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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 94 106
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +50
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 42 35 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.75% 1.86% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 1.98% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 22 8
10th Percentile £413 £400 £529
25th Percentile £425 £435 £592
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £675 £714 £731
90th Percentile £775 £800 £758
Central London median daily rate £625 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +19.05% -16.00% +3.23%

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 2,107 1,772 1,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.61% 94.21% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,162 1,281
10th Percentile £375 £329 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £470
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 £765 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £37.17 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.83 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

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 9 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
2 4 (9.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.38%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) Palantir Foundry
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%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) Power Platform
3 8 (19.05%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (16.67%) AWS
5 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (14.29%) GCP
6 5 (11.90%) Serverless
7 4 (9.52%) GitHub
8 3 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (7.14%) dbt
8 3 (7.14%) SaaS
9 2 (4.76%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Stack
9 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
9 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.76%) Google Analytics
9 2 (4.76%) Snowflake
10 1 (2.38%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (21.43%) Power BI
2 7 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (9.52%) Data Mart
3 4 (9.52%) Oracle Database
4 3 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 3 (7.14%) Delta Lake
4 3 (7.14%) Metadata
4 3 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
4 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.14%) Star Schema
5 2 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (4.76%) Data Hub
5 2 (4.76%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (4.76%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.38%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) JMeter
2 1 (2.38%) Vite
General
1 12 (28.57%) Finance
2 11 (26.19%) 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%) Lead
3 6 (14.29%) Architect
4 4 (9.52%) Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Lead Data Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Senior
5 3 (7.14%) Technical Leader
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Architect
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Dynamics 365 Architect
7 1 (2.38%) GCP Data Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Power BI Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (19.05%) PySpark
2 5 (11.90%) React
3 4 (9.52%) Kafka
3 4 (9.52%) REST
4 3 (7.14%) Middleware
4 3 (7.14%) SOAP
4 3 (7.14%) Spring
4 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
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%) LangChain
6 1 (2.38%) LangGraph
6 1 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.38%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) 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%) Clustering
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%) 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 19 (45.24%) Analytics
2 19 (45.24%) Data Modelling
3 18 (42.86%) DevOps
4 15 (35.71%) Data Engineering
5 12 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
6 11 (26.19%) Agile
7 10 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (21.43%) ETL
9 8 (19.05%) Data Architecture
9 8 (19.05%) Data Governance
9 8 (19.05%) Migration
9 8 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (16.67%) AI
10 7 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
10 7 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (14.29%) Event-Driven
11 6 (14.29%) Mentoring
11 6 (14.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 21 (50.00%) SQL
2 16 (38.10%) Python
3 6 (14.29%) Java
4 5 (11.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.14%) Scala
5 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.76%) Korn
6 2 (4.76%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.38%) C++
7 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.38%) SOQL
7 1 (2.38%) SOSL
7 1 (2.38%) XMLA
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 5 (11.90%) 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%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 3 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (2.38%) Bosun
2 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Databricks
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 7 (16.67%) Oracle
3 6 (14.29%) 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%) Foundry
7 1 (2.38%) Klarna
7 1 (2.38%) Murex
7 1 (2.38%) Palantir
7 1 (2.38%) PayPal
7 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.38%) TikTok
7 1 (2.38%) VMware