Performance Optimisation Contracts in London

Performance Optimisation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Performance Optimisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Performance Optimisation over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 300 373 505
Rank change year-on-year +73 +132 -66
Contract jobs citing Performance Optimisation 100 109 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.57% 0.43% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.48% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 84 78
10th Percentile £408 £314 £454
25th Percentile £497 £458 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £750 £650 £673
90th Percentile £855 £728 £761
England median daily rate £575 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +16.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £45.98
25th Percentile - £72.50 £47.06
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £50.75
Median % change year-on-year - +47.78% +57.35%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £55.06
90th Percentile - - £56.53
England median hourly rate £42.50 £52.13 £50.75
% change year-on-year -18.47% +2.72% +57.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Performance Optimisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Performance Optimisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Optimisation in London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Optimisation in London

Performance Optimisation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Performance Optimisation in London

Performance Optimisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Optimisation in London

Performance Optimisation
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +48 20 £625 +6.84% 2
East London - 3 £380 - 3
West London +19 1 £650 -2.99%
North London - 1 £450 -
Performance Optimisation
England

Performance Optimisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (5.00%) CMS
1 5 (5.00%) Headless CMS
2 4 (4.00%) Confluence
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Pulsar
4 1 (1.00%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.00%) Cloudability
2 1 (1.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.00%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.00%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.00%) Azure
2 25 (25.00%) AWS
3 12 (12.00%) GitHub
4 10 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (10.00%) GCP
5 7 (7.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.00%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.00%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.00%) dbt
7 2 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (2.00%) npm
7 2 (2.00%) Serverless
7 2 (2.00%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.00%) Twilio
7 2 (2.00%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.00%) SSH
2 5 (5.00%) Firewall
2 5 (5.00%) HTTP
3 4 (4.00%) CTI
3 4 (4.00%) LAN
3 4 (4.00%) MPLS
3 4 (4.00%) Network Security
3 4 (4.00%) VoIP
3 4 (4.00%) WAN
4 3 (3.00%) BGP
4 3 (3.00%) EIGRP
4 3 (3.00%) Multicast
4 3 (3.00%) OSPF
5 1 (1.00%) AMQP
5 1 (1.00%) DNS
5 1 (1.00%) Internet
5 1 (1.00%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.00%) Wireless
5 1 (1.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (22.00%) NoSQL
2 15 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (10.00%) KDB
4 7 (7.00%) Power BI
4 7 (7.00%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.00%) Big Data
5 6 (6.00%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.00%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.00%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.00%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.00%) Bigtable
8 2 (2.00%) DocumentDB
8 2 (2.00%) Hadoop
8 2 (2.00%) MySQL
8 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 14 (14.00%) JIRA
2 10 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 9 (9.00%) JUnit
4 6 (6.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.00%) Ant
5 2 (2.00%) Babel
5 2 (2.00%) GitLab
5 2 (2.00%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.00%) webpack
6 1 (1.00%) Git
6 1 (1.00%) JMeter
6 1 (1.00%) NeoLoad
6 1 (1.00%) Selenium
6 1 (1.00%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 45 (45.00%) Finance
2 33 (33.00%) Social Skills
3 26 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (19.00%) Banking
5 10 (10.00%) Front Office
6 7 (7.00%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.00%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.00%) Marketing
7 4 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.00%) Retail
9 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.00%) Billing
10 1 (1.00%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 50 (50.00%) Developer
2 21 (21.00%) Senior
3 16 (16.00%) Architect
3 16 (16.00%) Java Developer
3 16 (16.00%) Senior Developer
4 9 (9.00%) Data Engineer
4 9 (9.00%) Software Developer
5 7 (7.00%) Lead
6 6 (6.00%) Quantitative Developer
6 6 (6.00%) Senior Quantitative Developer
6 6 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.00%) Azure Architect
7 5 (5.00%) Data Architect
7 5 (5.00%) KDB Developer
7 5 (5.00%) Low Latency Java Developer
7 5 (5.00%) React Developer
7 5 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.00%) Administrator
8 4 (4.00%) Azure Data Architect
8 4 (4.00%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.00%) Web Services
2 15 (15.00%) REST
3 13 (13.00%) HTML
4 12 (12.00%) JSON
5 11 (11.00%) CSS
5 11 (11.00%) SOAP
6 10 (10.00%) Spring
6 10 (10.00%) XML
7 9 (9.00%) .NET
7 9 (9.00%) Hibernate
7 9 (9.00%) J2EE
7 9 (9.00%) JPA
8 8 (8.00%) Middleware
8 8 (8.00%) NumPy
8 8 (8.00%) Pandas
8 8 (8.00%) SciPy
9 7 (7.00%) HTML5
10 6 (6.00%) AngularJS
10 6 (6.00%) React
11 5 (5.00%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (9.00%) Derivative
2 9 (9.00%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (9.00%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (4.00%) IVR
6 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.00%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.00%) Grid Computing
6 3 (3.00%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (2.00%) Replication
7 2 (2.00%) Solar Panel
8 1 (1.00%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 20 (20.00%) Linux
2 18 (18.00%) Unix
3 4 (4.00%) Android
4 2 (2.00%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.00%) Windows
5 1 (1.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.00%) Analytics
2 23 (23.00%) Agile
2 23 (23.00%) Data Pipeline
3 22 (22.00%) DevOps
3 22 (22.00%) SDLC
4 21 (21.00%) CI/CD
4 21 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (18.00%) Data Modelling
6 17 (17.00%) Migration
7 15 (15.00%) Computer Science
7 15 (15.00%) Test Automation
8 14 (14.00%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (13.00%) BDD
9 13 (13.00%) Scrum
9 13 (13.00%) TDD
10 11 (11.00%) ETL
10 11 (11.00%) OOP
10 11 (11.00%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (11.00%) Software Engineering
11 10 (10.00%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 46 (46.00%) SQL
2 33 (33.00%) Java
3 30 (30.00%) Python
4 18 (18.00%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.00%) C++
6 8 (8.00%) Rust
7 7 (7.00%) C#
8 6 (6.00%) Perl
9 2 (2.00%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.00%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.00%) Scala
10 1 (1.00%) Dart
10 1 (1.00%) Go
10 1 (1.00%) Groovy
10 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.00%) R
10 1 (1.00%) Ruby
10 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (16.00%) Degree
2 10 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.00%) Azure Certification
3 7 (7.00%) Master's Degree
4 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.00%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.00%) CCIE
7 1 (1.00%) CCNP
7 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.00%) JNCIE
7 1 (1.00%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.00%) PhD
7 1 (1.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) QA
2 8 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.00%) GDPR
4 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.00%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (5.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.00%) Firmware
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.00%) Ansible
2 2 (2.00%) Terraform
3 1 (1.00%) Argo
3 1 (1.00%) Grafana
3 1 (1.00%) Istio
3 1 (1.00%) Kibana
3 1 (1.00%) logstash
3 1 (1.00%) Matomo
3 1 (1.00%) Nagios
3 1 (1.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.00%) Cisco
3 5 (5.00%) Google
3 5 (5.00%) Solace
3 5 (5.00%) TIBCO
4 4 (4.00%) Databricks
4 4 (4.00%) Genesys
5 3 (3.00%) CheckPoint
5 3 (3.00%) Oracle
5 3 (3.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.00%) Avaya
6 2 (2.00%) IBM
6 2 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.00%) VMware
7 1 (1.00%) Adobe
7 1 (1.00%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.00%) Informatica
7 1 (1.00%) Juniper
7 1 (1.00%) Talend
7 1 (1.00%) Veeam