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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 104 129
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 +44
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 27 24 12
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.50% 1.12% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.22% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 10
10th Percentile £404 £594 £324
25th Percentile £422 £675 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £513
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +36.59% +2.50%
75th Percentile £629 £850 £669
90th Percentile £723 £901 £671
Central London median daily rate £550 £697 £575
% change year-on-year -21.03% +21.13% +9.52%

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 1,655 1,969 2,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.74% 91.67% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,215 1,668
10th Percentile £332 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 6 December 2025.

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 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.70%) Camunda
3 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.70%) Fidessa
1 1 (3.70%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) Serverless
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.70%) dbt
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) BGP
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
1 1 (3.70%) Internet
1 1 (3.70%) MPLS
1 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.70%) VPN
1 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.41%) Delta Lake
2 2 (7.41%) OLAP
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.41%) Power BI
2 2 (7.41%) RDBMS
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.41%) SQLPlus
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) Bitbucket
2 2 (7.41%) Gradle
2 2 (7.41%) Toad
3 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.70%) gulp
3 1 (3.70%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Mockito
3 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (3.70%) webpack
General
1 10 (37.04%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Games
4 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Java Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Angular Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Data Migration Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Network Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Data Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Transformation Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) REST
2 4 (14.81%) .NET
3 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 3 (11.11%) React
3 3 (11.11%) Spring
4 2 (7.41%) CSS
4 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
4 2 (7.41%) HTML
4 2 (7.41%) LangChain
4 2 (7.41%) Node.js
4 2 (7.41%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (7.41%) PySpark
4 2 (7.41%) RESTful
4 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.41%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (3.70%) HTML5
5 1 (3.70%) Kafka
5 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.70%) Sass
5 1 (3.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) 3D Graphics
1 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
1 2 (7.41%) Derivative
1 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Fixed Income
1 2 (7.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
1 2 (7.41%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.70%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.70%) IoT
2 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.70%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Unix
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 7 (25.93%) DevOps
2 7 (25.93%) ETL
3 6 (22.22%) Agile
3 6 (22.22%) Analytics
3 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (14.81%) Migration
5 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (14.81%) Workflow
6 3 (11.11%) Code Quality
6 3 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 3 (11.11%) Data Governance
6 3 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 3 (11.11%) Data Modelling
6 3 (11.11%) Event-Driven
6 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (18.52%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
3 5 (18.52%) PHP
3 5 (18.52%) PL/SQL
4 4 (14.81%) C#
5 3 (11.11%) C++
6 2 (7.41%) Perl
6 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.70%) Apex Code
7 1 (3.70%) Bash
7 1 (3.70%) FoxPro (VFP)
7 1 (3.70%) Go
7 1 (3.70%) PromQL
7 1 (3.70%) Ruby
7 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.70%) SnowPro
3 1 (3.70%) VCAP
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) MiFID
2 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) CASB
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Podman
2 1 (3.70%) PowerCLI
2 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) Cisco
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) ION Trading
3 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.70%) Portware
3 1 (3.70%) Pure Storage
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.70%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Workday