Performance Tuning Contracts in the Thames Valley

Performance Tuning
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Performance Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 132 142
Rank change year-on-year +55 +10 -20
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 65 24 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.39% 0.82% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 0.89% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 19 13
10th Percentile £425 - £453
25th Percentile £463 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% -1.89% -1.85%
75th Percentile £663 £581 £625
90th Percentile £688 £600 £675
South East median daily rate £603 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +14.76% +2.39% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £61.60 - -
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -17.87% +50.00% -19.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Performance Tuning 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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,374 2,706 3,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.47% 91.98% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,876 2,095
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £363 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 63 86
10th Percentile £15.48 £18.70 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.71 £25.23 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.11 £25.55
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the Thames Valley

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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 Tuning within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 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
Berkshire +30 58 £605 +18.63% 6
Buckinghamshire +40 7 £450 - 4
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South East

Performance Tuning
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 4 (6.15%) NetWeaver
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (9.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (6.15%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.69%) AWS
1 18 (27.69%) Azure
2 12 (18.46%) OCI
3 6 (9.23%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (9.23%) OpenShift
4 5 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 5 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 14 (21.54%) Firewall
2 12 (18.46%) DHCP
2 12 (18.46%) DNS
2 12 (18.46%) SAN
3 2 (3.08%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (3.08%) LAN
3 2 (3.08%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.08%) VoIP
3 2 (3.08%) WAN
3 2 (3.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 26 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (27.69%) Oracle Database 11g
3 10 (15.38%) SAP HANA
4 6 (9.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (9.23%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (7.69%) Power BI
6 4 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (6.15%) SAP BW
7 2 (3.08%) Oracle Exadata
7 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.54%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.54%) Apache Zeppelin
8 1 (1.54%) Big Data
8 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
General
1 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.23%) Telecoms
3 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.08%) Finance
4 2 (3.08%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.54%) Military
5 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (30.77%) Developer
2 15 (23.08%) PostgreSQL Developer
3 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (15.38%) Consultant
4 10 (15.38%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 10 (15.38%) SAP Consultant
5 8 (12.31%) Storage Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) SAP Technical Consultant
6 6 (9.23%) Site Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Technical Consultant
7 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Informatica Developer
9 3 (4.62%) Database Specialist
9 3 (4.62%) DBA
9 3 (4.62%) PowerShell Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) VMware Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.38%) SAP Basis
2 8 (12.31%) SAP Fiori
3 7 (10.77%) Kafka
4 4 (6.15%) XML
5 2 (3.08%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.69%) Smart Meter
4 4 (6.15%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 23 (35.38%) Linux
2 16 (24.62%) Windows
3 12 (18.46%) Windows 10
3 12 (18.46%) Windows Server
3 12 (18.46%) Windows Server 2012
3 12 (18.46%) Windows Server 2016
3 12 (18.46%) Windows Server 2019
3 12 (18.46%) Windows XP
4 8 (12.31%) Unix
5 1 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Data Migration
1 24 (36.92%) Migration
1 24 (36.92%) Software Engineering
2 23 (35.38%) Architectural Design
2 23 (35.38%) DevOps
3 22 (33.85%) Disaster Recovery
4 18 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (27.69%) Secure Coding
4 18 (27.69%) Unit Testing
5 17 (26.15%) Clean Code
5 17 (26.15%) Software Testing
6 14 (21.54%) Performance Monitoring
7 12 (18.46%) Break/Fix
7 12 (18.46%) Converged Infrastructure
7 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (18.46%) ITIL
7 12 (18.46%) Proactive Monitoring
7 12 (18.46%) Project Management
7 12 (18.46%) Server Management
7 12 (18.46%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (38.46%) SQL
2 18 (27.69%) PL/SQL
3 12 (18.46%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.08%) Bash
5 1 (1.54%) R
5 1 (1.54%) Scala
5 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 43 (66.15%) SC Cleared
3 14 (21.54%) DV Cleared
4 13 (20.00%) Degree
5 12 (18.46%) CCNA
5 12 (18.46%) CCNP
5 12 (18.46%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (6.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.23%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Active Directory
1 12 (18.46%) Hyper-V
1 12 (18.46%) VMware ESXi
1 12 (18.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) EMC NetWorker
1 12 (18.46%) NetBackup
1 12 (18.46%) SCCM
1 12 (18.46%) SCOM
1 12 (18.46%) vCenter Server
1 12 (18.46%) WSUS
2 6 (9.23%) Argo
2 6 (9.23%) Grafana
2 6 (9.23%) Istio
2 6 (9.23%) Kibana
2 6 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (9.23%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.62%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (58.46%) Oracle
2 14 (21.54%) Cisco
2 14 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 14 (21.54%) Palo Alto
3 12 (18.46%) 3PAR
3 12 (18.46%) Dell
3 12 (18.46%) EMC
3 12 (18.46%) Extreme Networks
3 12 (18.46%) HP
3 12 (18.46%) Juniper
3 12 (18.46%) Symantec
3 12 (18.46%) Veeam
3 12 (18.46%) VMware
4 10 (15.38%) SAP
5 6 (9.23%) Informatica
6 5 (7.69%) Ab Initio
7 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.08%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.54%) Databricks
8 1 (1.54%) Kenna