Performance Optimisation Contracts in the East of England

Performance Optimisation
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation 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 77 111 -
Rank change year-on-year +34 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.53% 0.052% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.061% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £530 - -
90th Percentile £557 - -
England median daily rate £523 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +10.00% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the East of England

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the East of England

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the East of England

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the East of England

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Hertfordshire +29 2 £490 - 5
Cambridgeshire - 2 £475 - 13
Essex - 1 £325 - 2
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (20.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Gerrit
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) SAP PI Consultant
1 1 (20.00%) Senior
1 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (20.00%) POSIX
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis
1 1 (20.00%) SAP PI
1 1 (20.00%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) PCIe
1 1 (20.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Security
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) DataOps
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Lean Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C
1 2 (40.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) ITGC
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
1 1 (20.00%) KVM
1 1 (20.00%) QEMU
1 1 (20.00%) Xen
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) SAP