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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 101 127
Rank change year-on-year +1 +26 +37
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 25 19 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.28% 1.04% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.13% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 4
10th Percentile £407 £418 -
25th Percentile £425 £429 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £684 £363
Median % change year-on-year -23.22% +88.62% -34.09%
75th Percentile £581 £881 £491
90th Percentile £720 £904 £564
Central London median daily rate £525 £584 £363
% change year-on-year -10.03% +60.97% -36.96%

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 1,731 1,675 2,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.91% 91.68% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,022 1,511
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £430 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £546 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £31.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +54.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £45.08 £48.75 £41.84
90th Percentile £54.94 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 23 February 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 (20.00%) 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 12 (48.00%) Azure
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (16.00%) GCP
4 4 (16.00%) Serverless
5 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (12.00%) GitHub
5 3 (12.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (4.00%) Google Analytics
7 1 (4.00%) npm
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%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (16.00%) Power BI
2 3 (12.00%) Metadata
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.00%) OLAP
3 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (8.00%) SQLPlus
4 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database 11g
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (24.00%) 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 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Developer
2 6 (24.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Oracle Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Snowflake Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.00%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Platform Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (4.00%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Stakeholder Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Product Manager
5 1 (4.00%) VMware Engineer
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
4 1 (4.00%) boto
4 1 (4.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.00%) HTML5
4 1 (4.00%) Jest
4 1 (4.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) SOAP
4 1 (4.00%) Spring
4 1 (4.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (4.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Clustering
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) AI
1 9 (36.00%) Analytics
1 9 (36.00%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (32.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (32.00%) ETL
3 7 (28.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (24.00%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (16.00%) Agile
5 4 (16.00%) Data Science
5 4 (16.00%) DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Machine Learning
5 4 (16.00%) Migration
5 4 (16.00%) Validation
5 4 (16.00%) Workflow
6 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (12.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
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%) FoxPro (VFP)
5 1 (4.00%) Java
5 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
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%) SnowPro
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%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
1 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) CASB
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
3 3 (12.00%) Databricks
3 3 (12.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Foundry
4 1 (4.00%) ION Trading
4 1 (4.00%) Palantir
4 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.00%) Pure Storage
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Workday