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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 90 109
Rank change year-on-year -13 +19 +48
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 32 29 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.32% 1.65% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.76% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 6
10th Percentile - £395 £394
25th Percentile £425 £435 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% +9.67%
75th Percentile £675 £759 £638
90th Percentile £736 £800 £694
Central London median daily rate £600 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% +17.92%

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 2,083 1,648 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.76% 93.80% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 1,053 1,355
10th Percentile £364 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 19 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.96 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.21 £20.36
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.83 £52.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £68.75 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.39 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -18.82% +16.86% -20.54%

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 28 June 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 7 (21.88%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (15.63%) Apache Spark
3 4 (12.50%) Apache
4 1 (3.13%) Confluence
4 1 (3.13%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) Power Platform
3 6 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (15.63%) Serverless
5 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (12.50%) GCP
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (9.38%) dbt
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub
6 3 (9.38%) Snowflake
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.25%) Google Analytics
7 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (6.25%) Power Automate
8 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) Power BI
2 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (12.50%) Data Mart
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle Database
4 3 (9.38%) BigQuery
4 3 (9.38%) Delta Lake
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (6.25%) Metadata
5 2 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (6.25%) Spark SQL
5 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.13%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (3.13%) Big Data
6 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) MLflow
2 1 (3.13%) Vite
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Banking
3 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
4 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.25%) Retail
6 1 (3.13%) Front Office
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Data Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Lead
3 4 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Snowflake Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Technical Leader
5 2 (6.25%) Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Product Manager
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Software Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365 Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Kafka Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) PySpark
2 4 (12.50%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (6.25%) React
3 2 (6.25%) REST
3 2 (6.25%) SOAP
3 2 (6.25%) Spring
3 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.13%) J2EE
4 1 (3.13%) JDBC
4 1 (3.13%) LDAP
4 1 (3.13%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
4 1 (3.13%) Next.js
4 1 (3.13%) Pandas
4 1 (3.13%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.13%) SAML
4 1 (3.13%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.13%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 5 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Digital Wallet
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.13%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.13%) IoT
4 1 (3.13%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (3.13%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (53.13%) Analytics
1 17 (53.13%) CI/CD
1 17 (53.13%) Data Modelling
2 16 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 13 (40.63%) DevOps
4 12 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (28.13%) ETL
6 8 (25.00%) AI
7 7 (21.88%) Agile
7 7 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (21.88%) Migration
7 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (18.75%) Data Architecture
8 6 (18.75%) Data Governance
8 6 (18.75%) Decision-Making
9 5 (15.63%) Data Strategy
9 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
9 5 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (12.50%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) SQL
2 16 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) Scala
6 1 (3.13%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.13%) C++
6 1 (3.13%) Korn
6 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.13%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) DBS Check
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) CISM
3 1 (3.13%) CISSP
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.13%) PSD2
2 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Databricks
2 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.75%) Oracle
4 4 (12.50%) Google
5 2 (6.25%) SAP
6 1 (3.13%) Apple
6 1 (3.13%) Foundry
6 1 (3.13%) Klarna
6 1 (3.13%) Murex
6 1 (3.13%) Palantir
6 1 (3.13%) PayPal
6 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.13%) Workday