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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 174 202
Rank change year-on-year +36 +28 +55
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 18 25 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.62% 0.45% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.54% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 10
10th Percentile £400 £570 £376
25th Percentile £425 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £413
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +45.45% -38.66%
75th Percentile £488 £775 £480
90th Percentile £513 £813 £675
England median daily rate £500 £581 £500
% change year-on-year -13.98% +16.25% -16.67%

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 2,668 4,666 4,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.34% 83.55% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,716 2,714 3,430
10th Percentile £250 £255 £249
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +1.95% +0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 175 446 214
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.24
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.23 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +127.79%
75th Percentile £62.37 £62.50 £64.91
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.93 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 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 29 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 +26 9 £438 -27.08% 221
Berkshire +22 8 £450 -25.00% 130
East Sussex - 5 £475 - 28
Surrey - 3 £450 - 63
Hampshire +35 1 £520 -30.67% 88
Buckinghamshire +11 1 £321 - 59
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 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Gunicorn
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) CloudFront
4 2 (11.11%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure API Management
5 1 (5.56%) Azure App Service
5 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) MinIO
5 1 (5.56%) OCI
5 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.11%) Redis
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
3 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.56%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Parquet
3 1 (5.56%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Poetry
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) React Developer
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Embedded Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.56%) SAP Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) React
1 4 (22.22%) RESTful
2 3 (16.67%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
3 2 (11.11%) JSON
3 2 (11.11%) OAuth
3 2 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) Spring
3 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
3 2 (11.11%) Web Services
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.56%) Apollo GraphQL
4 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.56%) Java SE
4 1 (5.56%) Keycloak
4 1 (5.56%) Playwright
4 1 (5.56%) Prisma
4 1 (5.56%) TanStack
4 1 (5.56%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Device Driver
2 1 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 4 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 3 (16.67%) Edge Computing
5 3 (16.67%) Microservices
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
6 2 (11.11%) ERP
6 2 (11.11%) High Availability
6 2 (11.11%) ITIL
6 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
4 1 (5.56%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) C++
4 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) OCP
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 2 (11.11%) BMC PATROL
4 1 (5.56%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) BMC
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
1 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
1 2 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (5.56%) VMware