Performance Optimisation Contracts in the Thames Valley

Performance Optimisation
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 152 168
Rank change year-on-year +39 +16 -19
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 19 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.72% 0.10% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.11% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £388 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.84% - -
South East median daily rate £600 £413 £673
% change year-on-year +45.45% -38.66% +37.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,263 2,615 3,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.82% 90.80% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,775 2,203
10th Percentile £213 £313 £238
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +3.59% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £510 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 70 90
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £12.25
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.30 £17.21
Median % change year-on-year -11.57% +203.89% -18.24%
75th Percentile £64.42 £72.69 £24.25
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £62.76
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.97
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.96% -15.50%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the Thames Valley

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Berkshire - 16 £600 - 2
Buckinghamshire +30 3 - -
Performance Optimisation
South East

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
2 7 (36.84%) GCP
2 7 (36.84%) OpenShift
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
4 3 (15.79%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (15.79%) Serverless
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
5 2 (10.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) VSAN
2 2 (10.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Impala
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) PowerCenter
2 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) ERwin
General
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) VMware Expert
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Data Modeller
3 1 (5.26%) Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) DevOps
2 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
2 14 (73.68%) Collaborative Working
2 14 (73.68%) Infrastructure as Code
2 14 (73.68%) Technical Leadership
2 14 (73.68%) Time Management
2 14 (73.68%) Translating Business Requirements
3 7 (36.84%) Containerisation
4 3 (15.79%) Data Modelling
5 2 (10.53%) Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) Data Governance
5 2 (10.53%) Data Integration
5 2 (10.53%) Data Science
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (5.26%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (5.26%) Data Engineering
6 1 (5.26%) Data Ingestion
6 1 (5.26%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (5.26%) Decision-Making
6 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Java
1 1 (5.26%) Python
1 1 (5.26%) Scala
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
1 7 (36.84%) vCloud
1 7 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (36.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) Kubernetes
2 7 (36.84%) Istio
2 7 (36.84%) Rancher
2 7 (36.84%) Terraform
2 7 (36.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Google
1 7 (36.84%) VMware
2 2 (10.53%) Cloudera
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica