Performance Tuning Contracts in the Thames Valley

Performance Tuning
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Performance Tuning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 80 125
Rank change year-on-year +17 +45 +14
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 39 66 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.58% 2.46% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 2.82% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 54 21
10th Percentile £326 £425 -
25th Percentile £353 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £605 £520
Median % change year-on-year -20.50% +16.35% -1.89%
75th Percentile £662 £663 £588
90th Percentile £686 £688 £600
South East median daily rate £482 £605 £525
% change year-on-year -20.33% +15.24% +2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.87 - -
Median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% - -
75th Percentile £65.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £63.75 £61.60 £75.00
% change year-on-year +3.48% -17.87% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Performance Tuning 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 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

Performance Tuning
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 1 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
Berkshire +3 31 £606 +0.21% 28
Buckinghamshire +17 8 £355 -21.11% 15
Oxfordshire - 2 £355 - 6
Performance Tuning
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 (10.26%) Apache
2 2 (5.13%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (5.13%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 18 (46.15%) AWS
2 12 (30.77%) Azure
3 10 (25.64%) GCP
4 6 (15.38%) Snowflake
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 2 (5.13%) Azure AKS
6 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Storage
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Table
6 2 (5.13%) Miro
6 2 (5.13%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.56%) IaaS
7 1 (2.56%) PaaS
7 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.82%) FTP
2 4 (10.26%) DHCP
2 4 (10.26%) DNS
2 4 (10.26%) SMTP
2 4 (10.26%) Telnet
3 3 (7.69%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.56%) HTTP
4 1 (2.56%) IPFIX
4 1 (2.56%) Network Security
4 1 (2.56%) SSL
4 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.21%) Oracle Database
2 9 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (20.51%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (15.38%) Oracle Database 11g
4 6 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 5 (12.82%) Data Lake
5 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 3 (7.69%) Power BI
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (5.13%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (2.56%) MySQL
8 1 (2.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) DBeaver
1 2 (5.13%) Git
1 2 (5.13%) GitLab
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 4 (10.26%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Military
5 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Administrator
1 7 (17.95%) Architect
2 6 (15.38%) Senior
3 5 (12.82%) DBA
4 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Snowflake Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (7.69%) Senior DBA
5 3 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Architect
6 2 (5.13%) AWS Data Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Oracle Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.26%) .NET
2 3 (7.69%) LDAP
3 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.13%) ADO
3 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.13%) JSON
4 1 (2.56%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.56%) CSS
4 1 (2.56%) HTML
4 1 (2.56%) Jinja
4 1 (2.56%) jQuery
4 1 (2.56%) NETCONF
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) RESTCONF
4 1 (2.56%) RESTful
4 1 (2.56%) SOAP
4 1 (2.56%) WCF
4 1 (2.56%) Web Services
4 1 (2.56%) XML
4 1 (2.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Linux
2 6 (15.38%) Windows
3 5 (12.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.13%) Unix
4 2 (5.13%) VMS
4 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) Migration
2 17 (43.59%) Data Migration
3 10 (25.64%) DevOps
4 8 (20.51%) Performance Monitoring
4 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
6 6 (15.38%) Clean Code
6 6 (15.38%) Continuous Deployment
6 6 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (15.38%) CRUD
6 6 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 6 (15.38%) Data Security
6 6 (15.38%) ETL
6 6 (15.38%) Prototyping
6 6 (15.38%) RBAC
6 6 (15.38%) Secure Coding
6 6 (15.38%) Software Testing
6 6 (15.38%) Unit Testing
7 5 (12.82%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (66.67%) SQL
2 12 (30.77%) Python
3 8 (20.51%) Bash
3 8 (20.51%) PL/SQL
4 4 (10.26%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.13%) Bicep
5 2 (5.13%) C#
6 1 (2.56%) ActionScript
6 1 (2.56%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.56%) Java
6 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.56%) R
6 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.56%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 24 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.90%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.95%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CCNP
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.56%) JNCIP
5 1 (2.56%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) GDPR
1 6 (15.38%) HIPAA
2 3 (7.69%) SLA
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) NFS
1 4 (10.26%) Samba
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) yum
3 2 (5.13%) BMC PATROL
3 2 (5.13%) Data Guard
3 2 (5.13%) Grafana
3 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.13%) SCOM
3 2 (5.13%) Terraform
4 1 (2.56%) QRadar
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) Oracle
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) Red Hat
4 4 (10.26%) VMware
5 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
5 3 (7.69%) HP
5 3 (7.69%) IBM
6 2 (5.13%) BMC
6 2 (5.13%) Google
6 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.13%) Splunk
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco
7 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.56%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.56%) SAP