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 25 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 95 121
Rank change year-on-year -15 +26 +46
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 25 20 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.18% 1.15% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.24% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 2
10th Percentile £407 £400 -
25th Percentile £425 £413 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £504 £275
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +83.27% -52.17%
75th Percentile £581 £784 £288
90th Percentile £698 £900 -
Central London median daily rate £525 £504 £275
% change year-on-year +4.17% +83.27% -52.17%

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 1,859 1,610 2,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.98% 92.26% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,283 1,027 1,491
10th Percentile £363 £364 £350
25th Percentile £446 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £674 £676 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.75 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% +24.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £46.29 £34.68 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.13 £51.75 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -13.07% +8.00% -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 25 March 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 4 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.00%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (20.00%) Serverless
4 4 (16.00%) GCP
4 4 (16.00%) GitHub
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (8.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.00%) Google Analytics
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
6 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) BGP
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) Internet
1 1 (4.00%) MPLS
1 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.00%) VPN
1 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Power BI
2 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (12.00%) Metadata
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.00%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.00%) OLAP
3 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.00%) SQLPlus
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) CockroachDB
4 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (8.00%) Toad
3 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.00%) gulp
3 1 (4.00%) JUnit
3 1 (4.00%) MLflow
3 1 (4.00%) Mockito
3 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Technical Leader
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Data Migration Developer
5 1 (4.00%) IAM Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Network Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Transformation Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) REST
2 3 (12.00%) HTML
2 3 (12.00%) LangChain
3 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.00%) CSS
3 2 (8.00%) LangGraph
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (8.00%) NumPy
3 2 (8.00%) Pandas
3 2 (8.00%) PySpark
3 2 (8.00%) React
3 2 (8.00%) Spring
3 2 (8.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.00%) boto
4 1 (4.00%) Jest
4 1 (4.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) RxJS
4 1 (4.00%) Sass
4 1 (4.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.00%) Clustering
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.00%) IoT
2 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (36.00%) AI
2 9 (36.00%) Analytics
2 9 (36.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (32.00%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (28.00%) ETL
5 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (24.00%) Data Engineering
5 6 (24.00%) DevOps
5 6 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (16.00%) Agile
6 4 (16.00%) Data Science
6 4 (16.00%) Event-Driven
6 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (16.00%) Migration
6 4 (16.00%) Validation
7 3 (12.00%) Data Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Data Migration
7 3 (12.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (8.00%) Java
4 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) Perl
4 2 (8.00%) PHP
4 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) VCAP
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) CASB
2 1 (4.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Oracle
3 4 (16.00%) Google
4 3 (12.00%) Databricks
5 2 (8.00%) SAP
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco
6 1 (4.00%) Foundry
6 1 (4.00%) Palantir
6 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.00%) Pure Storage
6 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (4.00%) VMware