Performance Optimisation Contract Job Trends in West London

Performance Optimisation
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 41 60
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 -
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 7 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 2.55% 0.34% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 0.38% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £425 - £598
25th Percentile £439 - £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £650 £670
Median % change year-on-year -28.69% -2.99% -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £502 - -
London median daily rate £486 £614 £600
% change year-on-year -20.77% +2.29% +4.35%

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 239 260 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 87.23% 89.35% 93.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 187 468
10th Percentile £215 £250 £259
25th Percentile £338 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -15.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £638
90th Percentile £550 £650 £705
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 18 25
10th Percentile £25.00 £19.96 £42.12
25th Percentile - £23.80 £60.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.75 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% -36.46% +278.95%
75th Percentile £34.27 £65.00 £90.00
90th Percentile £46.00 £70.10 -
London median hourly rate £31.50 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -10.01% -6.67% +3.45%

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
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Performance Optimisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Performance Optimisation

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 20 September 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
Hounslow - 3 £464 -
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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Flink
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Technical Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Technical Specialist
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
1 4 (57.14%) Technical Consultant
1 4 (57.14%) Technical Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Backend Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) GraphQL
2 4 (57.14%) Node.js
2 4 (57.14%) Playwright
2 4 (57.14%) Vitest
3 2 (28.57%) JWT
3 2 (28.57%) OAuth
3 2 (28.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Observability
3 5 (71.43%) Mentoring
3 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 4 (57.14%) API Design
4 4 (57.14%) Coaching
4 4 (57.14%) Code Quality
4 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
4 4 (57.14%) E-Commerce
4 4 (57.14%) Process Improvement
4 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 2 (28.57%) Predictive Analytics
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 3 (42.86%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) OCA
1 1 (14.29%) OCP
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Grafana
2 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
3 2 (28.57%) Kibana
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk