Performance Optimisation Contracts in Central London

Performance Optimisation
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 115 162
Rank change year-on-year +11 +47 +32
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 22 17 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.15% 0.71% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.78% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 3
10th Percentile £400 £370 £485
25th Percentile £425 £531 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.36% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £719 £750 £650
90th Percentile £800 £780 £665
London median daily rate £523 £597 £500
% change year-on-year -12.35% +19.40% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,781 2,181 3,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.29% 90.69% 91.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,549 2,321
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.36% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £679 £680 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
London median daily rate £550 £550 £595
% change year-on-year - -7.56% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 29
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.22 £15.05
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.63 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.97 £28.98 £53.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £37.34
% change year-on-year +22.26% -25.52% +2.55%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Central London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Central London

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Central London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in Central London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Central London

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 22 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
City of London +14 22 £504 -13.29% 8
Performance Optimisation
London

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) SAS
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon Cognito
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon EventBridge
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Step Functions
2 3 (13.64%) Datadog
2 3 (13.64%) GCP
2 3 (13.64%) Serverless
3 2 (9.09%) Apple Pay
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (9.09%) Google Compute Engine
3 2 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.55%) Azure
4 1 (4.55%) Figma
4 1 (4.55%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) DynamoDB
1 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.09%) Big Data
2 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.09%) MySQL
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Base SAS
3 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Storybook
2 1 (4.55%) Vite
2 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Banking
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Front Office
3 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Android Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Database Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) iOS Android Developer
4 2 (9.09%) iOS Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Design Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Web Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Java Pricing Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Pricing Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) GraphQL
2 3 (13.64%) AngularJS
2 3 (13.64%) CSS
2 3 (13.64%) HTML
2 3 (13.64%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (13.64%) WebSockets
3 2 (9.09%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (9.09%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (9.09%) React
3 2 (9.09%) RESTful
3 2 (9.09%) Spring
3 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
4 1 (4.55%) Celery
4 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.55%) Redux
4 1 (4.55%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Android
2 2 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 2 (9.09%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) CI/CD
2 10 (45.45%) Agile
3 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven
4 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 5 (22.73%) Kanban
5 5 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (22.73%) Scrum
6 4 (18.18%) Android Development
6 4 (18.18%) API Development
6 4 (18.18%) B2C
6 4 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 4 (18.18%) Mobile Application Development
6 4 (18.18%) Mobile Development
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Push Notifications
6 4 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (18.18%) User Experience
7 3 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (13.64%) Security Patching
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) Kotlin
4 3 (13.64%) C++
4 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Swift
6 1 (4.55%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) PROC SQL
6 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) RHCE
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Terraform
2 4 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Google
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Apple
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) SAP