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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 255 260 337
Rank change year-on-year +5 +77 -93
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 393 565 700
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 1.01% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.12% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 344 441
10th Percentile £346 £400 £400
25th Percentile £416 £463 £463
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 - - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 13
10th Percentile £39.24 £60.00 £41.40
25th Percentile £57.89 £61.50 £42.02
Median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% +52.63% -27.48%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.60 £72.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -15.03% +48.72% -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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +3 318 £510 -2.86% 118
UK excluding London +31 210 £500 - 81
Work from Home +28 161 £495 -5.71% 47
London -6 136 £550 -4.35% 52
South East +45 99 £575 +9.52% 31
North of England +29 33 £480 -4.00% 12
Scotland +20 31 £436 -12.36% 13
Midlands +21 23 £450 -14.29% 10
North West +23 19 £510 +13.33% 7
East Midlands +18 16 £449 -20.35% 3
Yorkshire +24 14 £425 -22.73% 4
South West -18 12 £400 - 2
West Midlands +9 7 £650 +30.00% 7
East of England -6 7 £350 -36.36% 19
Wales - 3 £550 -

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 20 (5.09%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.80%) NetWeaver
3 10 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.29%) Apache
5 7 (1.78%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.78%) Mule
5 7 (1.78%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.27%) CICS
6 5 (1.27%) Confluence
6 5 (1.27%) Mule ESB
6 5 (1.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.76%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.76%) nginx
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.51%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.51%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.25%) GemFire
10 1 (0.25%) SAS
Business Applications
1 18 (4.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.05%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (2.80%) SAP IBP
4 7 (1.78%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.51%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.51%) ION Anvil
6 2 (0.51%) ION MarketView
6 2 (0.51%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.25%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.25%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 101 (25.70%) Azure
2 94 (23.92%) AWS
3 28 (7.12%) GCP
4 23 (5.85%) Power Platform
4 23 (5.85%) Serverless
5 21 (5.34%) Amazon S3
5 21 (5.34%) GitHub
6 20 (5.09%) Amazon EC2
7 17 (4.33%) OCI
8 16 (4.07%) OpenShift
9 15 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (3.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 13 (3.31%) IaaS
10 13 (3.31%) PaaS
11 11 (2.80%) Snowflake
12 9 (2.29%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (2.04%) Azure Functions
14 6 (1.53%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 30 (7.63%) SAN
2 25 (6.36%) Firewall
3 21 (5.34%) DHCP
3 21 (5.34%) DNS
4 9 (2.29%) Fibre Channel
5 6 (1.53%) Kerberos
5 6 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.53%) VLAN
6 5 (1.27%) FTP
6 5 (1.27%) NAS
6 5 (1.27%) WAN
7 3 (0.76%) AMQP
7 3 (0.76%) LAN
7 3 (0.76%) PuTTY
7 3 (0.76%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.51%) HTTP
8 2 (0.51%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.51%) SSH
8 2 (0.51%) VoIP
8 2 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (17.30%) SQL Server
2 65 (16.54%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (13.74%) Oracle Database
4 29 (7.38%) SAP HANA
5 24 (6.11%) MongoDB
6 22 (5.60%) MySQL
7 20 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
7 20 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (5.09%) NoSQL
8 19 (4.83%) Power BI
9 18 (4.58%) Metadata
10 17 (4.33%) Relational Database
11 16 (4.07%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (4.07%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (3.82%) Oracle Database 11g
13 13 (3.31%) DB2
13 13 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (3.05%) Big Data
14 12 (3.05%) SAP BW
15 10 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (6.62%) Git
2 18 (4.58%) Jenkins
3 14 (3.56%) GitLab
3 14 (3.56%) JIRA
4 12 (3.05%) Oracle APEX
5 6 (1.53%) Visual Studio
6 5 (1.27%) MSI
6 5 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (1.27%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.27%) WiX
7 4 (1.02%) JUnit
7 4 (1.02%) Mockito
8 3 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.76%) Mocha
8 3 (0.76%) Toad
9 2 (0.51%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 126 (32.06%) Social Skills
2 67 (17.05%) Finance
3 49 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.85%) Banking
6 14 (3.56%) Telecoms
7 10 (2.54%) Investment Banking
7 10 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.27%) Retail
10 4 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.76%) Electronics
11 3 (0.76%) Front Office
11 3 (0.76%) Marketing
12 2 (0.51%) Arabic Language
12 2 (0.51%) French Language
12 2 (0.51%) German Language
12 2 (0.51%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 103 (26.21%) Developer
2 74 (18.83%) DBA
3 37 (9.41%) Administrator
4 36 (9.16%) SQL DBA
5 35 (8.91%) Senior
6 26 (6.62%) Consultant
7 24 (6.11%) SAP Consultant
8 23 (5.85%) SAP Basis Consultant
