Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in East London

Performance Optimisation
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in East London 4.76% - 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% - 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £437 - -
25th Percentile £446 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £380
75th Percentile £472 - -
90th Percentile £511 - -
London median daily rate £550 £504 £615
% change year-on-year +9.13% -18.05% +2.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 111 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 85.71% 95.69% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 93 168
10th Percentile £301 £259 £300
25th Percentile £412 £415 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £540 £521
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% +3.60% -3.47%
75th Percentile £675 £585 £611
90th Percentile £775 £675 £703
London median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £23.22 £17.60 £11.95
25th Percentile £23.96 £32.00 £16.47
Median hourly rate £25.39 £37.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.39% +64.44% -18.08%
75th Percentile £27.31 £40.00 £25.66
90th Percentile £28.35 £53.50 £29.99
London median hourly rate £35.71 £30.90 £33.55
% change year-on-year +15.56% -7.89% -21.98%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in East London

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Performance Optimisation within the East London region over the 6 months to 22 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tower Hamlets - 4 £450 -
Hackney - 1 £525 - 1
Performance Optimisation
London

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) IDoc
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) SAP TM
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) API Management
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) OO
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) ABAP
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) VMware