Code Optimisation Contracts in London

Code Optimisation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Code Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Code 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 342 387 470
Rank change year-on-year +45 +83 +96
Contract jobs citing Code Optimisation 11 4 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.088% 0.022% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.025% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 23
10th Percentile £282 £563 £758
25th Percentile £303 £619 £778
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £725 £825
Median % change year-on-year -50.90% -12.12% +13.79%
75th Percentile £725 £738 £1,074
90th Percentile £793 - -
England median daily rate £478 £588 £800
% change year-on-year -18.64% -26.56% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Code 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Code Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Code Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Code Optimisation in London

Code Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Code Optimisation in London.

Daily rate trend for Code Optimisation in London

Code Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Code Optimisation in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Code Optimisation in London

Code Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Code Optimisation in London.

Hourly rate trend for Code Optimisation in London

Code Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Code Optimisation within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +4 2 £700 -3.45%
Code Optimisation
England

Code Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Event Grid
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (9.09%) Looker
2 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JUnit
1 2 (18.18%) Maven
1 2 (18.18%) Mockito
2 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Qualitative Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Quantitative Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) AngularJS
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) FastAPI
2 2 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 2 (18.18%) JPA
2 2 (18.18%) Mongoose
2 2 (18.18%) Node.js
2 2 (18.18%) React
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Beam
3 1 (9.09%) boto
3 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Code
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
3 3 (27.27%) Event-Driven
3 3 (27.27%) TDD
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) BDD
4 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
4 2 (18.18%) Commercial Awareness
4 2 (18.18%) Containerisation
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Mentoring
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 2 (18.18%) SOA
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Microservices
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (9.09%) Pricing Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
1 6 (54.55%) TypeScript
2 5 (45.45%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Kotlin
4 2 (18.18%) C++
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Google