9 21 (5.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (4.33%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.33%) Storage Engineer
11 16 (4.07%) Architect
11 16 (4.07%) Java Developer
12 15 (3.82%) Database Specialist
13 14 (3.56%) Oracle DBA
13 14 (3.56%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.31%) Lead
14 13 (3.31%) Technical Consultant
15 12 (3.05%) PostgreSQL Developer
15 12 (3.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.62%) Kafka
2 25 (6.36%) .NET
3 23 (5.85%) SAP Basis
4 20 (5.09%) SAP Fiori
5 17 (4.33%) XML
6 16 (4.07%) REST
7 15 (3.82%) JSON
8 14 (3.56%) Entity Framework
9 11 (2.80%) .NET Framework
9 11 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (2.80%) SOAP
9 11 (2.80%) Spring
9 11 (2.80%) Web Services
10 9 (2.29%) WCF
11 8 (2.04%) ASP.NET
12 7 (1.78%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (1.78%) LDAP
12 7 (1.78%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
12 7 (1.78%) Node.js
12 7 (1.78%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (8.65%) Replication
2 30 (7.63%) Data Centre
3 24 (6.11%) Clustering
4 12 (3.05%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.54%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.54%) Derivative
6 10 (2.54%) Fixed Income
7 9 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.04%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.53%) HP Storage
9 6 (1.53%) Smart Meter
10 5 (1.27%) Client/Server
10 5 (1.27%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.27%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.27%) Web 2.0
11 4 (1.02%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 109 (27.74%) Linux
2 57 (14.50%) Windows
3 54 (13.74%) Unix
4 32 (8.14%) Windows Server
5 21 (5.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (4.07%) AIX
7 15 (3.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (3.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (3.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (3.56%) Solaris
8 14 (3.56%) Windows 10
8 14 (3.56%) Windows XP
9 11 (2.80%) zOS
10 5 (1.27%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.76%) Android
11 3 (0.76%) CentOS
12 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (21.12%) DevOps
3 82 (20.87%) Migration
4 79 (20.10%) Disaster Recovery
5 59 (15.01%) Agile
6 55 (13.99%) High Availability
7 47 (11.96%) Software Engineering
8 44 (11.20%) CI/CD
9 42 (10.69%) Data Integration
9 42 (10.69%) Data Migration
10 40 (10.18%) Computer Science
10 40 (10.18%) ETL
11 36 (9.16%) Data Modelling
11 36 (9.16%) Task Automation
12 32 (8.14%) Capacity Planning
12 32 (8.14%) Database Security
12 32 (8.14%) Storage Management
13 29 (7.38%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (7.38%) Containerisation
13 29 (7.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 166 (42.24%) SQL
2 61 (15.52%) Python
3 42 (10.69%) Bash
4 38 (9.67%) PL/SQL
4 38 (9.67%) PowerShell
5 34 (8.65%) Java
6 27 (6.87%) C#
7 21 (5.34%) JavaScript
8 17 (4.33%) Shell Script
9 9 (2.29%) Scala
10 8 (2.04%) COBOL
10 8 (2.04%) REXX
10 8 (2.04%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.27%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.76%) C
12 3 (0.76%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.51%) Go
13 2 (0.51%) Perl
13 2 (0.51%) R
13 2 (0.51%) XPath
Qualifications
1 113 (28.75%) Security Cleared
2 78 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 74 (18.83%) Degree
4 45 (11.45%) DV Cleared
5 37 (9.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.07%) CCNA
6 16 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.56%) CCNP
8 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.29%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.29%) SAP Certification
10 8 (2.04%) MCITP
10 8 (2.04%) MCTS
11 4 (1.02%) OCP
11 4 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.76%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.51%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.51%) CISSP
13 2 (0.51%) OSCP
14 1 (0.25%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (3.82%) Data Quality
1 15 (3.82%) GDPR
2 13 (3.31%) QA
3 5 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.25%) IFRS
6 1 (0.25%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.25%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 41 (10.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (8.14%) Active Directory
3 30 (7.63%) Docker
4 15 (3.82%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (3.56%) Hyper-V
6 10 (2.54%) vSphere
7 9 (2.29%) Firmware
7 9 (2.29%) Oracle RAC
8 8 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.76%) SRDF
10 2 (0.51%) 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%) NFS
11 1 (0.25%) Samba
11 1 (0.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 48 (12.21%) Terraform
2 44 (11.20%) Kubernetes
3 34 (8.65%) Ansible
4 25 (6.36%) EMC NetWorker
5 22 (5.60%) NetBackup
6 18 (4.58%) SCCM
7 17 (4.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 17 (4.33%) SCOM
8 15 (3.82%) vCenter Server
8 15 (3.82%) WSUS
9 14 (3.56%) Data Guard
9 14 (3.56%) Kibana
10 13 (3.31%) Grafana
10 13 (3.31%) Prometheus
11 12 (3.05%) Puppet
12 10 (2.54%) Argo
12 10 (2.54%) Istio
13 7 (1.78%) CloudHub
14 6 (1.53%) HP Data Protector
14 6 (1.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 132 (33.59%) Oracle
2 72 (18.32%) Microsoft
3 41 (10.43%) VMware
4 33 (8.40%) SAP
5 31 (7.89%) Cisco
6 29 (7.38%) EMC
7 28 (7.12%) Dell
8 25 (6.36%) HP
9 20 (5.09%) Symantec
10 17 (4.33%) Informatica
10 17 (4.33%) Red Hat
11 16 (4.07%) Palo Alto
12 14 (3.56%) 3PAR
12 14 (3.56%) Extreme Networks
12 14 (3.56%) Juniper
12 14 (3.56%) Veeam
13 13 (3.31%) Brocade
14 12 (3.05%) Databricks
14 12 (3.05%) IBM
15 11 (2.80%) SolarWinds