Performance Tuning Contracts in England

Performance Tuning
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Performance Tuning skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 277 324
Rank change year-on-year +6 +47 -97
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 308 457 589
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.95% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.06% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 272 385
10th Percentile £350 £400 £406
25th Percentile £413 £450 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -10.64% +11.90%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £788
90th Percentile £700 £753 £900
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.86% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 10
10th Percentile £36.74 £60.00 £39.13
25th Percentile £54.18 £61.50 £42.02
Median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% +61.11% -31.30%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £49.69
90th Percentile - - £66.72
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -15.03% +52.63% -27.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Performance Tuning 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 31,359 43,239 64,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.26% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,563 30,348 45,861
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
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 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,244 1,528 1,759
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.02 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Tuning in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Tuning in England

Performance Tuning
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 Tuning within the England region over the 6 months to 21 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 -14 134 £525 -8.70% 60
South East +44 92 £600 +14.29% 42
North of England +33 32 £448 -10.50% 16
Midlands +20 20 £510 +2.00% 27
North West +29 17 £510 +7.37% 11
Yorkshire +27 15 £425 -22.73% 2
East Midlands +24 13 £449 -14.48% 7
South West -12 13 £400 - 4
West Midlands +10 7 £580 +16.00% 20
East of England -4 7 £350 -34.88% 5
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Performance Tuning
UK

Performance Tuning
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 17 (5.52%) Apache Spark
2 11 (3.57%) NetWeaver
3 10 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.92%) Apache
5 6 (1.95%) Confluence
6 5 (1.62%) Anypoint
6 5 (1.62%) Mule
6 5 (1.62%) Mule ESB
6 5 (1.62%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.62%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.97%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.97%) CICS
9 2 (0.65%) nginx
9 2 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.32%) GemFire
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.32%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.32%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 16 (5.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.90%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (3.57%) SAP IBP
4 5 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.97%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.97%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.97%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.97%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.65%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.65%) ION Anvil
6 2 (0.65%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.32%) HFM
7 1 (0.32%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.32%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.32%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 83 (26.95%) Azure
2 79 (25.65%) AWS
3 23 (7.47%) GCP
4 21 (6.82%) Amazon S3
4 21 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 20 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
5 20 (6.49%) Serverless
6 16 (5.19%) GitHub
6 16 (5.19%) OpenShift
7 15 (4.87%) OCI
8 14 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (4.22%) IaaS
9 13 (4.22%) PaaS
10 12 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
11 10 (3.25%) Snowflake
12 9 (2.92%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (2.60%) Azure Functions
14 7 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (2.27%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.42%) SAN
2 26 (8.44%) Firewall
3 22 (7.14%) DHCP
3 22 (7.14%) DNS
4 7 (2.27%) Fibre Channel
4 7 (2.27%) Kerberos
4 7 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.27%) VLAN
5 6 (1.95%) NAS
6 5 (1.62%) FTP
6 5 (1.62%) WAN
7 3 (0.97%) LAN
7 3 (0.97%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.97%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.65%) AMQP
8 2 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.65%) Network Security
8 2 (0.65%) SSH
8 2 (0.65%) VoIP
8 2 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (20.13%) SQL Server
2 60 (19.48%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (11.04%) Oracle Database
4 27 (8.77%) SAP HANA
5 22 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (6.49%) MongoDB
7 18 (5.84%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (5.52%) Power BI
9 16 (5.19%) MySQL
10 15 (4.87%) NoSQL
10 15 (4.87%) Oracle Database 11g
11 14 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (4.55%) Relational Database
12 13 (4.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (3.90%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (3.57%) SAP BW
15 9 (2.92%) Big Data
15 9 (2.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 8 (2.60%) Data Lake
16 8 (2.60%) DB2
Development Applications
1 25 (8.12%) Git
2 19 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 12 (3.90%) GitLab
4 11 (3.57%) JIRA
5 8 (2.60%) Visual Studio
6 6 (1.95%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.62%) MSI
7 5 (1.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (1.62%) WiX
8 4 (1.30%) JUnit
8 4 (1.30%) Mockito
9 3 (0.97%) Toad
10 2 (0.65%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.65%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.65%) Mocha
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
General
1 88 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 56 (18.18%) Finance
3 27 (8.77%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (8.12%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.84%) Banking
6 12 (3.90%) Manufacturing
6 12 (3.90%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (1.95%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.62%) Electronics
9 5 (1.62%) Marketing
10 4 (1.30%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.97%) Front Office
11 3 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.65%) Arabic Language
12 2 (0.65%) French Language
12 2 (0.65%) German Language
12 2 (0.65%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 72 (23.38%) Developer
2 53 (17.21%) DBA
3 33 (10.71%) SQL DBA
4 27 (8.77%) Administrator
5 23 (7.47%) Consultant
6 22 (7.14%) SAP Basis Consultant
6 22 (7.14%) SAP Consultant
7 19 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (5.84%) Senior
9 17 (5.52%) Storage Engineer
10 15 (4.87%) Database Specialist
11 14 (4.55%) Data Engineer
12 13 (4.22%) Lead
12 13 (4.22%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 13 (4.22%) Site Engineer
12 13 (4.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (3.90%) Architect
14 11 (3.57%) SAP Technical Consultant
14 11 (3.57%) SQL Server DBA
14 11 (3.57%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.14%) Kafka
1 22 (7.14%) SAP Basis
2 20 (6.49%) .NET
3 19 (6.17%) SAP Fiori
4 17 (5.52%) XML
5 15 (4.87%) JSON
6 13 (4.22%) REST
7 12 (3.90%) Entity Framework
8 10 (3.25%) SOAP
9 9 (2.92%) .NET Framework
9 9 (2.92%) Web Services
10 8 (2.60%) ASP.NET
11 7 (2.27%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (2.27%) LDAP
11 7 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.27%) WCF
11 7 (2.27%) XSLT
12 6 (1.95%) Spring
13 5 (1.62%) LINQ
13 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.71%) Replication
2 28 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 24 (7.79%) Clustering
4 11 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (3.25%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.92%) Derivative
6 9 (2.92%) Fixed Income
6 9 (2.92%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.60%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.95%) HP Storage
8 6 (1.95%) Smart Meter
9 5 (1.62%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.62%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.62%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.62%) NHS
9 5 (1.62%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.62%) Web 2.0
10 4 (1.30%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.30%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 86 (27.92%) Linux
2 55 (17.86%) Windows
3 45 (14.61%) Unix
4 33 (10.71%) Windows Server
5 16 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 15 (4.87%) Solaris
6 15 (4.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (4.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 15 (4.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (4.55%) Windows 10
7 14 (4.55%) Windows XP
8 9 (2.92%) AIX
9 6 (1.95%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (1.95%) zOS
10 2 (0.65%) Android
10 2 (0.65%) CentOS
11 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (23.70%) Disaster Recovery
2 71 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (21.75%) DevOps
4 64 (20.78%) Migration
5 50 (16.23%) Agile
6 46 (14.94%) Software Engineering
7 44 (14.29%) High Availability
8 39 (12.66%) CI/CD
9 37 (12.01%) ETL
10 36 (11.69%) Data Integration
10 36 (11.69%) Data Migration
11 34 (11.04%) Storage Management
12 33 (10.71%) Task Automation
13 29 (9.42%) Containerisation
14 28 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
15 27 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 25 (8.12%) Database Security
16 25 (8.12%) Server Management
17 24 (7.79%) Analytics
18 23 (7.47%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 137 (44.48%) SQL
2 54 (17.53%) Python
3 42 (13.64%) Bash
4 36 (11.69%) PowerShell
5 27 (8.77%) PL/SQL
6 26 (8.44%) C#
7 25 (8.12%) Java
8 17 (5.52%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.92%) Scala
10 8 (2.60%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.95%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.30%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.97%) COBOL
13 3 (0.97%) REXX
14 2 (0.65%) C
14 2 (0.65%) Perl
14 2 (0.65%) R
14 2 (0.65%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.65%) VBA
14 2 (0.65%) XPath
Qualifications
1 101 (32.79%) Security Cleared
2 74 (24.03%) SC Cleared
3 56 (18.18%) Degree
4 42 (13.64%) DV Cleared
5 21 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (5.19%) CCNA
6 16 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (4.55%) CCNP
8 10 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.92%) SAP Certification
10 8 (2.60%) Master's Degree
10 8 (2.60%) MCITP
10 8 (2.60%) MCTS
11 4 (1.30%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.65%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.65%) CISSP
12 2 (0.65%) OCP
12 2 (0.65%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.65%) OSCP
13 1 (0.32%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.55%) GDPR
2 13 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.62%) QA
5 4 (1.30%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS
7 1 (0.32%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 38 (12.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 28 (9.09%) Docker
4 15 (4.87%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (4.55%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.25%) vSphere
7 9 (2.92%) Firmware
8 8 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.97%) SRDF
10 2 (0.65%) KVM
11 1 (0.32%) Ceph
11 1 (0.32%) GridGain
11 1 (0.32%) iptables
11 1 (0.32%) Lustre
11 1 (0.32%) NFS
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.32%) Samba
11 1 (0.32%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.32%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.32%) Xen
Systems Management
1 41 (13.31%) Kubernetes
2 40 (12.99%) Terraform
3 28 (9.09%) Ansible
4 26 (8.44%) EMC NetWorker
5 22 (7.14%) NetBackup
6 16 (5.19%) SCCM
7 15 (4.87%) SCOM
7 15 (4.87%) vCenter Server
7 15 (4.87%) WSUS
8 13 (4.22%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 12 (3.90%) Grafana
9 12 (3.90%) Prometheus
10 10 (3.25%) Argo
10 10 (3.25%) Istio
10 10 (3.25%) Kibana
11 7 (2.27%) Puppet
11 7 (2.27%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 6 (1.95%) Netcool
12 6 (1.95%) Progress Chef
12 6 (1.95%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 103 (33.44%) Oracle
2 63 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 38 (12.34%) VMware
4 33 (10.71%) SAP
5 32 (10.39%) Cisco
6 30 (9.74%) EMC
7 29 (9.42%) Dell
8 26 (8.44%) HP
9 20 (6.49%) Symantec
10 16 (5.19%) Palo Alto
11 14 (4.55%) 3PAR
11 14 (4.55%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (4.55%) Juniper
11 14 (4.55%) Red Hat
11 14 (4.55%) Veeam
12 13 (4.22%) Informatica
13 12 (3.90%) IBM
14 11 (3.57%) Brocade
14 11 (3.57%) SolarWinds
15 10 (3.25%) Isilon