Performance Optimisation Contracts in West London

Performance Optimisation
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 42 -
Rank change year-on-year +16 - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 2.38% 0.28% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 0.32% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £409 £515 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £530 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.60% - -
75th Percentile £553 £545 -
90th Percentile £694 - -
London median daily rate £550 £594 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +18.80% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West London

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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 312 529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.57% 87.89% 93.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 223 383
10th Percentile £231 £215 £350
25th Percentile £339 £316 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -13.64% +7.84%
75th Percentile £483 £575 £638
90th Percentile £628 £650 £700
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 49
10th Percentile £18.99 £16.25 £29.60
25th Percentile £20.24 £16.56 £52.00
Median hourly rate £22.27 £30.16 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.16% -52.88% +176.58%
75th Percentile £30.79 £50.13 £75.00
90th Percentile £53.10 £59.50 £85.00
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in West London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in West London

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in West London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in West London

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hammersmith - 2 £409 -
Hillingdon - 1 £475 -
Performance Optimisation
London

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) LAN
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) OSPF
1 1 (20.00%) VLAN
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (40.00%) Redis
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Backend Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Check Point Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) Prisma
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (20.00%) Hystrix
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) OpenAPI
3 1 (20.00%) PySpark
3 1 (20.00%) Swagger
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Design
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Front End Development
2 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (20.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
1 1 (20.00%) CCSA
1 1 (20.00%) CCSE
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) JNCIA
1 1 (20.00%) JNCIS
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Juniper
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce