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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 54 87
Rank change year-on-year -32 +33 +20
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 22 48 37
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.49% 3.44% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 3.78% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 30 34
10th Percentile £410 £482 £575
25th Percentile £436 £619 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +20.19%
75th Percentile £588 £663 £688
90th Percentile £634 £676 £714
South East median daily rate £472 £638 £625
% change year-on-year -25.96% +2.00% +19.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £63.75 -
South East median hourly rate - £63.75 -

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 1,279 1,271 1,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.65% 91.18% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 869 705 926
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £515
% change year-on-year -2.01% -0.92% +1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 35 66
10th Percentile £14.75 £26.85 £27.50
25th Percentile £19.38 £41.88 £48.73
Median hourly rate £56.50 £59.00 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year -4.24% -4.29% +12.08%
75th Percentile £81.75 £64.73 £67.50
90th Percentile £98.25 £71.72 £77.94
South East median hourly rate £23.00 £43.94 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.66% -20.11% +28.87%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -4 11 £550 -15.38%
Bracknell -2 6 £423 -12.16%
Wokingham -34 2 £500 +11.11% 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 2 (9.09%) Confluence
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
1 2 (9.09%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.55%) CMS
2 1 (4.55%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
2 9 (40.91%) Serverless
3 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 8 (36.36%) OCI
4 6 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Functions
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Storage
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (9.09%) Power Automate
7 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 2 (9.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Unified Communications
1 2 (9.09%) WebEx
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) HTTP
2 1 (4.55%) SSL
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (31.82%) NoSQL
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (27.27%) Couchbase
4 5 (22.73%) Oracle Database
4 5 (22.73%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (9.09%) Oracle BI EE
5 2 (9.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (9.09%) Power BI
5 2 (9.09%) SAP HANA
5 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.55%) MySQL
6 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) DBA
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle DBA
2 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) ABAP Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco Administrator
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Platform Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Power Platform Architect
4 2 (9.09%) SAP Developer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Database Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Umbraco Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) ADO
2 2 (9.09%) BAPI
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (9.09%) SAP Smart Forms
2 2 (9.09%) Web Services
3 1 (4.55%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Replication
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Client/Server
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (45.45%) Linux
2 8 (36.36%) Unix
3 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) High Availability
2 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (27.27%) Security Patching
3 6 (27.27%) Task Automation
4 5 (22.73%) Data Modelling
4 5 (22.73%) DevOps
4 5 (22.73%) Runbook
5 4 (18.18%) Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (13.64%) Database Tuning
6 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (13.64%) Statistics
7 2 (9.09%) ERP
7 2 (9.09%) Identity Management
7 2 (9.09%) OOP
7 2 (9.09%) SOA
7 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (9.09%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) SQL
2 8 (36.36%) Shell Script
3 7 (31.82%) Python
4 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.09%) ABAP
5 2 (9.09%) Perl
5 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.55%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 4 (18.18%) OCP
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle Certification
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
4 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) GDPR
2 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (4.55%) Docker
3 1 (4.55%) NDS
3 1 (4.55%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (13.64%) Data Guard
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (9.09%) systemd
5 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) Confluent
2 6 (27.27%) IBM
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.09%) Cisco
5 2 (9.09%) OpenAI
5 2 (9.09%) SAP
6 1 (4.55%) NetIQ
6 1 (4.55%) OpenText