Performance Optimisation Contracts in Oxfordshire

Performance Optimisation
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 1.28% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £394 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - -
75th Percentile £431 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £475 £600 £413
% change year-on-year -20.83% +45.45% -38.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 157 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 91.03% 75.48% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 106 153
10th Percentile £183 £180 £238
25th Percentile £250 £267 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -
75th Percentile £547 £500 £600
90th Percentile £688 £611 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 26 18
10th Percentile £17.71 £11.50 £25.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £12.63 £25.95
Median hourly rate £26.50 £19.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +35.90% -39.63% +61.50%
75th Percentile £61.90 £45.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £65.00 £51.13
South East median hourly rate £21.99 £55.04 £50.00
% change year-on-year -60.05% +10.08% +100.00%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Oxfordshire

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Oxfordshire

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Thame - 1 - - 1
Performance Optimisation
South East

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) GIS
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Celery
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Next.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Science
1 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Xamarin