Performance Optimisation Contracts in Central London

Performance Optimisation
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Performance Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 167 200
Rank change year-on-year +46 +33 -50
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 16 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.66% 0.32% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.35% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £370 £485 £505
25th Percentile £531 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £613
90th Percentile £780 £665 £635
London median daily rate £585 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +16.90% -16.67% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Performance Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,196 3,454 4,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.59% 91.33% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,563 2,340 3,166
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £573
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.80% +9.05%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 +39 14 £581 -3.13% 4
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:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (18.75%) GCP
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) Twilio
5 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (6.25%) npm
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
5 1 (6.25%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) CTI
1 3 (18.75%) VoIP
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Ant
1 1 (6.25%) Babel
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
1 1 (6.25%) webpack
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Retail
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 6 (37.50%) Software Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Quantitative Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Quantitative Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (6.25%) React Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) NumPy
1 3 (18.75%) Pandas
1 3 (18.75%) SciPy
1 3 (18.75%) Web Services
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) CSS3
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) HTML5
3 1 (6.25%) Material-UI
3 1 (6.25%) MobX
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) Redux
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Semantic UI
3 1 (6.25%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Derivative
2 3 (18.75%) IVR
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
2 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Quantitative Trading
4 3 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Customer Experience
5 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 2 (12.50%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) C++
3 3 (18.75%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) Rust
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 2 (12.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Nagios
1 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Genesys
3 2 (12.50%) Avaya
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
3 2 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) VMware