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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.26% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £427 - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £511 - -
Scotland median daily rate £445 £308 -
% change year-on-year +44.72% - -

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 605 717 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.98% 84.75% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 398 724
10th Percentile £250 £212 £213
25th Percentile £406 £358 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £532 £550 £538
90th Percentile £598 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.89% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 23 5
10th Percentile £16.93 £13.22 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.37 £21.26
Median hourly rate £17.59 £18.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -57.65% +89.31%
75th Percentile £32.73 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £38.00 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.29 £18.33
% change year-on-year -1.40% +10.70% -51.04%

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%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon Cognito
3 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (37.50%) AWS CodePipeline
3 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (37.50%) Firebase
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
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%) CloudFront
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 Aurora
1 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Storybook
2 3 (37.50%) Cypress.io
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) Appium
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) 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%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) React Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Jest
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Amplify
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CDK
2 3 (37.50%) CSS
2 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
2 3 (37.50%) React
2 3 (37.50%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (25.00%) Playwright
4 1 (12.50%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (12.50%) PySpark
4 1 (12.50%) React Native
4 1 (12.50%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
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 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (62.50%) User Experience
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (50.00%) Workflow
4 3 (37.50%) Clean Code
4 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) OWASP
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (37.50%) Responsive Web Design
4 3 (37.50%) Secure Coding
5 2 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Change Management
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) ETL
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) JCL
3 1 (12.50%) REXX
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) IBM
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Optimizely