Performance Optimisation Contracts in the City of London

Performance Optimisation
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 108 161
Rank change year-on-year +17 +53 +30
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 30 18 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.69% 0.84% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 0.93% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 6
10th Percentile £395 £394 £347
25th Percentile £435 £527 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £530
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +9.67% -26.90%
75th Percentile £759 £638 £615
90th Percentile £800 £694 £650
Central London median daily rate £525 £625 £585
% change year-on-year -16.00% +6.84% -19.31%

All Process and 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 1,669 1,940 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.82% 91.04% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 1,350 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the City of London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the City of London

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 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the City of London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the City of London

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.67%) Confluence
1 2 (6.67%) SAS
2 1 (3.33%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 5 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
2 5 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
2 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 5 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
2 5 (16.67%) Datadog
2 5 (16.67%) Serverless
3 4 (13.33%) GCP
4 3 (10.00%) Azure
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (6.67%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.33%) Apple Pay
6 1 (3.33%) Figma
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) HTTP
2 1 (3.33%) DNS
2 1 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (3.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 3 (10.00%) Big Data
2 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.67%) MySQL
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.33%) Base SAS
4 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.33%) Metadata
4 1 (3.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) GitLab
2 2 (6.67%) Gradle
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.33%) Storybook
3 1 (3.33%) Vite
3 1 (3.33%) webpack
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office
6 1 (3.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Developer
2 6 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.67%) Senior
4 4 (13.33%) Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Software Design Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Android Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Database Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.67%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Web Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) GraphQL
2 6 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 5 (16.67%) WebSockets
4 4 (13.33%) Spring
5 3 (10.00%) CSS
5 3 (10.00%) HTML
5 3 (10.00%) React
5 3 (10.00%) REST
5 3 (10.00%) RESTful
5 3 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 2 (6.67%) Android Jetpack
6 2 (6.67%) Jetpack Compose
7 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
7 1 (3.33%) Celery
7 1 (3.33%) FastAPI
7 1 (3.33%) JPA
7 1 (3.33%) Node.js
7 1 (3.33%) Redux
7 1 (3.33%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 4 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.67%) Derivative
3 1 (3.33%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.00%) Android
1 3 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (33.33%) Agile
3 10 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 10 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 7 (23.33%) DevOps
4 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
4 7 (23.33%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (20.00%) Observability
5 6 (20.00%) User Experience
6 5 (16.67%) Clean Code
6 5 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 5 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (13.33%) Analytics
7 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
7 4 (13.33%) Kanban
7 4 (13.33%) Microservices
7 4 (13.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (30.00%) Java
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.67%) SQL
4 4 (13.33%) C++
5 3 (10.00%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) CodeQL
6 1 (3.33%) Go
6 1 (3.33%) PHP
6 1 (3.33%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.33%) PROC SQL
6 1 (3.33%) Ruby
6 1 (3.33%) Scala
6 1 (3.33%) Swift
6 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.33%) Degree
1 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (30.00%) Terraform
2 5 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 2 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Grafana
4 1 (3.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (13.33%) Google
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Apple
3 1 (3.33%) Databricks
3 1 (3.33%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) Workday