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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 70 51
Rank change year-on-year -27 -19 +47
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 31 26 74
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.58% 2.12% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.29% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 54
10th Percentile £319 £338 £455
25th Percentile £500 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £588 £553
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% +6.33% +0.45%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £608
90th Percentile £638 £675 £679
South East median daily rate £548 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +9.50% -13.04% +8.49%
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 £36.71 - £61.60
% change year-on-year - - -15.03%

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 1,643 1,135 1,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.53% 92.65% 86.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,029 692 845
10th Percentile £319 £325 £270
25th Percentile £407 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -4.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 46 107
10th Percentile £31.25 £14.75 £17.30
25th Percentile £74.98 £20.03 £41.38
Median hourly rate £83.79 £49.50 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +69.27% -19.64% +3.75%
75th Percentile £88.00 £74.50 £72.33
90th Percentile £106.30 £88.19 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £24.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +129.17% -52.00% -

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 -19 17 £575 -4.17% 6
Wokingham -23 8 £555 +23.33%
Bracknell +1 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 (6.45%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (6.45%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
1 2 (6.45%) WebSphere
1 2 (6.45%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (6.45%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (3.23%) ArcGIS
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (3.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) Azure
2 5 (16.13%) Entra ID
3 4 (12.90%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Functions
4 3 (9.68%) Power Automate
4 3 (9.68%) PowerApps
4 3 (9.68%) Serverless
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (6.45%) GitHub
5 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
5 2 (6.45%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.23%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) DNS
1 4 (12.90%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) DHCP
2 2 (6.45%) HTTP
2 2 (6.45%) LAN
2 2 (6.45%) NAS
2 2 (6.45%) SAN
2 2 (6.45%) SD-WAN
2 2 (6.45%) SSL
2 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) Oracle Database
2 7 (22.58%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 7 (22.58%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle Database 12c
4 3 (9.68%) MySQL
5 2 (6.45%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database 10g
5 2 (6.45%) Power BI
5 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (6.45%) Vitess
6 1 (3.23%) GIS
6 1 (3.23%) Metadata
6 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.23%) Redis
6 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.23%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) GitLab
1 3 (9.68%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) Introscope
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) DBA
2 8 (25.81%) Developer
3 7 (22.58%) Architect
3 7 (22.58%) Oracle Developer
4 6 (19.35%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (12.90%) Administrator
5 4 (12.90%) Platform Architect
5 4 (12.90%) Report Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior
6 3 (9.68%) SQL DBA
7 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared DBA
7 2 (6.45%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Middleware Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Power Platform Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Middleware Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Applications Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) GIS Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Oracle Specialist
8 1 (3.23%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (9.68%) OAuth
3 2 (6.45%) JDBC
3 2 (6.45%) JMS
3 2 (6.45%) Kafka
3 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (6.45%) Middleware
3 2 (6.45%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (6.45%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (3.23%) Celery
4 1 (3.23%) CSS3
4 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.23%) Flask
4 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.23%) HTML5
4 1 (3.23%) JWT
4 1 (3.23%) PySpark
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) RESTful
4 1 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Replication
2 2 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (6.45%) Clustering
2 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.45%) Life Science
2 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.23%) SCADA
3 1 (3.23%) State Machine
Operating Systems
1 13 (41.94%) Linux
2 9 (29.03%) Unix
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (6.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (6.45%) Windows
4 1 (3.23%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (29.03%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (25.81%) DevOps
3 8 (25.81%) High Availability
4 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
5 6 (19.35%) Deployment Automation
5 6 (19.35%) ITIL
6 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (16.13%) Migration
6 5 (16.13%) Security Hardening
7 4 (12.90%) Data Modelling
7 4 (12.90%) GAP Analysis
7 4 (12.90%) Security Management
7 4 (12.90%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (9.68%) Agile
8 3 (9.68%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (9.68%) Database Security
8 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (9.68%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) SQL
2 5 (16.13%) PL/SQL
2 5 (16.13%) Python
3 3 (9.68%) Bash
3 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.45%) Jython
4 2 (6.45%) Perl
5 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 6 (19.35%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Degree
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.23%) OCP
4 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) NIST
2 4 (12.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.45%) COBIT
4 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.23%) GDPR
4 1 (3.23%) NIST 800
4 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (9.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.45%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.81%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (16.13%) Data Guard
3 2 (6.45%) Ansible
3 2 (6.45%) CA Wily
3 2 (6.45%) Grafana
3 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.45%) Tivoli
4 1 (3.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 17 (54.84%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.45%) AppDynamics
3 2 (6.45%) IBM
3 2 (6.45%) VMware
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) ESRI
4 1 (3.23%) OpenAI
4 1 (3.23%) Remedy
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) Wonderware