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

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 105 147
Rank change year-on-year +10 +42 +73
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 51 93 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.75% 1.70% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.02% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 77 38
10th Percentile £325 £425 £450
25th Percentile £380 £463 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £606 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £688 £600
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 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% +57.89%
75th Percentile £65.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £72.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.03% +61.11%

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 2,666 4,608 4,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.43% 84.21% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,718 2,676 3,448
10th Percentile £250 £255 £248
25th Percentile £387 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £502
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -0.25% +0.30%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
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 172 443 217
10th Percentile £13.28 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.26 £22.16
Median hourly rate £25.82 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.65% -5.00% +132.56%
75th Percentile £61.69 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

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 23 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 23 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 +12 40 £465 -23.14% 165
Berkshire +2 31 £500 -17.36% 108
Buckinghamshire +18 9 £360 -20.00% 38
Hampshire +11 5 £500 -16.67% 50
East Sussex - 3 £450 - 17
West Sussex +10 2 £625 +8.70% 18
Oxfordshire - 2 £355 - 21
Surrey - 2 £550 - 33
Kent - 1 £585 - 30
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 (7.84%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (5.88%) Apache
2 3 (5.88%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (5.88%) IIS
2 3 (5.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.88%) WebLogic
3 2 (3.92%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (7.84%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (7.84%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (5.88%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) Azure
2 15 (29.41%) AWS
3 10 (19.61%) GCP
4 6 (11.76%) Snowflake
5 5 (9.80%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (7.84%) OCI
7 3 (5.88%) Azure AKS
7 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Storage
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Table
7 3 (5.88%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.92%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.92%) Miro
8 2 (3.92%) PaaS
9 1 (1.96%) IaaS
9 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) FTP
2 3 (5.88%) DHCP
2 3 (5.88%) DNS
2 3 (5.88%) SMTP
2 3 (5.88%) Telnet
3 2 (3.92%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.96%) HTTP
4 1 (1.96%) IPFIX
4 1 (1.96%) Network Security
4 1 (1.96%) SSL
4 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (27.45%) SQL Server
2 11 (21.57%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (15.69%) Oracle Database
4 5 (9.80%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (9.80%) Data Lake
4 5 (9.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 5 (9.80%) Power BI
5 3 (5.88%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (5.88%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.92%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.96%) MySQL
7 1 (1.96%) Power Query
7 1 (1.96%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) DBeaver
2 2 (3.92%) GitLab
2 2 (3.92%) JIRA
3 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.96%) Oracle APEX
General
1 14 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Military
5 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) DBA
2 9 (17.65%) Architect
3 8 (15.69%) Senior
4 7 (13.73%) Administrator
4 7 (13.73%) SQL DBA
5 6 (11.76%) Developer
6 5 (9.80%) Data Architect
6 5 (9.80%) Data Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Oracle DBA
7 4 (7.84%) Oracle Developer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior DBA
7 4 (7.84%) Snowflake Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Site Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) AWS Architect
9 2 (3.92%) Oracle Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) .NET
2 3 (5.88%) .NET Core
2 3 (5.88%) ADO
2 3 (5.88%) ARM Templates
2 3 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (3.92%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.92%) JSON
3 2 (3.92%) LDAP
4 1 (1.96%) CSS
4 1 (1.96%) EDI
4 1 (1.96%) HTML
4 1 (1.96%) jQuery
4 1 (1.96%) MSMQ
4 1 (1.96%) RESTful
4 1 (1.96%) SAML
4 1 (1.96%) SOAP
4 1 (1.96%) WCF
4 1 (1.96%) Web Services
4 1 (1.96%) XML
4 1 (1.96%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.84%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.92%) Clustering
3 2 (3.92%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.92%) Replication
4 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Linux
2 8 (15.69%) Windows
3 5 (9.80%) Unix
4 4 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.88%) Windows Server
6 2 (3.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (33.33%) Migration
2 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (25.49%) Data Migration
3 13 (25.49%) Data Modelling
3 13 (25.49%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (19.61%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (19.61%) ETL
5 8 (15.69%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (15.69%) Data Security
5 8 (15.69%) High Availability
5 8 (15.69%) Task Automation
6 7 (13.73%) CI/CD
6 7 (13.73%) Performance Monitoring
7 6 (11.76%) Analytics
7 6 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
7 6 (11.76%) Data Governance
7 6 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (11.76%) Database Migration
7 6 (11.76%) DevOps
7 6 (11.76%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 36 (70.59%) SQL
2 15 (29.41%) Python
3 9 (17.65%) Bash
4 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
5 5 (9.80%) PL/SQL
6 3 (5.88%) Bicep
6 3 (5.88%) C#
6 3 (5.88%) Perl
7 2 (3.92%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.96%) ActionScript
8 1 (1.96%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.96%) Java
8 1 (1.96%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.96%) R
8 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.96%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 18 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) DV Cleared
2 7 (13.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.96%) CCNP
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.96%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) JNCIP
4 1 (1.96%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) GDPR
1 6 (11.76%) HIPAA
2 5 (9.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.88%) COBIT
3 3 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.88%) NIST
3 3 (5.88%) SLA
4 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.80%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (5.88%) NFS
2 3 (5.88%) Samba
3 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (9.80%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (7.84%) Ansible
3 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 3 (5.88%) Grafana
3 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.88%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.88%) SCOM
3 3 (5.88%) Terraform
3 3 (5.88%) yum
4 2 (3.92%) BMC PATROL
4 2 (3.92%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.96%) QRadar
Vendors
1 18 (35.29%) Oracle
2 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.84%) Dynatrace
3 4 (7.84%) IBM
3 4 (7.84%) Red Hat
4 3 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 3 (5.88%) VMware
5 2 (3.92%) BMC
5 2 (3.92%) Databricks
5 2 (3.92%) Google
5 2 (3.92%) HP
5 2 (3.92%) Splunk
6 1 (1.96%) Cisco
6 1 (1.96%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.96%) Informatica
6 1 (1.96%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.96%) SAP
6 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds