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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 99 124
Rank change year-on-year -3 +25 +35
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 21 24 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.16% 1.28% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.39% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 4
10th Percentile £404 £430 £319
25th Percentile £410 £628 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £513
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +36.59% +7.89%
75th Percentile £591 £850 £631
90th Percentile £694 £901 £665
Central London median daily rate £550 £687 £513
% change year-on-year -19.88% +33.95% +7.89%

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 1,626 1,728 2,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.59% 92.01% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,052 1,547
10th Percentile £350 £372 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £790 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -6.52% +0.44% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +46.67% -37.13%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £137.50 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -32.10%

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 13 January 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 3 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
3 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (4.76%) dbt
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) npm
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.76%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) BGP
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Internet
1 1 (4.76%) MPLS
1 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
1 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (14.29%) Oracle Database
1 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.52%) Metadata
2 2 (9.52%) OLAP
2 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.52%) RDBMS
2 2 (9.52%) SQLPlus
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Toad
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.76%) gulp
3 1 (4.76%) JUnit
3 1 (4.76%) MLflow
3 1 (4.76%) Mockito
3 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (4.76%) webpack
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Games
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Migration Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (4.76%) IAM Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Transformation Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) HTML
3 2 (9.52%) .NET
3 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.52%) CSS
3 2 (9.52%) LangChain
3 2 (9.52%) NumPy
3 2 (9.52%) Pandas
3 2 (9.52%) React
3 2 (9.52%) Unity (Game Engine)
4 1 (4.76%) Bazel
4 1 (4.76%) boto
4 1 (4.76%) LangGraph
4 1 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (4.76%) RxJS
4 1 (4.76%) Sass
4 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.76%) SPFx
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) 3D Graphics
1 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
1 2 (9.52%) Virtual Reality
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.76%) Fixed Income
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) ETL
2 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 5 (23.81%) Analytics
3 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (19.05%) AI
4 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
4 4 (19.05%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Workflow
6 2 (9.52%) Business Analytics
6 2 (9.52%) Data Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Front End Development
6 2 (9.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) PHP
3 4 (19.05%) PL/SQL
4 3 (14.29%) C#
4 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.52%) C++
5 2 (9.52%) Perl
5 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.76%) Apex Code
6 1 (4.76%) Bash
6 1 (4.76%) FoxPro (VFP)
6 1 (4.76%) Java
6 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
6 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) SnowPro
2 1 (4.76%) VCAP
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) CASB
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Oracle
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) ION Trading
4 1 (4.76%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.76%) Pure Storage
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) Workday