Performance Optimisation Contracts in England

Performance Optimisation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Performance Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 476 625
Rank change year-on-year +94 +149 -81
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 159 181 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.37% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.41% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 114 116
10th Percentile £413 £330 £394
25th Percentile £488 £410 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £684 £650 £663
90th Percentile £834 £703 £688
UK median daily rate £588 £520 £593
% change year-on-year +12.98% -12.24% +15.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £55.49 - £45.75
25th Percentile £56.22 - £46.50
Median hourly rate £57.57 £52.13 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% +7.48% +50.38%
75th Percentile £59.04 - £49.38
90th Percentile £59.85 - £49.45
UK median hourly rate £57.57 £52.13 £48.50
% change year-on-year +10.44% +7.48% +50.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Performance Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,821 44,233 63,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.48% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,850 31,044 45,163
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,565 1,721
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.68 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in England

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in England

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in England

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in England

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
London +58 83 £594 +18.80% 52
South East +43 28 £600 +45.45% 7
South West +33 20 £538 - 8
North of England +26 12 £425 +1.19% 25
North West +11 8 £425 +1.19% 11
Midlands +32 7 £588 -9.62% 11
East Midlands +27 4 £594 - 4
Yorkshire +20 4 £550 +10.00% 5
West Midlands +16 3 £360 -44.62% 7
East of England - 1 - - 4
Performance Optimisation
UK

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.89%) Jupyter
2 3 (1.89%) nginx
3 2 (1.26%) CMS
3 2 (1.26%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.63%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.63%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.63%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 66 (41.51%) Azure
2 43 (27.04%) AWS
3 23 (14.47%) GCP
3 23 (14.47%) Power Platform
4 19 (11.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.92%) GitHub
7 7 (4.40%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.40%) OpenShift
8 6 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (3.77%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.77%) Serverless
8 6 (3.77%) Snowflake
9 5 (3.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.52%) CloudBees
10 4 (2.52%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.52%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.52%) Twilio
11 3 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.55%) Firewall
2 8 (5.03%) Network Security
3 7 (4.40%) VSAN
4 6 (3.77%) CTI
4 6 (3.77%) SSH
4 6 (3.77%) VoIP
5 5 (3.14%) BGP
5 5 (3.14%) MPLS
5 5 (3.14%) OSPF
5 5 (3.14%) Wideband
6 4 (2.52%) HTTP
7 3 (1.89%) EIGRP
7 3 (1.89%) LAN
7 3 (1.89%) Multicast
7 3 (1.89%) WAN
8 2 (1.26%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.26%) Internet
8 2 (1.26%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (1.26%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (18.87%) NoSQL
2 21 (13.21%) Power BI
3 19 (11.95%) Relational Database
4 16 (10.06%) SQL Server
5 15 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (8.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (7.55%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 12 (7.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 12 (7.55%) Tableau
8 11 (6.92%) Data Lake
9 9 (5.66%) MongoDB
10 6 (3.77%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (3.77%) Big Data
10 6 (3.77%) KDB
10 6 (3.77%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.89%) ClickHouse
11 3 (1.89%) Oracle Database
12 2 (1.26%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 9 (5.66%) JIRA
2 8 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.40%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.77%) JUnit
5 4 (2.52%) webpack
6 3 (1.89%) GitLab
7 2 (1.26%) Ant
7 2 (1.26%) Babel
7 2 (1.26%) ERwin
7 2 (1.26%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.26%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.63%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.63%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.63%) Git
8 1 (0.63%) JMeter
8 1 (0.63%) Mocha
8 1 (0.63%) Selenium
8 1 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.63%) VersionOne
8 1 (0.63%) Xcode
General
1 52 (32.70%) Social Skills
2 45 (28.30%) Finance
3 41 (25.79%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.43%) Banking
5 9 (5.66%) Front Office
5 9 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.14%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.52%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.52%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.52%) Marketing
7 4 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.52%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Billing
8 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (32.08%) Developer
2 31 (19.50%) Architect
3 25 (15.72%) Data Engineer
4 18 (11.32%) Senior
5 16 (10.06%) Senior Developer
6 14 (8.81%) Java Developer
7 10 (6.29%) Software Developer
8 9 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.40%) Azure Architect
9 7 (4.40%) React Developer
9 7 (4.40%) VMware Expert
10 6 (3.77%) Data Architect
10 6 (3.77%) Lead
10 6 (3.77%) Low Latency Java Developer
10 6 (3.77%) Quantitative Developer
10 6 (3.77%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (3.77%) Senior Quantitative Developer
10 6 (3.77%) Technical Architect
11 5 (3.14%) Azure Data Architect
11 5 (3.14%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.32%) Web Services
2 13 (8.18%) REST
3 11 (6.92%) HTML
4 10 (6.29%) JSON
4 10 (6.29%) Middleware
4 10 (6.29%) SOAP
5 9 (5.66%) .NET
5 9 (5.66%) CSS
5 9 (5.66%) React
6 8 (5.03%) NumPy
6 8 (5.03%) Pandas
6 8 (5.03%) SciPy
7 7 (4.40%) Node.js
7 7 (4.40%) RESTful
7 7 (4.40%) Spring
7 7 (4.40%) XML
8 6 (3.77%) Hibernate
8 6 (3.77%) J2EE
8 6 (3.77%) JPA
8 6 (3.77%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.18%) Management Information System
2 10 (6.29%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.29%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.66%) Derivative
4 7 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.77%) IVR
5 6 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.14%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.14%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.52%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.89%) Grid Computing
9 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.26%) Equities
9 2 (1.26%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.26%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.58%) Linux
2 15 (9.43%) Unix
3 4 (2.52%) Android
4 3 (1.89%) Windows
5 2 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.63%) Tizen
6 1 (0.63%) tvOS
6 1 (0.63%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (28.93%) DevOps
2 40 (25.16%) CI/CD
3 38 (23.90%) Data Modelling
4 34 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (17.61%) Translating Business Requirements
6 27 (16.98%) Data Pipeline
7 26 (16.35%) Computer Science
8 25 (15.72%) Analytics
9 24 (15.09%) ETL
10 23 (14.47%) Agile
11 20 (12.58%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (11.95%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (11.95%) Continuous Integration
12 19 (11.95%) SDLC
12 19 (11.95%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (10.06%) Test Automation
15 15 (9.43%) Containerisation
15 15 (9.43%) Data Integration
16 14 (8.81%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (36.48%) SQL
2 38 (23.90%) Java
3 34 (21.38%) Python
4 26 (16.35%) JavaScript
5 13 (8.18%) T-SQL
6 12 (7.55%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.03%) C++
7 8 (5.03%) Rust
8 7 (4.40%) C#
9 6 (3.77%) Scala
10 5 (3.14%) Perl
11 4 (2.52%) Go
11 4 (2.52%) Groovy
11 4 (2.52%) Ruby
12 3 (1.89%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.26%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.63%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.63%) PHP
14 1 (0.63%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (16.35%) Degree
2 25 (15.72%) Security Cleared
3 20 (12.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (11.32%) SC Cleared
5 11 (6.92%) Master's Degree
6 10 (6.29%) Azure Certification
7 8 (5.03%) DV Cleared
7 8 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.77%) AWS Certification
8 6 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.26%) CCNA
9 2 (1.26%) CCNP
9 2 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.63%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.72%) QA
2 7 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.77%) GDPR
3 6 (3.77%) HIPAA
3 6 (3.77%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (10.69%) Docker
2 8 (5.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.40%) vCloud
3 7 (4.40%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.89%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.26%) Firmware
5 2 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.63%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 21 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.55%) Terraform
3 8 (5.03%) Istio
4 7 (4.40%) Rancher
4 7 (4.40%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.52%) Ansible
5 4 (2.52%) Grafana
6 1 (0.63%) Argo
6 1 (0.63%) Kibana
6 1 (0.63%) logstash
6 1 (0.63%) Matomo
6 1 (0.63%) Nagios
6 1 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.43%) Google
3 9 (5.66%) VMware
4 8 (5.03%) Databricks
5 7 (4.40%) Cisco
6 6 (3.77%) Genesys
6 6 (3.77%) Oracle
7 4 (2.52%) Avaya
7 4 (2.52%) Solace
7 4 (2.52%) TIBCO
8 3 (1.89%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.89%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.26%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.26%) F5
9 2 (1.26%) Informatica
9 2 (1.26%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.26%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.26%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.63%) Talend