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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 113 147
Rank change year-on-year +45 +34 -15
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 71 34 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.65% 1.18% 0.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 1.30% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 24 9
10th Percentile £425 £485 £430
25th Percentile £458 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +12.68%
75th Percentile £608 £578 £675
90th Percentile £688 £596 -
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £536
% change year-on-year +9.52% -2.10% +12.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
Median hourly rate £61.60 - -
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -15.03% +52.63% -27.53%

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 2,291 2,607 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.42% 90.62% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,771 2,166
10th Percentile £224 £313 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 67 89
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.23 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.39
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +26 66 £605 +13.08% 11
Buckinghamshire +25 5 £450 -13.88%
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 (5.63%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 11 (15.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (5.63%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.76%) Azure
2 14 (19.72%) OCI
3 12 (16.90%) OpenShift
4 11 (15.49%) AWS
5 5 (7.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (7.04%) Azure Functions
5 5 (7.04%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.94%) Firewall
2 14 (19.72%) DHCP
2 14 (19.72%) DNS
2 14 (19.72%) SAN
3 3 (4.23%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (2.82%) LAN
4 2 (2.82%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.82%) VoIP
4 2 (2.82%) WAN
4 2 (2.82%) Wireless
5 1 (1.41%) Internet
5 1 (1.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (33.80%) PostgreSQL
2 22 (30.99%) Oracle Database
3 15 (21.13%) SAP HANA
4 11 (15.49%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (15.49%) Oracle Database 11g
5 5 (7.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (7.04%) Power BI
6 4 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (5.63%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
General
1 27 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.45%) Telecoms
3 5 (7.04%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.82%) Military
5 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (21.13%) Consultant
1 15 (21.13%) Developer
1 15 (21.13%) SAP Basis Consultant
1 15 (21.13%) SAP Consultant
2 14 (19.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (16.90%) Site Engineer
3 12 (16.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (15.49%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 11 (15.49%) SAP Technical Consultant
4 11 (15.49%) Technical Consultant
5 10 (14.08%) Storage Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.63%) Informatica Developer
6 4 (5.63%) Server Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) Database Specialist
7 3 (4.23%) PowerShell Engineer
7 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared Technical Consultant
7 3 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (21.13%) SAP Basis
2 12 (16.90%) SAP Fiori
3 11 (15.49%) Kafka
4 4 (5.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) Data Centre
2 12 (16.90%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.04%) Smart Meter
4 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (32.39%) Linux
2 18 (25.35%) Windows
3 14 (19.72%) Windows 10
3 14 (19.72%) Windows Server
3 14 (19.72%) Windows Server 2012
3 14 (19.72%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (19.72%) Windows Server 2019
3 14 (19.72%) Windows XP
4 8 (11.27%) Unix
5 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (36.62%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (35.21%) Disaster Recovery
3 23 (32.39%) DevOps
3 23 (32.39%) Software Engineering
4 19 (26.76%) Change Management
5 17 (23.94%) Architectural Design
5 17 (23.94%) Incident Response
6 15 (21.13%) ITIL
6 15 (21.13%) Performance Monitoring
6 15 (21.13%) Task Automation
7 14 (19.72%) Break/Fix
7 14 (19.72%) Converged Infrastructure
7 14 (19.72%) Data Migration
7 14 (19.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (19.72%) Migration
7 14 (19.72%) Proactive Monitoring
7 14 (19.72%) Project Management
7 14 (19.72%) Server Management
7 14 (19.72%) Storage Management
8 12 (16.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (23.94%) SQL
2 14 (19.72%) PowerShell
3 11 (15.49%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.82%) Bash
Qualifications
1 51 (71.83%) Security Cleared
2 46 (64.79%) SC Cleared
3 17 (23.94%) DV Cleared
4 15 (21.13%) Degree
5 14 (19.72%) CCNA
5 14 (19.72%) CCNP
5 14 (19.72%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (5.63%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (19.72%) Active Directory
1 14 (19.72%) Hyper-V
1 14 (19.72%) VMware ESXi
1 14 (19.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (19.72%) EMC NetWorker
1 14 (19.72%) NetBackup
1 14 (19.72%) SCCM
1 14 (19.72%) SCOM
1 14 (19.72%) vCenter Server
1 14 (19.72%) WSUS
2 12 (16.90%) Kubernetes
3 11 (15.49%) Argo
3 11 (15.49%) Grafana
3 11 (15.49%) Istio
3 11 (15.49%) Kibana
3 11 (15.49%) Prometheus
4 3 (4.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (50.70%) Oracle
2 19 (26.76%) Microsoft
3 16 (22.54%) Cisco
3 16 (22.54%) Palo Alto
4 15 (21.13%) SAP
5 14 (19.72%) 3PAR
5 14 (19.72%) Dell
5 14 (19.72%) EMC
5 14 (19.72%) Extreme Networks
5 14 (19.72%) HP
5 14 (19.72%) Juniper
5 14 (19.72%) Symantec
5 14 (19.72%) Veeam
5 14 (19.72%) VMware
6 6 (8.45%) Informatica
7 5 (7.04%) Ab Initio
8 2 (2.82%) Citrix
8 2 (2.82%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.82%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.41%) Kenna