Performance Tuning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 243 319
Rank change year-on-year +34 +76 -70
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 201 217 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.98% 0.93% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 1.03% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 152 143
10th Percentile £349 £381 £370
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £608 £552 £575
90th Percentile £673 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.86% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 6
10th Percentile £37.68 £41.25 £45.63
25th Percentile - £61.13 £47.19
Median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £57.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% +25.54% -11.83%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.53
90th Percentile - - £71.43
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.03% +45.00% -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
South East +51 89 £600 +14.29% 22
Scotland +26 35 £436 -12.80% 17
North of England +35 32 £448 -10.50% 13
Midlands +32 19 £556 +11.25% 31
North West +18 17 £510 +2.00% 9
Yorkshire +25 15 £425 -22.73% 4
South West -3 14 £400 - 6
East Midlands +29 12 £474 -9.67% 16
West Midlands +17 7 £625 +25.00% 15
East of England -10 7 £350 -34.88% 8
Wales +21 3 £550 -15.38% 1
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Performance Tuning
UK

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (4.48%) NetWeaver
2 8 (3.98%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.99%) Apache
4 5 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 11 (5.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (4.98%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (4.48%) SAP IBP
4 3 (1.49%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (1.49%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.49%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (1.49%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.49%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 48 (23.88%) AWS
2 41 (20.40%) Azure
3 17 (8.46%) Serverless
4 15 (7.46%) OCI
5 13 (6.47%) Power Platform
6 12 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (5.97%) GitHub
7 10 (4.98%) GCP
8 9 (4.48%) OpenShift
9 7 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.99%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.49%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (2.49%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (2.49%) Azure Functions
11 5 (2.49%) Snowflake
12 2 (1.00%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
13 1 (0.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (10.95%) SAN
2 16 (7.96%) DNS
2 16 (7.96%) Firewall
3 15 (7.46%) DHCP
4 6 (2.99%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (2.49%) FTP
6 3 (1.49%) PuTTY
6 3 (1.49%) WAN
7 2 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.00%) LAN
7 2 (1.00%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.00%) VoIP
7 2 (1.00%) Wireless
8 1 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (22.89%) Oracle Database
2 40 (19.90%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (11.44%) SQL Server
4 20 (9.95%) Oracle Database 11g
4 20 (9.95%) SAP HANA
5 16 (7.96%) Metadata
6 13 (6.47%) Power BI
7 11 (5.47%) MongoDB
8 9 (4.48%) Big Data
8 9 (4.48%) SAP BW
9 8 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.99%) Biml
13 4 (1.99%) Oracle Database 12c
13 4 (1.99%) Oracle8/8i Database
13 4 (1.99%) Relational Database
13 4 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (6.97%) Oracle APEX
2 8 (3.98%) Git
2 8 (3.98%) GitLab
3 6 (2.99%) JIRA
4 3 (1.49%) Toad
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
General
1 61 (30.35%) Social Skills
2 30 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (9.95%) Finance
4 15 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.47%) Banking
6 7 (3.48%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.48%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.49%) Retail
9 4 (1.99%) Automotive
10 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.50%) Back Office
12 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.50%) Law
12 1 (0.50%) Military
12 1 (0.50%) Police
12 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 50 (24.88%) Developer
2 31 (15.42%) DBA
3 18 (8.96%) Consultant
3 18 (8.96%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 18 (8.96%) SAP Consultant
4 17 (8.46%) Storage Engineer
5 15 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (7.46%) Senior
6 14 (6.97%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 13 (6.47%) Database Specialist
7 13 (6.47%) SQL DBA
8 11 (5.47%) Administrator
8 11 (5.47%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.48%) SAP Technical Consultant
9 9 (4.48%) Site Engineer
9 9 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 9 (4.48%) Technical Consultant
10 8 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (3.98%) Lead
10 8 (3.98%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.96%) SAP Basis
2 15 (7.46%) SAP Fiori
3 11 (5.47%) Kafka
4 9 (4.48%) XML
5 7 (3.48%) .NET
6 5 (2.49%) .NET Core
6 5 (2.49%) JSON
7 4 (1.99%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 4 (1.99%) Web Services
8 3 (1.49%) Flash
9 2 (1.00%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.00%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.00%) ASP.NET Web API
9 2 (1.00%) Entity Framework
9 2 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (1.00%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.00%) RESTful
9 2 (1.00%) SOAP
9 2 (1.00%) Spring
9 2 (1.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.45%) Data Centre
2 18 (8.96%) Replication
3 10 (4.98%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (4.48%) Clustering
5 8 (3.98%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.48%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.99%) HP Storage
7 6 (2.99%) Smart Meter
8 5 (2.49%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.99%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.49%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.49%) EMC VNX
10 3 (1.49%) Online Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Derivative
11 2 (1.00%) Operational Technology
11 2 (1.00%) SCADA
11 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 65 (32.34%) Linux
2 37 (18.41%) Unix
3 35 (17.41%) Windows
4 22 (10.95%) Windows Server
5 15 (7.46%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (7.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (7.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (6.97%) Windows 10
6 14 (6.97%) Windows XP
7 12 (5.97%) AIX
8 9 (4.48%) Solaris
9 8 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.50%) CentOS
10 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.50%) VMS
10 1 (0.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (26.37%) Disaster Recovery
2 52 (25.87%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (22.39%) Migration
4 38 (18.91%) Data Migration
5 37 (18.41%) DevOps
6 31 (15.42%) Software Engineering
7 28 (13.93%) Task Automation
8 25 (12.44%) High Availability
9 24 (11.94%) Data Modelling
10 23 (11.44%) Capacity Planning
11 22 (10.95%) Architectural Design
11 22 (10.95%) Storage Management
12 21 (10.45%) Performance Monitoring
13 20 (9.95%) ETL
14 19 (9.45%) Agile
14 19 (9.45%) ITIL
15 18 (8.96%) Database Security
16 17 (8.46%) Incident Response
16 17 (8.46%) Proactive Monitoring
16 17 (8.46%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (38.31%) SQL
2 34 (16.92%) PL/SQL
3 24 (11.94%) PowerShell
4 22 (10.95%) Python
5 21 (10.45%) Bash
6 10 (4.98%) C#
6 10 (4.98%) Java
6 10 (4.98%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.00%) C
8 1 (0.50%) Bicep
8 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.50%) R
8 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 80 (39.80%) Security Cleared
2 66 (32.84%) SC Cleared
3 41 (20.40%) Degree
4 25 (12.44%) DV Cleared
5 17 (8.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (7.96%) CCNA
6 16 (7.96%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (6.97%) CCNP
8 8 (3.98%) SAP Certification
9 5 (2.49%) MCITP
9 5 (2.49%) MCTS
9 5 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.49%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.00%) CISSP
11 2 (1.00%) OSCP
12 1 (0.50%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.50%) Linux+ Certification
12 1 (0.50%) LPIC
12 1 (0.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.49%) GDPR
2 5 (2.49%) QA
3 4 (1.99%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.50%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 27 (13.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (10.95%) Active Directory
3 15 (7.46%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (6.97%) Hyper-V
5 9 (4.48%) vSphere
6 8 (3.98%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (1.99%) Docker
8 3 (1.49%) SRDF
9 1 (0.50%) Firmware
9 1 (0.50%) KVM
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 22 (10.95%) NetBackup
1 22 (10.95%) Terraform
2 20 (9.95%) EMC NetWorker
3 15 (7.46%) SCCM
3 15 (7.46%) vCenter Server
3 15 (7.46%) WSUS
4 14 (6.97%) SCOM
5 13 (6.47%) Ansible
6 12 (5.97%) Kubernetes
7 11 (5.47%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 10 (4.98%) Data Guard
9 8 (3.98%) Argo
9 8 (3.98%) Grafana
9 8 (3.98%) Istio
9 8 (3.98%) Kibana
9 8 (3.98%) Prometheus
10 7 (3.48%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (2.99%) HP Data Protector
12 5 (2.49%) Packer
13 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
Vendors
1 90 (44.78%) Oracle
2 28 (13.93%) Microsoft
3 27 (13.43%) VMware
4 25 (12.44%) Cisco
5 24 (11.94%) EMC
6 20 (9.95%) HP
6 20 (9.95%) SAP
6 20 (9.95%) Symantec
7 18 (8.96%) Dell
8 16 (7.96%) Palo Alto
9 15 (7.46%) Informatica
10 14 (6.97%) 3PAR
10 14 (6.97%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (6.97%) Juniper
10 14 (6.97%) Veeam
11 12 (5.97%) Red Hat
12 11 (5.47%) SolarWinds
13 10 (4.98%) Brocade
14 5 (2.49%) Ab Initio
14 5 (2.49%) Talend