Performance Tuning Contracts in Reading

Performance Tuning
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning 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 48 80
Rank change year-on-year -4 +32 +3
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 8 44 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.34% 3.69% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 4.09% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 37 5
10th Percentile £601 £588 -
25th Percentile £619 £603 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £588
90th Percentile £680 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £606 £605 £520
% change year-on-year +0.21% +16.35% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £61.60 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 -
% change year-on-year +3.48% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

Performance Tuning 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%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in Reading

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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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (75.00%) Oracle Database 11g
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Migration
1 7 (87.50%) Migration
2 6 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 6 (75.00%) CRUD
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) Prototyping
2 6 (75.00%) Secure Coding
2 6 (75.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) PL/SQL
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Splunk