Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in South London

Performance Tuning
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - 41
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 10 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 5.68% - 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.41% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.78%
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -15.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 156 168 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 88.64% 87.96% 83.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 113 198
10th Percentile £213 £286 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £633 £567 £600
90th Percentile £719 £768 £678
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 16
10th Percentile - - £14.44
25th Percentile - £17.25 £22.41
Median hourly rate £15.84 £19.50 £52.58
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -62.91% +19.20%
75th Percentile £16.38 £71.88 £55.20
90th Percentile £17.98 £73.75 £66.30
London median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £39.92
% change year-on-year -8.57% -12.31% +6.44%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in South London

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the South London region over the 6 months to 5 September 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
Croydon - 10 £475 -
Performance Tuning
London

Performance Tuning
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 10 (100.00%) Confluence
1 10 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 10 (100.00%) Route 53
1 10 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) FTP
1 10 (100.00%) HTTP
1 10 (100.00%) IMAP
1 10 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (100.00%) SMTP
1 10 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Git
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) JIRA
1 10 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 10 (100.00%) VMS
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Change Management
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 10 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Groovy
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 10 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
1 10 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 10 (100.00%) Postfix
1 10 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Grafana
1 10 (100.00%) Nessus
1 10 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 10 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (100.00%) ServiceNow