Performance Optimisation Contracts in Reading

Performance Optimisation
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 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 52 75 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 8 16 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.34% 1.34% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.49% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £405 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £410 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% - -
75th Percentile £438 £415 -
90th Percentile £448 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £417 £600 -
% change year-on-year -30.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.14 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £60.14 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Reading

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Reading

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (12.50%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 4 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) 5G
1 2 (25.00%) LTE
1 2 (25.00%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Backend Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Designer
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Embedded Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 4 (50.00%) Prisma
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth
3 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) TanStack
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Device Driver
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) API Design
2 4 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 4 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Edge Computing
3 2 (25.00%) Network Design
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) ERP
4 1 (12.50%) SOA
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle