Performance Optimisation Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Performance Optimisation
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.72% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £413 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £531 - -
90th Percentile £558 - -
East of England median daily rate £450 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Performance Optimisation 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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 410 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.41% 82.83% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 148 284
10th Percentile £296 £200 £200
25th Percentile £402 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £550 £553 £536
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 194 150
10th Percentile £14.86 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £22.93 £52.25 £22.06
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Cambridgeshire

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Cambridgeshire

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in Cambridgeshire

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cambridge - 2 £475 - 11
Performance Optimisation
East of England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PCIe
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Memory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) KVM
1 1 (50.00%) QEMU
1 1 (50.00%) Xen