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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 98 115
Rank change year-on-year -15 +17 +47
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 22 21 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.96% 1.20% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.28% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 3
10th Percentile £415 £400 £316
25th Percentile £425 £425 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £504 £538
Median % change year-on-year +12.10% -6.23% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £694 £647
90th Percentile £723 £784 £709
Central London median daily rate £565 £504 £644
% change year-on-year +12.10% -21.71% +7.29%

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 1,959 1,637 1,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.25% 93.17% 90.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,333 1,034 1,408
10th Percentile £359 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 2 May 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 3 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.09%) Apache
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.55%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) AWS
3 5 (22.73%) Serverless
4 4 (18.18%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 3 (13.64%) GitHub
6 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
6 2 (9.09%) Google Analytics
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (9.09%) Power Automate
6 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.55%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) Power BI
1 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.09%) Metadata
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) RDBMS
2 2 (9.09%) SQLPlus
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.55%) Big Data
3 1 (4.55%) CockroachDB
3 1 (4.55%) Delta Lake
3 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Toad
3 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.55%) JUnit
3 1 (4.55%) MLflow
3 1 (4.55%) Mockito
3 1 (4.55%) Vite
General
1 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Data Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Technical Leader
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Database Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) IAM Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Product Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) REST
2 3 (13.64%) PySpark
2 3 (13.64%) Spring
2 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (9.09%) LangChain
3 2 (9.09%) LangGraph
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (9.09%) NumPy
3 2 (9.09%) Pandas
3 2 (9.09%) React
3 2 (9.09%) SOAP
4 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.55%) boto
4 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) Next.js
4 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) IoT
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) AI
1 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
2 8 (36.36%) Data Modelling
2 8 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (31.82%) Analytics
3 7 (31.82%) ETL
4 6 (27.27%) Data Engineering
5 5 (22.73%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (18.18%) Agile
6 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (18.18%) Data Science
6 4 (18.18%) DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) Event-Driven
6 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (18.18%) Machine Learning
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Validation
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Roadmaps
7 3 (13.64%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 4 (18.18%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) Perl
4 2 (9.09%) PHP
4 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Scala
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) CISM
1 1 (4.55%) CISSP
1 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Google
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 3 (13.64%) SAP
4 2 (9.09%) Databricks
5 1 (4.55%) Foundry
5 1 (4.55%) Palantir
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.55%) Workday