Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Performance Optimisation
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 84 98
Rank change year-on-year +21 +14 +25
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 14 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.39% 0.48% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 0.60% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 2
10th Percentile £267 £469 -
25th Percentile £511 £563 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £413
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +39.39% -30.79%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £419
90th Percentile - £618 -
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £400
% change year-on-year -4.35% +43.75% -40.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 867 993 1,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.35% 79.06% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 633 660
10th Percentile £312 £360 £273
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £535
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £634
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 72 112
10th Percentile - £26.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £47.05 £21.05
Median hourly rate £25.04 £68.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.58% +25.00% +46.67%
75th Percentile £41.00 £75.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £59.38 £78.75 £74.88
South East median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £54.38
% change year-on-year -61.99% +7.35% +80.48%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Hampshire over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in Hampshire

Performance Optimisation
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 5 October 2025. 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
Basingstoke +12 7 £600 -1.64%
Portsmouth - 5 £550 - 1
Southampton - 1 £70 -
Havant - 1 £220 - 1
Performance Optimisation
South East

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Gunicorn
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
1 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (7.14%) Dagster
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (7.14%) MinIO
2 1 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) LAN
2 4 (28.57%) PCoIP
2 4 (28.57%) VSAN
3 1 (7.14%) NAS
3 1 (7.14%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.14%) Metadata
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.14%) Redis
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Poetry
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Pylint
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Network Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Developer
5 1 (7.14%) C++ Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
5 1 (7.14%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Celery
1 1 (7.14%) Flask
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) Keycloak
1 1 (7.14%) PySpark
1 1 (7.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) Architectural Design
3 5 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (35.71%) Proactive Maintenance
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Dependency Management
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Data Privacy
6 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Microservices
6 1 (7.14%) Multithreaded Programming
6 1 (7.14%) Presales
6 1 (7.14%) Security Patching
6 1 (7.14%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Python
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Bicep
2 1 (7.14%) C++
2 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) DV Cleared
4 4 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (28.57%) vSphere
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco
1 5 (35.71%) Juniper
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) SAP
3 1 (7.14%) Workday