Performance Tuning Contract Job Trends in West London

Performance Tuning
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Performance Tuning skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 2.96% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £501 - -
London median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -15.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West London

Performance Tuning 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 234 269 568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 86.67% 91.50% 93.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 193 464
10th Percentile £225 £254 £250
25th Percentile £350 £363 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £475 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -15.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £500 £588 £645
90th Percentile £550 £650 £708
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 26
10th Percentile £25.00 £19.96 £35.52
25th Percentile - £23.80 £61.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.75 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% -36.46% +278.95%
75th Percentile £32.19 £65.00 £89.38
90th Percentile £46.75 £70.10 £90.00
London median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £39.92
% change year-on-year -8.57% -12.31% +6.44%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in West London

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Performance Tuning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Performance Tuning

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the West London region over the 6 months to 5 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 - 2 £493 - 2
Hillingdon - 1 £475 -
Harrow - 1 £450 -
Performance Tuning
London

Performance Tuning
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 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) dbt
1 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) BGP
1 2 (25.00%) Network Security
1 2 (25.00%) OSPF
1 2 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) 802.11
2 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (12.50%) SAP BW
2 1 (12.50%) SAP HANA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Local Government
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Check Point Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Expert
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Hystrix
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (25.00%) Swagger
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
2 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Basis
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Experience
2 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CCNA
1 1 (12.50%) CCNP
1 1 (12.50%) CCSA
1 1 (12.50%) CCSE
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (12.50%) JNCIA
1 1 (12.50%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Informatica
1 2 (25.00%) Juniper
1 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
1 2 (25.00%) Teradata
2 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) F5
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) SAP