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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 41 85
Rank change year-on-year -31 +44 +30
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 24 76 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.04% 4.44% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 5.11% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 53 21
10th Percentile £405 £455 £525
25th Percentile £412 £482 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% +5.22% -2.13%
75th Percentile £625 £660 £625
90th Percentile £675 £663 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -7.56%
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% +56.76%

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 1,075 1,487 1,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.41% 86.96% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 670 771 1,021
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £693 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 74 62
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.79 £18.50
25th Percentile £16.66 £49.98 £48.40
Median hourly rate £32.18 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +2.67% +97.08%
75th Percentile £59.44 £72.18 £72.25
90th Percentile £87.28 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £20.75 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -63.82% +9.24% +61.54%

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
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 September 2025.

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 September 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 -10 10 £600 -5.88% 3
Bracknell - 8 £425 - 1
Wokingham -17 5 £438 -7.70% 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 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (12.50%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.17%) Anypoint
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) CMS
2 1 (4.17%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) OCI
2 7 (29.17%) Serverless
3 6 (25.00%) AWS
3 6 (25.00%) Azure
4 5 (20.83%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Storage
6 3 (12.50%) Azure Table
6 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (12.50%) Power Automate
6 3 (12.50%) Power Platform
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Functions
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DHCP
1 1 (4.17%) DNS
1 1 (4.17%) FTP
1 1 (4.17%) IPFIX
1 1 (4.17%) Network Security
1 1 (4.17%) SMTP
1 1 (4.17%) SSL
1 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.17%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (20.83%) Couchbase
1 5 (20.83%) NoSQL
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (12.50%) Power BI
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.17%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.17%) MySQL
5 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) Git
General
1 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle Developer
2 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Report Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) DBA
4 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
4 3 (12.50%) Site Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Architect
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Kafka
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (16.67%) .NET
4 3 (12.50%) .NET Core
4 3 (12.50%) ADO
4 3 (12.50%) ARM Templates
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.17%) RAML
5 1 (4.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Replication
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
1 8 (33.33%) Unix
2 2 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.33%) VMS
3 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (29.17%) High Availability
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (20.83%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Information Security
4 5 (20.83%) Information Security Management
4 5 (20.83%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Security Management
4 5 (20.83%) Security Patching
4 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (12.50%) Identity Management
6 3 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
6 3 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) Python
3 6 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (16.67%) C#
5 3 (12.50%) Bash
5 3 (12.50%) Bicep
5 3 (12.50%) Perl
5 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
5 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) COBIT
1 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (20.83%) NIST
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.17%) NFS
2 1 (4.17%) Samba
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Terraform
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (12.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 3 (12.50%) Grafana
3 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.33%) Data Guard
5 1 (4.17%) Ansible
5 1 (4.17%) QRadar
5 1 (4.17%) yum
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Oracle
2 5 (20.83%) Confluent
2 5 (20.83%) IBM
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.33%) Splunk
5 1 (4.17%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto