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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 68 47
Rank change year-on-year -34 -21 +35
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 16 27 70
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.89% 2.21% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 2.45% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 47
10th Percentile £428 £408 £455
25th Percentile £450 £428 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £605
Median % change year-on-year -4.77% -9.09% +0.83%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £660
90th Percentile £761 £660 £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 - - -12.00%

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 1,503 1,103 1,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 83.18% 90.41% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 889 695 753
10th Percentile £350 £317 £325
25th Percentile £447 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £650 £689
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £509
% change year-on-year +5.00% -1.82% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 48 64
10th Percentile £16.38 £14.75 £19.32
25th Percentile £35.00 £17.45 £41.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £37.28 £60.53
Median % change year-on-year +114.59% -38.41% -1.18%
75th Percentile £91.31 £64.06 £64.73
90th Percentile £104.00 £82.18 £75.35
South East median hourly rate £46.30 £21.25 £59.25
% change year-on-year +117.88% -64.13% +9.85%

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 October 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 October 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 -33 10 £588 -2.08% 6
Wokingham -5 4 £450 +2.86% 3
Bracknell -5 1 - -
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 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (6.25%) CICS
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (6.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) DKIM
1 3 (18.75%) DMARC
1 3 (18.75%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle Database
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database 11g
3 3 (18.75%) Oracle Database 12c
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (6.25%) Power BI
5 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) IBM UrbanCode
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Military
5 1 (6.25%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) DBA
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (18.75%) Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared DBA
4 2 (12.50%) SQL DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
5 1 (6.25%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Web Applications Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Web Applications Support
5 1 (6.25%) Web Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) ISPF
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 6 (37.50%) Unix
3 1 (6.25%) Solaris
3 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Database Security
1 5 (31.25%) High Availability
2 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (18.75%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Optimisation
3 3 (18.75%) Security Hardening
3 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
3 3 (18.75%) SIEM
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (18.75%) Threat Analysis
3 3 (18.75%) Threat Detection
3 3 (18.75%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) PL/SQL
4 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.25%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) COBOL
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) JCL
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) RACF
2 1 (6.25%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (31.25%) Data Guard
3 3 (18.75%) QRadar
4 1 (6.25%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Proofpoint
3 3 (18.75%) Splunk
4 2 (12.50%) Databricks
5 1 (6.25%) Broadcom
5 1 (6.25%) IBM
5 1 (6.25%) Remedy