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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 74 40
Rank change year-on-year -27 -34 +51
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 26 23 80
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.35% 1.92% 4.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 2.08% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 58
10th Percentile £300 £340 £454
25th Percentile £400 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +2.61%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £608
90th Percentile £693 £670 £663
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +7.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £59.62
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £61.60
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £37.48 - £61.60
% change year-on-year - - -16.47%

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 1,589 1,108 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 82.25% 92.26% 85.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 682 791
10th Percentile £335 £350 £319
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -7.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £733 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £517
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.34% -0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 41 80
10th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £16.75
25th Percentile £71.00 £17.30 £41.25
Median hourly rate £83.00 £32.05 £61.33
Median % change year-on-year +158.97% -47.74% +7.81%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.75 £70.73
90th Percentile £104.00 £87.50 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £57.00 £21.32 £57.35
% change year-on-year +167.35% -62.82% +14.70%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -18 13 £563 -6.25% 2
Wokingham -14 7 £555 +23.33% 1
Bracknell -3 3 - -
Windsor - 1 £225 -
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 2 (7.69%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (7.69%) WebSphere
1 2 (7.69%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (7.69%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) Entra ID
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
4 2 (7.69%) Power Automate
4 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) DNS
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) DHCP
2 2 (7.69%) HTTP
2 2 (7.69%) LAN
2 2 (7.69%) NAS
2 2 (7.69%) SAN
2 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
2 2 (7.69%) SSL
2 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Oracle Database
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle Database 11g
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle Database 12c
3 3 (11.54%) MySQL
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 3 (11.54%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (7.69%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database 10g
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.69%) Vitess
5 1 (3.85%) Metadata
5 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.85%) Power BI
5 1 (3.85%) Redis
5 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.85%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.85%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) GitLab
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Introscope
2 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Military
4 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) DBA
2 6 (23.08%) Oracle DBA
3 5 (19.23%) Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Administrator
4 4 (15.38%) Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Platform Architect
5 3 (11.54%) SQL DBA
6 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared DBA
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Middleware Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Middleware Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Oracle Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared DBA
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Web Applications Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Web Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (7.69%) JDBC
2 2 (7.69%) JMS
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (7.69%) Middleware
2 2 (7.69%) OAuth
2 2 (7.69%) PySpark
2 2 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (7.69%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (3.85%) Celery
3 1 (3.85%) FastAPI
3 1 (3.85%) Flask
3 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.85%) JSON
3 1 (3.85%) JWT
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
3 1 (3.85%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Replication
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.69%) Clustering
2 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.69%) Life Science
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.85%) SCADA
3 1 (3.85%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Linux
2 9 (34.62%) Unix
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (7.69%) Windows
4 1 (3.85%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (26.92%) High Availability
2 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
2 6 (23.08%) DevOps
2 6 (23.08%) ITIL
2 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
3 5 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (19.23%) Security Hardening
4 4 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (15.38%) Migration
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (11.54%) Agile
5 3 (11.54%) Analytics
5 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (11.54%) Database Security
5 3 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (11.54%) Security Management
6 2 (7.69%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 5 (19.23%) PL/SQL
2 5 (19.23%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) Bash
4 2 (7.69%) Jython
4 2 (7.69%) Perl
4 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.85%) OCP
4 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) NIST
2 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.85%) COBIT
4 1 (3.85%) GDPR
4 1 (3.85%) NIST 800
4 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (19.23%) Data Guard
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) CA Wily
3 2 (7.69%) Grafana
3 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.69%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.69%) AppDynamics
4 2 (7.69%) Databricks
4 2 (7.69%) IBM
4 2 (7.69%) VMware
5 1 (3.85%) Remedy
5 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.85%) Wonderware