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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 86 104
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 +40
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 51 32 20
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.25% 1.79% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 1.90% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 21 10
10th Percentile £390 £404 £531
25th Percentile £425 £435 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £550 £663
Median % change year-on-year +14.55% -16.98% +11.81%
75th Percentile £725 £775 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £753
Central London median daily rate £630 £550 £693
% change year-on-year +14.55% -20.63% +15.50%

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 2,011 1,686 1,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.67% 94.14% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,380 1,117 1,232
10th Percentile £368 £325 £388
25th Percentile £456 £424 £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 £774 £787
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 22 17
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.20
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +4.91% -13.60%
75th Percentile £32.57 £53.50 £78.75
90th Percentile £51.54 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £29.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.06% -16.94% +27.27%

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 13 September 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 (9.80%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.84%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.88%) Apache
4 2 (3.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.96%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.96%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (39.22%) Azure
2 13 (25.49%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (23.53%) Power Platform
4 9 (17.65%) AWS
5 8 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (11.76%) Azure Databricks
7 5 (9.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (9.80%) SaaS
7 5 (9.80%) Serverless
8 4 (7.84%) Azure Stack
8 4 (7.84%) dbt
8 4 (7.84%) GCP
8 4 (7.84%) GitHub
8 4 (7.84%) Snowflake
9 3 (5.88%) Amazon S3
9 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
9 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.92%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (23.53%) Power BI
2 5 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (9.80%) Metadata
2 5 (9.80%) Semantic Layer
2 5 (9.80%) Star Schema
3 4 (7.84%) Data Hub
3 4 (7.84%) Data Lake
3 4 (7.84%) Data Mart
3 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.84%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.88%) Delta Lake
4 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.92%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.92%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.92%) Looker
5 2 (3.92%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (3.92%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) Gradle
3 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) JMeter
3 1 (1.96%) Maven
3 1 (1.96%) MSI
3 1 (1.96%) Vite
General
1 18 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 17 (33.33%) Finance
3 10 (19.61%) Banking
4 9 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.84%) Retail
6 3 (5.88%) Front Office
7 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.92%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Legal
8 1 (1.96%) Marketing
8 1 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Data Engineer
2 9 (17.65%) Architect
3 7 (13.73%) Lead
4 6 (11.76%) Senior
5 5 (9.80%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Databricks Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 4 (7.84%) Consultant
6 4 (7.84%) Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Lead Data Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Snowflake Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Business Intelligence Consultant
8 2 (3.92%) GCP Data Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Power BI Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) PySpark
2 7 (13.73%) React
3 6 (11.76%) REST
4 4 (7.84%) Kafka
4 4 (7.84%) Spring
4 4 (7.84%) Spring Boot
5 3 (5.88%) JSON
5 3 (5.88%) Middleware
5 3 (5.88%) Node.js
5 3 (5.88%) SOAP
5 3 (5.88%) Terraform
6 2 (3.92%) .NET
6 2 (3.92%) CSS
6 2 (3.92%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.92%) HTML
6 2 (3.92%) Next.js
6 2 (3.92%) OAuth
6 2 (3.92%) RESTful
6 2 (3.92%) SAML
7 1 (1.96%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 5 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.92%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.96%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.96%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.96%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.96%) CMDB
6 1 (1.96%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.96%) Derivative
6 1 (1.96%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (1.96%) Exotic Derivative
6 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) IoT
6 1 (1.96%) OTC Derivatives
6 1 (1.96%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.96%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (3.92%) Unix
2 2 (3.92%) Windows
3 1 (1.96%) Android
3 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (56.86%) CI/CD
2 23 (45.10%) Data Modelling
3 21 (41.18%) Analytics
3 21 (41.18%) DevOps
4 19 (37.25%) Data Engineering
5 18 (35.29%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (27.45%) Agile
6 14 (27.45%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (21.57%) Data Governance
7 11 (21.57%) ETL
8 10 (19.61%) Data Architecture
8 10 (19.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (17.65%) Integration Patterns
9 9 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (15.69%) Dimensional Modelling
10 8 (15.69%) Migration
10 8 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (13.73%) AI
11 7 (13.73%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 25 (49.02%) SQL
2 23 (45.10%) Python
3 9 (17.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (13.73%) Java
4 7 (13.73%) JavaScript
5 4 (7.84%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.88%) Korn
6 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.88%) Scala
7 2 (3.92%) LookML
7 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.92%) XMLA
8 1 (1.96%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.96%) C#
8 1 (1.96%) C++
8 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.96%) SOQL
8 1 (1.96%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.88%) DBS Check
2 3 (5.88%) Degree
2 3 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) CISM
3 1 (1.96%) CISSP
3 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.92%) QA
3 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.96%) PSD2
3 1 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Active Directory
1 4 (7.84%) Docker
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.96%) UAG
2 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.96%) Bosun
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (23.53%) Databricks
3 7 (13.73%) Oracle
4 4 (7.84%) SAP
5 3 (5.88%) Google
5 3 (5.88%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.92%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.92%) New Relic
6 2 (3.92%) Workday
7 1 (1.96%) Apple
7 1 (1.96%) BMC
7 1 (1.96%) Citrix
7 1 (1.96%) Klarna
7 1 (1.96%) Murex
7 1 (1.96%) PayPal
7 1 (1.96%) Remedy
7 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.96%) TikTok
7 1 (1.96%) VMware