Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Performance Optimisation
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 68 79
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 16 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.18% 0.53% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 0.59% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 0
10th Percentile £416 £310 -
25th Percentile £425 £357 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.57% - -
75th Percentile £513 £415 -
90th Percentile £564 £429 -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +12.57% -15.84% +16.56%

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 636 675 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.77% 89.88% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 433 539
10th Percentile £297 £302 £344
25th Percentile £381 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -11.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £626
90th Percentile £625 £661 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 17
10th Percentile £14.66 £16.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +22.44% -46.16%
75th Percentile £46.61 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.06
% change year-on-year -13.04% +20.70% +3.00%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Glasgow over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in Glasgow

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe XD
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (6.25%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 7 (43.75%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.25%) Figma
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
4 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (43.75%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) DB2
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) Redis
4 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (12.50%) JUnit
1 2 (12.50%) Mockito
2 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Data Architect
2 5 (31.25%) Snowflake Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Gen AI Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Snowflake Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) UI Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Designer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) AngularJS
2 3 (18.75%) React
3 2 (12.50%) LangChain
3 2 (12.50%) Next.js
3 2 (12.50%) Node.js
3 2 (12.50%) REST
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) CSS
4 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) Hugging Face
4 1 (6.25%) J2EE
4 1 (6.25%) JPA
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) LangGraph
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth
4 1 (6.25%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Cloud Native
2 7 (43.75%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (43.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (68.75%) AI
3 9 (56.25%) Data Security
3 9 (56.25%) Design Patterns
3 9 (56.25%) Machine Learning
3 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (50.00%) DevOps
5 7 (43.75%) Cost Management
5 7 (43.75%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (43.75%) High Availability
5 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (43.75%) Migration
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Generative AI
7 3 (18.75%) Architectural Design
7 3 (18.75%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (12.50%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Ansible
2 7 (43.75%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Greenplum
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Adobe
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Informatica
3 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAI
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.25%) Talend