Performance Optimisation Contracts in Glasgow

Performance Optimisation
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.63% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £393 - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £440 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Glasgow

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Glasgow

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) DB2
2 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) JUnit
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (40.00%) Front Office
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
2 3 (60.00%) J2EE
2 3 (60.00%) REST
2 3 (60.00%) SOAP
2 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (40.00%) JMS
3 2 (40.00%) Middleware
3 2 (40.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (40.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (40.00%) Equities
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) API Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) DocuSign
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Sybase