Performance Tuning Contracts in Central London

Performance Tuning
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning 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 98 127 133
Rank change year-on-year +29 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 31 6 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.55% 0.25% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 0.27% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 24
10th Percentile £400 £469 £463
25th Percentile £422 £497 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £645
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% -16.67% -5.02%
75th Percentile £672 £584 £738
90th Percentile £762 £646 £750
London median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Central London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Central London

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in Central London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Central London

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the Central London 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
City of London +33 31 £515 -4.28% 10
Performance Tuning
London

Performance Tuning
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 6 (19.35%) Apache
1 6 (19.35%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.68%) Confluence
3 2 (6.45%) IIS
4 1 (3.23%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.23%) SAP Convergent Charging
2 1 (3.23%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) IaaS
3 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.23%) Datadog
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.23%) Multicast
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) Big Data
2 5 (16.13%) Hadoop
2 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
3 4 (12.90%) MySQL
4 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database
4 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (6.45%) Power BI
5 2 (6.45%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (6.45%) Spotfire
6 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (3.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git
2 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.90%) JIRA
4 3 (9.68%) GitLab
5 2 (6.45%) JMeter
5 2 (6.45%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.23%) LoadRunner
6 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (41.94%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.45%) Front Office
6 1 (3.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Apache Spark Developer
4 4 (12.90%) DBA
5 3 (9.68%) Administrator
5 3 (9.68%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) C++ Developer
6 2 (6.45%) C++ Quantitative Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Database Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Test Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) OpenVMS Administrator
7 1 (3.23%) SAP Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Senior DBA
7 1 (3.23%) Senior SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Spark Streaming
2 3 (9.68%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (6.45%) WebSockets
4 1 (3.23%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (3.23%) Android SDK
4 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.23%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (3.23%) ONNX
4 1 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) RESTful
4 1 (3.23%) SAP Basis
4 1 (3.23%) SAP BSP
4 1 (3.23%) SOAP
4 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (16.13%) Market Risk
3 3 (9.68%) Replication
4 2 (6.45%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.23%) Clustering
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.23%) OpenVMS
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (29.03%) Agile
2 9 (29.03%) Analytics
2 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
3 8 (25.81%) Risk Management
4 7 (22.58%) Code Quality
4 7 (22.58%) Stress Testing
5 6 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (19.35%) Regulatory Compliance
6 5 (16.13%) Batch Processing
6 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (16.13%) Greeks
6 5 (16.13%) High Availability
6 5 (16.13%) Mathematics
6 5 (16.13%) Memory Management
6 5 (16.13%) Migration
6 5 (16.13%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (16.13%) Risk Analytics
7 4 (12.90%) Data Modelling
7 4 (12.90%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Python
2 10 (32.26%) Java
3 9 (29.03%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) C++
5 2 (6.45%) Bash
5 2 (6.45%) Groovy
6 1 (3.23%) ABAP
6 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) PhD
3 1 (3.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Ansible
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) SAP
2 3 (9.68%) Databricks
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.23%) HP
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) Teradata