Performance Optimisation Contracts in Central London

Performance Optimisation
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 162 191
Rank change year-on-year +45 +29 -30
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 20 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.84% 0.32% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.35% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile £420 £496 -
25th Percentile £528 £547 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £593 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% +39.41% -39.29%
75th Percentile £694 £638 £438
90th Percentile £770 £660 -
London median daily rate £600 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +14.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - - £50.75
% change year-on-year - - +57.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,386 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.81% 91.29% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,291 3,136
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.85 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.56 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.38 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in Central London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Central London

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in Central London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in Central London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in Central London

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
City of London +53 18 £581 -1.90% 6
Performance Optimisation
London

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Chatbot
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (5.00%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) Twilio
6 1 (5.00%) Azure API Management
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (5.00%) npm
6 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
6 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
6 1 (5.00%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) CTI
1 4 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (45.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Looker
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Ant
1 1 (5.00%) Babel
1 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
1 1 (5.00%) JUnit
1 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (5.00%) webpack
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Software Developer
3 5 (25.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Quantitative Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) TM1 Developer
6 1 (5.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Web Services
2 3 (15.00%) NumPy
2 3 (15.00%) Pandas
2 3 (15.00%) SciPy
3 2 (10.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) Middleware
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) CSS3
4 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) HTML5
4 1 (5.00%) J2EE
4 1 (5.00%) JPA
4 1 (5.00%) JSON
4 1 (5.00%) React
4 1 (5.00%) REST
4 1 (5.00%) SOAP
4 1 (5.00%) Spring
4 1 (5.00%) WPF
4 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Derivative
1 4 (20.00%) IVR
2 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (30.00%) DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Analytics
3 4 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (20.00%) Quantitative Trading
3 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) Community of Practice
4 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (15.00%) Customer Experience
4 3 (15.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (15.00%) Performance Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 10 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (15.00%) C++
4 3 (15.00%) Rust
5 1 (5.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (30.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) HIPAA
2 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
2 2 (10.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Nagios
1 1 (5.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Genesys
3 2 (10.00%) Avaya
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Adobe
4 1 (5.00%) Alteryx
4 1 (5.00%) Brandwatch
4 1 (5.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) VMware