Performance Tuning Contracts in the North of England

Performance Tuning
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 193 172
Rank change year-on-year +41 -21 -25
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 32 25 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.68% 0.44% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.49% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 56
10th Percentile £401 £413 £381
25th Percentile £415 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -4.76% +61.54%
75th Percentile £515 £552 £593
90th Percentile £633 £589 £643
England median daily rate £510 £525 £591
% change year-on-year -2.86% -11.21% +12.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,996 5,147 6,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.49% 90.66% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,432 3,564 4,604
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.84%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 204 263
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.08 £13.44
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +53.42% +4.24%
75th Percentile £45.00 £45.54 £36.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £62.18
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Performance Tuning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the North of England

Performance Tuning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the North of England

Performance Tuning
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the North of England

Performance Tuning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Performance Tuning in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the North of England

Performance Tuning
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 11 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
North West +21 17 £510 +4.62% 10
Yorkshire +23 15 £425 -22.73% 4
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 5 (15.63%) Apache
2 5 (15.63%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.13%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP IBP
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) AWS
2 15 (46.88%) Azure
3 8 (25.00%) GCP
4 7 (21.88%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (21.88%) Serverless
5 6 (18.75%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (15.63%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (15.63%) Amazon S3
6 5 (15.63%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (15.63%) Snowflake
7 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
8 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (3.13%) Azure App Service
10 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
10 1 (3.13%) GitHub
10 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.63%) FTP
2 1 (3.13%) Network Security
2 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Big Data
1 8 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 4 (12.50%) Power BI
3 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
4 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.25%) Metadata
4 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.25%) RDBMS
4 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.25%) SAP HANA
5 1 (3.13%) Apache Hive
5 1 (3.13%) Impala
5 1 (3.13%) MySQL
5 1 (3.13%) Power Query
5 1 (3.13%) SAP BW
5 1 (3.13%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Git
1 5 (15.63%) JIRA
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Manufacturing
2 7 (21.88%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.63%) Finance
5 3 (9.38%) Banking
5 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) Data Engineer
1 5 (15.63%) DBA
1 5 (15.63%) Developer
1 5 (15.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Database Specialist
2 4 (12.50%) MongoDB DBA
3 3 (9.38%) Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Storage Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Data Modeller
4 2 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Database Developer
5 1 (3.13%) SAP Basis Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) JSON
1 5 (15.63%) XML
2 2 (6.25%) RESTful
2 2 (6.25%) SOAP
2 2 (6.25%) Spring
3 1 (3.13%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.13%) SAP Basis
3 1 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Replication
2 3 (9.38%) EMC VNX
3 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.25%) Derivative
3 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Unix
2 11 (34.38%) Linux
3 4 (12.50%) Windows
4 3 (9.38%) AIX
4 3 (9.38%) Solaris
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Analytics
1 8 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 8 (25.00%) ETL
1 8 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (21.88%) Data Management
2 7 (21.88%) OO
2 7 (21.88%) OOP
2 7 (21.88%) Software Engineering
3 6 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (18.75%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (18.75%) Performance Metrics
3 6 (18.75%) Task Automation
4 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
4 5 (15.63%) Data Engineering
4 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
4 5 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (15.63%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (15.63%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 5 (15.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Python
2 12 (37.50%) SQL
3 8 (25.00%) Bash
4 7 (21.88%) Java
5 5 (15.63%) C#
6 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
7 2 (6.25%) C
8 1 (3.13%) Bicep
8 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) SRDF
1 3 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) EMC TimeFinder
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Informatica
1 5 (15.63%) Talend
2 3 (9.38%) Brocade
2 3 (9.38%) Cisco
2 3 (9.38%) Dell
2 3 (9.38%) Dell Compellent
2 3 (9.38%) EMC
2 3 (9.38%) EqualLogic
2 3 (9.38%) Isilon
2 3 (9.38%) VMware
3 2 (6.25%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) Databricks
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) Oracle