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 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 98 137
Rank change year-on-year +8 +39 +37
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 31 27 14
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.79% 1.28% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 1.39% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 11
10th Percentile £406 £526 £363
25th Percentile £466 £592 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £663 £585
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% +13.25% +23.16%
75th Percentile £788 £731 £669
90th Percentile £800 £773 -
Central London median daily rate £580 £625 £593
% change year-on-year -7.20% +5.49% +24.74%

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 1,633 1,944 2,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.50% 91.83% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,096 1,210 1,833
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £423 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £792 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.36% +3.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £15.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.09 £21.63 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.54% +13.60% -26.90%
75th Percentile £39.88 £97.38 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -34.52%

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 5 October 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 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 8 (25.81%) 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%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub
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
5 1 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Architect
2 6 (19.35%) Software Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Data Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) 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%) Technical Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Web Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Project Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
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 3 (9.68%) .NET
3 3 (9.68%) CSS
3 3 (9.68%) HTML
3 3 (9.68%) Spring
4 2 (6.45%) React
4 2 (6.45%) RESTful
4 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.45%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (3.23%) .NET Core
5 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.23%) Node.js
5 1 (3.23%) PySpark
5 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.23%) Redux
5 1 (3.23%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
1 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.45%) 3D Graphics
2 2 (6.45%) Data Centre
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 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 18 (58.06%) CI/CD
2 10 (32.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (29.03%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) DevOps
3 9 (29.03%) Software Engineering
4 8 (25.81%) Event-Driven
4 8 (25.81%) Event-Driven Architecture
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%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (19.35%) User Experience
7 5 (16.13%) Clean Code
7 5 (16.13%) Data Engineering
7 5 (16.13%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (12.90%) API Development
8 4 (12.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 18 (58.06%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) SQL
3 7 (22.58%) 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%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.23%) SnowPro
2 1 (3.23%) VCAP
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
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 2 (6.45%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) Terraform
2 5 (16.13%) Prometheus
3 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.23%) Ansible
4 1 (3.23%) Grafana
4 1 (3.23%) Podman
4 1 (3.23%) PowerCLI
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%) Cisco
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%) Pure Storage
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) VMware