Performance Optimisation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Performance Optimisation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 25 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 382 542
Rank change year-on-year +108 +160 -102
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 67 75 81
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.45% 0.31% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.35% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 52 58
10th Percentile £413 £450 £408
25th Percentile £491 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £470 £568
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -17.18% +13.50%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £650
90th Percentile £761 £765 £761
UK median daily rate £588 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +17.50% -16.67% +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £38.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -30.91% -
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £52.13 £50.75
% change year-on-year -18.47% +2.72% +57.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Performance Optimisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Performance Optimisation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Optimisation.

Performance Optimisation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 25 June 2024.

Performance Optimisation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Optimisation
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Performance Optimisation.

Performance Optimisation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (8.96%) CMS
2 4 (5.97%) Confluence
2 4 (5.97%) Headless CMS
3 2 (2.99%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.99%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.49%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.49%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP CAR
2 1 (1.49%) SAP POS DM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP Retail
2 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.81%) Azure
2 19 (28.36%) AWS
3 10 (14.93%) GCP
4 6 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.96%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (7.46%) Amazon S3
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 5 (7.46%) Snowflake
5 5 (7.46%) Twilio
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (5.97%) GitHub
6 4 (5.97%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.97%) Serverless
7 3 (4.48%) Apigee
7 3 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (11.94%) CTI
1 8 (11.94%) VoIP
2 6 (8.96%) HTTP
3 4 (5.97%) Network Security
4 2 (2.99%) Internet
5 1 (1.49%) Firewall
5 1 (1.49%) LAN
5 1 (1.49%) MPLS
5 1 (1.49%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.49%) WAN
5 1 (1.49%) Wireless
5 1 (1.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.93%) Data Lake
2 7 (10.45%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.96%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (8.96%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (7.46%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.97%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (4.48%) MariaDB
6 3 (4.48%) Power BI
7 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.99%) Big Data
7 2 (2.99%) DocumentDB
7 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.99%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.99%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.49%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Git
1 4 (5.97%) JIRA
2 3 (4.48%) webpack
3 2 (2.99%) GitLab
3 2 (2.99%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.99%) rollup.js
3 2 (2.99%) Storybook
3 2 (2.99%) Vite
4 1 (1.49%) Ant
4 1 (1.49%) Babel
4 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.49%) Eclipse
4 1 (1.49%) JMeter
4 1 (1.49%) NeoLoad
4 1 (1.49%) Selenium
4 1 (1.49%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.49%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (23.88%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (20.90%) Finance
4 9 (13.43%) Banking
5 8 (11.94%) Telecoms
6 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
7 6 (8.96%) Retail
8 3 (4.48%) Front Office
9 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (34.33%) Architect
2 20 (29.85%) Developer
3 11 (16.42%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (10.45%) Administrator
5 5 (7.46%) Azure Architect
5 5 (7.46%) Data Architect
5 5 (7.46%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Senior
5 5 (7.46%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Data Modeller
6 4 (5.97%) DBA
6 4 (5.97%) Splunk Administrator
7 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (4.48%) Lead
8 2 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.99%) GCP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.91%) Web Services
2 11 (16.42%) CSS
2 11 (16.42%) HTML
3 7 (10.45%) HTML5
4 6 (8.96%) REST
5 5 (7.46%) .NET
5 5 (7.46%) AngularJS
5 5 (7.46%) Jest
5 5 (7.46%) Middleware
5 5 (7.46%) Node.js
5 5 (7.46%) Nuxt
6 4 (5.97%) JSON
6 4 (5.97%) Next.js
6 4 (5.97%) RESTful
7 3 (4.48%) GraphQL
7 3 (4.48%) OAuth
7 3 (4.48%) OAuth2
7 3 (4.48%) OpenID
7 3 (4.48%) SOAP
7 3 (4.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.94%) IVR
1 8 (11.94%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.99%) Contactless
4 2 (2.99%) Digital Wallet
4 2 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Grid Computing
4 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) Blog
5 1 (1.49%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.49%) Derivative
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.49%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) NHS
5 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.94%) Linux
2 3 (4.48%) Unix
2 3 (4.48%) Windows
3 2 (2.99%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (2.99%) CentOS
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (29.85%) Analytics
1 20 (29.85%) DevOps
2 19 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (20.90%) Capacity Planning
3 14 (20.90%) Data Modelling
4 13 (19.40%) Agile
4 13 (19.40%) Computer Science
5 12 (17.91%) Roadmaps
6 11 (16.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (13.43%) Migration
8 8 (11.94%) CI/CD
8 8 (11.94%) Knowledge Transfer
9 7 (10.45%) CRM
9 7 (10.45%) Customer Experience
9 7 (10.45%) Data Integration
9 7 (10.45%) Data Management
9 7 (10.45%) E-Commerce
9 7 (10.45%) Microservices
9 7 (10.45%) Non-Blocking Code
9 7 (10.45%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.39%) SQL
2 12 (17.91%) JavaScript
3 8 (11.94%) Python
4 6 (8.96%) TypeScript
5 5 (7.46%) C#
5 5 (7.46%) Java
6 2 (2.99%) PHP
6 2 (2.99%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.99%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.49%) ABAP
7 1 (1.49%) C++
7 1 (1.49%) R
7 1 (1.49%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (19.40%) Degree
2 11 (16.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (13.43%) Azure Certification
3 9 (13.43%) Master's Degree
4 8 (11.94%) AWS Certification
4 8 (11.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.48%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.49%) CCIE
7 1 (1.49%) CCNP
7 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.49%) JNCIE
7 1 (1.49%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) GDPR
2 6 (8.96%) PCI DSS
3 5 (7.46%) QA
4 4 (5.97%) HIPAA
4 4 (5.97%) SOC 2
5 2 (2.99%) PSD2
6 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) Docker
2 3 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.99%) KVM
3 2 (2.99%) QEMU
3 2 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (10.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.99%) Terraform
3 1 (1.49%) Ansible
3 1 (1.49%) Kibana
3 1 (1.49%) logstash
3 1 (1.49%) Matomo
3 1 (1.49%) Nagios
3 1 (1.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (23.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.94%) Genesys
2 8 (11.94%) Google
3 6 (8.96%) Cisco
3 6 (8.96%) Databricks
4 5 (7.46%) Avaya
5 4 (5.97%) Splunk
6 3 (4.48%) Oracle
6 3 (4.48%) VMware
7 2 (2.99%) PayPal
8 1 (1.49%) Ariba
8 1 (1.49%) Computacenter
8 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.49%) F5
8 1 (1.49%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.49%) Juniper
8 1 (1.49%) OutSystems
8 1 (1.49%) SAP
8 1 (1.49%) SnapLogic
8 1 (1.49%) Zscaler