Azure
2 10 (31.25%) AWS
3 9 (28.13%) Serverless
4 6 (18.75%) OCI
5 5 (15.63%) Azure Functions
5 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
5 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (15.63%) Power Automate
5 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
5 5 (15.63%) PowerApps
6 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Storage
7 3 (9.38%) GitHub
7 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Copilot
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 9 (28.13%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 8 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (18.75%) Oracle Database
5 5 (15.63%) NoSQL
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (12.50%) Couchbase
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%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (3.13%) GIS
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 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Finance
3 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Developer
2 9 (28.13%) Oracle Developer
3 6 (18.75%) DBA
3 6 (18.75%) Oracle DBA
4 5 (15.63%) Architect
4 5 (15.63%) Data Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Administrator
5 4 (12.50%) Platform Architect
5 4 (12.50%) Power Platform Architect
5 4 (12.50%) Report Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) ABAP Developer
7 2 (6.25%) Cisco Administrator
7 2 (6.25%) SAP Developer
8 1 (3.13%) Database Specialist
8 1 (3.13%) Senior DBA
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Oracle DBA
8 1 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.13%) SQL DBA
8 1 (3.13%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (28.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (12.50%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) ADO
3 2 (6.25%) BAPI
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (6.25%) OAuth
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%) REST
4 1 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Replication
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.25%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Life Science
4 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.13%) SCADA
4 1 (3.13%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 7 (21.88%) 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%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (28.13%) DevOps
4 8 (25.00%) High Availability
5 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.88%) Data Modelling
5 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (18.75%) Analytics
6 6 (18.75%) Runbook
6 6 (18.75%) Task Automation
7 5 (15.63%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (12.50%) API Management
8 4 (12.50%) Database Tuning
8 4 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
8 4 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 4 (12.50%) RBAC
8 4 (12.50%) Security Patching
8 4 (12.50%) Statistics
9 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 20 (62.50%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) 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 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 5 (15.63%) Azure Certification
2 5 (15.63%) OCP
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 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%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
1 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
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
2 5 (15.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 4 (12.50%) Terraform
4 3 (9.38%) Data Guard
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 2 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (6.25%) systemd
6 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Oracle
2 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.50%) Confluent
3 4 (12.50%) 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