Performance Tuning Contracts in the South East

Performance Tuning
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 150 212
Rank change year-on-year +49 +62 -32
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 92 63 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.68% 1.12% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.25% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 38 21
10th Percentile £425 £450 £413
25th Percentile £463 £489 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £625
90th Percentile £688 £600 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -2.86% -10.64% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 5
10th Percentile - £60.00 -
25th Percentile - £66.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £75.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.87% +57.89% -27.53%
75th Percentile - - £50.00
90th Percentile - - £59.32
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
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,603 5,023 6,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.23% 89.08% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 3,482 4,732
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £598
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 218 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the South East

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the South East

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Thames Valley +48 68 £605 +17.48% 10
Berkshire +22 62 £605 +16.35% 8
Hampshire -2 17 £600 +54.84% 12
West Sussex - 7 £575 - 1
Buckinghamshire +27 6 £450 -11.33% 2
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (4.35%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 10 (10.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (7.61%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (4.35%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 21 (22.83%) Azure
2 15 (16.30%) AWS
3 14 (15.22%) OCI
4 11 (11.96%) OpenShift
5 8 (8.70%) GitHub
6 5 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (5.43%) Azure Functions
6 5 (5.43%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.43%) Serverless
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.09%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.09%) GCP
7 1 (1.09%) IaaS
7 1 (1.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.39%) DNS
1 16 (17.39%) Firewall
1 16 (17.39%) SAN
2 15 (16.30%) DHCP
3 2 (2.17%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (2.17%) LAN
3 2 (2.17%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.17%) VoIP
3 2 (2.17%) WAN
3 2 (2.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (38.04%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (26.09%) Oracle Database
3 14 (15.22%) SAP HANA
4 13 (14.13%) Oracle Database 11g
5 11 (11.96%) SQL Server
6 10 (10.87%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (5.43%) Power BI
8 4 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (4.35%) SAP BW
9 3 (3.26%) MariaDB
9 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.09%) MySQL
10 1 (1.09%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (1.09%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (8.70%) GitLab
2 2 (2.17%) Git
General
1 27 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.61%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.52%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.17%) Military
5 1 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.09%) Finance
5 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (19.57%) Developer
2 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (15.22%) Consultant
3 14 (15.22%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 14 (15.22%) SAP Consultant
4 13 (14.13%) PostgreSQL Developer
5 12 (13.04%) DBA
6 11 (11.96%) Storage Engineer
7 10 (10.87%) SAP Technical Consultant
7 10 (10.87%) Site Engineer
7 10 (10.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 10 (10.87%) SQL DBA
7 10 (10.87%) Technical Consultant
8 9 (9.78%) Administrator
8 9 (9.78%) Database Specialist
9 6 (6.52%) Platform Specialist
10 5 (5.43%) Server Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Data Engineer
11 4 (4.35%) Informatica Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.22%) SAP Basis
2 11 (11.96%) SAP Fiori
3 10 (10.87%) Kafka
4 4 (4.35%) XML
5 2 (2.17%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.48%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.87%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.87%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (8.70%) Clustering
3 8 (8.70%) Replication
4 6 (6.52%) Smart Meter
5 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 32 (34.78%) Linux
2 21 (22.83%) Windows
3 17 (18.48%) Windows Server
4 15 (16.30%) Windows Server 2012
4 15 (16.30%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (16.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (15.22%) Windows 10
5 14 (15.22%) Windows XP
6 9 (9.78%) Unix
7 4 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (41.30%) Disaster Recovery
2 28 (30.43%) Migration
3 27 (29.35%) Data Migration
3 27 (29.35%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (25.00%) DevOps
4 23 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 23 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 22 (23.91%) Storage Management
6 19 (20.65%) Architectural Design
7 17 (18.48%) High Availability
8 16 (17.39%) Change Management
8 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (17.39%) Proactive Monitoring
8 16 (17.39%) Server Management
9 15 (16.30%) Performance Monitoring
10 14 (15.22%) Break/Fix
10 14 (15.22%) Converged Infrastructure
10 14 (15.22%) Incident Response
10 14 (15.22%) ITIL
10 14 (15.22%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (33.70%) SQL
2 16 (17.39%) PowerShell
3 13 (14.13%) PL/SQL
4 10 (10.87%) Bash
5 2 (2.17%) Python
5 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 57 (61.96%) SC Cleared
3 26 (28.26%) DV Cleared
4 17 (18.48%) Degree
5 14 (15.22%) CCNA
5 14 (15.22%) CCNP
5 14 (15.22%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.35%) SAP Certification
7 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.09%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 23 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (17.39%) Active Directory
3 15 (16.30%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (15.22%) Hyper-V
5 9 (9.78%) vSphere
6 1 (1.09%) Docker
6 1 (1.09%) Firmware
6 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (17.39%) NetBackup
2 15 (16.30%) SCCM
2 15 (16.30%) vCenter Server
2 15 (16.30%) WSUS
3 14 (15.22%) EMC NetWorker
3 14 (15.22%) SCOM
4 12 (13.04%) Kubernetes
4 12 (13.04%) Terraform
5 10 (10.87%) Argo
5 10 (10.87%) Grafana
5 10 (10.87%) Istio
5 10 (10.87%) Kibana
5 10 (10.87%) Prometheus
6 8 (8.70%) Ansible
7 7 (7.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (1.09%) Nessus
8 1 (1.09%) Packer
8 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 1 (1.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 47 (51.09%) Oracle
2 23 (25.00%) VMware
3 20 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 16 (17.39%) Cisco
4 16 (17.39%) Palo Alto
5 15 (16.30%) Dell
5 15 (16.30%) EMC
6 14 (15.22%) 3PAR
6 14 (15.22%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (15.22%) HP
6 14 (15.22%) Juniper
6 14 (15.22%) SAP
6 14 (15.22%) Symantec
6 14 (15.22%) Veeam
7 12 (13.04%) Red Hat
8 11 (11.96%) SolarWinds
9 6 (6.52%) Informatica
10 5 (5.43%) Ab Initio
11 2 (2.17%) Veritas
12 1 (1.09%) NetApp