Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Performance Optimisation
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 45 68
Rank change year-on-year -13 +23 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 7 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.06% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.30% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £638 £475 £388
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £448 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -0.56% +20.00% -41.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 580 335 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 87.61% 86.79% 87.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 136 312
10th Percentile £186 £263 £276
25th Percentile £400 £336 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £713 £675 £750
East of England median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 83 156
10th Percentile £16.65 £15.83 £26.24
25th Percentile £18.50 £37.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% - -
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £87.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
% change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Performance Optimisation
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Stevenage - 6 - - 3
Performance Optimisation
East of England

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Git
General
1 6 (85.71%) Aerospace
1 6 (85.71%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) C++ Software Engineer
1 6 (85.71%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Scrum Master
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
1 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) FPGA
1 6 (85.71%) PCIe
1 6 (85.71%) State Machine
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Concurrent Programming
2 6 (85.71%) Data Acquisition
2 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (85.71%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 6 (85.71%) Memory Management
2 6 (85.71%) Multithreading
2 6 (85.71%) Performance Analysis
2 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 6 (85.71%) Unit Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Volume Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (85.71%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle