Performance Optimisation Contracts in London

Performance Optimisation
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Performance Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 375 497
Rank change year-on-year +58 +122 -83
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 83 113 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.47% 0.43% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.47% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 82 78
10th Percentile £405 £310 £454
25th Percentile £488 £458 £532
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.80% -16.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £673
90th Percentile £875 £730 £712
England median daily rate £575 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.25
Median hourly rate - - £46.50
75th Percentile - - £47.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.57 £52.13 £48.50
% change year-on-year +10.44% +7.48% +50.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Performance Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,685 23,887 35,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.71% 90.96% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,243 17,198 25,835
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 269 419
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.40 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £80.45 £68.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in London

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in London

Performance 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 Performance Optimisation within the London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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 +49 16 £625 +4.17% 6
East London - 3 £380 - 2
North London - 1 £450 - 1
West London - 1 £530 -
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance 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 (1.20%) Apache Pulsar
1 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.20%) CMS
1 1 (1.20%) Confluence
1 1 (1.20%) Headless CMS
1 1 (1.20%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.20%) Cloudability
2 1 (1.20%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 31 (37.35%) Azure
2 22 (26.51%) AWS
3 11 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (13.25%) GitHub
4 9 (10.84%) GCP
5 7 (8.43%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.82%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (4.82%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.82%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.82%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.41%) Apigee
8 2 (2.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (2.41%) npm
8 2 (2.41%) Serverless
8 2 (2.41%) Twilio
8 2 (2.41%) Yarn
9 1 (1.20%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) SSH
2 5 (6.02%) Firewall
3 4 (4.82%) Network Security
4 3 (3.61%) BGP
4 3 (3.61%) CTI
4 3 (3.61%) EIGRP
4 3 (3.61%) HTTP
4 3 (3.61%) LAN
4 3 (3.61%) MPLS
4 3 (3.61%) Multicast
4 3 (3.61%) OSPF
4 3 (3.61%) VoIP
4 3 (3.61%) WAN
5 1 (1.20%) AMQP
5 1 (1.20%) DNS
5 1 (1.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.30%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.64%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.43%) Power BI
4 6 (7.23%) KDB
4 6 (7.23%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.82%) Big Data
6 4 (4.82%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.61%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.61%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.41%) Bigtable
8 2 (2.41%) DocumentDB
8 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.41%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.20%) MySQL
9 1 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (9.64%) JIRA
2 7 (8.43%) Cucumber
3 6 (7.23%) JUnit
4 5 (6.02%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.41%) Ant
5 2 (2.41%) Babel
5 2 (2.41%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.41%) webpack
6 1 (1.20%) Android Studio
6 1 (1.20%) Git
6 1 (1.20%) GitLab
6 1 (1.20%) JMeter
6 1 (1.20%) Mocha
6 1 (1.20%) NeoLoad
6 1 (1.20%) Selenium
6 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.20%) Xcode
General
1 38 (45.78%) Finance
2 23 (27.71%) Social Skills
3 20 (24.10%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (18.07%) Banking
5 9 (10.84%) Front Office
6 4 (4.82%) Financial Institution
6 4 (4.82%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.41%) Marketing
7 2 (2.41%) Retail
7 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.20%) Billing
8 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.20%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (50.60%) Developer
2 17 (20.48%) Senior
3 15 (18.07%) Senior Developer
4 14 (16.87%) Architect
4 14 (16.87%) Java Developer
5 10 (12.05%) Software Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Data Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Lead
7 6 (7.23%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Quantitative Developer
7 6 (7.23%) React Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Quantitative Developer
8 5 (6.02%) Azure Architect
8 5 (6.02%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.82%) Administrator
9 4 (4.82%) Azure Data Architect
9 4 (4.82%) DBA
9 4 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.61%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.28%) Web Services
2 11 (13.25%) REST
3 9 (10.84%) .NET
3 9 (10.84%) HTML
3 9 (10.84%) JSON
3 9 (10.84%) SOAP
4 8 (9.64%) Middleware
4 8 (9.64%) NumPy
4 8 (9.64%) Pandas
4 8 (9.64%) SciPy
5 7 (8.43%) CSS
5 7 (8.43%) Spring
5 7 (8.43%) XML
6 6 (7.23%) Hibernate
6 6 (7.23%) J2EE
6 6 (7.23%) JPA
7 5 (6.02%) React
8 4 (4.82%) .NET Framework
8 4 (4.82%) FIX Protocol
8 4 (4.82%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Derivative
2 7 (8.43%) Data Structures
2 7 (8.43%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.23%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (7.23%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (7.23%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.02%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.82%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.82%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.61%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.61%) Grid Computing
6 3 (3.61%) IVR
7 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.41%) Equities
7 2 (2.41%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.41%) Replication
7 2 (2.41%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.28%) Linux
2 14 (16.87%) Unix
3 4 (4.82%) Android
4 2 (2.41%) Windows
5 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.71%) DevOps
2 21 (25.30%) CI/CD
3 19 (22.89%) SDLC
4 18 (21.69%) Data Pipeline
5 16 (19.28%) Agile
5 16 (19.28%) Analytics
6 15 (18.07%) Test Automation
7 14 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (15.66%) Computer Science
9 12 (14.46%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (14.46%) Data Modelling
10 10 (12.05%) BDD
10 10 (12.05%) Migration
11 9 (10.84%) Requirements Gathering
11 9 (10.84%) Scrum
11 9 (10.84%) Software Engineering
11 9 (10.84%) TDD
12 8 (9.64%) OOP
12 8 (9.64%) Release Management
13 7 (8.43%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 37 (44.58%) SQL
2 31 (37.35%) Java
3 24 (28.92%) Python
4 18 (21.69%) JavaScript
5 10 (12.05%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.64%) C++
6 8 (9.64%) Rust
7 7 (8.43%) C#
8 5 (6.02%) Perl
9 3 (3.61%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.41%) Scala
11 1 (1.20%) Go
11 1 (1.20%) Groovy
11 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.20%) R
11 1 (1.20%) Ruby
11 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (15.66%) Degree
2 8 (9.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (8.43%) Azure Certification
4 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.82%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.61%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.84%) QA
2 4 (4.82%) GDPR
3 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.41%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.41%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (6.02%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) Firmware
2 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.20%) Ansible
2 1 (1.20%) Argo
2 1 (1.20%) Grafana
2 1 (1.20%) Istio
2 1 (1.20%) Kibana
2 1 (1.20%) logstash
2 1 (1.20%) Matomo
2 1 (1.20%) Nagios
2 1 (1.20%) Terraform
2 1 (1.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.02%) Cisco
2 5 (6.02%) Google
3 4 (4.82%) Solace
3 4 (4.82%) TIBCO
4 3 (3.61%) CheckPoint
4 3 (3.61%) Databricks
4 3 (3.61%) Genesys
4 3 (3.61%) Oracle
4 3 (3.61%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.41%) Avaya
5 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.41%) VMware
6 1 (1.20%) IBM
6 1 (1.20%) Informatica
6 1 (1.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.20%) Talend
6 1 (1.20%) Veeam