Performance Optimisation Contracts

Performance Optimisation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 499 672
Rank change year-on-year +105 +173 -103
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 195 202 194
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.35% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.39% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 129 132
10th Percentile £413 £331 £401
25th Percentile £500 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.98% -9.57% +13.30%
75th Percentile £700 £663 £663
90th Percentile £788 £737 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £544 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +8.75% -16.67% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £55.49 £42.24 £45.75
25th Percentile £56.22 £48.60 £46.50
Median hourly rate £57.57 £52.13 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% +7.48% +50.38%
75th Percentile £59.04 - £49.38
90th Percentile £59.85 - £49.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.57 £52.13 £48.75
% change year-on-year +10.44% +6.93% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Performance Optimisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Optimisation over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in the UK

Performance Optimisation
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +89 163 £575 +15.00% 118
London +64 86 £594 +16.47% 58
UK excluding London +95 68 £544 +8.75% 64
Work from Home +95 61 £600 +20.00% 71
South East +37 28 £600 +45.45% 7
South West +30 20 £538 +19.44% 8
North of England +20 12 £425 -2.30% 25
North West +17 8 £425 +1.19% 12
Midlands +27 7 £588 -9.62% 12
East Midlands +25 4 £594 - 4
Yorkshire +22 4 £550 +10.00% 6
West Midlands +11 3 £360 -44.62% 8
East of England - 1 - - 4

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (3.08%) CMS
2 4 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (2.05%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.54%) Jupyter
3 3 (1.54%) nginx
3 3 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.03%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.51%) Apache
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.51%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 9 (4.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (4.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.54%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.51%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.51%) Cloudability
4 1 (0.51%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP CAR
4 1 (0.51%) SAP POS DM
4 1 (0.51%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (42.05%) Azure
2 53 (27.18%) AWS
3 30 (15.38%) GCP
4 28 (14.36%) Power Platform
5 19 (9.74%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (6.15%) GitHub
8 11 (5.64%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (5.13%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (4.62%) Twilio
11 8 (4.10%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.59%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.59%) OpenShift
13 6 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 6 (3.08%) Serverless
13 6 (3.08%) Snowflake
14 5 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (2.56%) Power Automate
15 4 (2.05%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.67%) CTI
1 13 (6.67%) VoIP
2 12 (6.15%) Firewall
3 10 (5.13%) Network Security
4 7 (3.59%) SSH
4 7 (3.59%) VSAN
5 5 (2.56%) BGP
5 5 (2.56%) MPLS
5 5 (2.56%) OSPF
5 5 (2.56%) Wideband
6 4 (2.05%) HTTP
7 3 (1.54%) EIGRP
7 3 (1.54%) LAN
7 3 (1.54%) Multicast
7 3 (1.54%) WAN
8 2 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (1.03%) Internet
8 2 (1.03%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (1.03%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 23 (11.79%) Power BI
3 19 (9.74%) Relational Database
4 16 (8.21%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (8.21%) SQL Server
5 13 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (6.15%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 12 (6.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 12 (6.15%) Tableau
7 11 (5.64%) Data Lake
8 9 (4.62%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.59%) KDB
10 6 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (3.08%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (3.08%) Big Data
10 6 (3.08%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.54%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.54%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (5.64%) JIRA
2 9 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.10%) Cucumber
4 7 (3.59%) JUnit
5 6 (3.08%) webpack
6 3 (1.54%) Git
6 3 (1.54%) GitLab
7 2 (1.03%) Ant
7 2 (1.03%) Babel
7 2 (1.03%) ERwin
7 2 (1.03%) rollup.js
7 2 (1.03%) Storybook
7 2 (1.03%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.03%) Vite
8 1 (0.51%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.51%) Mocha
8 1 (0.51%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.51%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.51%) VersionOne
General
1 60 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 53 (27.18%) Finance
3 48 (24.62%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.23%) Banking
5 10 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.13%) Retail
5 10 (5.13%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.62%) Front Office
7 5 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.05%) Marketing
8 4 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Billing
9 1 (0.51%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (31.79%) Developer
2 47 (24.10%) Architect
3 25 (12.82%) Data Engineer
4 19 (9.74%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (9.23%) Senior
6 16 (8.21%) Senior Developer
7 15 (7.69%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.13%) Software Developer
9 9 (4.62%) Administrator
9 9 (4.62%) React Developer
10 7 (3.59%) Azure Architect
10 7 (3.59%) VMware Expert
11 6 (3.08%) Data Architect
11 6 (3.08%) Lead
11 6 (3.08%) Low Latency Java Developer
11 6 (3.08%) Network Engineer
11 6 (3.08%) Quantitative Developer
11 6 (3.08%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (3.08%) Senior Quantitative Developer
11 6 (3.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.85%) Web Services
2 16 (8.21%) HTML
3 15 (7.69%) Middleware
4 14 (7.18%) CSS
4 14 (7.18%) REST
5 13 (6.67%) .NET
6 12 (6.15%) React
7 11 (5.64%) JSON
7 11 (5.64%) SOAP
8 10 (5.13%) J2EE
9 9 (4.62%) Node.js
9 9 (4.62%) RESTful
10 8 (4.10%) NumPy
10 8 (4.10%) Pandas
10 8 (4.10%) SciPy
10 8 (4.10%) Spring
10 8 (4.10%) XML
11 7 (3.59%) Hibernate
11 7 (3.59%) JPA
12 6 (3.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.26%) Management Information System
2 13 (6.67%) IVR
3 10 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.62%) Derivative
4 9 (4.62%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (3.59%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.56%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.56%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.54%) Grid Computing
10 2 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.03%) Digital Wallet
10 2 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.03%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 25 (12.82%) Linux
2 16 (8.21%) Unix
3 5 (2.56%) Android
3 5 (2.56%) Windows
4 2 (1.03%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.03%) CentOS
4 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.51%) Tizen
5 1 (0.51%) tvOS
5 1 (0.51%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (28.72%) DevOps
2 44 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (21.03%) CI/CD
3 41 (21.03%) Data Modelling
4 36 (18.46%) Agile
5 35 (17.95%) Computer Science
6 34 (17.44%) Analytics
7 28 (14.36%) Data Pipeline
7 28 (14.36%) Translating Business Requirements
8 25 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (12.82%) ETL
9 24 (12.31%) Capacity Planning
10 22 (11.28%) Migration
11 21 (10.77%) SDLC
12 20 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (9.74%) Collaborative Working
13 19 (9.74%) CRM
13 19 (9.74%) Roadmaps
13 19 (9.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.82%) SQL
2 44 (22.56%) Java
3 35 (17.95%) Python
4 29 (14.87%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.23%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.67%) T-SQL
7 8 (4.10%) C#
7 8 (4.10%) C++
7 8 (4.10%) Rust
8 6 (3.08%) Scala
9 5 (2.56%) Perl
10 4 (2.05%) Go
10 4 (2.05%) Groovy
10 4 (2.05%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.05%) Ruby
11 3 (1.54%) PHP
12 2 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.03%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.51%) ABAP
13 1 (0.51%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (17.95%) Degree
2 29 (14.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 19 (9.74%) Master's Degree
5 18 (9.23%) Azure Certification
5 18 (9.23%) SC Cleared
6 13 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (5.64%) AWS Certification
7 11 (5.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.62%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.03%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (1.03%) CCNA
11 2 (1.03%) CCNP
11 2 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.51%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (0.51%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.41%) QA
2 13 (6.67%) GDPR
3 12 (6.15%) PCI DSS
4 10 (5.13%) HIPAA
5 8 (4.10%) Data Quality
5 8 (4.10%) SOC 2
6 5 (2.56%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.03%) PSD2
System Software
1 19 (9.74%) Docker
2 8 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.59%) vCloud
3 7 (3.59%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.54%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (1.03%) Firmware
5 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.51%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.51%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 23 (11.79%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.15%) Terraform
3 8 (4.10%) Istio
4 7 (3.59%) Rancher
4 7 (3.59%) vCenter Server
5 4 (2.05%) Ansible
5 4 (2.05%) Grafana
6 2 (1.03%) Kibana
6 2 (1.03%) logstash
7 1 (0.51%) Argo
7 1 (0.51%) Matomo
7 1 (0.51%) Nagios
7 1 (0.51%) QRadar
7 1 (0.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (21.03%) Microsoft
2 20 (10.26%) Google
3 13 (6.67%) Genesys
4 12 (6.15%) Cisco
5 9 (4.62%) Avaya
5 9 (4.62%) Oracle
5 9 (4.62%) VMware
6 8 (4.10%) Databricks
7 5 (2.56%) SAP
7 5 (2.56%) Splunk
8 4 (2.05%) Solace
8 4 (2.05%) TIBCO
9 3 (1.54%) CheckPoint
9 3 (1.54%) F5
9 3 (1.54%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.03%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.03%) IBM
10 2 (1.03%) Informatica
10 2 (1.03%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds