Performance Tuning Contracts in the South East

Performance Tuning
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 112 126 169
Rank change year-on-year +14 +43 +38
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 47 80 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.56% 1.44% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.70% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 66 31
10th Percentile £335 £425 £485
25th Percentile £400 £463 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £605 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.33% +15.24% +2.39%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £581
90th Percentile £678 £688 £600
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile - - £60.00
25th Percentile £61.87 - £66.25
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% -17.87% +50.00%
75th Percentile £65.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £72.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.03% +56.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 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 Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the South East

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the South East

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the South East

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the South East

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning 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 +17 39 £481 -20.50% 24
Berkshire +3 31 £606 +0.21% 16
Buckinghamshire +17 8 £355 -21.11% 7
East Sussex - 3 £450 - 1
Surrey +18 2 £550 -8.33% 4
Oxfordshire - 2 £355 - 1
Hampshire +21 1 - - 12
West Sussex +6 1 £625 +8.70% 3
Kent - 1 £585 - 2
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
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 4 (8.51%) Apache
2 2 (4.26%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (4.26%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 21 (44.68%) AWS
2 18 (38.30%) Azure
3 10 (21.28%) GCP
4 6 (12.77%) Snowflake
5 3 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (6.38%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Storage
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Table
6 2 (4.26%) Miro
6 2 (4.26%) PaaS
6 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.13%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.13%) IaaS
7 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) FTP
2 4 (8.51%) DHCP
2 4 (8.51%) DNS
2 4 (8.51%) SMTP
2 4 (8.51%) Telnet
3 3 (6.38%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.13%) HTTP
4 1 (2.13%) IPFIX
4 1 (2.13%) Network Security
4 1 (2.13%) SSL
4 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (25.53%) SQL Server
2 11 (23.40%) Oracle Database
3 9 (19.15%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (19.15%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (12.77%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (10.64%) Data Lake
5 5 (10.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (6.38%) Power BI
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (2.13%) MySQL
8 1 (2.13%) Power Query
8 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Git
2 2 (4.26%) DBeaver
2 2 (4.26%) GitLab
2 2 (4.26%) JIRA
3 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle APEX
General
1 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Military
5 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) DBA
2 8 (17.02%) Administrator
2 8 (17.02%) Architect
3 7 (14.89%) SQL DBA
4 6 (12.77%) Senior
5 4 (8.51%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Snowflake Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (6.38%) Senior DBA
6 3 (6.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) AWS Data Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Lead
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Oracle DBA
7 2 (4.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) .NET
2 3 (6.38%) LDAP
3 2 (4.26%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.26%) ADO
3 2 (4.26%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.26%) JSON
4 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.13%) CSS
4 1 (2.13%) HTML
4 1 (2.13%) Jinja
4 1 (2.13%) jQuery
4 1 (2.13%) NETCONF
4 1 (2.13%) REST
4 1 (2.13%) RESTCONF
4 1 (2.13%) RESTful
4 1 (2.13%) SOAP
4 1 (2.13%) WCF
4 1 (2.13%) Web Services
4 1 (2.13%) XML
4 1 (2.13%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.26%) Clustering
3 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.26%) Replication
4 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.40%) Linux
2 7 (14.89%) Windows
3 5 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.26%) Unix
4 2 (4.26%) VMS
4 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (46.81%) Migration
2 19 (40.43%) Data Migration
3 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (21.28%) DevOps
4 10 (21.28%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (17.02%) Data Modelling
5 8 (17.02%) ETL
5 8 (17.02%) High Availability
5 8 (17.02%) Performance Monitoring
6 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
6 7 (14.89%) Data Security
7 6 (12.77%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (12.77%) CRUD
7 6 (12.77%) Database Migration
7 6 (12.77%) Database Security
7 6 (12.77%) ITIL
7 6 (12.77%) RBAC
7 6 (12.77%) Software Testing
7 6 (12.77%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (70.21%) SQL
2 13 (27.66%) Python
3 8 (17.02%) Bash
3 8 (17.02%) PL/SQL
4 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.26%) Bicep
5 2 (4.26%) C#
5 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.13%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.13%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.13%) Java
6 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.13%) R
6 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.13%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 24 (51.06%) Security Cleared
2 14 (29.79%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.89%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.13%) CCNP
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.13%) JNCIP
5 1 (2.13%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) GDPR
1 6 (12.77%) HIPAA
2 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) SLA
3 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) NFS
1 4 (8.51%) Samba
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Ansible
2 4 (8.51%) yum
3 2 (4.26%) BMC PATROL
3 2 (4.26%) Data Guard
3 2 (4.26%) Grafana
3 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.26%) SCOM
3 2 (4.26%) Terraform
4 1 (2.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 17 (36.17%) Oracle
2 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.64%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.51%) VMware
5 3 (6.38%) Dynatrace
5 3 (6.38%) HP
5 3 (6.38%) IBM
6 2 (4.26%) BMC
6 2 (4.26%) Google
6 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.26%) Splunk
7 1 (2.13%) Cisco
7 1 (2.13%) Databricks
7 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.13%) Informatica
7 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.13%) SAP
7 1 (2.13%) SolarWinds