Performance Tuning Contracts in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 210 234 316
Rank change year-on-year +24 +82 -68
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 199 221 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.98% 0.96% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.17% 1.08% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 152 131
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £608 £550 £575
90th Percentile £673 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.86% -8.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 6
10th Percentile £41.67 £45.00 £45.00
25th Percentile - £61.50 £45.31
Median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% +48.72% -25.57%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £61.66
90th Percentile - - £71.43
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,041 20,494 27,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.15% 89.42% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,189 14,100 19,120
10th Percentile £250 £259 £236
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,063 1,256 1,368
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.34 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.29
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.73 £61.50
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the UK excluding London

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South East +44 92 £600 +14.29% 32
North of England +33 32 £448 -10.50% 16
Scotland +21 30 £436 -12.58% 13
Midlands +20 20 £510 +2.00% 25
North West +29 17 £510 +7.37% 11
Yorkshire +27 15 £425 -22.73% 3
East Midlands +24 13 £449 -14.48% 7
South West -12 13 £400 - 4
West Midlands +10 7 £580 +16.00% 18
East of England -4 7 £350 -34.88% 5
Wales +22 3 £550 -15.38% 1
South Coast - 3 £500 -
Performance Tuning
UK

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 9 (4.52%) NetWeaver
2 8 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.02%) Apache
4 5 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.51%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 12 (6.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (5.03%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (4.52%) SAP IBP
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (1.51%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (21.11%) AWS
2 41 (20.60%) Azure
3 15 (7.54%) OCI
3 15 (7.54%) Serverless
4 13 (6.53%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.03%) GitHub
6 11 (5.53%) OpenShift
7 10 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.03%) GCP
8 7 (3.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (3.02%) Amazon S3
10 5 (2.51%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (2.51%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (2.51%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.51%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.51%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.01%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (11.06%) SAN
2 16 (8.04%) DNS
2 16 (8.04%) Firewall
3 15 (7.54%) DHCP
4 6 (3.02%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (2.51%) FTP
6 3 (1.51%) PuTTY
6 3 (1.51%) WAN
7 2 (1.01%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (1.01%) LAN
7 2 (1.01%) SD-WAN
7 2 (1.01%) VoIP
7 2 (1.01%) Wireless
8 1 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (20.10%) Oracle Database
2 39 (19.60%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (13.57%) SQL Server
4 21 (10.55%) SAP HANA
5 16 (8.04%) Metadata
6 14 (7.04%) Oracle Database 11g
7 13 (6.53%) Power BI
8 11 (5.53%) MongoDB
9 10 (5.03%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (4.52%) Big Data
10 9 (4.52%) SAP BW
11 7 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (2.01%) MySQL
14 4 (2.01%) Oracle Database 12c
14 4 (2.01%) Oracle8/8i Database
14 4 (2.01%) Relational Database
14 4 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (6.53%) Oracle APEX
2 9 (4.52%) GitLab
3 8 (4.02%) Git
4 6 (3.02%) JIRA
5 3 (1.51%) Toad
General
1 59 (29.65%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.04%) Finance
4 15 (7.54%) Public Sector
5 11 (5.53%) Banking
6 7 (3.52%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (3.02%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.01%) Retail
9 2 (1.01%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.01%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Law
10 1 (0.50%) Police
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 47 (23.62%) Developer
2 31 (15.58%) DBA
3 19 (9.55%) Consultant
3 19 (9.55%) SAP Basis Consultant
3 19 (9.55%) SAP Consultant
4 17 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (8.54%) Storage Engineer
5 16 (8.04%) SQL DBA
6 13 (6.53%) Administrator
6 13 (6.53%) Database Specialist
6 13 (6.53%) PostgreSQL Developer
7 12 (6.03%) Senior
8 11 (5.53%) Site Engineer
8 11 (5.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 10 (5.03%) Data Engineer
9 10 (5.03%) SAP Technical Consultant
9 10 (5.03%) Technical Consultant
10 8 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.52%) Lead
11 7 (3.52%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.55%) SAP Basis
2 16 (8.04%) SAP Fiori
3 13 (6.53%) Kafka
4 9 (4.52%) XML
5 5 (2.51%) .NET
5 5 (2.51%) JSON
6 4 (2.01%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 3 (1.51%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.51%) Web Services
8 2 (1.01%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.01%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.01%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (1.01%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.01%) Flash
8 2 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (1.01%) RESTful
8 2 (1.01%) SOAP
8 2 (1.01%) Spring
8 2 (1.01%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.55%) Data Centre
2 18 (9.05%) Replication
3 10 (5.03%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.03%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (4.52%) Clustering
5 7 (3.52%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.02%) HP Storage
6 6 (3.02%) Smart Meter
7 5 (2.51%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.01%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.51%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.51%) EMC VNX
9 3 (1.51%) Online Banking
10 2 (1.01%) Derivative
10 2 (1.01%) Operational Technology
10 2 (1.01%) SCADA
10 2 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 66 (33.17%) Linux
2 37 (18.59%) Windows
3 34 (17.09%) Unix
4 24 (12.06%) Windows Server
5 15 (7.54%) Windows Server 2012
5 15 (7.54%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (7.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (7.04%) Windows 10
6 14 (7.04%) Windows XP
7 12 (6.03%) AIX
8 10 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (4.52%) Solaris
10 1 (0.50%) CentOS
10 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.50%) VMS
10 1 (0.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (26.63%) Disaster Recovery
2 50 (25.13%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (19.60%) Migration
4 37 (18.59%) DevOps
5 34 (17.09%) Data Migration
6 31 (15.58%) Task Automation
7 30 (15.08%) Software Engineering
8 25 (12.56%) Data Modelling
9 24 (12.06%) High Availability
10 23 (11.56%) Capacity Planning
11 22 (11.06%) Storage Management
12 20 (10.05%) Architectural Design
12 20 (10.05%) ETL
12 20 (10.05%) Performance Monitoring
13 19 (9.55%) Database Security
13 19 (9.55%) Incident Response
13 19 (9.55%) ITIL
14 18 (9.05%) Agile
14 18 (9.05%) Containerisation
15 17 (8.54%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 76 (38.19%) SQL
2 30 (15.08%) PL/SQL
3 24 (12.06%) PowerShell
4 22 (11.06%) Python
5 21 (10.55%) Bash
6 10 (5.03%) C#
6 10 (5.03%) Shell Script
7 9 (4.52%) Java
8 2 (1.01%) C
9 1 (0.50%) Bicep
9 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.50%) R
9 1 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 85 (42.71%) Security Cleared
2 68 (34.17%) SC Cleared
3 41 (20.60%) Degree
4 29 (14.57%) DV Cleared
5 17 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (8.04%) CCNA
6 16 (8.04%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (7.04%) CCNP
8 8 (4.02%) SAP Certification
9 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.51%) MCITP
10 5 (2.51%) MCTS
11 3 (1.51%) Master's Degree
12 2 (1.01%) CISSP
12 2 (1.01%) OSCP
13 1 (0.50%) IBM Certification
13 1 (0.50%) Linux+ Certification
13 1 (0.50%) OCP
13 1 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.50%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.02%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.02%) QA
3 5 (2.51%) GDPR
4 3 (1.51%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.50%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 28 (14.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 22 (11.06%) Active Directory
3 15 (7.54%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (7.04%) Hyper-V
5 9 (4.52%) vSphere
6 5 (2.51%) Oracle RAC
7 4 (2.01%) Docker
8 3 (1.51%) SRDF
9 1 (0.50%) Firmware
9 1 (0.50%) KVM
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 22 (11.06%) NetBackup
2 20 (10.05%) EMC NetWorker
2 20 (10.05%) Terraform
3 16 (8.04%) SCCM
4 15 (7.54%) SCOM
4 15 (7.54%) vCenter Server
4 15 (7.54%) WSUS
5 14 (7.04%) Kubernetes
6 13 (6.53%) Ansible
7 10 (5.03%) Argo
7 10 (5.03%) Grafana
7 10 (5.03%) Istio
7 10 (5.03%) Kibana
7 10 (5.03%) Prometheus
8 8 (4.02%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 7 (3.52%) Data Guard
10 6 (3.02%) HP Data Protector
11 5 (2.51%) Packer
12 4 (2.01%) Oracle RMAN
13 3 (1.51%) EMC TimeFinder
Vendors
1 84 (42.21%) Oracle
2 31 (15.58%) Microsoft
3 28 (14.07%) VMware
4 25 (12.56%) Cisco
5 24 (12.06%) EMC
6 21 (10.55%) SAP
7 20 (10.05%) HP
7 20 (10.05%) Symantec
8 18 (9.05%) Dell
9 16 (8.04%) Palo Alto
10 14 (7.04%) 3PAR
10 14 (7.04%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (7.04%) Informatica
10 14 (7.04%) Juniper
10 14 (7.04%) Red Hat
10 14 (7.04%) Veeam
11 11 (5.53%) SolarWinds
12 10 (5.03%) Brocade
13 5 (2.51%) Ab Initio
13 5 (2.51%) Talend