Performance Optimisation Contracts in the South West

Performance Optimisation
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 137 157
Rank change year-on-year +28 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 4 19 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.24% 0.59% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.71% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 2
10th Percentile £428 £505 -
25th Percentile £450 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% +19.44% -25.00%
75th Percentile £536 £572 -
90th Percentile £544 £594 -
England median daily rate £500 £581 £500
% change year-on-year -13.98% +16.25% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,532 2,670 3,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.81% 82.38% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 937 1,703 2,221
10th Percentile £220 £233 £313
25th Percentile £384 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 353 313
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.45% -4.35% +18.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £81.89
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

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 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the South West

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the South West.

Hourly rate trend 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 29 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
Devon - 1 £425 - 59
Somerset - 1 £513 - 35
Wiltshire - 1 £550 - 28
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Figma
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Storybook
1 1 (25.00%) Vite
1 1 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Software Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Redux
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (25.00%) UX Design
2 1 (25.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (25.00%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (25.00%) RHCE
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) NFS
1 1 (25.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Nagios
1 1 (25.00%) SELinux
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
1 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat