Performance Tuning Contracts

Performance Tuning
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 269 344
Rank change year-on-year +10 +75 -105
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 405 558 695
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.93% 1.00% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.12% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 337 432
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £417 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £775
90th Percentile £700 £750 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 20 12
10th Percentile £39.24 £59.50 £41.33
25th Percentile £57.89 £61.50 £42.02
Median hourly rate £61.60 £71.25 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.54% +54.05% -29.39%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -12.00% +43.59% -25.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the UK

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the UK

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the UK

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the UK

Performance Tuning
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Performance Tuning over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the UK

Performance Tuning
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +12 327 £510 -3.13% 127
UK excluding London +38 217 £500 - 87
Work from Home +34 162 £488 -7.14% 54
London -16 139 £538 -6.52% 53
South East +46 103 £575 +9.52% 32
North of England +32 33 £480 -4.00% 17
Scotland +22 32 £436 -12.36% 9
Midlands +22 24 £450 -14.29% 10
North West +16 19 £510 +13.33% 6
East Midlands +20 17 £449 -20.18% 2
Yorkshire +18 14 £425 -22.73% 9
South West -12 12 £400 - 6
East of England -9 8 £350 -36.36% 17
West Midlands +8 7 £650 +30.00% 8
Wales - 3 £550 - 1

