Performance Tuning Contracts in Berkshire

Performance Tuning
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Performance Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 86 110
Rank change year-on-year +26 +24 -17
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 62 26 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.20% 1.49% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 1.65% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 20 9
10th Percentile £458 - £422
25th Percentile £474 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% -13.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £681 £588 £675
90th Percentile £688 £600 -
South East median daily rate £600 £525 £528
% change year-on-year +14.29% -0.47% +11.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £61.60 - -
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -17.87% +50.00% -23.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Performance Tuning is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,722 1,576 2,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.90% 90.42% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 1,016 1,328
10th Percentile £213 £350 £275
25th Percentile £375 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £702 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.81% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 48 40
10th Percentile £18.50 £19.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £41.25 £25.72 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £57.82 £21.03
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% +174.99% -0.12%
75th Percentile £71.75 £73.69 £33.13
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.51 £69.46
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Berkshire over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Berkshire

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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 May 2024. 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 +17 44 £615 +11.82% 5
Wokingham +5 6 £485 +2.11%
Newbury - 6 £475 -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 9 (14.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (29.03%) Azure
2 16 (25.81%) AWS
3 14 (22.58%) OCI
4 8 (12.90%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Functions
5 4 (6.45%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.81%) Firewall
2 14 (22.58%) DHCP
2 14 (22.58%) DNS
2 14 (22.58%) SAN
3 2 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (3.23%) LAN
3 2 (3.23%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.23%) VoIP
3 2 (3.23%) WAN
3 2 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (41.94%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (40.32%) Oracle Database
3 16 (25.81%) Oracle Database 11g
4 9 (14.52%) SAP HANA
5 8 (12.90%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (6.45%) Power BI
7 3 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
General
1 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.06%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (1.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (29.03%) Developer
2 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 10 (16.13%) Storage Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Consultant
4 9 (14.52%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 9 (14.52%) SAP Consultant
4 9 (14.52%) SAP Technical Consultant
4 9 (14.52%) Technical Consultant
5 8 (12.90%) Site Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Informatica Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Server Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Database Specialist
7 3 (4.84%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
7 3 (4.84%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.52%) SAP Basis
2 8 (12.90%) Kafka
3 6 (9.68%) SAP Fiori
4 3 (4.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.81%) Data Centre
2 8 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.45%) Smart Meter
4 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (29.03%) Linux
2 17 (27.42%) Windows
3 14 (22.58%) Windows 10
3 14 (22.58%) Windows Server
3 14 (22.58%) Windows Server 2012
3 14 (22.58%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (22.58%) Windows Server 2019
3 14 (22.58%) Windows XP
4 3 (4.84%) Unix
5 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.71%) Software Engineering
2 23 (37.10%) DevOps
2 23 (37.10%) Disaster Recovery
2 23 (37.10%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (33.87%) Architectural Design
4 19 (30.65%) Data Migration
4 19 (30.65%) Migration
5 16 (25.81%) Secure Coding
5 16 (25.81%) Unit Testing
6 15 (24.19%) Clean Code
6 15 (24.19%) Software Testing
7 14 (22.58%) Break/Fix
7 14 (22.58%) Converged Infrastructure
7 14 (22.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (22.58%) ITIL
7 14 (22.58%) Performance Monitoring
7 14 (22.58%) Proactive Monitoring
7 14 (22.58%) Project Management
7 14 (22.58%) Server Management
7 14 (22.58%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.87%) SQL
2 16 (25.81%) PL/SQL
3 14 (22.58%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.23%) Bash
Qualifications
1 49 (79.03%) Security Cleared
2 45 (72.58%) SC Cleared
3 16 (25.81%) DV Cleared
4 15 (24.19%) Degree
5 14 (22.58%) CCNA
5 14 (22.58%) CCNP
5 14 (22.58%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (22.58%) Active Directory
1 14 (22.58%) Hyper-V
1 14 (22.58%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (22.58%) EMC NetWorker
1 14 (22.58%) NetBackup
1 14 (22.58%) SCCM
1 14 (22.58%) SCOM
1 14 (22.58%) vCenter Server
1 14 (22.58%) WSUS
2 8 (12.90%) Argo
2 8 (12.90%) Grafana
2 8 (12.90%) Istio
2 8 (12.90%) Kibana
2 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.90%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (62.90%) Oracle
2 17 (27.42%) Microsoft
3 16 (25.81%) Cisco
3 16 (25.81%) Palo Alto
4 14 (22.58%) 3PAR
4 14 (22.58%) Dell
4 14 (22.58%) EMC
4 14 (22.58%) Extreme Networks
4 14 (22.58%) HP
4 14 (22.58%) Juniper
4 14 (22.58%) Symantec
4 14 (22.58%) Veeam
4 14 (22.58%) VMware
5 9 (14.52%) SAP
6 6 (9.68%) Informatica
7 4 (6.45%) Ab Initio
8 2 (3.23%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.23%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.61%) Kenna