Performance Optimisation Contracts in England

Performance Optimisation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 25 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 464 637
Rank change year-on-year +92 +173 -74
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 179 172 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.48% 0.37% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.41% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 116 116
10th Percentile £413 £330 £409
25th Percentile £513 £421 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +16.50%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £663
90th Percentile £788 £711 £710
UK median daily rate £588 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +17.50% -16.67% +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £32.50 - £45.98
25th Percentile £36.25 - £47.06
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.13 £50.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.47% +2.72% +57.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.82 £55.06
90th Percentile £52.50 £72.43 £56.53
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £52.13 £50.75
% change year-on-year -18.47% +2.72% +57.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 25 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Optimisation in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 25 June 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 +73 100 £600 +20.00% 38
South East +34 28 £600 +45.45% 10
South West +17 20 £538 +19.44% 1
North of England +15 12 £425 -5.56% 13
Midlands +14 8 £588 -9.62% 6
North West +12 8 £425 -5.56% 5
Yorkshire +15 4 £550 +10.00% 3
West Midlands +12 4 £360 -44.62% 5
East Midlands +10 4 £594 - 1
East of England - 3 £525 - 5
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 7 (3.91%) CMS
1 7 (3.91%) Headless CMS
2 5 (2.79%) Confluence
3 4 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.23%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.68%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.68%) nginx
5 2 (1.12%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.56%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.56%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.56%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.56%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.56%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 70 (39.11%) Azure
2 46 (25.70%) AWS
3 24 (13.41%) GCP
3 24 (13.41%) Power Platform
4 19 (10.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (6.70%) GitHub
6 11 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.47%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (3.91%) OpenShift
8 7 (3.91%) Snowflake
9 6 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.35%) Serverless
10 5 (2.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (2.23%) CloudBees
11 4 (2.23%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.23%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.23%) Twilio
12 3 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.15%) Firewall
2 9 (5.03%) SSH
3 8 (4.47%) Network Security
4 7 (3.91%) CTI
4 7 (3.91%) VoIP
4 7 (3.91%) VSAN
5 6 (3.35%) HTTP
5 6 (3.35%) MPLS
6 5 (2.79%) BGP
6 5 (2.79%) OSPF
6 5 (2.79%) Wideband
7 4 (2.23%) LAN
7 4 (2.23%) WAN
8 3 (1.68%) EIGRP
8 3 (1.68%) Internet
8 3 (1.68%) Multicast
9 2 (1.12%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.12%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.12%) VPN
10 1 (0.56%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (17.32%) NoSQL
2 22 (12.29%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (12.29%) Power BI
3 21 (11.73%) Relational Database
4 19 (10.61%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (7.26%) Tableau
6 12 (6.70%) Data Lake
6 12 (6.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 12 (6.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 10 (5.59%) KDB
8 9 (5.03%) MongoDB
9 8 (4.47%) Big Data
10 6 (3.35%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (3.35%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
12 3 (1.68%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.68%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.68%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (8.94%) JIRA
2 10 (5.59%) Cucumber
3 9 (5.03%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.03%) JUnit
4 4 (2.23%) GitLab
4 4 (2.23%) webpack
5 2 (1.12%) Ant
5 2 (1.12%) Babel
5 2 (1.12%) ERwin
5 2 (1.12%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.56%) Git
6 1 (0.56%) JMeter
6 1 (0.56%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.56%) Selenium
6 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.56%) VersionOne
6 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 67 (37.43%) Social Skills
2 51 (28.49%) Finance
3 48 (26.82%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.61%) Banking
5 10 (5.59%) Front Office
6 8 (4.47%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.91%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.91%) Telecoms
