Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Performance Optimisation
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 7.02% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £436 - -
25th Percentile £441 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East London median daily rate £450 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 56 55 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 98.25% 96.49% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 45 67
10th Percentile £387 £396 £411
25th Percentile £432 £495 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.85% +8.33% -6.09%
75th Percentile £775 £625 £585
90th Percentile £785 £689 £654
East London median daily rate £549 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +9.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £32.00 -
East London median hourly rate £23.47 £28.58 £21.80
% change year-on-year -17.88% +31.11% +21.83%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Performance Optimisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets.

Performance Optimisation job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Performance Optimisation

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 2 September 2026. 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
Canary Wharf - 4 £450 - 1
Performance Optimisation
East London

Performance Optimisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Databricks Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) IDoc
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) SAP TM
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) ABAP
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (25.00%) SAP