Performance Tuning Contracts in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 121 141
Rank change year-on-year +33 +20 -2
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 31 6 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.77% 0.27% 1.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 0.30% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 22
10th Percentile £400 £469 £463
25th Percentile £422 £497 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £673
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% -20.07% -0.97%
75th Percentile £672 £584 £738
90th Percentile £762 £646 £750
Central London median daily rate £515 £538 £645
% change year-on-year -4.28% -16.67% -5.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Performance Tuning 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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the City of London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the City of London

Performance Tuning
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 6 (19.35%) Apache
1 6 (19.35%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.68%) Confluence
3 2 (6.45%) IIS
4 1 (3.23%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.23%) SAP Convergent Charging
2 1 (3.23%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (19.35%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) Azure
3 2 (6.45%) IaaS
3 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.23%) Datadog
4 1 (3.23%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.23%) Multicast
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) Big Data
2 5 (16.13%) Hadoop
2 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
3 4 (12.90%) MySQL
4 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database
4 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (9.68%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (6.45%) Power BI
5 2 (6.45%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (6.45%) Spotfire
6 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (3.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Git
2 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.90%) JIRA
4 3 (9.68%) GitLab
5 2 (6.45%) JMeter
5 2 (6.45%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (3.23%) LoadRunner
6 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (41.94%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.45%) Front Office
6 1 (3.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Java Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Apache Spark Developer
4 4 (12.90%) DBA
5 3 (9.68%) Administrator
5 3 (9.68%) Senior
6 2 (6.45%) Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) C++ Developer
6 2 (6.45%) C++ Quantitative Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Database Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Test Analyst
7 1 (3.23%) Lead Software Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) OpenVMS Administrator
7 1 (3.23%) SAP Developer
7 1 (3.23%) Security Architect
7 1 (3.23%) Senior DBA
7 1 (3.23%) Senior SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Spark Streaming
2 3 (9.68%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (6.45%) WebSockets
4 1 (3.23%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (3.23%) Android SDK
4 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.23%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (3.23%) ONNX
4 1 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.23%) REST
4 1 (3.23%) RESTful
4 1 (3.23%) SAP Basis
4 1 (3.23%) SAP BSP
4 1 (3.23%) SOAP
4 1 (3.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (16.13%) Market Risk
3 3 (9.68%) Replication
4 2 (6.45%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.23%) Clustering
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.23%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.23%) OpenVMS
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (29.03%) Agile
2 9 (29.03%) Analytics
2 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
3 8 (25.81%) Risk Management
4 7 (22.58%) Code Quality
4 7 (22.58%) Stress Testing
5 6 (19.35%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (19.35%) Regulatory Compliance
6 5 (16.13%) Batch Processing
6 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (16.13%) Greeks
6 5 (16.13%) High Availability
6 5 (16.13%) Mathematics
6 5 (16.13%) Memory Management
6 5 (16.13%) Migration
6 5 (16.13%) Performance Optimisation
6 5 (16.13%) Risk Analytics
7 4 (12.90%) Data Modelling
7 4 (12.90%) Database Tuning
Programming Languages
1 11 (35.48%) Python
2 10 (32.26%) Java
3 9 (29.03%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) C++
5 2 (6.45%) Bash
5 2 (6.45%) Groovy
6 1 (3.23%) ABAP
6 1 (3.23%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) PhD
3 1 (3.23%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.23%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Ansible
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) SAP
2 3 (9.68%) Databricks
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.23%) HP
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) Teradata