Performance Optimisation Contracts

Performance Optimisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Performance Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 521 666
Rank change year-on-year +139 +145 -87
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 201 194 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.34% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.38% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 128 138
10th Percentile £413 £330 £406
25th Percentile £513 £421 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £596
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -16.14% +15.78%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £663
90th Percentile £788 £733 £690
UK excluding London median daily rate £544 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +20.83% -25.00% +21.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - £42.24 £45.58
25th Percentile - £48.60 £46.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.13 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% +9.17% +48.05%
75th Percentile - - £49.06
90th Percentile - - £49.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.13 £49.00
% change year-on-year +5.51% +6.39% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Performance Optimisation 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,590 50,902 79,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.76% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,576 35,243 55,751
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.92%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £639
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +8.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,484 1,677 1,876
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +9.28%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +102 170 £581 +16.25% 200
London +80 95 £600 +20.00% 123
UK excluding London +85 67 £544 +20.83% 133
Work from Home +105 64 £600 +29.03% 80
South East +31 26 £600 +45.45% 57
South West +26 20 £538 +19.44% 8
North of England +30 12 £425 -5.56% 29
North West +21 8 £425 -2.30% 14
Midlands +26 7 £588 -9.62% 18
Yorkshire +18 4 £550 +10.00% 5
East Midlands +18 4 £594 - 6
West Midlands +10 3 £360 -44.62% 11
East of England - 2 £525 - 7

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (3.98%) CMS
2 6 (2.99%) Headless CMS
3 4 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.99%) Confluence
4 3 (1.49%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.49%) nginx
5 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.50%) Apache
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.50%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (4.48%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (3.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.00%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.50%) Cloudability
3 1 (0.50%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.50%) SAP POS DM
3 1 (0.50%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.50%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 81 (40.30%) Azure
2 54 (26.87%) AWS
3 30 (14.93%) GCP
4 28 (13.93%) Power Platform
5 19 (9.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (6.47%) GitHub
8 11 (5.47%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (4.48%) Twilio
10 7 (3.48%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.48%) OpenShift
10 7 (3.48%) PowerApps
10 7 (3.48%) Snowflake
11 6 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (2.99%) Serverless
12 5 (2.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 5 (2.49%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (1.99%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.47%) CTI
1 13 (6.47%) VoIP
2 12 (5.97%) Firewall
3 10 (4.98%) Network Security
4 9 (4.48%) SSH
5 7 (3.48%) VSAN
6 6 (2.99%) MPLS
7 5 (2.49%) BGP
7 5 (2.49%) HTTP
7 5 (2.49%) OSPF
7 5 (2.49%) Wideband
8 4 (1.99%) LAN
8 4 (1.99%) WAN
9 3 (1.49%) EIGRP
9 3 (1.49%) Multicast
10 2 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (1.00%) Internet
10 2 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
10 2 (1.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.93%) NoSQL
2 24 (11.94%) Power BI
3 19 (9.45%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (9.45%) Relational Database
4 16 (7.96%) SQL Server
5 13 (6.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (6.47%) Tableau
6 12 (5.97%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 12 (5.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 11 (5.47%) Data Lake
8 9 (4.48%) KDB
8 9 (4.48%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.48%) Big Data
10 6 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.99%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.99%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.49%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.49%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.49%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (7.46%) JIRA
2 10 (4.98%) Cucumber
3 9 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 9 (4.48%) JUnit
4 6 (2.99%) webpack
5 3 (1.49%) Git
5 3 (1.49%) GitLab
6 2 (1.00%) Ant
6 2 (1.00%) Babel
6 2 (1.00%) ERwin
6 2 (1.00%) rollup.js
6 2 (1.00%) Storybook
6 2 (1.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.00%) Vite
7 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.50%) JMeter
7 1 (0.50%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.50%) VersionOne
General
1 65 (32.34%) Social Skills
2 56 (27.86%) Finance
3 51 (25.37%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.45%) Banking
5 11 (5.47%) Telecoms
6 10 (4.98%) Front Office
6 10 (4.98%) Retail
7 9 (4.48%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.48%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.99%) Marketing
10 5 (2.49%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Billing
12 1 (0.50%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.50%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 66 (32.84%) Developer
2 47 (23.38%) Architect
3 26 (12.94%) Data Engineer
4 20 (9.95%) Senior
5 19 (9.45%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (8.96%) Java Developer
7 17 (8.46%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.98%) Software Developer
9 9 (4.48%) Administrator
10 8 (3.98%) React Developer
11 7 (3.48%) Azure Architect
11 7 (3.48%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 7 (3.48%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (3.48%) VMware Expert
12 6 (2.99%) Data Architect
12 6 (2.99%) Lead
12 6 (2.99%) Network Engineer
12 6 (2.99%) Quantitative Developer
12 6 (2.99%) Senior Quantitative Developer
13 5 (2.49%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.93%) Web Services
2 18 (8.96%) HTML
3 16 (7.96%) CSS
3 16 (7.96%) REST
4 15 (7.46%) Middleware
5 13 (6.47%) JSON
5 13 (6.47%) React
6 12 (5.97%) .NET
6 12 (5.97%) SOAP
7 11 (5.47%) J2EE
8 10 (4.98%) Spring
8 10 (4.98%) XML
9 9 (4.48%) Hibernate
9 9 (4.48%) JPA
9 9 (4.48%) Node.js
9 9 (4.48%) RESTful
10 8 (3.98%) NumPy
10 8 (3.98%) Pandas
10 8 (3.98%) SciPy
11 7 (3.48%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 20 (9.95%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.47%) IVR
3 11 (5.47%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.47%) Data Structures
4 10 (4.98%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.98%) Onboarding
5 9 (4.48%) Derivative
5 9 (4.48%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.99%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.49%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.49%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.99%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.49%) Grid Computing
10 2 (1.00%) Equities
10 2 (1.00%) Public Cloud
10 2 (1.00%) Replication
10 2 (1.00%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.93%) Linux
2 19 (9.45%) Unix
3 5 (2.49%) Windows
4 4 (1.99%) Android
5 2 (1.00%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.00%) CentOS
5 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.50%) Tizen
6 1 (0.50%) tvOS
6 1 (0.50%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (27.86%) DevOps
2 46 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (21.39%) Data Modelling
4 41 (20.40%) CI/CD
5 39 (19.40%) Agile
6 38 (18.91%) Analytics
7 36 (17.91%) Computer Science
8 30 (14.93%) Data Pipeline
9 28 (13.93%) Translating Business Requirements
10 27 (13.43%) ETL
11 25 (12.44%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (12.44%) Migration
12 24 (11.94%) Capacity Planning
12 24 (11.94%) SDLC
13 21 (10.45%) Continuous Integration
14 20 (9.95%) Roadmaps
14 20 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (9.45%) Collaborative Working
16 18 (8.96%) Infrastructure as Code
16 18 (8.96%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 67 (33.33%) SQL
2 46 (22.89%) Java
3 38 (18.91%) Python
4 29 (14.43%) JavaScript
5 18 (8.96%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.47%) T-SQL
7 8 (3.98%) C#
7 8 (3.98%) C++
7 8 (3.98%) Rust
8 6 (2.99%) Perl
8 6 (2.99%) Scala
9 4 (1.99%) Go
9 4 (1.99%) Groovy
9 4 (1.99%) Kotlin
9 4 (1.99%) Ruby
10 3 (1.49%) PHP
11 2 (1.00%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.00%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.50%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (18.41%) Degree
2 30 (14.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (11.94%) Security Cleared
4 20 (9.95%) Master's Degree
5 18 (8.96%) Azure Certification
6 17 (8.46%) SC Cleared
7 13 (6.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (5.97%) AWS Certification
8 12 (5.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.98%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.49%) CCNP
11 3 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (1.00%) CCNA
13 1 (0.50%) CompTIA Security+
13 1 (0.50%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.50%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.50%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.92%) QA
2 13 (6.47%) GDPR
3 12 (5.97%) PCI DSS
4 10 (4.98%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.98%) HIPAA
5 8 (3.98%) SOC 2
6 5 (2.49%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (9.45%) Docker
2 9 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.48%) vCloud
3 7 (3.48%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.00%) Firmware
5 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.50%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.50%) KVM
6 1 (0.50%) QEMU
6 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (11.44%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.47%) Terraform
3 8 (3.98%) Istio
4 7 (3.48%) Rancher
4 7 (3.48%) vCenter Server
5 5 (2.49%) Ansible
6 4 (1.99%) Grafana
7 2 (1.00%) Kibana
7 2 (1.00%) logstash
8 1 (0.50%) Argo
8 1 (0.50%) Matomo
8 1 (0.50%) Nagios
8 1 (0.50%) QRadar
8 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 40 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 20 (9.95%) Google
3 13 (6.47%) Cisco
3 13 (6.47%) Genesys
4 10 (4.98%) VMware
5 9 (4.48%) Avaya
6 8 (3.98%) Databricks
7 6 (2.99%) Oracle
8 5 (2.49%) Solace
8 5 (2.49%) Splunk
8 5 (2.49%) TIBCO
9 4 (1.99%) SAP
10 3 (1.49%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.49%) F5
10 3 (1.49%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.00%) Cloudera
11 2 (1.00%) PayPal
11 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
11 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.00%) SolarWinds