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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 119 138
Rank change year-on-year +28 +19 +6
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 43 16 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.10% 0.68% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 0.74% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 10 15
10th Percentile £400 £329 £440
25th Percentile £481 £411 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £487 £625
Median % change year-on-year +23.27% -22.12% -13.79%
75th Percentile £675 £538 £736
90th Percentile £760 £591 £750
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
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 1,921 2,156 3,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.71% 91.43% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 1,492 2,251
10th Percentile £337 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £713
90th Percentile £775 £797 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 24
10th Percentile £22.08 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.84 £16.33
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.41 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -13.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.75 £53.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £33.55 £41.50
% change year-on-year -10.58% -19.16% +16.08%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +36 43 £600 +23.27% 12
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 (13.95%) Apache
1 6 (13.95%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.98%) Confluence
3 2 (4.65%) IIS
4 1 (2.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 4 (9.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (4.65%) SAP MDG
2 2 (4.65%) SAP PLM
2 2 (4.65%) SAP VC
3 1 (2.33%) SAP Convergent Charging
3 1 (2.33%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (16.28%) Azure
2 6 (13.95%) AWS
3 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (6.98%) GitHub
4 3 (6.98%) IaaS
5 2 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.65%) SaaS
6 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.33%) Azure Table
6 1 (2.33%) Datadog
6 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.33%) PaaS
6 1 (2.33%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) HTTP
2 1 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (2.33%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.33%) Firewall
2 1 (2.33%) Multicast
2 1 (2.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Big Data
1 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.63%) Hadoop
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle Database
2 5 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.63%) Power BI
3 4 (9.30%) MySQL
4 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.65%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle Exadata
5 2 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (4.65%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (4.65%) Spotfire
6 1 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.33%) Metadata
6 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (18.60%) Git
2 6 (13.95%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.63%) JIRA
4 3 (6.98%) GitLab
5 2 (4.65%) JMeter
5 2 (4.65%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.33%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.33%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (41.86%) Finance
2 13 (30.23%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (23.26%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Front Office
5 4 (9.30%) Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Advertising
6 2 (4.65%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.33%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
7 1 (2.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Developer
2 7 (16.28%) Java Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Apache Spark Developer
3 5 (11.63%) Architect
3 5 (11.63%) DBA
4 4 (9.30%) Administrator
5 3 (6.98%) Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) C++ Developer
6 2 (4.65%) Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Database Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Database Specialist
6 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL DBA
6 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL Specialist
6 2 (4.65%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (4.65%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) SAP PLM Consultant
6 2 (4.65%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.95%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (11.63%) Spark Streaming
3 3 (6.98%) .NET
4 2 (4.65%) WebSockets
5 1 (2.33%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.33%) ADO
5 1 (2.33%) CSS
5 1 (2.33%) CSS3
5 1 (2.33%) HTML
5 1 (2.33%) HTML5
5 1 (2.33%) LESS
5 1 (2.33%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (2.33%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.33%) React
5 1 (2.33%) REST
5 1 (2.33%) SAP Basis
5 1 (2.33%) SAP BSP
5 1 (2.33%) Sass
5 1 (2.33%) SOAP
5 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (11.63%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (11.63%) Market Risk
3 4 (9.30%) Replication
4 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income
5 2 (4.65%) Clustering
5 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (4.65%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.65%) Windows
3 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.33%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.88%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (30.23%) Agile
3 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
4 9 (20.93%) Analytics
5 8 (18.60%) Regulatory Compliance
5 8 (18.60%) Risk Management
6 7 (16.28%) High Availability
6 7 (16.28%) Stress Testing
7 6 (13.95%) Code Quality
7 6 (13.95%) Data Modelling
7 6 (13.95%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (13.95%) Migration
8 5 (11.63%) Batch Processing
8 5 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (11.63%) Greeks
8 5 (11.63%) Low Latency
8 5 (11.63%) Mathematics
8 5 (11.63%) Memory Management
8 5 (11.63%) Risk Analytics
8 5 (11.63%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) Python
2 13 (30.23%) SQL
3 10 (23.26%) Java
4 5 (11.63%) C++
5 4 (9.30%) Bash
6 3 (6.98%) ABAP
6 3 (6.98%) C#
7 2 (4.65%) AWK
7 2 (4.65%) Groovy
7 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.65%) sed
8 1 (2.33%) Bicep
8 1 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
2 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.65%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (4.65%) PCI DSS
1 2 (4.65%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) GPFS
2 2 (4.65%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (11.63%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 4 (9.30%) Terraform
3 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.65%) Ansible
4 2 (4.65%) Grafana
4 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) Istio
5 1 (2.33%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) SAP
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) Databricks
4 2 (4.65%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.65%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.33%) HP
5 1 (2.33%) Pega
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Teradata