Performance Tuning Contracts in Berkshire

Performance Tuning
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning 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 62 65 92
Rank change year-on-year +3 +27 +19
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 31 59 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.64% 2.97% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 3.34% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 49 19
10th Percentile £338 £463 -
25th Percentile £450 £482 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £606 £605 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% +16.35% -13.33%
75th Percentile £666 £688 £588
90th Percentile £694 - £600
South East median daily rate £482 £605 £525
% change year-on-year -20.33% +15.24% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% - -
75th Percentile £65.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £75.00
% change year-on-year +3.48% -17.87% +50.00%

All Process and 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 1,096 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 Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Berkshire

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Berkshire

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Berkshire

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Berkshire

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 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
Wokingham -5 10 £400 -18.20% 2
Reading -4 8 £650 +4.00% 14
Bracknell - 7 £591 - 3
Performance Tuning
South East

Performance Tuning
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 4 (12.90%) Apache
2 2 (6.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (41.94%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) GCP
4 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 2 (6.45%) Azure AKS
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Storage
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Table
5 2 (6.45%) Miro
5 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.23%) IaaS
6 1 (3.23%) PaaS
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) DHCP
1 4 (12.90%) DNS
1 4 (12.90%) FTP
1 4 (12.90%) SMTP
1 4 (12.90%) Telnet
2 3 (9.68%) tcpdump
3 1 (3.23%) IPFIX
3 1 (3.23%) Network Security
3 1 (3.23%) SSL
3 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (32.26%) Oracle Database
2 9 (29.03%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (19.35%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
5 3 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (9.68%) Power BI
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (3.23%) MySQL
7 1 (3.23%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) DBeaver
1 2 (6.45%) GitLab
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (6.45%) Military
2 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Administrator
1 7 (22.58%) Architect
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) DBA
4 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Data Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (9.68%) Senior DBA
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Architect
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Data Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (6.45%) Site Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) SQL DBA
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle SQL Server DBA
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Oracle SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) LDAP
2 2 (6.45%) .NET
2 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.45%) ADO
2 2 (6.45%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.23%) Jinja
3 1 (3.23%) JSON
3 1 (3.23%) NETCONF
3 1 (3.23%) RESTCONF
3 1 (3.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
1 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (12.90%) Windows
4 2 (6.45%) Unix
4 2 (6.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Migration
2 12 (38.71%) Data Migration
3 10 (32.26%) DevOps
4 8 (25.81%) Performance Monitoring
5 6 (19.35%) Clean Code
5 6 (19.35%) CRUD
5 6 (19.35%) Prototyping
5 6 (19.35%) Secure Coding
5 6 (19.35%) Software Testing
5 6 (19.35%) Unit Testing
6 5 (16.13%) Analytics
6 5 (16.13%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (16.13%) Software Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Data Modelling
7 4 (12.90%) ETL
7 4 (12.90%) High Availability
7 4 (12.90%) Process Improvement
7 4 (12.90%) Strategic Planning
7 4 (12.90%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) SQL
2 7 (22.58%) PL/SQL
2 7 (22.58%) Python
3 3 (9.68%) Bash
4 2 (6.45%) Bicep
4 2 (6.45%) C#
4 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.23%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) R
5 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.23%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 20 (64.52%) Security Cleared
2 13 (41.94%) SC Cleared
3 7 (22.58%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.23%) CCNP
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.23%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) SLA
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) NFS
1 4 (12.90%) Samba
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) Ansible
2 4 (12.90%) yum
3 2 (6.45%) BMC PATROL
3 2 (6.45%) Data Guard
3 2 (6.45%) Grafana
3 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.45%) Terraform
4 1 (3.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 16 (51.61%) Oracle
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.90%) VMware
4 3 (9.68%) HP
5 2 (6.45%) BMC
5 2 (6.45%) Google
5 2 (6.45%) Splunk
6 1 (3.23%) Cisco
6 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
6 1 (3.23%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.23%) IBM
6 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto