Performance Optimisation Contracts in England

Performance Optimisation
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 455 620
Rank change year-on-year +87 +165 -77
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 171 178 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.37% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.41% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 116 116
10th Percentile £413 £330 £403
25th Percentile £509 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -16.67% +16.50%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £664
90th Percentile £834 £701 £710
UK median daily rate £588 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +17.50% -16.67% +15.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £45.58
25th Percentile - - £46.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.13 £47.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.51% +9.17% +48.05%
75th Percentile - - £49.06
90th Percentile - - £49.33
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.13 £47.75
% change year-on-year +5.51% +9.17% +48.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,369 43,074 63,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.13% 90.02% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,561 30,212 45,513
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,271 1,523 1,744
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £16.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%
75th Percentile £60.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in England

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in England

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in England

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in England

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
London +79 96 £600 +20.00% 62
South East +33 26 £600 +45.45% 8
South West +29 20 £538 +19.44% 6
North of England +23 12 £425 -5.56% 24
North West +17 8 £425 -2.30% 14
Midlands +31 7 £588 -9.62% 14
Yorkshire +19 4 £550 +10.00% 3
East Midlands +19 4 £594 - 4
West Midlands +11 3 £360 -44.62% 10
East of England - 2 £525 - 5
Performance Optimisation
UK

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.51%) CMS
1 6 (3.51%) Headless CMS
2 4 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.34%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.34%) Confluence
3 3 (1.75%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.58%) Apache
4 1 (0.58%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (0.58%) NetWeaver
4 1 (0.58%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.58%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.58%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.58%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 66 (38.60%) Azure
2 45 (26.32%) AWS
3 24 (14.04%) Power Platform
4 23 (13.45%) GCP
5 19 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (7.02%) GitHub
7 7 (4.09%) Amazon S3
7 7 (4.09%) OpenShift
7 7 (4.09%) Snowflake
8 6 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (3.51%) Serverless
9 5 (2.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.34%) CloudBees
10 4 (2.34%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.34%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.34%) Twilio
11 3 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.02%) Firewall
2 9 (5.26%) SSH
3 8 (4.68%) Network Security
4 7 (4.09%) VSAN
5 6 (3.51%) CTI
5 6 (3.51%) MPLS
5 6 (3.51%) VoIP
6 5 (2.92%) BGP
6 5 (2.92%) HTTP
6 5 (2.92%) OSPF
6 5 (2.92%) Wideband
7 4 (2.34%) LAN
7 4 (2.34%) WAN
8 3 (1.75%) EIGRP
8 3 (1.75%) Multicast
9 2 (1.17%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (1.17%) Internet
9 2 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.17%) TCP/IP
9 2 (1.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.54%) NoSQL
2 22 (12.87%) Power BI
3 19 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 16 (9.36%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (7.60%) Tableau
6 12 (7.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 12 (7.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 11 (6.43%) Data Lake
8 9 (5.26%) KDB
8 9 (5.26%) MongoDB
9 7 (4.09%) Big Data
10 6 (3.51%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (3.51%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.75%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.75%) ClickHouse
11 3 (1.75%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (8.77%) JIRA
2 10 (5.85%) Cucumber
3 9 (5.26%) JUnit
4 8 (4.68%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.34%) webpack
6 3 (1.75%) GitLab
7 2 (1.17%) Ant
7 2 (1.17%) Babel
7 2 (1.17%) ERwin
7 2 (1.17%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.17%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.58%) Git
8 1 (0.58%) JMeter
8 1 (0.58%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.58%) Selenium
8 1 (0.58%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.58%) VersionOne
General
1 59 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 50 (29.24%) Finance
3 46 (26.90%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.11%) Banking
5 10 (5.85%) Front Office
6 9 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.09%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.51%) Marketing
8 6 (3.51%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.34%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.34%) Retail
10 1 (0.58%) Billing
10 1 (0.58%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.58%) Publishing
10 1 (0.58%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 58 (33.92%) Developer
2 32 (18.71%) Architect
3 26 (15.20%) Data Engineer
4 21 (12.28%) Senior
5 18 (10.53%) Java Developer
6 17 (9.94%) Senior Developer
7 10 (5.85%) Software Developer
8 9 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.09%) Azure Architect
9 7 (4.09%) Low Latency Java Developer
9 7 (4.09%) React Developer
9 7 (4.09%) Senior Java Developer
9 7 (4.09%) VMware Expert
10 6 (3.51%) Data Architect
10 6 (3.51%) Lead
10 6 (3.51%) Quantitative Developer
10 6 (3.51%) Senior Quantitative Developer
10 6 (3.51%) Technical Architect
11 5 (2.92%) Data Modeller
11 5 (2.92%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.04%) Web Services
2 16 (9.36%) REST
3 15 (8.77%) HTML
4 13 (7.60%) CSS
4 13 (7.60%) JSON
5 12 (7.02%) React
5 12 (7.02%) SOAP
6 10 (5.85%) Middleware
6 10 (5.85%) Spring
6 10 (5.85%) XML
7 9 (5.26%) .NET
7 9 (5.26%) Hibernate
7 9 (5.26%) J2EE
7 9 (5.26%) JPA
8 8 (4.68%) NumPy
8 8 (4.68%) Pandas
8 8 (4.68%) SciPy
9 7 (4.09%) HTML5
9 7 (4.09%) Kafka
9 7 (4.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.60%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.43%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.26%) Derivative
3 9 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.68%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.51%) Algorithms
5 6 (3.51%) IVR
6 5 (2.92%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.34%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.75%) Grid Computing
9 2 (1.17%) Equities
9 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.17%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 24 (14.04%) Linux
2 19 (11.11%) Unix
3 3 (1.75%) Android
3 3 (1.75%) Windows
4 2 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.58%) Tizen
5 1 (0.58%) tvOS
5 1 (0.58%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (26.90%) DevOps
2 41 (23.98%) Data Modelling
3 40 (23.39%) CI/CD
4 37 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (18.71%) Analytics
6 30 (17.54%) Data Pipeline
7 28 (16.37%) Agile
7 28 (16.37%) ETL
7 28 (16.37%) Translating Business Requirements
8 27 (15.79%) Computer Science
9 23 (13.45%) SDLC
10 21 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
12 18 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (10.53%) Migration
12 18 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
13 17 (9.94%) Data Integration
14 15 (8.77%) Containerisation
14 15 (8.77%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 63 (36.84%) SQL
2 42 (24.56%) Java
3 37 (21.64%) Python
4 26 (15.20%) JavaScript
5 14 (8.19%) TypeScript
6 13 (7.60%) T-SQL
7 8 (4.68%) C++
7 8 (4.68%) Rust
8 7 (4.09%) C#
9 6 (3.51%) Perl
9 6 (3.51%) Scala
10 4 (2.34%) Go
10 4 (2.34%) Groovy
10 4 (2.34%) Ruby
11 3 (1.75%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.17%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.58%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.58%) PHP
13 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 28 (16.37%) Degree
2 24 (14.04%) Security Cleared
3 21 (12.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 18 (10.53%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.02%) Master's Degree
6 10 (5.85%) Azure Certification
7 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (4.09%) AWS Certification
8 7 (4.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (4.09%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.75%) CCNP
10 3 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.17%) CCNA
12 1 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.58%) JNCIE
12 1 (0.58%) JNCIP
12 1 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (16.37%) QA
2 10 (5.85%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.51%) GDPR
3 6 (3.51%) HIPAA
3 6 (3.51%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (9.94%) Docker
2 9 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.09%) vCloud
3 7 (4.09%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.75%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.17%) Firmware
5 2 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.58%) KVM
6 1 (0.58%) QEMU
6 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (12.28%) Kubernetes
2 13 (7.60%) Terraform
3 8 (4.68%) Istio
4 7 (4.09%) Rancher
4 7 (4.09%) vCenter Server
5 5 (2.92%) Ansible
6 4 (2.34%) Grafana
7 1 (0.58%) Argo
7 1 (0.58%) Kibana
7 1 (0.58%) logstash
7 1 (0.58%) Matomo
7 1 (0.58%) Nagios
7 1 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.77%) Google
3 10 (5.85%) VMware
4 8 (4.68%) Cisco
4 8 (4.68%) Databricks
5 6 (3.51%) Genesys
6 5 (2.92%) Solace
6 5 (2.92%) TIBCO
7 4 (2.34%) Avaya
7 4 (2.34%) Oracle
8 3 (1.75%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.75%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.17%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.17%) F5
9 2 (1.17%) Informatica
9 2 (1.17%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.17%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.58%) Computacenter
10 1 (0.58%) Hyperion