8 6 (3.35%) Marketing
9 5 (2.79%) Retail
10 4 (2.23%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Billing
11 1 (0.56%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.56%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 59 (32.96%) Developer
2 32 (17.88%) Architect
3 30 (16.76%) Data Engineer
4 23 (12.85%) Senior
5 18 (10.06%) Senior Developer
6 16 (8.94%) Java Developer
7 10 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.03%) Software Developer
9 8 (4.47%) Lead
10 7 (3.91%) Azure Architect
10 7 (3.91%) Azure Data Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (3.91%) VMware Expert
11 6 (3.35%) Data Architect
11 6 (3.35%) Quantitative Developer
11 6 (3.35%) React Developer
11 6 (3.35%) Senior Quantitative Developer
12 5 (2.79%) Azure Data Architect
12 5 (2.79%) Data Modeller
12 5 (2.79%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.97%) Web Services
2 17 (9.50%) REST
3 16 (8.94%) HTML
4 14 (7.82%) CSS
5 13 (7.26%) JSON
6 12 (6.70%) React
6 12 (6.70%) SOAP
7 10 (5.59%) .NET
7 10 (5.59%) Middleware
7 10 (5.59%) Spring
7 10 (5.59%) XML
8 9 (5.03%) Hibernate
8 9 (5.03%) HTML5
8 9 (5.03%) J2EE
8 9 (5.03%) JPA
9 8 (4.47%) AngularJS
9 8 (4.47%) Next.js
9 8 (4.47%) NumPy
9 8 (4.47%) Pandas
9 8 (4.47%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.26%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.03%) Derivative
3 9 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.03%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (5.03%) Onboarding
4 8 (4.47%) Data Structures
5 7 (3.91%) IVR
6 5 (2.79%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.79%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.68%) Grid Computing
8 3 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.41%) Linux
2 19 (10.61%) Unix
3 4 (2.23%) Android
4 3 (1.68%) Windows
5 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.56%) Tizen
6 1 (0.56%) tvOS
6 1 (0.56%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (25.14%) Data Modelling
1 45 (25.14%) DevOps
2 43 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (22.35%) CI/CD
4 36 (20.11%) Analytics
5 32 (17.88%) Data Pipeline
6 31 (17.32%) Agile
7 28 (15.64%) ETL
7 28 (15.64%) Translating Business Requirements
8 26 (14.53%) Computer Science
9 22 (12.29%) Migration
9 22 (12.29%) SDLC
10 21 (11.73%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (11.73%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (11.17%) Collaborative Working
11 20 (11.17%) Data Integration
12 19 (10.61%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (10.06%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (8.94%) Test Automation
15 15 (8.38%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 69 (38.55%) SQL
2 40 (22.35%) Java
2 40 (22.35%) Python
3 26 (14.53%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.26%) T-SQL
4 13 (7.26%) TypeScript
5 8 (4.47%) C#
5 8 (4.47%) C++
5 8 (4.47%) Rust
6 6 (3.35%) Perl
6 6 (3.35%) Scala
7 4 (2.23%) Go
7 4 (2.23%) Groovy
7 4 (2.23%) Ruby
8 2 (1.12%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.56%) Dart
9 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (15.08%) Degree
2 23 (12.85%) Security Cleared
3 20 (11.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (9.50%) SC Cleared
5 14 (7.82%) Master's Degree
6 10 (5.59%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.91%) AWS Certification
8 7 (3.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.91%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.12%) CCNP
10 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.56%) CCIE
11 1 (0.56%) CCNA
11 1 (0.56%) JNCIP
11 1 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.56%) PhD
11 1 (0.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.08%) QA
2 12 (6.70%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.35%) GDPR
3 6 (3.35%) HIPAA
3 6 (3.35%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (9.50%) Docker
2 10 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.91%) vCloud
3 7 (3.91%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.12%) Firmware
5 2 (1.12%) KVM
5 2 (1.12%) QEMU
5 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (12.29%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.26%) Terraform
3 8 (4.47%) Istio
4 7 (3.91%) Rancher
4 7 (3.91%) vCenter Server
5 5 (2.79%) Ansible
6 4 (2.23%) Grafana
7 1 (0.56%) Argo
7 1 (0.56%) Kibana
7 1 (0.56%) logstash
7 1 (0.56%) Matomo
7 1 (0.56%) Nagios
7 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.38%) Google
3 11 (6.15%) VMware
4 9 (5.03%) Databricks
5 8 (4.47%) Cisco
6 7 (3.91%) Genesys
7 5 (2.79%) Solace
7 5 (2.79%) TIBCO
8 4 (2.23%) Avaya
8 4 (2.23%) Oracle
9 3 (1.68%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.68%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.12%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.12%) IBM
10 2 (1.12%) Informatica
10 2 (1.12%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.12%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.56%) Adobe
11 1 (0.56%) Hyperion
11 1 (0.56%) Juniper