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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 51 90
Rank change year-on-year -26 +39 +29
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 25 62 31
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.88% 3.83% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 4.31% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 41 24
10th Percentile £410 £455 £533
25th Percentile £458 £500 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £625
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.20% +4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £663
90th Percentile £628 - £725
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
South East median hourly rate - £61.60 £67.50
% change year-on-year - -8.74% +12.50%

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 1,187 1,437 1,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.45% 88.87% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 775 981
10th Percentile £325 £327 £240
25th Percentile £422 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £505
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +6.93% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 55 70
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.93 £18.95
25th Percentile £16.72 £41.88 £46.01
Median hourly rate £27.50 £58.49 £61.72
Median % change year-on-year -52.98% -5.23% +23.44%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.42 £72.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.19 £77.27
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +40.00%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 -3 14 £575 -10.16% 7
Bracknell - 6 £423 -
Wokingham -25 2 £550 +14.11%
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 3 (12.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (12.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.00%) Anypoint
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) OCI
2 8 (32.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Serverless
3 6 (24.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (24.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (20.00%) Azure
5 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (8.00%) OneDrive
6 2 (8.00%) Slack
7 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Table
7 1 (4.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Unified Communications
1 2 (8.00%) WebEx
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) HTTP
2 1 (4.00%) SSL
2 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (28.00%) NoSQL
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle Reports
2 6 (24.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 6 (24.00%) Couchbase
3 3 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.00%) MySQL
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.00%) Power BI
5 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Automotive
2 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Developer
2 7 (28.00%) Oracle Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Data Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Report Developer
6 3 (12.00%) DBA
6 3 (12.00%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (8.00%) Administrator
7 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Cisco Administrator
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Lead
8 1 (4.00%) Senior
8 1 (4.00%) Site Engineer
8 1 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Kafka
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
3 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.00%) ADO
3 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (4.00%) BAPI
3 1 (4.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.00%) RAML
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.00%) SAP Smart Forms
3 1 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Replication
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Unix
2 7 (28.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (32.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (28.00%) High Availability
3 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (24.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) Security Patching
5 5 (20.00%) Information Security
5 5 (20.00%) Information Security Management
5 5 (20.00%) Security Management
6 4 (16.00%) Database Tuning
6 4 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (16.00%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (16.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (16.00%) Task Automation
7 3 (12.00%) Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (12.00%) Identity Management
7 3 (12.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) SQL
2 8 (32.00%) Python
3 5 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.00%) Perl
4 3 (12.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (8.00%) Bash
5 2 (8.00%) C#
5 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) ABAP
6 1 (4.00%) Bicep
6 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.00%) OCP
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (20.00%) COBIT
2 5 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) NDS
2 1 (4.00%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.00%) Grafana
4 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Oracle
2 6 (24.00%) Confluent
2 6 (24.00%) IBM
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) Databricks
5 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.00%) NetIQ
5 1 (4.00%) OpenText
5 1 (4.00%) SAP