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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 90 107
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 +33
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 54 31 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.43% 1.79% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 1.90% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 20 10
10th Percentile £366 £406 £531
25th Percentile £425 £446 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £565 £663
Median % change year-on-year +11.06% -14.72% +13.25%
75th Percentile £725 £781 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £753
Central London median daily rate £628 £565 £693
% change year-on-year +11.06% -18.47% +16.96%

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 1,979 1,629 1,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.90% 94.11% 91.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 1,082 1,227
10th Percentile £366 £320 £375
25th Percentile £456 £419 £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 £765 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 18
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.08 £15.40
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -14.05% +31.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £107.13
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +34.62%

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 21 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 (9.26%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.56%) Apache
4 2 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.85%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.85%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) Azure
2 13 (24.07%) Azure Data Factory
2 13 (24.07%) Power Platform
3 10 (18.52%) AWS
4 8 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (11.11%) Azure Databricks
5 6 (11.11%) GCP
5 6 (11.11%) Serverless
6 5 (9.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (9.26%) GitHub
6 5 (9.26%) SaaS
7 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Stack
7 4 (7.41%) dbt
7 4 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (7.41%) Snowflake
8 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
9 2 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.07%) Power BI
2 12 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (11.11%) Semantic Layer
3 6 (11.11%) Star Schema
4 5 (9.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (9.26%) Metadata
5 4 (7.41%) Data Hub
5 4 (7.41%) Data Lake
5 4 (7.41%) Data Mart
5 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 4 (7.41%) Oracle Database
5 4 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (5.56%) Delta Lake
6 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.70%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Git
2 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (3.70%) Gradle
3 2 (3.70%) JIRA
3 2 (3.70%) Maven
4 1 (1.85%) GitLab
4 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.85%) JMeter
4 1 (1.85%) MSI
4 1 (1.85%) Vite
General
1 20 (37.04%) Finance
2 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.37%) Banking
4 10 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.41%) Front Office
5 4 (7.41%) Retail
6 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.85%) Back Office
8 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Legal
8 1 (1.85%) Marketing
8 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Data Engineer
2 9 (16.67%) Architect
3 6 (11.11%) Lead
3 6 (11.11%) Senior
4 5 (9.26%) Databricks Data Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Databricks Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Developer
5 4 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Consultant
5 4 (7.41%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 2 (3.70%) GCP Data Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.70%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Sales Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) PySpark
2 8 (14.81%) REST
3 7 (12.96%) React
4 5 (9.26%) Spring
5 4 (7.41%) Kafka
5 4 (7.41%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.41%) Terraform
6 3 (5.56%) JSON
6 3 (5.56%) Middleware
6 3 (5.56%) Node.js
6 3 (5.56%) SOAP
7 2 (3.70%) .NET
7 2 (3.70%) CSS
7 2 (3.70%) GraphQL
7 2 (3.70%) HTML
7 2 (3.70%) JSF
7 2 (3.70%) JSP
7 2 (3.70%) OAuth
7 2 (3.70%) RESTful
7 2 (3.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (9.26%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.70%) Client/Server
6 2 (3.70%) Credit Risk
6 2 (3.70%) Derivative
6 2 (3.70%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.85%) CMDB
7 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.85%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.85%) Equities
7 1 (1.85%) Exotic Derivative
7 1 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.85%) IoT
7 1 (1.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Unix
3 2 (3.70%) Windows
4 1 (1.85%) Android
4 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (59.26%) CI/CD
2 25 (46.30%) Data Modelling
3 23 (42.59%) Analytics
4 21 (38.89%) DevOps
5 20 (37.04%) Data Engineering
6 19 (35.19%) Data Pipeline
7 15 (27.78%) Agile
7 15 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (22.22%) Data Governance
10 11 (20.37%) ETL
11 10 (18.52%) Data Architecture
11 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
12 9 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
12 9 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
13 8 (14.81%) Decision-Making
13 8 (14.81%) Mentoring
13 8 (14.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 29 (53.70%) SQL
2 25 (46.30%) Python
3 10 (18.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (14.81%) Java
5 7 (12.96%) JavaScript
6 4 (7.41%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.56%) Korn
7 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.56%) Scala
8 2 (3.70%) LookML
8 2 (3.70%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.70%) XMLA
9 1 (1.85%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.85%) C#
9 1 (1.85%) C++
9 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.85%) SOQL
9 1 (1.85%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.56%) DBS Check
2 3 (5.56%) Degree
2 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.85%) CISM
3 1 (1.85%) CISSP
3 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.85%) PSD2
3 1 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (7.41%) Active Directory
1 4 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (1.85%) UAG
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.85%) Bosun
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 13 (24.07%) Databricks
3 7 (12.96%) Oracle
4 4 (7.41%) Google
4 4 (7.41%) SAP
5 3 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.70%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.70%) New Relic
6 2 (3.70%) Workday
7 1 (1.85%) Apple
7 1 (1.85%) BMC
7 1 (1.85%) Citrix
7 1 (1.85%) Klarna
7 1 (1.85%) Murex
7 1 (1.85%) PayPal
7 1 (1.85%) Remedy
7 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.85%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.85%) TikTok
7 1 (1.85%) VMware