Performance Tuning Contracts in England

Performance Tuning
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Performance Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 286 316
Rank change year-on-year +5 +30 -82
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 286 454 615
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.77% 0.90% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 1.00% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 280 411
10th Percentile £349 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -10.64% +11.90%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £781
90th Percentile £725 £758 £900
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.86% -8.70% +14.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 10
10th Percentile £31.74 £60.00 £39.13
25th Percentile £46.75 £62.00 £42.02
Median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% +56.76% -20.26%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £61.63
90th Percentile - - £66.72
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.03% +45.00% -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Performance Tuning 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 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
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% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Tuning in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 -13 128 £525 -8.70% 59
South East +46 80 £605 +15.24% 22
North of England +37 31 £450 -10.00% 16
North West +26 16 £510 +7.37% 13
Yorkshire +28 15 £425 -22.73% 3
Midlands +23 15 £588 +17.50% 25
South West -1 13 £400 - 4
West Midlands +28 8 £600 +20.00% 13
East Midlands +21 7 £575 +15.00% 12
East of England -9 7 £350 -34.88% 12
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Performance Tuning
UK

Performance Tuning
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 15 (5.24%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.50%) NetWeaver
3 9 (3.15%) Apache
4 8 (2.80%) Confluence
5 7 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.75%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.75%) Mule
6 5 (1.75%) Mule ESB
6 5 (1.75%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.75%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (1.05%) ArcGIS
8 3 (1.05%) CICS
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.35%) GemFire
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.35%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.35%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 12 (4.20%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (3.50%) SAP IBP
2 10 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.70%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.70%) ION Anvil
5 2 (0.70%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.70%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.35%) HFM
6 1 (0.35%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.35%) SAP Convergent Charging
6 1 (0.35%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 82 (28.67%) AWS
2 78 (27.27%) Azure
3 21 (7.34%) GCP
4 19 (6.64%) Serverless
5 18 (6.29%) Power Platform
6 16 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
6 16 (5.59%) Amazon S3
6 16 (5.59%) GitHub
7 14 (4.90%) IaaS
7 14 (4.90%) OCI
8 13 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 13 (4.55%) PaaS
9 12 (4.20%) OpenShift
10 11 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (3.15%) Nutanix
11 9 (3.15%) Snowflake
12 8 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
12 8 (2.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (10.49%) SAN
2 26 (9.09%) Firewall
3 24 (8.39%) DNS
4 23 (8.04%) DHCP
5 9 (3.15%) Kerberos
5 9 (3.15%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.15%) VLAN
6 8 (2.80%) NAS
7 7 (2.45%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (1.75%) FTP
9 4 (1.40%) WAN
10 3 (1.05%) LAN
10 3 (1.05%) PuTTY
10 3 (1.05%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
11 2 (0.70%) SSH
11 2 (0.70%) VoIP
11 2 (0.70%) Wireless
12 1 (0.35%) HTTP
12 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (22.03%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (18.88%) SQL Server
3 42 (14.69%) Oracle Database
4 23 (8.04%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (7.69%) Oracle Database 11g
6 19 (6.64%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (6.64%) SAP HANA
7 17 (5.94%) MongoDB
8 16 (5.59%) MySQL
8 16 (5.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (4.90%) NoSQL
9 14 (4.90%) Power BI
10 11 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (3.85%) Relational Database
11 10 (3.50%) SAP BW
12 9 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (2.80%) Big Data
13 8 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (2.45%) DB2
14 7 (2.45%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 27 (9.44%) Git
2 18 (6.29%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.55%) JIRA
4 11 (3.85%) GitLab
5 9 (3.15%) Visual Studio
6 8 (2.80%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.75%) MSI
7 5 (1.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (1.75%) WiX
8 4 (1.40%) JUnit
8 4 (1.40%) Mockito
9 3 (1.05%) Toad
10 2 (0.70%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.35%) ERwin
General
1 80 (27.97%) Social Skills
2 57 (19.93%) Finance
3 24 (8.39%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (5.94%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.20%) Manufacturing
5 12 (4.20%) Telecoms
6 11 (3.85%) Banking
7 8 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (1.75%) Electronics
8 5 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.75%) Marketing
8 5 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.40%) Automotive
10 3 (1.05%) Arabic Language
10 3 (1.05%) French Language
10 3 (1.05%) Front Office
10 3 (1.05%) German Language
10 3 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.05%) Japanese Language
10 3 (1.05%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 71 (24.83%) Developer
2 44 (15.38%) DBA
3 21 (7.34%) SQL DBA
4 20 (6.99%) Consultant
5 18 (6.29%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 18 (6.29%) SAP Consultant
5 18 (6.29%) Senior
6 17 (5.94%) Administrator
6 17 (5.94%) Data Engineer
7 15 (5.24%) Database Specialist
7 15 (5.24%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 15 (5.24%) Storage Engineer
8 14 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (4.55%) Architect
10 12 (4.20%) Lead
10 12 (4.20%) Oracle Developer
11 10 (3.50%) Software Engineer
12 9 (3.15%) Java Developer
12 9 (3.15%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.15%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.64%) .NET
2 18 (6.29%) SAP Basis
3 16 (5.59%) SAP Fiori
3 16 (5.59%) XML
4 15 (5.24%) Kafka
5 14 (4.90%) JSON
6 12 (4.20%) Entity Framework
6 12 (4.20%) REST
7 10 (3.50%) SOAP
8 9 (3.15%) .NET Framework
8 9 (3.15%) LDAP
9 8 (2.80%) ASP.NET
9 8 (2.80%) Web Services
10 7 (2.45%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (2.45%) WCF
10 7 (2.45%) XSLT
11 6 (2.10%) Spring
12 5 (1.75%) LINQ
12 5 (1.75%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
12 5 (1.75%) NHibernate
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.59%) Replication
2 25 (8.74%) Clustering
2 25 (8.74%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (3.15%) Derivative
4 9 (3.15%) Fixed Income
5 8 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.10%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.10%) HP Storage
6 6 (2.10%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.10%) Smart Meter
7 5 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.75%) Client/Server
7 5 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.75%) Market Risk
7 5 (1.75%) NHS
7 5 (1.75%) Web 2.0
8 4 (1.40%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.40%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 79 (27.62%) Linux
2 50 (17.48%) Windows
3 44 (15.38%) Unix
4 27 (9.44%) Windows Server
5 17 (5.94%) Solaris
6 14 (4.90%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (4.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (4.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (4.55%) Windows 10
7 13 (4.55%) Windows XP
8 9 (3.15%) AIX
9 8 (2.80%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (1.40%) zOS
11 2 (0.70%) CentOS
12 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (25.52%) Migration
2 68 (23.78%) DevOps
3 66 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 63 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (16.78%) Agile
6 44 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 44 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 39 (13.64%) High Availability
8 36 (12.59%) Storage Management
9 35 (12.24%) CI/CD
9 35 (12.24%) Data Integration
10 32 (11.19%) ETL
11 29 (10.14%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (9.79%) Task Automation
13 25 (8.74%) Containerisation
14 24 (8.39%) Analytics
14 24 (8.39%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (8.39%) Server Management
15 23 (8.04%) Architectural Design
16 22 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 129 (45.10%) SQL
2 52 (18.18%) Python
3 44 (15.38%) Bash
4 36 (12.59%) PowerShell
5 33 (11.54%) PL/SQL
6 26 (9.09%) C#
7 22 (7.69%) Java
8 15 (5.24%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.85%) T-SQL
10 9 (3.15%) Scala
11 3 (1.05%) COBOL
11 3 (1.05%) Perl
11 3 (1.05%) REXX
11 3 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.05%) VBA
12 2 (0.70%) C
12 2 (0.70%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.70%) XPath
13 1 (0.35%) Go
13 1 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 86 (30.07%) Security Cleared
2 69 (24.13%) SC Cleared
3 46 (16.08%) Degree
4 31 (10.84%) DV Cleared
5 16 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (5.24%) CCNA
6 15 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (4.55%) CCNP
8 8 (2.80%) Master's Degree
8 8 (2.80%) SAP Certification
9 4 (1.40%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.05%) MCITP
10 3 (1.05%) MCTS
11 2 (0.70%) CISSP
11 2 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.70%) OSCP
12 1 (0.35%) OCP
12 1 (0.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.59%) GDPR
2 13 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.75%) QA
5 4 (1.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 36 (12.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (10.14%) Active Directory
3 28 (9.79%) Docker
4 14 (4.90%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (4.55%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.50%) vSphere
7 9 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.45%) Firmware
9 3 (1.05%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (1.05%) SRDF
10 2 (0.70%) KVM
11 1 (0.35%) Ceph
11 1 (0.35%) GridGain
11 1 (0.35%) iptables
11 1 (0.35%) Lustre
11 1 (0.35%) NFS
11 1 (0.35%) Samba
11 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.35%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 40 (13.99%) Terraform
2 34 (11.89%) Kubernetes
3 27 (9.44%) EMC NetWorker
4 26 (9.09%) Ansible
5 20 (6.99%) NetBackup
6 14 (4.90%) SCCM
6 14 (4.90%) vCenter Server
6 14 (4.90%) WSUS
7 13 (4.55%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 13 (4.55%) SCOM
8 8 (2.80%) Netcool
8 8 (2.80%) Puppet
8 8 (2.80%) Tivoli
8 8 (2.80%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 6 (2.10%) Argo
9 6 (2.10%) Grafana
9 6 (2.10%) HP Data Protector
9 6 (2.10%) Kibana
9 6 (2.10%) Progress Chef
9 6 (2.10%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 111 (38.81%) Oracle
2 56 (19.58%) Microsoft
3 36 (12.59%) VMware
4 33 (11.54%) Cisco
5 30 (10.49%) Dell
5 30 (10.49%) EMC
6 27 (9.44%) HP
7 25 (8.74%) SAP
8 19 (6.64%) Symantec
9 15 (5.24%) Informatica
9 15 (5.24%) Palo Alto
10 13 (4.55%) 3PAR
10 13 (4.55%) Extreme Networks
10 13 (4.55%) IBM
10 13 (4.55%) Juniper
10 13 (4.55%) Veeam
11 12 (4.20%) Red Hat
12 11 (3.85%) Isilon
12 11 (3.85%) SolarWinds
13 10 (3.50%) Brocade