Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Performance Tuning
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 7 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 4.09% 3.70% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 4.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
South London median daily rate £500 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 152 73 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 88.89% 90.12% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 51 59
10th Percentile £439 £313 £380
25th Percentile £481 £478 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £533 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% +6.50% -5.30%
75th Percentile £550 £632 £538
90th Percentile £729 £707 £567
South London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £19.50
75th Percentile £19.50 - £35.06
90th Percentile - - £59.03
South London median hourly rate £17.85 £15.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +12.69% -18.77% -61.32%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Tuning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Performance Tuning job vacancy trend in Croydon

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 (57.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS KMS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (42.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) JIRA
3 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (42.86%) DbUnit
3 3 (42.86%) jMock
3 3 (42.86%) JUnit
3 3 (42.86%) Maven
3 3 (42.86%) Mockito
3 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (85.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
3 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) DBA
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (42.86%) AngularJS
1 3 (42.86%) Bootstrap
1 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
1 3 (42.86%) JPA
1 3 (42.86%) Node.js
1 3 (42.86%) PowerMock
1 3 (42.86%) REST
1 3 (42.86%) RESTful
1 3 (42.86%) SOAP
1 3 (42.86%) Spring
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Batch
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Cloud
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Integration
1 3 (42.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Replication
2 3 (42.86%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 4 (57.14%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (57.14%) Servant Leadership
5 3 (42.86%) BDD
5 3 (42.86%) BPMN
5 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
5 3 (42.86%) Kanban
5 3 (42.86%) Microservices
5 3 (42.86%) Open Source
5 3 (42.86%) Scrum
5 3 (42.86%) TDD
6 2 (28.57%) Biometrics
6 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) Groovy
2 4 (57.14%) Perl
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) AWS Certification
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
2 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 3 (42.86%) Atlassian
2 3 (42.86%) Jaspersoft