Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Kent

Performance Optimisation
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 1.52% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - -
South East median daily rate £504 £575 £406
% change year-on-year -12.39% +41.54% -39.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 109 117 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 82.58% 65.00% 74.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 58 133
10th Percentile £193 £152 £201
25th Percentile £256 £192 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £356 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £530 £568 £540
90th Percentile £624 £660 £636
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.66% +2.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 8
10th Percentile £17.57 - £53.38
25th Percentile £19.39 £15.00 £54.22
Median hourly rate £20.40 £24.00 £62.12
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -61.37% +67.30%
75th Percentile - £54.00 £79.05
90th Percentile - £61.24 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £22.07 £57.35 £52.10
% change year-on-year -61.52% +10.08% +60.31%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Kent

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

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

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Chatham - 2 £630 -
Performance Optimisation
South East

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Google Play
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) CSS3
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) React Native
1 2 (100.00%) Redux
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Development
1 2 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Web Design
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google