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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 116 168
Rank change year-on-year +17 +52 +22
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 20 11 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.14% 0.50% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 0.55% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 3
10th Percentile £400 £316 £485
25th Percentile £419 £397 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.26% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £683 £647 £650
90th Percentile £716 £709 £665
Central London median daily rate £477 £644 £600
% change year-on-year -25.90% +7.29% +9.09%

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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

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 1 May 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 (10.00%) SAS
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Apple Pay
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) Datadog
3 1 (5.00%) Figma
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
3 1 (5.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Firewall
1 2 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (5.00%) 4G
2 1 (5.00%) 5G
2 1 (5.00%) 5G NR
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.00%) LTE
2 1 (5.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (10.00%) MySQL
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Base SAS
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Metadata
3 1 (5.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Storybook
2 1 (5.00%) Vite
2 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 14 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Front Office
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Android Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Database Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) iOS Android Developer
4 2 (10.00%) iOS Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Web Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Pricing Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Mobile Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Pricing Developer
5 1 (5.00%) SAS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) HTML
3 2 (10.00%) Android Jetpack
3 2 (10.00%) Jetpack Compose
3 2 (10.00%) React
3 2 (10.00%) RESTful
3 2 (10.00%) Spring
3 2 (10.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.00%) Celery
4 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (5.00%) React Native
4 1 (5.00%) Redux
4 1 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Basis
4 1 (5.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Derivative
3 1 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Android
2 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (45.00%) Agile
3 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (25.00%) Android Development
4 5 (25.00%) Kanban
4 5 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (25.00%) Scrum
5 4 (20.00%) B2C
5 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 4 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
5 4 (20.00%) Mobile Development
5 4 (20.00%) Push Notifications
6 3 (15.00%) High Availability
6 3 (15.00%) iOS Development
6 3 (15.00%) Microservices
6 3 (15.00%) Security Patching
7 2 (10.00%) DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) Kotlin
3 3 (15.00%) C++
3 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.00%) Swift
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) C#
4 1 (5.00%) PROC SQL
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) RHCE
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Terraform
2 4 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Apple
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Ericsson
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.00%) SAP