Performance Optimisation Contracts in the South East

Performance Optimisation
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 135 175 213
Rank change year-on-year +40 +38 +45
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 24 30 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.80% 0.54% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.64% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 9
10th Percentile £400 £379 £370
25th Percentile £409 £468 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £600 £413
Median % change year-on-year -24.58% +45.45% -38.43%
75th Percentile £491 £650 £500
90th Percentile £618 £788 £675
England median daily rate £523 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.14 -
England median hourly rate £27.13 £57.57 £52.13
% change year-on-year -52.88% +10.44% +7.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the South East

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the South East

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the South East

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the South East

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +36 14 £409 -31.83% 8
Berkshire +26 13 £417 -30.50% 4
Hampshire +23 4 £610 +1.67% 7
East Sussex - 4 £475 - 2
Surrey +18 2 £450 +63.64% 6
Buckinghamshire +14 1 £321 - 2
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (4.17%) CMS
1 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) Gunicorn
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure AKS
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 4 (16.67%) Serverless
4 3 (12.50%) CloudFront
5 1 (4.17%) Azure API Management
5 1 (4.17%) Azure App Service
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) MinIO
5 1 (4.17%) OCI
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) 5G
1 5 (20.83%) LTE
1 5 (20.83%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (12.50%) 4G
2 3 (12.50%) 5G NR
3 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.83%) Redis
3 2 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) Big Data
4 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (4.17%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (4.17%) MySQL
4 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.17%) Parquet
4 1 (4.17%) Power BI
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Poetry
General
1 7 (29.17%) Telecoms
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Backend Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Subject Matter Expert
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Embedded Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.17%) SAP Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) RESTful
2 4 (16.67%) GraphQL
2 4 (16.67%) Prisma
3 3 (12.50%) React
4 2 (8.33%) .NET
4 2 (8.33%) JSON
4 2 (8.33%) Node.js
4 2 (8.33%) OAuth
4 2 (8.33%) REST
4 2 (8.33%) Web Services
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.17%) Entity Framework
5 1 (4.17%) Hibernate
5 1 (4.17%) Java EE
5 1 (4.17%) Java SE
5 1 (4.17%) SAML
5 1 (4.17%) SOAP
5 1 (4.17%) Spring
5 1 (4.17%) Struts
5 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (12.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.17%) Device Driver
2 1 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (4.17%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) DevOps
2 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Code Quality
4 5 (20.83%) Containerisation
4 5 (20.83%) Edge Computing
4 5 (20.83%) High Availability
4 5 (20.83%) Microservices
5 4 (16.67%) API Design
5 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.67%) Cost Management
5 4 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (16.67%) Design Patterns
5 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 4 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) Bicep
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) C++
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.17%) OCP
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
1 5 (20.83%) Terraform
2 4 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (8.33%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (4.17%) NSN NetAct
4 1 (4.17%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) BMC
2 2 (8.33%) Ericsson
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Nokia
3 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.17%) VMware