Performance Optimisation Contracts in Scotland

Performance Optimisation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 14 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.84% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £415 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - -
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £521 - -
UK median daily rate £492 £588 £500
% change year-on-year -16.26% +17.50% -14.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,549 1,859 2,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.48% 87.24% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 1,152 1,723
10th Percentile £263 £219 £251
25th Percentile £370 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -2.53% -
75th Percentile £538 £566 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 96 54
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.53 £11.25
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.34 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +33.34% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Scotland

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Scotland

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in Scotland

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 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
Edinburgh - 10 £488 - 4
Glasgow - 4 £383 - 3
Performance Optimisation
UK

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 7 (50.00%) Serverless
3 6 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (21.43%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (21.43%) Firebase
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub
4 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (7.14%) Azure
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) CloudFront
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) SNA
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle Database
1 5 (35.71%) Relational Database
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) DB2
3 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database 10g
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database 11g
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Database 12c
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.14%) Big Data
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Storybook
2 3 (21.43%) Cypress.io
2 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 2 (14.29%) JUnit
4 1 (7.14%) Appium
4 1 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 2 (14.29%) Front Office
5 1 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
5 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Data Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) React Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL Developer
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Developer
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Jest
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Amplify
2 3 (21.43%) AWS CDK
2 3 (21.43%) CSS
2 3 (21.43%) GraphQL
2 3 (21.43%) React
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
2 3 (21.43%) Tailwind CSS
3 2 (14.29%) JMS
3 2 (14.29%) Kafka
3 2 (14.29%) Playwright
3 2 (14.29%) Spring
4 1 (7.14%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (7.14%) PySpark
4 1 (7.14%) React Native
4 1 (7.14%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 2 (14.29%) Equities
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 5 (35.71%) Data Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
2 5 (35.71%) ETL
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 4 (28.57%) User Experience
3 4 (28.57%) Workflow
4 3 (21.43%) Clean Code
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) OWASP
4 3 (21.43%) Responsive Web Design
4 3 (21.43%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) JCL
5 1 (7.14%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Sybase
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft