Performance Optimisation Contracts in the South West

Performance Optimisation
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Performance Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 168 165
Rank change year-on-year +41 -3 -32
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 20 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.63% 0.055% 0.080%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.062% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 0 3
10th Percentile £463 - £415
25th Percentile £513 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.50%
75th Percentile £561 - £656
90th Percentile £594 - £675
England median daily rate £575 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +18.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Performance Optimisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,645 3,232 3,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.15% 89.63% 88.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 2,378 2,345
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £589
90th Percentile £700 £723 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 331 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £28.63 £15.84 £20.24
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.70 £48.61
Median % change year-on-year -9.39% +24.87% +11.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the South West

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the South West

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the South West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the South West

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
Gloucestershire +7 5 £588 - 1
Bristol - 1 £250 - 3
Dorset - 1 £350 -
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) Azure
2 13 (65.00%) Power Platform
3 12 (60.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Wideband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) Power BI
1 13 (65.00%) Relational Database
1 13 (65.00%) SQL Server
1 13 (65.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 12 (60.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 12 (60.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 12 (60.00%) Tableau
3 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data
4 1 (5.00%) Flink
4 1 (5.00%) MySQL
General
1 12 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (70.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Power BI Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Design Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (5.00%) PHP Laravel Developer
4 1 (5.00%) RF Design Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) CSS
1 1 (5.00%) HTML
1 1 (5.00%) Laravel
1 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (15.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Data Modelling
1 13 (65.00%) ETL
1 13 (65.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 12 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (20.00%) Cost Management
4 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Modelling
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 4 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
4 4 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (15.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) SQL
2 12 (60.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.00%) PHP
3 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (30.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (30.00%) Degree
4 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (70.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks