Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Performance Optimisation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 87 98
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +61
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 42 35 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.80% 1.91% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.02% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 22 10
10th Percentile £396 £400 £531
25th Percentile £425 £435 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £525 £663
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -20.75% +10.42%
75th Percentile £725 £714 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £753
Central London median daily rate £630 £525 £693
% change year-on-year +20.00% -24.24% +14.98%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,052 1,730 1,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.77% 94.23% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 1,136 1,255
10th Percentile £379 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 16
10th Percentile - £17.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.21 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% +5.73% -3.18%
75th Percentile £35.14 £50.25 £82.19
90th Percentile £61.25 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £28.79 £26.78
% change year-on-year -14.38% +7.49% -23.49%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in the City of London

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the City of London

Performance Optimisation
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (9.52%) Apache Spark
3 3 (7.14%) Apache
4 2 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.38%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.38%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.38%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (33.33%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) Power Platform
3 9 (21.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (19.05%) AWS
5 7 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (11.90%) GCP
6 5 (11.90%) Serverless
7 4 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (9.52%) dbt
7 4 (9.52%) GitHub
7 4 (9.52%) SaaS
8 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
8 3 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (7.14%) Azure Stack
8 3 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.38%) AtomSphere
10 1 (2.38%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) Power BI
2 8 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (9.52%) Data Mart
3 4 (9.52%) Metadata
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle Database
3 4 (9.52%) Semantic Layer
3 4 (9.52%) Star Schema
4 3 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 3 (7.14%) Data Hub
4 3 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 3 (7.14%) Delta Lake
4 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.76%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
2 2 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (4.76%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.38%) JMeter
3 1 (2.38%) Vite
General
1 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Banking
4 7 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.52%) Retail
6 2 (4.76%) Front Office
6 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.38%) Marketing
7 1 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Data Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Lead
4 4 (9.52%) Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Lead Data Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
6 2 (4.76%) Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.76%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Power BI Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.38%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) E-Commerce Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) PySpark
2 5 (11.90%) React
2 5 (11.90%) REST
3 4 (9.52%) Kafka
4 3 (7.14%) Middleware
4 3 (7.14%) SOAP
4 3 (7.14%) Spring
4 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 3 (7.14%) Terraform
5 2 (4.76%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.76%) JSON
5 2 (4.76%) Next.js
5 2 (4.76%) Node.js
5 2 (4.76%) OAuth
5 2 (4.76%) RESTful
5 2 (4.76%) SAML
6 1 (2.38%) JWT
6 1 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.38%) OpenID
6 1 (2.38%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.90%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.38%) CMDB
5 1 (2.38%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.38%) Derivative
5 1 (2.38%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (2.38%) Exotic Derivative
5 1 (2.38%) Fixed Income
5 1 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) IoT
5 1 (2.38%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.38%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Android
2 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.38%) Unix
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 20 (47.62%) DevOps
3 19 (45.24%) Data Modelling
4 18 (42.86%) Analytics
5 14 (33.33%) Data Engineering
6 12 (28.57%) Agile
6 12 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (21.43%) Data Governance
9 8 (19.05%) Data Architecture
9 8 (19.05%) ETL
9 8 (19.05%) Integration Patterns
9 8 (19.05%) Migration
9 8 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
10 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven
10 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (50.00%) SQL
2 19 (45.24%) Python
3 7 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (14.29%) Java
5 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.14%) Scala
6 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.76%) Korn
7 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.76%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.76%) XMLA
8 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.38%) C++
8 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.38%) SOQL
8 1 (2.38%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) DBS Check
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) CISM
4 1 (2.38%) CISSP
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.38%) PSD2
2 1 (2.38%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 3 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) UAG
2 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Bosun
2 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 10 (23.81%) Databricks
3 7 (16.67%) Oracle
4 4 (9.52%) Google
4 4 (9.52%) SAP
5 3 (7.14%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.76%) MuleSoft
6 2 (4.76%) New Relic
6 2 (4.76%) Workday
7 1 (2.38%) Apple
7 1 (2.38%) BMC
7 1 (2.38%) Klarna
7 1 (2.38%) Murex
7 1 (2.38%) PayPal
7 1 (2.38%) Remedy
7 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.38%) TikTok
7 1 (2.38%) VMware