Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in South London

Performance Optimisation
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.31% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £478 - -
90th Percentile £551 - -
London median daily rate £485 £615 £600
% change year-on-year -21.14% +2.50% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 153 167 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.44% 89.30% 83.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 113 198
10th Percentile £213 £286 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £567 £600
90th Percentile £719 £763 £684
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 17
10th Percentile - - £14.88
25th Percentile - £17.25 £23.46
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.19
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -62.64% +18.32%
75th Percentile £16.38 £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.75 £66.06
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -11.27% -11.25% +6.67%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in South London

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in South London over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in South London

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Bromley - 3 £425 - 3
Croydon - 1 £600 -
Performance Optimisation
London

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 3 (75.00%) Mattermost
1 3 (75.00%) Skype for Business
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Skype
1 3 (75.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Messaging Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Messaging Support
1 3 (75.00%) Messaging Support Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Consultant
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Compliance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) HP SiteScope
1 3 (75.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Splunk
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) VMware