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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 107 142
Rank change year-on-year +21 +35 +32
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 31 21 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.77% 1.00% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 1.09% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 10
10th Percentile £406 £531 £359
25th Percentile £446 £613 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £663 £593
Median % change year-on-year -14.72% +11.81% +24.74%
75th Percentile £781 £725 £669
90th Percentile £800 £753 £671
Central London median daily rate £565 £693 £600
% change year-on-year -18.47% +15.50% +26.32%

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 1,650 1,935 2,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.12% 91.92% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,221 1,867
10th Percentile £324 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £701
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 16
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £56.75 £82.19 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% +34.62% -38.82%

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
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 19 September 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 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 (6.45%) Apache
1 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.23%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.23%) Fidessa
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.23%) thinkFolio
1 1 (3.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Serverless
3 5 (16.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (16.13%) Amazon Cognito
3 5 (16.13%) Amazon EventBridge
3 5 (16.13%) Amazon S3
3 5 (16.13%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (16.13%) AWS Step Functions
3 5 (16.13%) Azure
3 5 (16.13%) Datadog
4 4 (12.90%) GCP
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (6.45%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (6.45%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (6.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.68%) Big Data
2 3 (9.68%) BigQuery
2 3 (9.68%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.45%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.23%) Power BI
4 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) Gradle
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) Storybook
3 1 (3.23%) Vite
3 1 (3.23%) webpack
General
1 11 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
4 2 (6.45%) Games
4 2 (6.45%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Architect
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
2 6 (19.35%) Software Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Data Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Java Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Software Design Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Web Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Administrator
7 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) GraphQL
1 6 (19.35%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (16.13%) AngularJS
2 5 (16.13%) REST
2 5 (16.13%) WebSockets
3 4 (12.90%) Spring
4 3 (9.68%) .NET
4 3 (9.68%) CSS
4 3 (9.68%) HTML
4 3 (9.68%) RESTful
4 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
5 2 (6.45%) React
5 2 (6.45%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.23%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (3.23%) JPA
6 1 (3.23%) Kafka
6 1 (3.23%) Node.js
6 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.23%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Cloud Native
1 5 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.45%) 3D Graphics
2 2 (6.45%) Derivative
2 2 (6.45%) Fixed Income
2 2 (6.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.45%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (3.23%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.23%) Fat Client
3 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) IoT
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) CI/CD
2 11 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (32.26%) Agile
4 9 (29.03%) DevOps
4 9 (29.03%) Event-Driven
4 9 (29.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 9 (29.03%) Software Engineering
5 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (22.58%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (19.35%) Analytics
6 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
6 6 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
6 6 (19.35%) Observability
6 6 (19.35%) User Experience
7 5 (16.13%) API Development
7 5 (16.13%) Clean Code
7 5 (16.13%) Data Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (16.13%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) SQL
3 8 (25.81%) Java
4 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
5 5 (16.13%) C++
6 3 (9.68%) C#
6 3 (9.68%) PHP
7 2 (6.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
8 1 (3.23%) Bash
8 1 (3.23%) CodeQL
8 1 (3.23%) FoxPro (VFP)
8 1 (3.23%) Go
8 1 (3.23%) PromQL
8 1 (3.23%) Ruby
8 1 (3.23%) Scala
8 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
8 1 (3.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.23%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) MiFID
2 1 (3.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Terraform
2 5 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Google
2 2 (6.45%) Databricks
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.45%) Workday
3 1 (3.23%) ION Trading
3 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Portware
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.23%) SAP