Performance Tuning
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 21 (5.19%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.96%) NetWeaver
3 10 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.22%) Apache
5 7 (1.73%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.73%) Mule
5 7 (1.73%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.23%) CICS
6 5 (1.23%) Confluence
6 5 (1.23%) Mule ESB
6 5 (1.23%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.74%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.74%) nginx
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.49%) SAS
9 2 (0.49%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.49%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 18 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (2.96%) Oracle EBS
2 12 (2.96%) SAP IBP
3 7 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle FAH
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.49%) BusinessWorks
5 2 (0.49%) ION Anvil
5 2 (0.49%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.25%) HFM
6 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 104 (25.68%) Azure
2 94 (23.21%) AWS
3 28 (6.91%) GCP
4 23 (5.68%) Power Platform
4 23 (5.68%) Serverless
5 21 (5.19%) Amazon S3
5 21 (5.19%) GitHub
6 20 (4.94%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (4.20%) OCI
8 16 (3.95%) OpenShift
9 15 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (3.46%) PaaS
11 13 (3.21%) IaaS
12 11 (2.72%) Snowflake
13 9 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (2.22%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.98%) Azure Functions
15 6 (1.48%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.41%) SAN
2 25 (6.17%) Firewall
3 21 (5.19%) DHCP
3 21 (5.19%) DNS
4 9 (2.22%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (1.48%) Kerberos
5 6 (1.48%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.48%) VLAN
6 5 (1.23%) FTP
6 5 (1.23%) NAS
6 5 (1.23%) WAN
7 3 (0.74%) AMQP
7 3 (0.74%) LAN
7 3 (0.74%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.49%) HTTP
8 2 (0.49%) Network Security
8 2 (0.49%) SSH
8 2 (0.49%) VoIP
8 2 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (18.02%) SQL Server
2 65 (16.05%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (13.09%) Oracle Database
4 30 (7.41%) SAP HANA
5 25 (6.17%) MySQL
6 24 (5.93%) MongoDB
7 21 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (5.19%) NoSQL
8 20 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
9 19 (4.69%) Power BI
10 18 (4.44%) Metadata
11 17 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (4.20%) Relational Database
12 16 (3.95%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (3.46%) DB2
13 14 (3.46%) Oracle Database 11g
14 13 (3.21%) Big Data
14 13 (3.21%) SAP BW
14 13 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (6.42%) Git
2 18 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.70%) GitLab
4 14 (3.46%) JIRA
5 12 (2.96%) Oracle APEX
6 6 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.23%) MSI
7 5 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 5 (1.23%) TeamCity
7 5 (1.23%) WiX
8 4 (0.99%) JUnit
8 4 (0.99%) Mockito
9 3 (0.74%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.74%) Mocha
9 3 (0.74%) Toad
10 2 (0.49%) Android Studio
10 2 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 130 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 68 (16.79%) Finance
3 49 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.93%) Banking
6 14 (3.46%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.72%) Investment Banking
8 10 (2.47%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.48%) Retail
11 5 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.99%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.74%) Electronics
13 3 (0.74%) Front Office
13 3 (0.74%) Marketing
14 2 (0.49%) Arabic Language
14 2 (0.49%) French Language
14 2 (0.49%) German Language
14 2 (0.49%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 103 (25.43%) Developer
2 78 (19.26%) DBA
3 42 (10.37%) Administrator
4 39 (9.63%) SQL DBA
5 36 (8.89%) Senior
6 27 (6.67%) Consultant
7 25 (6.17%) SAP Consultant
8 24 (5.93%) SAP Basis Consultant
9 22 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (4.69%) Data Engineer
11 17 (4.20%) Storage Engineer
12 16 (3.95%) Architect
12 16 (3.95%) Java Developer
13 15 (3.70%) Database Specialist
14 14 (3.46%) Oracle DBA
14 14 (3.46%) Senior Developer
15 13 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (3.21%) Lead
15 13 (3.21%) Technical Consultant
16 12 (2.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.42%) .NET
1 26 (6.42%) Kafka
2 24 (5.93%) SAP Basis
3 21 (5.19%) SAP Fiori
4 17 (4.20%) XML
5 16 (3.95%) REST
6 15 (3.70%) Entity Framework
6 15 (3.70%) JSON
7 12 (2.96%) .NET Framework
8 11 (2.72%) RabbitMQ
8 11 (2.72%) SOAP
8 11 (2.72%) Spring
8 11 (2.72%) Web Services
9 9 (2.22%) WCF
10 8 (1.98%) ASP.NET
11 7 (1.73%) ASP.NET Web API
11 7 (1.73%) LDAP
11 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
11 7 (1.73%) Node.js
11 7 (1.73%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.40%) Replication
2 30 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 25 (6.17%) Clustering
4 12 (2.96%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.72%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.72%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.47%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.47%) Derivative
6 10 (2.47%) Fixed Income
7 9 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.22%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.48%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.48%) HP Storage
8 6 (1.48%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.48%) Smart Meter
9 5 (1.23%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.23%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.23%) Web 2.0
10 4 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (27.41%) Linux
2 59 (14.57%) Windows
3 56 (13.83%) Unix
4 33 (8.15%) Windows Server
5 22 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (3.95%) AIX
7 15 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (3.46%) Solaris
8 14 (3.46%) Windows 10
8 14 (3.46%) Windows XP
9 12 (2.96%) zOS
10 5 (1.23%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.74%) Android
11 3 (0.74%) CentOS
12 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (20.49%) DevOps
3 82 (20.25%) Migration
4 80 (19.75%) Disaster Recovery
5 61 (15.06%) Agile
6 56 (13.83%) High Availability
7 46 (11.36%) Software Engineering
8 44 (10.86%) CI/CD
9 43 (10.62%) Data Integration
10 41 (10.12%) Computer Science
10 41 (10.12%) Data Migration
11 40 (9.88%) ETL
12 38 (9.38%) Data Modelling
12 38 (9.38%) Task Automation
13 32 (7.90%) Capacity Planning
13 32 (7.90%) Database Security
13 32 (7.90%) Storage Management
14 29 (7.16%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (7.16%) Containerisation
14 29 (7.16%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 171 (42.22%) SQL
2 62 (15.31%) Python
3 42 (10.37%) Bash
4 38 (9.38%) PowerShell
5 37 (9.14%) PL/SQL
6 34 (8.40%) Java
7 28 (6.91%) C#
8 21 (5.19%) JavaScript
9 18 (4.44%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.22%) REXX
10 9 (2.22%) Scala
11 8 (1.98%) COBOL
11 8 (1.98%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.23%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.74%) C
13 3 (0.74%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.49%) Go
14 2 (0.49%) Perl
14 2 (0.49%) R
14 2 (0.49%) XPath
Qualifications
1 117 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 79 (19.51%) SC Cleared
3 75 (18.52%) Degree
4 47 (11.60%) DV Cleared
5 38 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (3.95%) CCNA
6 16 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.46%) CCNP
8 10 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.22%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.22%) SAP Certification
10 8 (1.98%) MCITP
10 8 (1.98%) MCTS
11 4 (0.99%) OCP
11 4 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.49%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.49%) CISSP
13 2 (0.49%) OSCP
14 1 (0.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.95%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.70%) GDPR
3 13 (3.21%) QA
4 5 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS
7 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 42 (10.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (8.15%) Active Directory
3 30 (7.41%) Docker
4 15 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (3.46%) Hyper-V
6 10 (2.47%) vSphere
7 9 (2.22%) Firmware
7 9 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
8 8 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.74%) SRDF
10 2 (0.49%) KVM
11 1 (0.25%) Ceph
11 1 (0.25%) GridGain
11 1 (0.25%) iptables
11 1 (0.25%) Lustre
11 1 (0.25%) Samba
11 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 48 (11.85%) Terraform
2 44 (10.86%) Kubernetes
3 34 (8.40%) Ansible
4 25 (6.17%) EMC NetWorker
5 22 (5.43%) NetBackup
6 19 (4.69%) SCCM
7 18 (4.44%) SCOM
8 17 (4.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 15 (3.70%) vCenter Server
9 15 (3.70%) WSUS
10 14 (3.46%) Data Guard
10 14 (3.46%) Kibana
11 13 (3.21%) Grafana
11 13 (3.21%) Prometheus
12 12 (2.96%) Puppet
13 10 (2.47%) Argo
13 10 (2.47%) Istio
14 7 (1.73%) CloudHub
15 6 (1.48%) HP Data Protector
15 6 (1.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 132 (32.59%) Oracle
2 74 (18.27%) Microsoft
3 42 (10.37%) VMware
4 34 (8.40%) SAP
5 31 (7.65%) Cisco
6 29 (7.16%) EMC
7 28 (6.91%) Dell
8 25 (6.17%) HP
9 20 (4.94%) Symantec
10 18 (4.44%) Red Hat
11 17 (4.20%) Informatica
12 16 (3.95%) Palo Alto
13 14 (3.46%) 3PAR
13 14 (3.46%) Extreme Networks
13 14 (3.46%) Juniper
13 14 (3.46%) Veeam
14 13 (3.21%) Brocade
15 12 (2.96%) Databricks
15 12 (2.96%) IBM
16 11 (2.72%) SolarWinds