Performance Tuning Contracts in London

Performance Tuning
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 259 245 279
Rank change year-on-year -14 +34 -95
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 134 263 388
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.77% 1.02% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 1.12% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 154 256
10th Percentile £339 £416 £454
25th Percentile £413 £464 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -17.86% +27.27%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £850
90th Percentile £838 £800 £913
England median daily rate £510 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -2.86% -10.64% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £26.38
25th Percentile £46.75 - £35.94
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £42.02
75th Percentile £50.25 - £42.45
90th Percentile - - £43.23
England median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.03% +61.11% -31.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,444 23,412 35,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.57% 90.89% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,074 16,912 26,245
10th Percentile £345 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 265 419
10th Percentile £15.68 £18.20 £17.23
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.41 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.52% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £82.50 £67.63
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in London

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in London

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +9 5 £625 -3.10% 7
East London -4 1 £450 +23.55% 2
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 10 (7.46%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.48%) Confluence
3 5 (3.73%) Anypoint
3 5 (3.73%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.73%) Mule
3 5 (3.73%) Mule ESB
3 5 (3.73%) OpenStack
4 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.24%) Apache
5 3 (2.24%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.49%) CICS
6 2 (1.49%) NetWeaver
6 2 (1.49%) nginx
6 2 (1.49%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.75%) GemFire
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 5 (3.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.49%) ION Anvil
3 2 (1.49%) ION MarketView
3 2 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.49%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.75%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.75%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.75%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 43 (32.09%) Azure
2 42 (31.34%) AWS
3 14 (10.45%) Amazon S3
4 13 (9.70%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (9.70%) GCP
4 13 (9.70%) PaaS
5 12 (8.96%) IaaS
6 8 (5.97%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (5.22%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (5.22%) Serverless
8 6 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (4.48%) Nutanix
8 6 (4.48%) Rubrik
8 6 (4.48%) SaaS
8 6 (4.48%) WhatsApp
9 5 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (3.73%) GitHub
9 5 (3.73%) OpenShift
9 5 (3.73%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.46%) Firewall
2 7 (5.22%) DHCP
2 7 (5.22%) Kerberos
2 7 (5.22%) SAN
2 7 (5.22%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.22%) VLAN
3 6 (4.48%) DNS
3 6 (4.48%) NAS
4 2 (1.49%) AMQP
4 2 (1.49%) SSH
4 2 (1.49%) WAN
5 1 (0.75%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.75%) HTTP
5 1 (0.75%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.75%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.75%) LAN
5 1 (0.75%) Network Security
5 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.75%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (23.88%) SQL Server
2 20 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (12.69%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (8.96%) MySQL
4 12 (8.96%) NoSQL
5 11 (8.21%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (8.21%) Relational Database
6 9 (6.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (5.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (5.22%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.22%) Oracle Database
8 6 (4.48%) SAP HANA
9 5 (3.73%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (3.73%) Data Lake
9 5 (3.73%) DB2
9 5 (3.73%) Oracle Exadata
9 5 (3.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (3.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (2.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (14.18%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.94%) Git
3 8 (5.97%) Visual Studio
4 6 (4.48%) JIRA
4 6 (4.48%) TeamCity
5 5 (3.73%) MSI
5 5 (3.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (3.73%) WiX
6 4 (2.99%) JUnit
6 4 (2.99%) Mockito
7 3 (2.24%) GitLab
8 2 (1.49%) Android Studio
8 2 (1.49%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.49%) Mocha
General
1 42 (31.34%) Finance
1 42 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.19%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.72%) Banking
3 9 (6.72%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.73%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.24%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.24%) Front Office
5 3 (2.24%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.49%) Electronics
6 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.49%) Marketing
6 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.75%) Arabic Language
7 1 (0.75%) French Language
7 1 (0.75%) German Language
7 1 (0.75%) Japanese Language
7 1 (0.75%) Korean Language
7 1 (0.75%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 40 (29.85%) Developer
2 24 (17.91%) DBA
3 14 (10.45%) SQL DBA
4 13 (9.70%) Senior
5 11 (8.21%) Administrator
6 9 (6.72%) Architect
7 8 (5.97%) Java Developer
7 8 (5.97%) Oracle Developer
7 8 (5.97%) Scala Developer
7 8 (5.97%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.22%) DV Cleared DBA
8 7 (5.22%) Lead
9 6 (4.48%) AWS Developer
9 6 (4.48%) SQL Server DBA
10 5 (3.73%) AWS Administrator
10 5 (3.73%) MuleSoft Developer
10 5 (3.73%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.73%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (12.69%) .NET
2 13 (9.70%) REST
3 10 (7.46%) Entity Framework
3 10 (7.46%) Kafka
4 9 (6.72%) JSON
5 7 (5.22%) .NET Framework
5 7 (5.22%) LDAP
5 7 (5.22%) SOAP
5 7 (5.22%) XML
6 6 (4.48%) ASP.NET
6 6 (4.48%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (4.48%) Web Services
6 6 (4.48%) XSLT
7 5 (3.73%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (3.73%) LINQ
7 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
7 5 (3.73%) NHibernate
7 5 (3.73%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.73%) WCF
8 4 (2.99%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.45%) Clustering
2 13 (9.70%) Replication
3 9 (6.72%) Data Centre
3 9 (6.72%) Fixed Income
4 7 (5.22%) Derivative
5 5 (3.73%) Client/Server
5 5 (3.73%) Market Risk
5 5 (3.73%) Web 2.0
6 4 (2.99%) Credit Derivative
6 4 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.99%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.99%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.24%) Equities
7 3 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.49%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.90%) Linux
2 14 (10.45%) Unix
2 14 (10.45%) Windows
3 9 (6.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (4.48%) Oracle Linux
4 6 (4.48%) Solaris
4 6 (4.48%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.99%) zOS
6 2 (1.49%) Android
7 1 (0.75%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.75%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (25.37%) Agile
1 34 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (24.63%) DevOps
3 30 (22.39%) Migration
4 29 (21.64%) CI/CD
5 23 (17.16%) Data Integration
6 21 (15.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (13.43%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (13.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 17 (12.69%) ETL
8 17 (12.69%) High Availability
9 16 (11.94%) Software Engineering
10 15 (11.19%) Computer Science
11 13 (9.70%) Configuration Management
11 13 (9.70%) Database Tuning
12 12 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (8.96%) Data Security
12 12 (8.96%) Storage Management
13 11 (8.21%) Database Security
13 11 (8.21%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (52.99%) SQL
2 34 (25.37%) Python
3 20 (14.93%) Bash
4 17 (12.69%) JavaScript
5 16 (11.94%) C#
5 16 (11.94%) Java
6 12 (8.96%) PowerShell
7 8 (5.97%) PL/SQL
7 8 (5.97%) Scala
7 8 (5.97%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.99%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.49%) COBOL
9 2 (1.49%) Perl
9 2 (1.49%) REXX
9 2 (1.49%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.49%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.49%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.49%) VBA
10 1 (0.75%) ABAP
10 1 (0.75%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (18.66%) Degree
2 20 (14.93%) Security Cleared
3 14 (10.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (9.70%) DV Cleared
5 8 (5.97%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.48%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.99%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.24%) MCITP
8 3 (2.24%) MCTS
9 2 (1.49%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.75%) PhD
10 1 (0.75%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.97%) GDPR
2 6 (4.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (3.73%) QA
4 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.99%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (17.91%) Docker
2 10 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.97%) Firmware
4 7 (5.22%) Active Directory
4 7 (5.22%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.75%) Ceph
5 1 (0.75%) GridGain
5 1 (0.75%) iptables
5 1 (0.75%) KVM
5 1 (0.75%) Lustre
5 1 (0.75%) NFS
5 1 (0.75%) Samba
5 1 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (20.15%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.16%) Terraform
3 18 (13.43%) Ansible
4 6 (4.48%) EMC NetWorker
4 6 (4.48%) Netcool
4 6 (4.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 6 (4.48%) Puppet
4 6 (4.48%) Tivoli
4 6 (4.48%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 5 (3.73%) CloudHub
5 5 (3.73%) Dell DRAC
5 5 (3.73%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.49%) Grafana
6 2 (1.49%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.75%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.75%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle Flashback
7 1 (0.75%) SELinux
7 1 (0.75%) yum
Vendors
1 37 (27.61%) Oracle
2 31 (23.13%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.21%) Dell
4 10 (7.46%) VMware
5 9 (6.72%) Databricks
5 9 (6.72%) IBM
5 9 (6.72%) SAP
5 9 (6.72%) Splunk
6 7 (5.22%) Cisco
7 6 (4.48%) CyberArk
7 6 (4.48%) EMC
7 6 (4.48%) HP
7 6 (4.48%) Isilon
7 6 (4.48%) Qualys
7 6 (4.48%) Serena
7 6 (4.48%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.73%) MuleSoft
8 5 (3.73%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.24%) ESRI
9 3 (2.24%) Murex