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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 91 106
Rank change year-on-year -18 +15 +49
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 27 25 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.16% 1.47% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.57% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 6
10th Percentile £423 £400 £394
25th Percentile £425 £430 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £504 £581
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -13.29% -3.13%
75th Percentile £675 £759 £638
90th Percentile £747 £800 £694
Central London median daily rate £525 £504 £625
% change year-on-year +4.17% -19.36% +4.17%

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 1,994 1,589 1,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.36% 93.58% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,366 1,008 1,368
10th Percentile £356 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
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 26 14 11
10th Percentile £17.42 £18.15 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.64 £28.33 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.97% +7.90% -25.00%
75th Percentile £52.41 £41.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.36 £59.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.82% +1.85% -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 31 May 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 6 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (18.52%) Apache Spark
3 4 (14.81%) Apache
4 1 (3.70%) Palantir Foundry
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 7 (25.93%) AWS
3 6 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 6 (22.22%) Serverless
4 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Functions
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (7.41%) dbt
6 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub
6 2 (7.41%) Google Analytics
6 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (7.41%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.70%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.70%) Fastly
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Power BI
2 4 (14.81%) Delta Lake
3 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.11%) Metadata
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
4 2 (7.41%) Data Lake
4 2 (7.41%) Data Mart
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
4 2 (7.41%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (7.41%) Spark SQL
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (3.70%) Big Data
5 1 (3.70%) CockroachDB
5 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) MLflow
2 1 (3.70%) Vite
General
1 8 (29.63%) Finance
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Data Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Lead
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Platform Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) PySpark
2 4 (14.81%) Kafka
3 3 (11.11%) REST
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (7.41%) NumPy
4 2 (7.41%) Pandas
4 2 (7.41%) SOAP
4 2 (7.41%) Spring
4 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.70%) boto
5 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.70%) JDBC
5 1 (3.70%) LangChain
5 1 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (3.70%) Next.js
5 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.70%) React
5 1 (3.70%) SAML
5 1 (3.70%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.70%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Clustering
3 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.70%) Derivative
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Exotic Derivative
3 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.70%) IoT
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) OTC Derivatives
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Analytics
1 14 (51.85%) Data Modelling
2 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
2 13 (48.15%) Data Engineering
3 12 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (33.33%) DevOps
4 9 (33.33%) ETL
5 8 (29.63%) AI
6 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (18.52%) Data Governance
7 5 (18.52%) Event-Driven
7 5 (18.52%) Validation
8 4 (14.81%) Agile
8 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (14.81%) Migration
8 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis
9 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning
9 3 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) SQL
2 13 (48.15%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) Java
4 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (7.41%) Scala
5 1 (3.70%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.70%) C++
5 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) Korn
5 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) DBS Check
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) CISM
3 1 (3.70%) CISSP
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.70%) PhD
3 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Databricks
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) Google
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Foundry
4 1 (3.70%) Palantir
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) Workday