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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 102 117
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 +50
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 23 17 10
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.04% 0.98% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.06% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 2
10th Percentile £416 £398 -
25th Percentile £425 £406 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £477 £275
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% +73.45% -52.17%
75th Percentile £584 £690 £288
90th Percentile £708 £878 -
Central London median daily rate £538 £477 £275
% change year-on-year +12.68% +73.45% -52.17%

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 1,926 1,606 2,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.91% 92.41% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,037 1,436
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.10% -5.21%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £769 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £52.16 £48.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £71.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -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 8 April 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 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) Power Platform
3 5 (21.74%) Serverless
4 4 (17.39%) GCP
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub
5 3 (13.04%) Amazon S3
5 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Functions
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.70%) Google Analytics
6 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (8.70%) Power Automate
6 2 (8.70%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.35%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) BGP
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Internet
1 1 (4.35%) MPLS
1 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) Metadata
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.70%) SQLPlus
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (4.35%) CockroachDB
4 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) OLAP
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) Toad
3 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.35%) gulp
3 1 (4.35%) JUnit
3 1 (4.35%) MLflow
3 1 (4.35%) Mockito
3 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Leader
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Migration Developer
5 1 (4.35%) IAM Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Kafka Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Salesforce Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Transformation Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) REST
2 3 (13.04%) HTML
2 3 (13.04%) LangChain
3 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.70%) CSS
3 2 (8.70%) LangGraph
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (8.70%) NumPy
3 2 (8.70%) Pandas
3 2 (8.70%) PySpark
3 2 (8.70%) React
3 2 (8.70%) Spring
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) boto
4 1 (4.35%) Jest
4 1 (4.35%) Playwright
4 1 (4.35%) RxJS
4 1 (4.35%) Sass
4 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Clustering
2 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.35%) IoT
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
2 9 (39.13%) AI
2 9 (39.13%) Data Modelling
3 8 (34.78%) Analytics
3 8 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (30.43%) ETL
5 6 (26.09%) Data Engineering
5 6 (26.09%) DevOps
6 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (21.74%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (17.39%) Agile
7 4 (17.39%) Data Science
7 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
7 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
7 4 (17.39%) Migration
7 4 (17.39%) Validation
8 3 (13.04%) MLOps
8 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 3 (13.04%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (8.70%) Java
3 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.70%) Perl
3 2 (8.70%) PHP
3 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
3 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.35%) Apex Code
4 1 (4.35%) C#
4 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) CASB
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Google
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 3 (13.04%) Databricks
4 2 (8.70%) SAP
5 1 (4.35%) Foundry
5 1 (4.35%) Palantir
5 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.35%) Salesforce