Performance Optimisation Contracts in Edinburgh

Performance Optimisation
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.28% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £444 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £530 - -
Scotland median daily rate £440 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Edinburgh

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Edinburgh

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (12.50%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) BrowserStack
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (12.50%) Firebase
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SNA
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Storybook
2 1 (12.50%) Appium
2 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) React Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Jest
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Amplify
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 1 (12.50%) Ionic Framework
2 1 (12.50%) Playwright
2 1 (12.50%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) React Native
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Tailwind CSS
2 1 (12.50%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Mainframe
1 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 1 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (12.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
1 1 (12.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (62.50%) ETL
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Analytics
3 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
3 3 (37.50%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Change Management
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 2 (25.00%) Workflow
5 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) JCL
3 1 (12.50%) REXX
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft