Performance Optimisation Contracts in the South East

Performance Optimisation
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 214 251
Rank change year-on-year +40 +37 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 30 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.54% 0.15% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.17% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 3
10th Percentile £379 £370 £302
25th Percentile £468 £406 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £413 £670
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -38.43% -
75th Percentile £650 £500 £685
90th Percentile £788 £675 £695
England median daily rate £558 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +7.21% -13.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59.89 - -
Median hourly rate £60.14 - -
75th Percentile £60.39 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.57 £52.13 £48.50
% change year-on-year +10.44% +7.48% +50.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,752 5,254 6,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.22% 89.52% 89.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,779 3,636 4,730
10th Percentile £229 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £615 £588
90th Percentile £699 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 221 290
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £23.15 £16.25
Median hourly rate £46.87 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.26% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.48 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.79 £63.80
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the South East

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the South East

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the South East over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the South East

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the South East

Performance Optimisation
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 Optimisation within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Thames Valley +25 21 £600 +54.84% 2
Berkshire - 18 £600 -
Hampshire +9 7 £600 +45.45% 2
Buckinghamshire +30 3 - - 1
Surrey - 1 £275 - 1
West Sussex - 1 - -
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
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 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) AWS
2 9 (30.00%) Azure
3 7 (23.33%) GCP
3 7 (23.33%) OpenShift
4 4 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.00%) Serverless
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.67%) Snowflake
6 2 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) VSAN
2 4 (13.33%) Wideband
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Impala
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) InterSystems Cache
2 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) PowerCenter
2 1 (3.33%) Redis
2 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) ERwin
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) VersionOne
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) VMware Expert
2 3 (10.00%) Design Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) Developer
2 3 (10.00%) RF Design Engineer
2 3 (10.00%) RF Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Data Modeller
4 1 (3.33%) Database Specialist
4 1 (3.33%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (3.33%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (3.33%) Product Owner
4 1 (3.33%) React Developer
4 1 (3.33%) Senior
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (3.33%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) CSS
1 1 (3.33%) DOM
1 1 (3.33%) GraphQL
1 1 (3.33%) HTML
1 1 (3.33%) JWT
1 1 (3.33%) Node.js
1 1 (3.33%) OAuth
1 1 (3.33%) OpenID
1 1 (3.33%) React
1 1 (3.33%) Redux
1 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) DevOps
2 15 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 14 (46.67%) Collaborative Working
3 14 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (46.67%) Technical Leadership
3 14 (46.67%) Time Management
4 8 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (13.33%) Hazard Analysis
5 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
6 3 (10.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (10.00%) Kalman Filter
7 2 (6.67%) Analytics
7 2 (6.67%) Computer Science
7 2 (6.67%) Data Governance
7 2 (6.67%) Data Integration
7 2 (6.67%) Data Science
7 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
7 2 (6.67%) Network Architecture
7 2 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) Java
2 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.33%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) Scala
2 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.67%) CCNA
4 2 (6.67%) CCNP
4 2 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Docker
1 7 (23.33%) vCloud
1 7 (23.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (23.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (3.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 15 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (23.33%) Istio
2 7 (23.33%) Rancher
2 7 (23.33%) Terraform
2 7 (23.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Google
1 7 (23.33%) VMware
2 2 (6.67%) Cloudera
2 2 (6.67%) F5
2 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (3.33%) Citrix
3 1 (3.33%) Informatica
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle