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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 258 333
Rank change year-on-year +9 +75 -94
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 384 570 707
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 1.01% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.12% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 351 452
10th Percentile £340 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £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 £864
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 13
10th Percentile £36.74 £48.75 £41.40
25th Percentile £54.18 £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 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 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 -1 313 £510 -2.86% 124
UK excluding London +34 203 £505 +1.00% 95
Work from Home +38 166 £485 -7.62% 52
London -16 134 £525 -4.55% 45
South East +45 94 £600 +14.29% 32
North of England +38 34 £480 -4.00% 13
Scotland +22 29 £443 -11.18% 16
Midlands +31 22 £450 -12.20% 24
North West +28 19 £510 +7.37% 8
Yorkshire +25 15 £425 -22.73% 3
East Midlands +21 15 £449 -20.35% 7
South West -10 12 £400 - 3
West Midlands +12 7 £580 +16.00% 17
East of England -6 7 £350 -34.88% 6
Wales +24 3 £550 -15.38% 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 18 (4.69%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.86%) NetWeaver
3 10 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (2.34%) Apache
5 7 (1.82%) Anypoint
5 7 (1.82%) Mule
5 7 (1.82%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.56%) Confluence
7 5 (1.30%) CICS
7 5 (1.30%) Mule ESB
7 5 (1.30%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.78%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.52%) nginx
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.52%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.26%) GemFire
11 1 (0.26%) SAS
11 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 16 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (3.13%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (2.86%) SAP IBP
4 7 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle FAH
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.52%) BusinessWorks
6 2 (0.52%) ION Anvil
6 2 (0.52%) ION MarketView
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.26%) HFM
7 1 (0.26%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.26%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 98 (25.52%) Azure
2 90 (23.44%) AWS
3 27 (7.03%) GCP
4 23 (5.99%) Power Platform
5 22 (5.73%) GitHub
5 22 (5.73%) Serverless
6 21 (5.47%) Amazon S3
7 20 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (4.43%) OCI
9 16 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (4.17%) OpenShift
10 14 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.65%) IaaS
10 14 (3.65%) PaaS
11 11 (2.86%) Snowflake
12 10 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.34%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (2.08%) Azure Functions
14 8 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.07%) SAN
2 26 (6.77%) Firewall
3 22 (5.73%) DHCP
3 22 (5.73%) DNS
4 9 (2.34%) Fibre Channel
5 7 (1.82%) Kerberos
5 7 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.82%) VLAN
6 6 (1.56%) NAS
7 5 (1.30%) FTP
7 5 (1.30%) WAN
8 3 (0.78%) LAN
8 3 (0.78%) PuTTY
8 3 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.52%) AMQP
9 2 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (0.52%) Network Security
9 2 (0.52%) SSH
9 2 (0.52%) VoIP
9 2 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (17.19%) SQL Server
2 64 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (13.80%) Oracle Database
4 28 (7.29%) SAP HANA
5 23 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (5.99%) MongoDB
6 20 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (4.95%) MySQL
7 19 (4.95%) NoSQL
7 19 (4.95%) Power BI
8 18 (4.69%) Metadata
9 16 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
9 16 (4.17%) Relational Database
10 15 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (3.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 13 (3.39%) DB2
13 11 (2.86%) SAP BW
14 10 (2.60%) Big Data
14 10 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (6.51%) Git
2 19 (4.95%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.91%) JIRA
4 13 (3.39%) GitLab
5 12 (3.13%) Oracle APEX
6 8 (2.08%) Visual Studio
7 6 (1.56%) TeamCity
8 5 (1.30%) MSI
8 5 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 5 (1.30%) WiX
9 4 (1.04%) JUnit
9 4 (1.04%) Mockito
10 3 (0.78%) Toad
11 2 (0.52%) Android Studio
11 2 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.52%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.52%) Mocha
12 1 (0.26%) LSMW
General
1 120 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 67 (17.45%) Finance
3 47 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.21%) Banking
6 15 (3.91%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.13%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.34%) Pharmaceutical
9 8 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.82%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.30%) Electronics
11 5 (1.30%) Marketing
11 5 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.30%) Retail
12 4 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.78%) Front Office
14 2 (0.52%) Arabic Language
14 2 (0.52%) French Language
14 2 (0.52%) German Language
14 2 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 99 (25.78%) Developer
2 75 (19.53%) DBA
3 38 (9.90%) SQL DBA
4 36 (9.38%) Administrator
5 34 (8.85%) Senior
6 23 (5.99%) Consultant
7 22 (5.73%) SAP Basis Consultant
7 22 (5.73%) SAP Consultant
8 20 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (4.43%) Architect
9 17 (4.43%) Storage Engineer
10 15 (3.91%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.91%) Database Specialist
11 14 (3.65%) Java Developer
11 14 (3.65%) Oracle DBA
12 13 (3.39%) Lead
12 13 (3.39%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 13 (3.39%) Senior Developer
12 13 (3.39%) Site Engineer
12 13 (3.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.77%) .NET
2 23 (5.99%) Kafka
3 22 (5.73%) SAP Basis
4 19 (4.95%) SAP Fiori
5 17 (4.43%) XML
6 15 (3.91%) JSON
7 14 (3.65%) Entity Framework
7 14 (3.65%) REST
8 11 (2.86%) .NET Framework
9 10 (2.60%) SOAP
9 10 (2.60%) Web Services
10 9 (2.34%) Spring
10 9 (2.34%) WCF
11 8 (2.08%) ASP.NET
11 8 (2.08%) LDAP
11 8 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (1.82%) ASP.NET Web API
12 7 (1.82%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
12 7 (1.82%) XSLT
13 6 (1.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.11%) Replication
2 30 (7.81%) Data Centre
3 24 (6.25%) Clustering
4 11 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
4 11 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.60%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.60%) Derivative
5 10 (2.60%) Fixed Income
6 8 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.56%) HP Storage
7 6 (1.56%) Smart Meter
7 6 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.30%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.30%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.30%) Market Risk
8 5 (1.30%) NHS
8 5 (1.30%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 109 (28.39%) Linux
2 59 (15.36%) Windows
3 52 (13.54%) Unix
4 34 (8.85%) Windows Server
5 21 (5.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 16 (4.17%) AIX
7 15 (3.91%) Solaris
7 15 (3.91%) Windows Server 2012
7 15 (3.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (3.91%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (3.65%) Windows 10
8 14 (3.65%) Windows XP
9 11 (2.86%) zOS
10 6 (1.56%) Oracle Linux
11 3 (0.78%) CentOS
12 2 (0.52%) Android
13 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
2 84 (21.88%) DevOps
3 79 (20.57%) Migration
4 78 (20.31%) Disaster Recovery
5 57 (14.84%) Agile
5 57 (14.84%) High Availability
6 47 (12.24%) Software Engineering
7 43 (11.20%) CI/CD
8 42 (10.94%) Data Migration
9 41 (10.68%) Data Integration
10 40 (10.42%) ETL
11 37 (9.64%) Computer Science
12 36 (9.38%) Data Modelling
13 35 (9.11%) Storage Management
13 35 (9.11%) Task Automation
14 32 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
14 32 (8.33%) Database Security
15 31 (8.07%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (7.81%) Business Intelligence
17 29 (7.55%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 162 (42.19%) SQL
2 63 (16.41%) Python
3 43 (11.20%) Bash
4 40 (10.42%) PowerShell
5 39 (10.16%) PL/SQL
6 32 (8.33%) Java
7 28 (7.29%) C#
8 19 (4.95%) JavaScript
9 15 (3.91%) Shell Script
10 9 (2.34%) Scala
10 9 (2.34%) T-SQL
11 8 (2.08%) COBOL
11 8 (2.08%) REXX
12 4 (1.04%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.78%) C
14 2 (0.52%) Bicep
14 2 (0.52%) Go
14 2 (0.52%) Perl
14 2 (0.52%) R
14 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 109 (28.39%) Security Cleared
2 78 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 71 (18.49%) Degree
4 43 (11.20%) DV Cleared
5 35 (9.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (4.17%) CCNA
6 16 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.65%) CCNP
8 10 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (2.34%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.34%) SAP Certification
10 8 (2.08%) MCITP
10 8 (2.08%) MCTS
11 4 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.52%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.52%) CISSP
12 2 (0.52%) OCP
12 2 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.52%) OSCP
13 1 (0.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.17%) GDPR
2 15 (3.91%) Data Quality
3 13 (3.39%) QA
4 6 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS
8 1 (0.26%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 41 (10.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 35 (9.11%) Active Directory
3 28 (7.29%) Docker
4 15 (3.91%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (3.65%) Hyper-V
6 10 (2.60%) vSphere
7 9 (2.34%) Firmware
7 9 (2.34%) Oracle RAC
8 8 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.78%) SRDF
10 2 (0.52%) KVM
11 1 (0.26%) Ceph
11 1 (0.26%) GridGain
11 1 (0.26%) iptables
11 1 (0.26%) Lustre
11 1 (0.26%) NFS
11 1 (0.26%) Samba
11 1 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (12.76%) Terraform
2 42 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 34 (8.85%) Ansible
4 26 (6.77%) EMC NetWorker
5 22 (5.73%) NetBackup
6 17 (4.43%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 17 (4.43%) SCCM
7 16 (4.17%) SCOM
8 15 (3.91%) vCenter Server
8 15 (3.91%) WSUS
9 14 (3.65%) Data Guard
10 13 (3.39%) Kibana
11 12 (3.13%) Grafana
11 12 (3.13%) Prometheus
11 12 (3.13%) Puppet
12 10 (2.60%) Argo
12 10 (2.60%) Istio
13 7 (1.82%) CloudHub
13 7 (1.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 6 (1.56%) Netcool
Vendors
1 131 (34.11%) Oracle
2 71 (18.49%) Microsoft
3 41 (10.68%) VMware
4 34 (8.85%) SAP
5 32 (8.33%) Cisco
6 30 (7.81%) EMC
7 29 (7.55%) Dell
8 26 (6.77%) HP
9 20 (5.21%) Symantec
10 17 (4.43%) Informatica
11 16 (4.17%) Palo Alto
11 16 (4.17%) Red Hat
12 14 (3.65%) 3PAR
12 14 (3.65%) Extreme Networks
12 14 (3.65%) Juniper
12 14 (3.65%) Veeam
13 13 (3.39%) Brocade
13 13 (3.39%) IBM
14 12 (3.13%) Databricks
15 11 (2.86%) SolarWinds