Performance Optimisation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Performance Optimisation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 109 141
Rank change year-on-year +7 +32 +40
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 14 21 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.84% 0.84% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.99% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 4
10th Percentile £394 - £333
25th Percentile £400 - £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £350
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +71.43% -41.67%
75th Percentile £496 £619 £388
90th Percentile £511 £630 £410
South East median daily rate £475 £600 £413
% change year-on-year -20.83% +45.45% -38.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,536 2,123 2,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.14% 84.72% 90.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 916 1,186 1,822
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.24% +2.50%
75th Percentile £591 £612 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 137 83
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.28 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.94 £19.38 £21.45
Median hourly rate £25.15 £53.03 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.57% +6.06% +187.03%
75th Percentile £54.38 £67.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £81.20 £86.37 £75.20
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £55.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.09% +10.00% +104.75%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
Berkshire +8 11 £455 -24.17% 3
Oxfordshire - 2 £413 - 4
Buckinghamshire +6 1 £321 -
Performance Optimisation
South East

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.14%) CMS
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) nginx
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Service Bus
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Azure Storage
3 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
5 1 (7.14%) Azure App Service
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) OCI
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Prefect
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) NAS
1 4 (28.57%) SAN
2 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (14.29%) Redis
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (7.14%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (7.14%) GIS
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Parquet
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) React Developer
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Administrator
3 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Lead
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) React
2 3 (21.43%) REST
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 2 (14.29%) GraphQL
3 2 (14.29%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.14%) Apollo GraphQL
4 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.14%) Django
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) Next.js
4 1 (7.14%) Playwright
4 1 (7.14%) Prisma
4 1 (7.14%) SAML
4 1 (7.14%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) Spring
4 1 (7.14%) TanStack
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
1 1 (7.14%) IoT
1 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.14%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Android
3 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Storage Management
2 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 4 (28.57%) DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (14.29%) Agile
3 2 (14.29%) Analytics
3 2 (14.29%) API Management
3 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (14.29%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Microservices
3 2 (14.29%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Operational Stability
3 2 (14.29%) Operations Management
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) C#
1 2 (14.29%) Python
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Bicep
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 4 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) BMC PATROL
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) yum
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) EMC
1 4 (28.57%) NetApp
1 4 (28.57%) Pure Storage
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) BMC
3 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) Xamarin