Performance Tuning Contracts in the North West

Performance Tuning
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 147 142
Rank change year-on-year +26 -5 -33
Contract jobs citing Performance Tuning 16 13 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.58% 0.41% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.45% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 33
10th Percentile £425 £325 £363
25th Percentile £505 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £586
90th Percentile £656 £556 £645
England median daily rate £518 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -1.43% -10.64% +11.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,894 3,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.58% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,058 2,629
10th Percentile £306 £313 £231
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 144 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.91 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Performance Tuning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Performance Tuning in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Performance Tuning in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Performance Tuning in the North West over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Performance Tuning in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Performance Tuning in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Cheshire +13 9 £510 +13.33% 3
Manchester +12 7 £619 +30.26% 9
Performance Tuning
England

Performance Tuning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (31.25%) Apache
1 5 (31.25%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (31.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) NetWeaver
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP IBP
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (31.25%) Amazon EMR
2 5 (31.25%) Amazon S3
2 5 (31.25%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (31.25%) Serverless
2 5 (31.25%) Snowflake
3 4 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) Big Data
2 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) Metadata
3 2 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) RDBMS
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (12.50%) SAP HANA
4 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (6.25%) DB2
4 1 (6.25%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Manufacturing
1 7 (43.75%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Data Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Data Modeller
3 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Administrator
4 1 (6.25%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
4 1 (6.25%) Programmer
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Basis Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) JSON
1 5 (31.25%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) RESTful
2 2 (12.50%) SOAP
2 2 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (6.25%) SAP Basis
3 1 (6.25%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 2 (12.50%) Derivative
1 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Data Management
1 7 (43.75%) ETL
1 7 (43.75%) OO
1 7 (43.75%) OOP
1 7 (43.75%) Software Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Analytics
3 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
3 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (31.25%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (31.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 5 (31.25%) Scrum
3 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Data Architecture
5 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
5 3 (18.75%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Java
3 5 (31.25%) C#
3 5 (31.25%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) C
4 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Informatica
1 5 (31.25%) Talend
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks