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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 69 43
Rank change year-on-year -29 -26 +45
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 18 25 76
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.99% 2.12% 4.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 2.31% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 53
10th Percentile £319 £370 £455
25th Percentile £425 £410 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £575 £605
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -4.96% +5.22%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £660
90th Percentile £775 £670 £663
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +9.09%
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 £38.25 - £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 1,482 1,082 1,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 81.83% 91.54% 87.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 667 775
10th Percentile £350 £334 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £511 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% -7.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £733 £663 £696
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 41 75
10th Percentile £16.81 £14.75 £19.93
25th Percentile £35.22 £17.30 £47.56
Median hourly rate £81.50 £32.31 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +152.24% -47.55% +2.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £62.24 £72.04
90th Percentile £104.50 £87.25 £87.46
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £22.07 £57.35
% change year-on-year +137.54% -61.52% +9.24%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -24 9 £588 -2.08% 4
Wokingham -13 4 £425 -2.86% 2
Bracknell -5 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 (11.11%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere Portal
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (5.56%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) DNS
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) DHCP
2 2 (11.11%) DKIM
2 2 (11.11%) DMARC
2 2 (11.11%) HTTP
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
2 2 (11.11%) NAS
2 2 (11.11%) SAN
2 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 2 (11.11%) SMTP
2 2 (11.11%) SSL
2 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle Database
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (11.11%) MySQL
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (5.56%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.56%) Power BI
5 1 (5.56%) Redis
5 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.56%) Spark SQL
5 1 (5.56%) SQLite
5 1 (5.56%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) GitLab
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Introscope
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) DBA
2 5 (27.78%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (16.67%) Administrator
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) DV Cleared DBA
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Middleware Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Middleware Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Support Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Web Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Web Applications Support
5 1 (5.56%) Web Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) JDBC
1 2 (11.11%) JMS
1 2 (11.11%) Kafka
1 2 (11.11%) Middleware
1 2 (11.11%) PySpark
1 2 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (5.56%) Celery
2 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
2 1 (5.56%) Flask
2 1 (5.56%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) JWT
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth
2 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
2 1 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (11.11%) Clustering
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.56%) Life Science
2 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Linux
2 8 (44.44%) Unix
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 2 (11.11%) Windows
4 1 (5.56%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) High Availability
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (16.67%) Database Security
4 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (16.67%) Migration
4 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (16.67%) Security Hardening
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
5 2 (11.11%) Load Balancing
5 2 (11.11%) Security Architecture
5 2 (11.11%) Security Management
5 2 (11.11%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) SQL
2 7 (38.89%) Python
3 5 (27.78%) PL/SQL
4 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 3 (16.67%) Bash
6 2 (11.11%) Jython
6 2 (11.11%) Perl
7 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.11%) Degree
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
5 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (27.78%) Data Guard
3 2 (11.11%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) CA Wily
3 2 (11.11%) QRadar
3 2 (11.11%) Tivoli
4 1 (5.56%) Grafana
4 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) AppDynamics
2 2 (11.11%) Databricks
2 2 (11.11%) IBM
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Proofpoint
2 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.11%) Splunk
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Remedy
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow