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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 48 93
Rank change year-on-year -20 +45 +32
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 26 75 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.17% 3.80% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 4.38% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 55 18
10th Percentile £338 £455 £485
25th Percentile £450 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +5.45% -12.00%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
South East median hourly rate - £61.60 £72.50
% change year-on-year - -15.03% +52.63%

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 1,116 1,713 1,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 93.16% 86.78% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 852 1,049
10th Percentile £325 £270 £336
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £716
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 112 56
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.60 £18.00
25th Percentile £22.52 £41.25 £24.13
Median hourly rate £51.00 £60.53 £59.38
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +1.94% +182.74%
75th Percentile £76.35 £71.89 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.60 £87.46 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% - +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 6 July 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 6 July 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
Reading -6 9 £600 -0.83%
Wokingham -15 9 £450 -6.64% 3
Bracknell - 5 £700 - 1
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 3 (11.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (11.54%) WebLogic
2 2 (7.69%) Confluence
3 1 (3.85%) Anypoint
3 1 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) Azure
2 5 (19.23%) GCP
3 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 3 (11.54%) Azure AKS
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Storage
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Table
4 3 (11.54%) OCI
4 3 (11.54%) Power Automate
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (7.69%) Miro
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.85%) IaaS
6 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DHCP
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
1 1 (3.85%) FTP
1 1 (3.85%) IPFIX
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
1 1 (3.85%) SMTP
1 1 (3.85%) SSL
1 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.85%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle Database
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (15.38%) Power BI
4 3 (11.54%) Oracle BI EE
4 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (7.69%) MySQL
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
6 1 (3.85%) Power Query
6 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) DBeaver
1 2 (7.69%) Git
1 2 (7.69%) GitLab
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Automotive
3 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Architect
2 5 (19.23%) DBA
2 5 (19.23%) Oracle Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Oracle DBA
3 4 (15.38%) Report Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Site Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (11.54%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
2 3 (11.54%) ADO
2 3 (11.54%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.85%) Jinja
3 1 (3.85%) JSON
3 1 (3.85%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) NETCONF
3 1 (3.85%) RAML
3 1 (3.85%) RESTCONF
3 1 (3.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
2 4 (15.38%) Windows
3 3 (11.54%) Unix
4 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (30.77%) Data Modelling
3 6 (23.08%) DevOps
4 5 (19.23%) Information Security
4 5 (19.23%) Information Security Management
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
4 5 (19.23%) Security Management
4 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (15.38%) Analytics
5 4 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (15.38%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) High Availability
5 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
5 4 (15.38%) Validation
6 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
6 3 (11.54%) Database Migration
6 3 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (11.54%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) Python
3 4 (15.38%) Bash
4 3 (11.54%) Bicep
4 3 (11.54%) C#
4 3 (11.54%) Perl
4 3 (11.54%) PL/SQL
4 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) R
5 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.85%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
2 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) CCNP
3 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.85%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) COBIT
1 5 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (19.23%) NIST
2 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.85%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (3.85%) NFS
2 1 (3.85%) Samba
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle RMAN
2 3 (11.54%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (11.54%) Grafana
2 3 (11.54%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
2 3 (11.54%) Terraform
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) BMC PATROL
3 2 (7.69%) Data Guard
4 1 (3.85%) QRadar
4 1 (3.85%) yum
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Oracle
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) BMC
3 2 (7.69%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 2 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Databricks
4 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.85%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.85%) IBM
4 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.85%) VMware