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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 70 117
Rank change year-on-year +11 +47 +26
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 40 68 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.75% 2.59% 1.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 2.99% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 53 23
10th Percentile £326 £425 £485
25th Percentile £353 £463 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £605 £515
Median % change year-on-year -23.14% +17.48% -14.17%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £581
90th Percentile £659 £688 £598
South East median daily rate £481 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -19.83% +14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 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% +57.89%

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 1,353 2,277 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.86% 86.64% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 845 1,262 1,750
10th Percentile £300 £213 £313
25th Percentile £406 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +1.95% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 166 66
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.09 £16.88
25th Percentile £14.28 £19.25 £24.86
Median hourly rate £25.23 £45.00 £52.30
Median % change year-on-year -43.94% -13.96% +200.23%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.42 £69.05
90th Percentile £79.16 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +127.79%

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

Performance Tuning
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 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the Thames Valley

Performance Tuning
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 29 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 +1 31 £500 -17.36% 119
Buckinghamshire +16 9 £360 -20.00% 42
Oxfordshire - 2 £355 - 25
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 3 (7.50%) Apache
1 3 (7.50%) BizTalk Server
1 3 (7.50%) IIS
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle Workflow
1 3 (7.50%) WebLogic
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) Azure
2 12 (30.00%) AWS
3 10 (25.00%) GCP
4 6 (15.00%) Snowflake
5 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (7.50%) Azure AKS
6 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Storage
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Table
6 3 (7.50%) OCI
6 3 (7.50%) Power Automate
7 2 (5.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 2 (5.00%) Miro
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.50%) IaaS
8 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) FTP
2 3 (7.50%) DHCP
2 3 (7.50%) DNS
2 3 (7.50%) SMTP
2 3 (7.50%) Telnet
3 2 (5.00%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.50%) HTTP
4 1 (2.50%) IPFIX
4 1 (2.50%) Network Security
4 1 (2.50%) SSL
4 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (17.50%) Oracle Database
2 7 (17.50%) SQL Server
3 5 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (10.00%) Power BI
5 3 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (7.50%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (7.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 3 (7.50%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (2.50%) MySQL
7 1 (2.50%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) DBeaver
1 2 (5.00%) Git
1 2 (5.00%) GitLab
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.50%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Military
5 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) DBA
2 7 (17.50%) Architect
3 6 (15.00%) Administrator
3 6 (15.00%) Developer
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Oracle Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Snowflake Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Data Architect
6 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior DBA
6 3 (7.50%) Site Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (5.00%) Report Developer
7 2 (5.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) .NET
2 3 (7.50%) .NET Core
2 3 (7.50%) ADO
2 3 (7.50%) ARM Templates
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (5.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.00%) JSON
3 2 (5.00%) LDAP
4 1 (2.50%) CSS
4 1 (2.50%) EDI
4 1 (2.50%) HTML
4 1 (2.50%) Jinja
4 1 (2.50%) jQuery
4 1 (2.50%) REST
4 1 (2.50%) RESTful
4 1 (2.50%) SAML
4 1 (2.50%) SOAP
4 1 (2.50%) WCF
4 1 (2.50%) Web Services
4 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.00%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Windows
3 5 (12.50%) Unix
4 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
6 2 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Migration
2 11 (27.50%) Data Migration
3 9 (22.50%) Data Modelling
3 9 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
5 7 (17.50%) Performance Monitoring
5 7 (17.50%) Task Automation
6 6 (15.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 6 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (15.00%) Data Security
6 6 (15.00%) ETL
6 6 (15.00%) RBAC
7 5 (12.50%) Analytics
7 5 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (12.50%) DevOps
8 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (10.00%) Product Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (67.50%) SQL
2 13 (32.50%) Python
3 9 (22.50%) Bash
4 6 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (12.50%) PL/SQL
6 3 (7.50%) Bicep
6 3 (7.50%) C#
6 3 (7.50%) Perl
7 1 (2.50%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.50%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.50%) Java
7 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.50%) R
7 1 (2.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.50%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) DV Cleared
2 7 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.50%) CCNP
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.50%) JNCIP
4 1 (2.50%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) GDPR
1 6 (15.00%) HIPAA
2 3 (7.50%) COBIT
2 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.50%) NIST
2 3 (7.50%) SLA
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle RAC
2 3 (7.50%) NFS
2 3 (7.50%) Samba
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 3 (7.50%) Grafana
3 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (7.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
3 3 (7.50%) SCOM
3 3 (7.50%) Terraform
3 3 (7.50%) yum
4 2 (5.00%) BMC PATROL
4 2 (5.00%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.50%) QRadar
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Oracle
2 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 4 (10.00%) IBM
3 4 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
4 3 (7.50%) VMware
5 2 (5.00%) BMC
5 2 (5.00%) Google
5 2 (5.00%) HP
5 2 (5.00%) Splunk
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco
6 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.50%) SAP